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Synonyms: The Devil and Lovesongs

Japanese: 悪魔とラブソング

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 13

Chapters: 91

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 2006 to Apr 5, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Margaret

Authors: Toumori, Miyoshi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.65¹ (scored by 12,482 users)

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Ranked: #1988²

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Popularity: #550

Members: 32,054

Favorites: 530

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Jul 23, 2008

Rahzel

Recommended

Preliminary (8/91 chp)

"Devil and Her Love Song" 's a refreshing shoujo manga because it escapes the usual stereotypes you can find in this genre. The main character, Maria Kawai, is quite original for a shoujo heroine. She's brutally honest, has no tact whatsoever, and is usually so serious she tends to be scary. She also seems harsh and rude. She was expelled from the exclusive St. Katrina's school (she claims it's because she beat up her teacher) and ends up in a regular high school where her bad reputation precedes her.

That's the surface, but this manga obviously invites the readers to dig a little deeper in their ...

May 5, 2013

Creativemind243

Recommended

"A Devil and Her Love Song" is perhaps, one of the best Manga series I've read in a long, long time. The plot is great, and the characters are as well. I find the art style to be very unique.

The story is humorous and has a hint of romance, along with suspense. It will keep you guessing, that's for sure.

Jul 13, 2010

Magdalen

Recommended

Preliminary (37/91 chp)

'Akuma to Love Song' or 'The Devil and her Love Song' is a refreshing manga that, as of yet, hasn't fallen into the grips of typical shoujo cliches. Something admirable, since shoujo is a narrow genre rather unforgiving to an unoriginal plot.

The manga is based around the story of Kawai Maria, a girl expelled from the prestigious St. Katria's school for violence and transferred to a very low performing public school. Once there, her sharp tongue, blunt personality and honesty - not to mention her beauty and arrogance, cause her to immediately come to blows with most of the class. Apart from two boys, Meguro ... and Yuusuke, who befriend this devilish girl, who has a secret for singing beautifully.

Often the mangaka can focus too much on the story and not enough on the art, or vice versa, but Toumori Miyoshi has it spot-on. The art style is one of my very favourites - close ups of the characters leaving me in awe of her work. She has a way of making every character portray exactly what she wants them too in every scene, almost like a movie, setting the mood with just a few body language changes, something rare to find (from what I've seen) in a manga.

The way it's written is poetry in itself. The story unfolds very slowly, but not so slowly you're tapping your foot waiting impatiently for it to unravel. It's so masterfully done you don't realise your being given the background, rather than the character stating it outright - it being forcefed down your throat in one steady go, you are fed bits of information until you can piece together the whole image.

The storyline is incredibly inventive and original, so you are left guessing to the twists and turns it takes. You are introduced to Kousaka 'Nippachi' Tomoyo, Ibuki Hana, Ayuuchi Nakamura and Anna Mouri, all of whom will pose problems to Maria (watch out for Anna, I will be surprised if you don't hate her as much as I did).

Maria as a character is one of the most original and most easy to empathize for, a girl who's past has caused her so much pain and trouble she just wants to wash her hands of it. She's blunt and speaks her mind, but hurts and loves like any other. Yuusuke's attempts at a "Lovely Transformation" for her will make you laugh, and at other times she will make you cry.
Meguro and Yuusuke both pose as love interests, though, as of yet (chapter 42), it is undecided exactly whom she will end up with. I like the fact the mangaka doesn't force the character into a relationship with either one suddenly, for I fear it would kill stone-dead the brilliant chemistry between them all.

Altogether, I sincerely recommend this manga to you, as one which will appeal to anyone. It has comedy, romance, slice-of-life and school stories all unravelling slowly through the story, and I swear you will eat this brilliant manga up avidly. (I check the mangascans twice a day to see if the new chapter has come out)

Mar 11, 2021

illest

Not Recommended

Going in, the story seems solid, characters seem to be typical shoujo but with a slight twist as our MC (Maria) has extreme awareness to people's true feelings, so it causes scenarios where characters actually need to face their flaws. personally for me, it's halfway through which starts going downhill from there. Below I'm going to write one without spoilers and one with that actually detail what's very wrong with the direction the manga goes in (again this is my opinion but I feel as if it's misleading and is looked past).

NO SPOILERS EXPLANATION:
Maria's past is slowly introduced to the audience and it makes ...

Jul 27, 2009

eli_is_star

Recommended

Preliminary (13/91 chp)

At first, i wasn't reading the manga seriously; thiking that it was just another dark story but the protagonist was a very interesting character.
After reading all available chapters, i think that it was a philosophical story. It is philosophical in a way that it reveals the ugly side of human nature. One that we, as human beings, strive hard to conceal.

I like the manga because it presents a new kind of heroine. One that everyone hates and one that is still being hated as the plot thickens.
The character, although i doubt there really is someone that oblivous and insensitive towards the feelings of others, ...

