Yasashii Sekai no Tsukurikata
A Method to Make the Gentle World

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A great underrated manga but definitely not for the romance manga (especially shoujo ones) lovers.

Don't be fooled by the romance tag, the manga focuses on two characters and their struggles in the academic field: Yuu Tomonaga, a genius that has faced the hardships of the backstage of the research field for the first time and Aoi Hirose, an equally genius highschool girl trying to conciliate her complicated family conditions and the dream of pursuing an academic career.

I think that "Yasashii" does a great job on showing the reality in the academic field and this might be the best manga on doing so. ... Professors stealing their students thesis, fight for a titular professor chair, research fund cuts, etc. Although there are some details that give right away that the author herself is not a scientist (I mean, that two-piece blackboard on the prep room is a joke and so is the whole sequence on which Tomonaga HACKS into his brother's PC).

There is romance though, but it's very underdeveloped. The main couple in particular is not very convincing as they lose the spotlight to the secondary couple AND to the main plot.

The art is pretty but forgettable and the character design is bland.

The only character that felt off to me was Kusakabe, she can be seen as the main character of the manga too, I hated her guts. The fujoshi was fine, every manga needs a comic relief right? And I really loved the Aoi character, even more than Tomonaga, she had the best character development by far. Touko is great too, really likeable character.

If this manga had ~3 more volumes and had it ended slightly differently, I'd have here a possible 10/10 contender.

This story is slice of life and seinen/josei, not shonen. It is very far from being shonen. It's silly to have categorised it as such. It's simply erroneously categorised here on MAL in my opinion.
The characters don't do "silly" shonen-ish things, there is nothing heroic, outstanding or whatever of the sort about anything in this story. The story is just a story about a few people whose lives intertwined and how they go on about those daily lives as such.

This was a weird manga. For the stuff that matters to me, and I don't really think there was anything else, it is oh so very ... realistic. Everything was down to earth, without a single thing that shaked the sync at which I was in with the story.
Out of all the characters, Tohno Touko etched herself the most in my mind, but I am happy to feel that by saying that I am doing somewhat of an injustice for Hirose and Kusakabe. Even Kayo, even all the rest. But yea, the two of them were wonderfull in different ways.
I could describe this manga satisfactory enough with a single word: "Gentle".
Everything that went on was.. Just girls, young ones, on the verge of adulthood, living their lives, growing up. I even grew to appreciate the male lead, Tomonaga, and very much so his techer-friend-colleague.
Some characters were somewhat minor in the story, but they had their role, and were not suddenly dead by the time it was over. Those characters too are realistic. Some people in life aren't there all the time, but they are sometimes and they are the people we know and are friends with. That's what I mean. The minor characters are consistently existent, and were not single-use tools. Just like in real life.
Now, as regarding the thing that stuck with me intensively for days back when I had just read this, and that I can get in the mindset of back easily through a song;
Tohno Touko.
There's a music album that I'd been listening to as I was reading the story. It ended up as the music I think Tohno likes. In particular, one song became associated with Tohno in my mind. I fantasize about how she walked outside alone while listening to this song, how she liked to listen to this song as she walked alone outside without a place to go to.
Just wandering alone like a hidden gem that can't shine..
The song (【東方ボーカル】 「モノクロ インザナイト (CYTOKINE remix)」) was beautiful to me and that's why I was actively listening it, but through Tohno's character the beauty of it developed into strong melancholy. Whenever I listen to the song now, images of Tohno wandering the streets, alone and doing her best to stay strong, flow through my mind.
Oh how the song was seemingly happy, before I started hearing the notes of uncertainty and concern, even fear and tears, the interpretation of which was brought to me by Tohno.
Tohno Touko is amazing to me, I love her.
Kusakabe and Hirose are angels are none the less wonderful themself.
I have a special feeling about the both of them. But Tohno's character touched me the most, I feel like I can sympathise with her the most.

This is a 10/10 manga for me. I love it because of how gentle and beautiful the story is, without being unrealastic. Like, such beauty, such gentle beauty (that the whole story is), I can beleive to be real. It's nice to have that feeling. Helps me live by helping me believe I'll perhaps meet such people one day, but yea; It's undoubtedly far too late for me to find such bliss.
Also, I am not stuck on describing the story as gentle because of its title. The story, the feel of it.. It was for me like being in a fluffy blanket during a cold winter. I don't think that I wouldn't have described it the same way had the title been something entirely different, if it did not include the word "gentle". :)

The art is beautiful, the characters are love, the story is realistic, and I was looking forward to reading the story rather instead of feeling burdened with the obligation to read it.
10 all around.

"Yasashii Sekai no Tsukurikata" was a pretty interesting work. Plot summaries and synopses available online don't really do it much justice since the implication is that it's a fish-out-of-water romantic comedy with a harem bent. And, well, this is frankly not true. The work is actually more or less a straight drama, and while romantic feelings play into it, it's a bit of a stretch to call it romance in a true sense.

Therein lies some of my disappointment. I enjoyed the manga throughout, but I was a bit turned off by the ending, which seemed a bit juvenile and was completely unfulfilling. Perhaps that's a ... matter of my personal preferences, and other people will respond to it differently. I wouldn't say it's poorly done, I'm just bitter that it ended differently from how I envisioned and wanted.

Perhaps my favourite part of the manga was the artwork, which was fairly close to that of "Horimiya" and other shojo-ish shonen/seinen works out there. Everything was such a joy to just look at, that a lot of the more underwhelming aspects of the story went by without too much trouble.

I'd recommend it more readily to people interested in a light slice of life drama with elements of comedy and romance than those looking for a harem rom-com (there isn't really a harem here in any meaningful way, just a majority of female characters).