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A review by shinypurplepants
Welcome to the Ballroom, Vol. 1 by Tomo Takeuchi
1.0
Cliche without good enough art to make it worth sticking around to see how things go. The characters are off-model every other page and the dancing sequences are terrifying. Instead of learning to draw characters in motion it seems the artist just kept adding speed lines. Not to mention the children immediately age up every time they dance as if they were tracing photos of real dances instead of drawing their characters doing the dance!
And it's not saved by the cast either.
"Welcome to the Ballroom" follows the classic sports manga tropes with the idiot savant protagonist who just happens to wander into a dance studio and decides that's his life now. To the point he somehow dances for 16 hours straight without noticing? Yeah... Uh huh.
But this time the rival is angsty and doesn't even love the sport he's competing in! Oh wait that's also cliche... Well what about the tsundere female love interest who has been doing this her whole life and is offended the idiot protag doesn't take it seriously enough only to be impressed when he puts in the bare amount of effort? Oh that's also old hat... Well the mentor is an asshole! Oh... That's also nothing new...
And it's not saved by the cast either.
"Welcome to the Ballroom" follows the classic sports manga tropes with the idiot savant protagonist who just happens to wander into a dance studio and decides that's his life now. To the point he somehow dances for 16 hours straight without noticing? Yeah... Uh huh.
But this time the rival is angsty and doesn't even love the sport he's competing in! Oh wait that's also cliche... Well what about the tsundere female love interest who has been doing this her whole life and is offended the idiot protag doesn't take it seriously enough only to be impressed when he puts in the bare amount of effort? Oh that's also old hat... Well the mentor is an asshole! Oh... That's also nothing new...