Dec 17, 2010

Moon_Light

Recommended

Preliminary (9/91 chp)

"You corrupt other people" (summary at end)

In all the manga I have read I have yet to find another Maria. No heroine I have read about has ever been called or known as arrogant and 'the devil," and not because she's mischievous. She is complex. In her own words, "I can only be myself." She's the part of you you keep hidden inside. Out of reach from anyone because you're afraid they won't accept. At least in my opinion. She just wants to be saved, to feel worthy of being saved. She doesn't understand kindness or friendship and to someone like her, it feels ... like suffocating.

"To me, Kawai-san is like a mirror. A mirror that reflects all the bad parts about you. A devil like mirror that contaminates your heart."

Meguro notices her, not because of her beauty, though she is known for it. But because of her 'darkness.' He sees to her core sometimes, to the part she doesn't know she has. He likes her for everything she is, even the part of her others hate.

Yuusuke, he's the one that has the "Lovely Transformation" down to as science. I could honestly say that he's the character most curious about her. He believes that underneath the 'beautiful devil' her true intentions will resurface. He wants to know her, probably because she's the one that saw through his cheerful mask...

Something that caught my attention about the characters was that they all served a purpose for the story. All throughout, even in the parts they were just in the background. This manga has a lot of antagonists, and if were to ask Maria, she'd say she was one of them. What makes it so unique was that all the people feel emotions besides love in this manga. There's love, not much but some. But you could taste the hatred. throughout the manga you'll see a glimpse of most of their minds and what they feel is hidden behind the mask they wear.

The art was lovely. Maria was drawn beautifully and her expressions and posture, everything she does, matches her elegant character perfectly. Like with all the other characters. I have to say it, but if you can make tears look 3D and the characters expression give you goosebumps, for me that wins you point. Not all points but more than most.

In life, to really succeed and be true to yourself and the person you want to become, you need honest people that push you. Everyday they change you and help mold you into the person you'll be tomorrow. If you have someone like that, or you are someone like that, you'll enjoy meeting Maria Kawai and her "friends."

I know it's just a manga. Most of the time I read just for fun, but sometimes along with the fun you get a glimpse at life.

Summary: The story is about Maria, who is notorious and known by students all over the place. Upon getting expelled from a top school because of "violence against a teacher," Maria transfers to a new low grade school. She doesn't make friends easily. Better said, she doesn't care for it and they don't care for her. Most of them, they all feel that Maria looks down on them. The other half, are jealous of her looks. Being picked on and pranks, she takes them all with an aloof personality, saying, "It seems that I'm hated." She is honest and speaks her mind, all the time. Everyone hates her, or do they? Can anyone get close enough to find out her truth?

Feb 27, 2016

kirs4215

Recommended

I didn't have the highest expectations when I started reading this manga, but I was already completely hooked after the first chapter. The characters are not some flat boring stereotypes, I found all of them interesting, even the ones I disliked. For the first 50 chapters or so, I thought this was one of them best mangas I ever read..

Unfortunately after that there was a few things that made me seriously pissed off. First I was slightly annoyed at how Maria's personality changes, without spoiling too much, I think she gets too caught up in her feelings and become less independent, which I found ...

Apr 12, 2010

dawnblk

Recommended

Preliminary (32/91 chp)

This manga was one of the first mangas that Ive ever read and after alost 50 mangas it still is in my top five. And it's one of the few mangas that I gave overall 10 points.
The story is really different. A girl called Kawaii Maria enters a new school after being kicked out of her old prestigous school. She is incredibly good looking but even her looks cant help her make friends because she just says everything that comes to her mind. She doesnt hide her true feeling about others and being an excellent judge of character just makes her situaton worse. ...

May 13, 2014

Uthred

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (58/91 chp)

The first few volumes are quite enjoyable and while the middle volumes do stray from what seemed to be the series' premise (and ratchet up the melodrama) they werent terrible, just something of a departure. But then they decide to introduce the rapist of a 14 year old girl as a sympathetic character, who receives no punishment for his crime, who is forgiven by everyone and who goes on about how he loved his victim. The forgiveness angle would have been bad enough if he had to work for it, but the entire package and the way its presented just makes it feel not only ...

Aug 14, 2010

yeahyeahyeah

Recommended

Preliminary (40/91 chp)

I had a lot of hope for this manga in the beginning, when we were presented with the strong, sassy, and "different" main lead female, Maria Kawai.

Akuma to Love Song does shake off a lot of the stereotypes surrounding shoujo manga, but those irritating cliches remain in the plot. The arcs in this story are all for the drama, and are excruciating to wait out while wholly unlikable and ridiculous antagonists come and go.

