Choking on Love is a just recently published manga series by Seven Seas that follows Hibari, a graphic design student in her sophomore year of college. She works all the shifts she can pick up, works hard at school, and is the type to never really take risks. That is until Gaku, enters her life. He's also a sophomore but in the arts program as a sculpture and in a band like every good looking wild college boy. This is no meet-cute intro though, this is every human beings nightmare. When Gaku gets into a fight and accidentally destroys Hibari's laptop everything is downhill and chaotic from there. But through the power of technology and the trope of he fell first, everything of course works out and neither of these two have seen the last of the other.
I loved seeing how chaotic their first meeting was. As someone in tech myself watching Hibari's laptop get destroyed made me feel just as angry as she did. Our Gaku though did not back down and made sure it all worked out.
And of course fell so hard. Every moment they were together was adorable. The time they spent together was so well done. And I loved the concert scene. The fangirls being angry was hilarious.
Watching our Hibari take that first step and saying she'd do the flyer was amazing. She really went above and beyond to branch out and slowly work on growing her skills. She tried so hard to not fall into her usually patterns with it too. Love seeing character growth even if it's small.
I really appreciated with this one that there was no age gap. A problem I've seen in a lot of idol or music romances in manga is that they often have age gaps. Now I'm not one to hate age gaps when done well, but I've noticed a lot of the ones I've tried in this genre were not of the done well kind. So having the two be the same age essentially was super nice and quiet refreshing. I can't wait to see how their relationship progresses.
The pacing of this volume was quite good. It felt very natural. I loved the art style for it too. There was also a bit of comedy thrown in. I love to laugh when I read, no matter the genre, so I got a lot of kicks out of some of the dialog.
My only complaint would be that it does appear to have a love triangle. That's probably one of my least favorite romance tropes. I don't know why. So I will say I'm not looking forward to that playing out. But the two mains have already sorta confessed so I doubt that triangle will amount to much as long as it's not drawn out.
Overall so far I'd give this one a 4/5 stars. I'm definitely excited to see where it goes and see if it can keep me hooked. If you enjoy romances I totally suggest looking this one up. And even if you don't you still may enjoy it. This definitely isn't my usual genre but I can say it did a good job reeling in this battle loving girl. Probably cause I am a sucker for anything with a male lead in music. Can't wait for volume 2 to drop in May!
For the official description check out this back cover featuring the whole band!
Now I have a question for all of you who made it this far Have you read Choking on Love volume 1 yet and if so, what were your thoughts on it? And if not, would you give it a go?
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