Other than Hikari, the rest of the cast is fairly stock. What was once endearing in Hikari becomes stale after one has read through several volumes of Special A. Of course they all get high marks on exams but when it comes to basic comprehension skills in real life situations our characters often come up shorthanded. We are not so muchĪs shown, but rather told that these characters are of high intelligence. An important plot device is that the students in the SA class are the crème de la crème of an already prominent school for the wealthy. On the other hand she’s incredibly dense, a trait which becomes all the more prevalent as the manga progresses much to my chagrin. Hikari’s got fighting spirit, something that is so often lacking in shoujo heroines of late. We have Hikari, an initially refreshing female lead with a certain wide-eyed innocence and a strong desire to defeat her eternal rival Takishima Kei. Special A is for me, the definition of an average shoujo series.
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