[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1: High school girl Ran Kirishima is in the throes of adolescence! She enjoys shopping in Shibuya with her friends, dreams of becoming a fashion designer, and has feelings for her idol, Fujii Senpai - at first glance, she seems like an ordinary girl. However, her other side is that she is the heir to the Shuwashi school of martial arts, which has been passed down from one generation to the next. Her bushido spirit will not allow her to do anything cr...
Somehow had me hooked
Ran Kirishima, a high school gyaru who dreams of becoming a fashion designer, happens to be the inheritor of the 'Scarlet Eagle' school of martial arts and is unbeatable when delivering justice to perverts and abusers. She attracts the attention of the shadowy group 'Mistral', who start interfering with the lives of the people around her in order to draw her into fights. The premise is silly, the melodrama is gratuitous, and the manga is not very well-made, but I was invested regardless and had an unexpected amount of fun reading.
Difficulty-wise: There is no furigana, even for character names. The majority of the dialogue is delivered by slangy teens, so it requires a good command of casual and contracted forms to parse, but otherwise the language used is pretty grounded in reality and clear about what's being spoken about. Apart from the language level, the story is steeped in early-2000s Japanese youth culture, so following it would probably be challenging for people who aren't very familiar with the trends of the time or the landmarks of Shibuya, where the characters spend most of their time.
Entertainment-wise: I had a good time with the first volume. I'm honestly a bit confused about why I liked reading it as much as I did, because this objectively should not be a very good manga, even from a purely technical standpoint -- it's not particularly well-drawn, the staging of the panels tends to be unclear about what the characters are doing, and scenes sometimes interrupt each other and make the flow confusing... but none of that prevented me from enjoying it. Despite rolling my eyes often at the cheese, I was fully engaged and couldn't stop turning pages, and I'm looking forward to reading more.