Tokyo Alice volume 1-2
I think the cover art is better than the art inside the books, but I love Toriko Chiya's style, even with its problems.
Just like the other work of hers I've read,
Clover, this has a main cast of 4 working women friends dealing with general problems as well as love life problems.
So far I like Fu, the main character, despite her shopping habit that brings her to throw away money like nothing which ends with her having budget problems not even 1 week into a new month. She's a bit naive, unable to notice when a man is interested in her (she basically doesn't care about love, only about shopping) though that has been changing lately.
Sayuri is living the life, being rich and, since she has to marry soon (because her family wants her to) with a guy she doesn't love, spending every day bringing home a different man to have sex with in hopes to find her Sex Master.
I don't dislike her for her promiscuity (her reasoning for it isn't even all that bad "once I'm married I can't go fuck around and I don't want to have sex with my future husband more than twice, just to make a children or two, so I might as well do it now"), but the way she acts at times leaves a bit to be desired (her latest fight Mizuho had her end a bit on my bad side).
Mizuho has kinda been a bit too much in the background. She's the poor one, always hooking up with poor guys. She seems very sweet, but has too much of a hang-up on
needing a man to feel sure. I don't disagree with some of the stuff she blurted to Sayuri after the failed date, but issues are on both camps.
Rio is the cool one. She's a doctor with no real relationship, though she's seeing another doctor (but mostly for sex it would appear or, as Sato puts it "to keep men's physiology in check constantly", since the person she's really in love with is her friend Fu and that since they met at school when they were younger). Nothing much to say about her except that it would be cool if her unrequited love for Fu could end well. It simply won't though, I'm sure.
