Kimi no Sei

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Imagine being bullied in grade school for no reason. Having no friends and constantly being picked on and being forced to move away. Then, years later, the person who started all of it confesses to you. You end up with Kimi no Sei.

Then a plan for revenge but what ho? What happens when you start falling in love with this person. And that's it. The rest of the story is the inner turmoil of the main character as she tries to overcome her conflicting feelings of her past, and her present. The story never surprises you, and drama is almost nonexistent, although it does remain ... interesting, at least for the 9 chapters this manga runs. You can really relate to the main character and you're not sure if you should hate or like Takaya.

Overall it's interesting and fun to read and realistic which is really nice, but there's definitely nothing that profound to be found. If you are into shoujo and you've got the time, go ahead and read this, you won't be disappointed. Otherwise, unless you really want to read something about bullying without the extremes of something like Life, you should probably pass.

Some may have gone through the experience of bullying, whether it was direct or indirect. What if the person who bullied you fell in love with you? Would you be able to forgive and love in return? Kimi no Sei is a shoujo manga that tries to build a romantic relationship between the bullier and the bullied, though it fails to present it in a believable way.

The story of Kimi no Sei centers around Takaya, the bullier, and Yurina, the bullied. These two encounter later on a mixer. Takaya immediately falls in love with Yurina, promting her to date him; however he doesn't recognize ... her as the girl he tormented in his childhood. She eventually accepts the date, but with the intention to make him suffer.

The premise is interesting, but as the reader may be thinking, how will it be possible to make a working romantic relationship between these two? Throughout the story the reader can observe how their relationship grows, however it leaves the reader thinking whether the behaviour and reactions of the protagonists are believable or not. The final plot twist of the story really felt far-fetched and unrealistic, which I personally found to be the part where all credibility of the story left. Nevertheless it was still intriguing to see how the story progressed.

The cast of characters is limited in Kimi no Sei, having as main protagonists Takaya and Yurina, and a few friends of these. The bullying in the childhood was mainly caused by Takaya, who did it in order to blend into the society, while Yurina was faced with the inability to trust the other gender. The secondary characters have almost no significant interaction with the protagonists, besides to create jealousy in the main characters.

The art of Kimi no Sei is well done. The characters design is what the reader is accustomed to see in a shoujo manga. Backgrounds are drawn when necessary, leading overall to an enjoyable read.

Kimi no Sei had an interesting idea, though it failed to transmit it in a believable way. The lack of character depth of both the main and secondary characters, with the unrealistic story progress was the biggest drawback of the manga. Nevertheless, if you can ignore this, Kimi no Sei is certainly worth a try, as it was enjoyable to see how the author developed the romantic relationship.

Thank you for reading.

Geeze, Kimi no Sei is such a bizarre rollercoaster. It starts off normal enough, with the premise that Takaya used to bully Yukina in grade school, which for her was horribly traumatic, but he barely remembers it. In college, they're reunited, and not really remembering her, Takaya is instantly attracted to Yukina. Yukina does remember, and decides to get revenge. At first this manga seemed like it was going to be a realistic exploration of this type of problematic premise, so if that bothers you, then obviously don't read it. One thing I liked about it is that rather being nicey nice, the author wrote ... that Yukina was going to get revenge, which is an unusual direction, and also makes it more bearable to read about her hanging out with her former bully than if she was just continuously getting victimized. But then, the manga takes a bizarre turn into left field, changing genres entirely into an extremely out of place thriller. Throw in a couple of characters whose motivations are entirely unclear, and crappy writing that accidentally made her teacher into a MAJOR creep, when I don't think that was the author's intent at all, seeing as Yurina didn't really seem to question it. It's pretty impressive they managed to accomplish all this wrong in just nine chapters. The one redeeming feature is the art, which is pretty good for a shoujo.