Name: Hungry Heart
ISBN: 9780345496201

Miyuki Kobayashi

Natsumi And?o

Najika is a great cook and likes to make meals for the people she loves. In Seika Academy she seeks her mysterious prince.

Hungry Heart

Nour Bassiouny

The warmth 
The coziness 
It felt like one long hug❤

Natsumi Andō

Najika is a gifted cook and attends the prestigious Seika Academy cooking school. Her friendship with two brothers, Sora and Daichi, creates resentment with other girls at the school. Her greatest rival is a popular, teen model, Akane who tries to drive Najika from the school by staging a cooking contest.

Kitchen Princess

Ken Yuen

** spoiler alert **
           Mizuno's introduction was an interesting addition. It's just a weird twist for him to be a Sora clone, not sure how I feel about that.

This is a reread. It's still fun. I like the perky main character and the emphasis on cooking. Unfortunately, someone had ripped out all the recipes from the library copy I was reading (Use a copier!). I've actually made the flan recipe before, so it inspired me to cook!

A fun shoujo manga about cooking. I forgot that Daichi and Sora's name meant "land" and "sky" and that there's a "rainbow" in Najica's name. Pretty fun meaning behind the names.

I was always disappointed by a certain character's inevitable betrayal. But that's how these stories go.

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to say that I appreciated that this translation kept the Japanese honorifics. They even kept the term Aniki, which is just a way of saying "older brother". It's not much, but culture and language are so closely tied that it's nice to have things like this represented in a translation.

Another great story. I really liked the focus on Akane this time. 

More compliments on the translation. I love the honorifics explanation page at the beginning. It came in handy when Najika tried to sneak in a "Daichi-kun" and he's just like "Knock that off." I love those little details.

I like that they touch on eating disorders and they really add another dimension to Akane's character. I really like characters like her, because flaws are nice and humanizing.

(Still no recipes. While I'm glad someone liked them, I'm pretty sure you can find them online if you searched for them.)

Natsumi Ando

An okay side story. It's nice to visit Najika's home in Hokkaido and see her past, but I'm more interested in the drama in Tokyo. Still liking Akane for her frenemy status with Najika. I'm just glad to see that she's not outright villainous in her actions.

Still enjoyed it, despite the surprise turn. But that's life, I guess.

It's nice to see that Seiya isn't a total dick. I guess I enjoy villain redemption arcs.

No surprises here. It's fine as an ending. Unfortunately, I had an incomplete experience since a bunch of the pages were missing from the copy I was checking. I'm glad there was a bonus story for Akane though. Would have liked to have seen more epilogue for Najika's story.

Jenny

Najika, a great cook who loves to make meals for those she cares about, is on the trail of the boy who stole her heart as a child, and the only piece of evidence she has leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy.

Omnibus

milly

Courtney

Sparrow Hall

chantelle beattie

Morgan Thomas

In the finals of a national dessert contest, Najika finds her Flan Prince, but life goes from sweet to sour when she makes a startling discovery and loses her sense of taste. Original.

Hungry Heart

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