Beauty Pop is a recently new title added by VIZ Media to their Shoujo Beat line of girls manga. Currently I can’t deduce what the genre is other than just shoujo and comedy. The main female lead, Kiri who could care less about the schools ever so popular Scissors Project, a club made up of good looking males who all know how to glamour up a girl. The head of the S.P. is a guy named Narumi who has high confidence in his skills but still is quite picky with the girls he chooses to makeover. Kiri overhears a conversation between a girl and one of the S.P. members who tells her she couldn’t be made pretty. The girl was actually intending to confess her feelings for the guy instead of asking for a makeover which he believed to be the case. Kiri ends up giving the girl a makeover. Now the S.P. knows they have a rival on their hands at the school, who in fact may be better than Narumi.
And so Kiri goes around masquerading as a character known as X fixing up the girls that the S.P. deems impossible to make beautiful.
Impression:
At first I believed that VIZ may have picked up this title because Kiri’s character seems to act a lot like Haruhi from Ouran High School Host Club. Kiri acts quite similar to her in a “whatever” kind of state of mind. But as you continue on with the series you will learn why she acts this way. Since I like seeing shows where people have makeovers this manga has been very interesting to see how the characters have changed physically. This manga slightly stresses a few points like “it’s the inside that counts” and “as long as you take care of yourself, you will be beautiful”, both which I believe are good lessons to take away. So what I believed would be a superficial manga actually turned out to cover these lessons quite nicely. The other side of the manga is that we learn about the characters and their backgrounds. So far it seems there is no romance between Kiri and any of the male characters in the story, but this doesn’t need to be in there to drive the story. Beauty Pop is a fun, delightful read for any shoujo loving fan.
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