I bought this because the same urge inside of me that makes it so I have to review every single volume of manga I read individually compels me to finish a 2-volume series I started, no matter how uninterested in it I am.
It’s not that this is a bad series. It’s actually a pretty fun all ages title, but it’s the sort of thing a kid would get more out of than I would. There’s cute little crushes between some of the characters, a school festival complete with dinosaur quiz, and even some friendship-building stuff like a Christmas party and a final exam-type situation for Lan that all the members of the biology club help her out with as unobtrusively as possible, since she’s supposed to be doing everything herself.
There’s still some cute and quirky jokes, and I really like the animals, or noidys/noidies (singular: noidy). They are kind of cute and sometimes disturbing creatures that remind me a little of the cards from Cardcaptor Sakura. Part of that association might have something to do with Lan’s tool that changes her into different costumes depending on the noidy, though. That part was a LOT like Cardcaptor Sakura.
It’s just shallow fun. It does what it does well, but there are better light humor series. Probably there’s not many available in the all ages category though, and I like it when I see series like this for younger kids. I just… sometimes don’t like reading them myself.
