Red String Volume 1

By Gina Biggs

When first-year high school student Miharu Ogawa gets a call from her parents, telling her to come straight home from school, nothing she could ever have imagined could have prepared her for their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159307624X
• ISBN13: 9781593076245
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.2" x 0.6" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Cute and heart-warming

Red String is a love story between the protagonist, Miharu, and Kazuo. They were engaged by their parents but, through a twist of fate, met and fell in love with each other before they discovered who they were engaged to. The story is a little slow at first but the web of relationships and character development are interesting. Secondary characters also get some limelight and you start rooting for certain people even when they are not immediately present in the story line. I would recommend this to anyone interested in a good romance.

Passionate without being lusty

Red String deals with teen romance in a way that is alien to most teens in the US - the main characters are forced together in an arranged marriage. The story explores their feelings about having their future decided by their parents balanced against their natural yearnings. There is plenty of the usual japanese teen drama as well, with all the intensity and sweetness one might expect from a high school romance. The images are beautifully rendered in the manga style. The book covers the first 7 chapters of the series. I found it to be a captivating story, and am eager for the next installment.