Ranked #1696

Girls Saurus DX (Manga)

Girls Saurus DX is the direct continuation of Kei Kusunoki’s Girls Saurus manga and it proved to be just as funny as it’s predecessor but also just as redundant.

Being a sequel, the story continues on through Shingo Chiryuu’s day to day struggles with his girl phobia. Even with this fear of girls he has managed to attract the unwanted affection of various members of the opposite sex, which inevitably results in some hilarious situations. Well that’s the summary of this seemingly interesting Ecchi, Harem, Romantic, Comedy and being a sequel, the mangaka has had the time to correct the mistakes of the past and start anew but instead Girls Saurus DX is more flawed than its predecessor. One flaw being how inconsistent the story is; like when one minute our protagonist doesn’t have a problem telling people about his girl phobia and the next he’s being blackmailed into having it revealed. Just doesn’t add up. Well it’s best not to go into detail about all the flaws yet the one that sticks out would always be the nature of this story. It’s the same old series of self contained chapters where some scenario is established and concluded within 30+ pages. Sure it’s easy to get a few laughs from these oneshots but it’s just as easy to grow weary of the same old recycled jokes. Also like in the previous Girls Saurus, absolutely no significant story progression or romantic development occurs, which doesn’t justify the absurd length of this manga.

The cast of characters are the same interesting bunch as before however instead of developing the one she’s already got, the mangaka decides to add some new ones. This wouldn’t have been a problem if the new characters didn’t comply with the most profoundly annoying clichés in the genre. Just witnessing the same girl trip up at least once every chapter would make anyone value the creative genius of this mangaka. The same can be said about the complete “realism” of the character’s motivations; like getting to 2nd base with the girl who loves you, for revenge.

Well in the midst of these degraded values, at least the artwork remained unchanged but I cannot say if that’s a good or bad thing. Some may like the style; I just think it’s decent enough for the comedy.

In the end this mangaka really hasn’t learnt much, since it is pretty much the same as before. Sure if you enjoyed the frequent panty flashes and humorous moments in the prequel you’ll enjoy them here however if you were hoping for some kind of development then you think too highly of this mangaka. In fact Kei Kusunoki thinks to highly of herself and that’s evident by how big of a deal she made when adding the most annoying character to the story. It is quite sad because there were so many opportunities in this manga to make an interesting story of love & laughs but I guess she just forgot the love… and the interesting. read more