Despite many valiant attempts to recast Chica Umino's
Honey and Clover, which won the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award and was nominated for several others, as heir to the shoujo manga greats of a generation ago, it is hard to see the accolades it has received as anything other than overwrought presumptionâ?¦and the manga itself as anything other than overhyped pabulum.
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