Manga: Love in Focus

Love in Focus Vol 1 
Rating: 3/5
Buy or Borrow: Buy 
Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

Mako's always had a passion for photography. When she loses someone dear to her, she clings to her art as a relic of the close relationship she once had...Luckily, her childhood best friend Kei encourages her to come to his high school and join their prestigious photo club. With nothing to lose, Mako grabs her camera and moves into the dorm where Kei and his classmates live. Soon, a fresh take on life, along with a mysterious new muse, begin to come into focus! 

Love in Focus starts off sedately, Mako arrives at the boarding house she'll be staying at for school, we meet her childhood friend Kei, as well as her grouchy fellow first year, Amemura. She does get off to a shaky start with the latter, and there's somewhat of a mystery about him and his dislike of his face. Can relate bro. 

I'm assuming the boys we meet in this first volume are our love interests, so we have Amemura who's love interest 1. She's determined to take his photo because he moves her heart and she only takes photos of things that do so. 

Love interest 2 is predictably her childhood friend Kei. She's sure Kei sees her as a sister and....with those words I was quite sure he didn't. The little threatening scene with him was therefore a little unnecessary but I guess we need the confirmation. 

I'm assuming that Lucas is quite probably love interest 3, he's described as a sparkly Prince Charming after all. I'm curious to see whether he actually is a love interest or if he's just another pretty boy. 

This first volume has her settling in, we quickly get to grips with Amemura's secret and his reason for hating photos, which was actually a lot deeper than I expected to be perfectly honest, and I was pleased they didn't drag it all out for too long! We also get introduced to the other characters that we'll be seeing a lot of. 

Mako is a bright character who always seems to see the good side to things, and I'm liking her as our MC. There are a couple of cliches, but it's an enjoyable, nicely moving volume, and I did like the art! Particularly when it comes to drawing the settings and the photos! The volume ends with Kei throwing down quite the gauntlet but it's not really a surprise! I believe this is only a 3 volume series, so I'm intrigued to see how things will play out, but so far...it's off to a good and speedy start!