The main characters are brilliant; Maria, Meguro, and Yuusuke. And I find myself rooting for the romance in this story, despite all of the complications that are keeping it from actually ...

Jun 12, 2020

sofiaxbh

Mixed Feelings

My problem with this manga is how much I expected from it and how it ended up to be a huge disappointment. I really enjoyed the first part of the manga (though there were some hard-to-believe situations, specially when it comes to the teacher's behaviour), but at some point it just started to make no sense. From now on there will me some mayor spoilers so pls stop reading if you don't want to see them. (The conclusion is free of spoilers.)

I think you can resume this story as "look, these people are going through difficult situations, look how they'll change and how they ... learn how to be better ppl" but failing in the way of doing this. I just don't understand how the mangaka was able to ruin her characters so much. I mean, at first we were presented to a girl who makes a really interesting protagonist, completely different from your typical-shoujo manga heroine, who is not afraid to speak her mind and clearly have a lot of issues that will develop throughout the story. But then, she falls in love, and all of that just goes away and instead we have ye again a super plain protagonist. I'm not saying that her stopping to be a cold-hearted bitch is a bad thing, I think that it'd have been a really good development only if it had been well-executed.
As of the male lead role -Megu-, at first I really liked how the character was written and the interactions they both had, but at some point -when that other girl from the music school appears- he just starts to make a lot of stupid decisions, and even though I can understand that everyone can do stupid things when they're put in a situation they've never been before, for me his way of doing things wasn't believable at all and it ended up being a big turn-off for me.

Also, I really don't understand how you can introduce this background story that it's so important for the plot and for the characters' development, just to resolve it in that simple way. I mean, are you trying to convince me that a teenage girl, after she remembers all of a sudden about her mom committing suicide in front of her and the reasons that led her to do that, got to find a way out of that pain in just one fucking chapter?
This was the most important part of the story and we deserved to see how Maria recovers with the help of everyone around her, and it's not something that you can resolve in just a few pannels.

But the thing that really messed up the story for me was how the father issue was dealt with. I mean, he raped your mother and caused all of this despair upon your family and just like that you're able to talk to him and it only takes you a few chapters to act as if it were normal for him to meet your family and be okay with him saying that he loved your mother??????? And you're also okay with him going to your grandparents house and you even support that, bitch whatttT????? Even your friend (the kouhai) has the balls to say "hey i would like if you and him get along " BITCH WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ASKING YOUR FRIEND TO DO?????? But what pisses me off even more is her response to him, as if the things he's saying make a lot of sense.

The way this part of the story is written, how they don't give the importance that it needs to has, and how they just portrait this guy as if he's not that bad as a person, when he raped a 14 YEAR-OLD, RUINED HER LIFE and it just looks as it's not that great of a deal for anybody?
I mean, if you were to deal with this kind of serious topic and you were trying to make the readers empathize with that man you could have written it in so many different ways, but not this one, where the decisions and the way the characters act doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

SPOILERS FINISH HERE

Conclusion: Though the story and the characters weren't exactly my cup of tea (gosh, even the ending of the manga was a disappointment) I have to say that the art was beautiful and I really loved Maria and Megu's designs. Also, I think that if you're looking for a dramatic shoujo manga to read this wouldn't be me first recommendation, since there a lot mangas out there with better storytelling, BUT it was entertaining enough to keep me reading through 90 chapters just because I really wanted to know how it ended, so I have to give it some points for that.

Sep 5, 2011

AoiSenkou

Recommended

Preliminary (40/91 chp)

The main reason why I like this manga was because of the heroine. I find her brutal honesty and straightforward feelings to be super refreshing. It's also pretty funny at times when she tries to "act nice."

The supporting character's were pretty unique personality wise, and they seem to stick with me-- I find myself to like these characters more as I go on.

So, the main story is based around a song- a pretty popular one at that- "Amazing Grace." The lyrics match up to certain aspects of the story, it doesn't come to you right away because it's not a perfect match, but i ...

Sep 15, 2021

Borealiz

Not Recommended

This story really reminds me of Usagi Drop, just for the way that the ending butchers my enjoyment fo the entire series.

Without going into to much of spoiler territory, though this is about the last arcs, I won't mention character's names. However, by the end of the manga, the amount of rape apologists themes and excuses is very insulting and disheartening. I can't tell you how I felt in the last arcs, as it was like a punch to the gut and to the heart. It was like a betrayal. If you are a victim of sexual abuse I would skip this story, at least ...

Jan 29, 2017

NiniAlex

Recommended

Preliminary (47/91 chp)

The "Devil and her Love Song" is a beautiful story. Although I haven't finished it I am really enjoying the story so far.
The art is beautiful and clean- in my opinion. Especially the main charter Maria.
The charters seem very diverse and interesting. Everyone is very interesting and has there own past.
Although the only thing I can not understand is the intense hatred the teacher has for Maria-I mean come on! really? That teacher is so childish.

