I wish they were dragged on and play up the characters’ mysteries a little bit. By the time you take out the setup and scenes with the guys, the problems seem resolved too quickly. OK, so the problems aren’t officially over, but they’ve all taken a huge step forward. In the first three volumes, each of the girls are forced to confront their issues…and they handle them. The comedy is light and limited to the girls’ tsuntsun sides or making the guys (particularly Yoshifumi) their buttmonkey. The main focus of Kokoro Connect is not the struggles they go through during the body swaps but rather what the club members learn about each other. This prevents a lot of the usual “how do I go to the bathroom”-type scenes. The swaps themselves are seemingly random and sudden, but they are also relatively short. The characters are given a brief explanation of their circumstances after the switches start, so they aren’t in the dark about everything. Firstly, there’s a group of them, not just two. However, Kokoro Connect is almost the opposite of the standard. In most similar series, the switch is (unknowingly) triggered by something, and the characters (often a male and female) spend the rest of the series trying to get their original bodies back. Anda puts nice twists into the standard body-swapping plotline. The body-swapping chapters feel like they could have stood alone. However, just by reading the manga, it seems like author Anda wasn’t sure if Kokoro Connect would continue. The first arc is arguably the most interesting. Each section is given a conclusion, but, again, the manga’s ending is pretty open-ended. Then there are a couple of chapters on one of the members before a new problem emerges for the club members. Unfortunately, since the light novels aren’t available in English, this effect is lost.īut let’s talk about what the manga covers. The ending acts more of a preview for the light novels, teasing you to find out what other problems they’ll face and what misadventures they’ll get into. The group here deals with a couple of major problems, but their futures are still unwritten.
As you might expect, the characters’ adventures just kind of end.
The manga seems to roughly cover the first two light novel volumes out of eleven. Kokoro Connect is based on a series of light novels. Kokoro Connect is a refreshing take on some standard ideas, but the pacing is awkward. Do they really know enough about each other to pretend to be one another? The others think it’s a joke until they start swapping bodies, too. One day, two members announce they switched bodies the previous night. The five members of the Student Cultural Society (three girls, two boys) spend their days hanging out and writing a school newspaper. Shounen – Drama, comedy, romance, supernatural, gender bender
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