Dec 27, 2020
Super Oresama Love Story is a romcom manga written by Hiroyuki (Aho Girl, Mangaka-san to Assistan-san to) in 2009, axed after 4 chapters because it was unpopular with the readers. It's your generic love comedy between a rich 18 year old arrogant boy who loves this ice queen emotionless girl who's a martial artist and perfect in everything. High school setting.
It's not even as sexy as per Hiroyuki's standards, only some random girls in bunny suits and high school girls in uniforms, it's not impressive visually, it's pretty basic and mediocre. The backgrounds are decent though and the characters are drawn beautifully with regular body
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types, big eyes and cute looking, nothing special.
The chapters consist in the attempts of our main guy wanting to catch the girl's attention, every method is complicated and over-the-top and misunderstandings happen to the point that the girl doesn't even want to talk and beats the shit outta him, also, in the last moment, he has to touch the girl Inappropriately by mistake because why not. Our guy Tenka is helped in his quest by his butler Sebastian (excellent reference) and his little sister Yuka who is the voice of reason in this whole madness.
How come in a romance story there is never a guy who just goes to the girl and asks her out, like "hey, I know you, we're classmates, wanna go to the library to help me check out some books I need?" or "do you wanna go to a cafe? I'll buy you a drink." But no, everything has to be complicated and everyone has to shout? Well, something has to happen to keep the readers entertained, we don't want the manga to end after one chapter, that's why his manga is tagged "comedy" and not "drama".
In the end, it's a decent attempt by Hiroyuki but I see how this might look very boring to read, it didn't introduce any other girls and it looks like a one-trick-pony, the characters aren't that interesting to look at, it's very weak compared to Kaguya-sama or RikeKoi where you see how cool and interesting the characters are from the first chapters and you would love to see more of them but it doesn't apply in our case.
Me being a Hiroyuki fan, I felt that I was obligated to read it and I don't regret it, it doesn't have the absurd comedy of his other works but it still made me laugh and kept me interested about their future relationship. The final chapter is your regular episodic chapter and it ends unsatisfactory with no conclusion.
It's not good, it's not bad, it's just mediocre, short and unfinished, there are many love comedies out there waiting for readers. This is a must-read only for die-hard fans of the mangaka because you see him drawing the regular manga (every chapter has 40 pages approximately) and it's from late 2000s. I say it's worth a read, then just forget about it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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