The story overall is very interesting and I like how it is a very charter driven story with interesting twist. Everything is slowly reveled to you as you keep ... reading. The story starts when the main charter Maria comes transfers to the new school. She meets new people but with her sharp tongue easily makes some enemies. The story unfolds from their as Maria is not the type to just sit back and be quiet. (I don't want to ruin the story so I will stop there haha)
I wouldn't recommend this for anyone into action genre- as the story can be kind of slow to people. Although personally loved the story myself and would recommend it in general.

----UPDATE---
*SPOLILERS AHEAD*
I finished the manga and I can say while going threw the manga I had mixed feelings. The part were I felt that manga went downhill was the intro of *Spoilers* Maria's father-who had raped her mother when she was ONLY 14 YEARS OLD! I mean, it was an interesting part but how they introduced him a sympathetic character-COME ON! The only victim is Maria and her mother! The main romance also seemed very lacking-and Maria's charter stared to change. Instead of being the wild, open-minded, strong character she WAS. Then when she and Shin officially becomes an item her personality does a complete 180.
She is always thinking of Shin...her thought can be compressed into these small statement all having to do with Shin. "Oh I hope Shin likes my outfit" "I love Shin!" "I hope Shin and I can sing together again.."
What happened to the independent character from the beginning? Even in the manga there is a scene where a guy from a record company tells her that her singing seems like "She is always singing to one person"...and you that person is *DING DING DING* Shin! Romance is not suppose to cripple a person so much they lose all the personality and fire they had before-she should have ended up with one of the other two guys-I think. Especially Yusuke).

I know for the update I might seem like I am being spiteful but I would have to say it's because I had such high hopes for it (It was beginning one of my favorites-not anymore because of the second half). I did not buy the main romance (ruining a great charter in my opinion) and was a complete let down.
I was still able to enjoy the manga (Just no longer one of my favorites). And what I stated before about it not having a lot of action above remains the same.

Jan 17, 2020

Sid19960919

Mixed Feelings

Akuma to love song is mostly a pretty good but melodramatic story of a girl who is blunt and straightforward. The first few volumes were pretty good and unique and characters such as shin were the most entertaining but the story slowly going downwards towards the gutter after that. Not only did they decide to introduce the rapist of a 14 year old girl as a sympathetic character, who receives no punishment for his crime, who is forgiven by everyone and who goes on about how he loved his victim. The forgiveness angle would have been bad enough if he had to work for it, ...

Oct 22, 2012

violetwitch_OwO

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (5/91 chp)

I started this manga thinking that it would be a decent romance manga. I was dead wrong.

The plot summery was good, and the art is outstanding, but the plot didn`t captivate me as I thought it would, and I just couldn`t keep reading.

Maria was a strong lead, but then she started to try and change herself(Lovely Transformation) because of what one guy said, and so she lost a few points.

The teacher didn`t listen to Maria and even blames her for things she didn`t do.

In short, I was a little disappointed in this manga, and ...

Apr 27, 2014

shiho_miyano

Recommended

This story is very unique in comparison to other mangas. I very much admire Maria as she is very strong and the author makes sure to emphasize how much she's gone through. The characters are very unique and well created. I also like the art as it's not too sketchy or messy. The story also has a good flow.

Aug 7, 2012

izl0vely

Mixed Feelings

there should be an option to put "is trying to read it but is very conflicted about it" status.

don't get me wrong. it's good. and the depth of the characters personalities really intrigues me to read more. but maybe it's because it's not the typical shoujo manga that i really get pissed about. i'm just so used to reading them that something like this is really "ehh" so to say.

but this is only my honest opinion. i haven't even caught up to manga to really have a full opinion on it. but i just feel the need to tell you that it may start to ...

Jan 26, 2023

zztl9

Not Recommended

Preliminary (65/91 chp)

I remember enjoying this manga when I found it on a site (that was probably manga reader dot com) at least 10 years ago, but ended up having to not know how it would end because it was still ongoing. But boy oh boy, have I grown way out of the target demograph of readers.

The main character is very blunt, and gets pretty much immediately bullied at the new school she transferred to. On one hand, yes, it's rude in certain cases, but it was very superficial in my opinion. And it is the same with the side characters/love interests, too. ESPECIALLY, the "main" ...

Jul 27, 2021

avagnomes

Recommended

I remember reading this awhile back, and seeing it's title once again was so nostalgic. This manga was heartbreaking. But I thoroughly enjoyed the emotions it put me through. One minute I was happy about how things were progressing, and before I knew it, I was crying. This manga brought me on a roller coaster of amazing, and sad emotions. And I would recommend this to someone who was looking for a sad romance. But if that's not your thing, or even if your not even looking for that type of story, please consider reading it. I feel in love with the characters and the ...