Othello, Volume 2

A new year is starting at YaYa's school and because you stick with your homeroom class all day, YaYa is hoping to be in class with Moriyama, the aspiring rockstar that she cares about more and more. On the other hand, she will be in abject misery if she has to be stuck with Moe and Seri, the two mean bullies who always pick on her, for the whole year! It's too bad that only one of these wishes comes true, because along with Moriyama, she finds out that Noe and Seri are in her class. After they push her into a pond, she decides not to go to school anymore. That is, until her alternative personality takes charge, and NaNa begins her revenge! As she begins to suspect that her memory loss is something more than simple forgetfulness, we begin to wonder exactly who is the real YaYa. While the plot of this manga seems a little contrived, I really enjoyed it. Even Shakespeare used mistaken identity in his plays and the Jekyll and Hyde motif echoes through eternity. Ikezawa does a good job of making the situations funny and the romance touching without taking sap from a tree. And NaNa's revenge methods are humorous without being vindictive. The art and dialogue are also good. Nice manga.