Naze Toudouin Seiya 16-sai wa Kanojo ga Dekinai no ka?

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Synonyms: Why Can't I Get a Girlfriend?

Japanese: なぜ東堂院聖也16歳は彼女が出来ないのか？

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 8

Chapters: 39

Status: Finished

Published: May 2, 2011 to Jun 4, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Rival

Authors: Uchino, Shuya (Story), Mogi, Kanta (Art)

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Score: 6.62¹ (scored by 1,179 users)

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Ranked: #14365²

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Popularity: #6142

Members: 3,178

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Ranked #14365Popularity #6142Members 3,178

MangaShounen RivalUchino, Shuya (Story), Mogi, Kanta (Art)

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Volumes: /8

Chapters: /39

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Seiya Toudouin's inability to answer one question has frustrated him to no end: "Why can't I get a girlfriend?" He gets the best grades, is fairly athletic, and, despite his modest opinion, is also rather good-looking. Even so, in all his 16 years of living, he has never once had a girlfriend. Every time he gets close to having one, he is left with bitter memories. Fed up with failures of the past, he sets a goal for himself—to finally get a girlfriend during high school!

Yet what comes easily for others soon becomes a strenuous task for Seiya, whose inexperience and social awkwardness only make his struggle greater. Nevertheless, he resolves to soldier on no matter how low the odds, based on his sheer conviction that a girlfriend is what he truly needs. But as he moves forward, the journey itself might give him a greater reflection of himself than any mirror could.

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Toudouin Seiya was re-serialized in Japanese and English (as Why Can't I Get a Girlfriend?) through DeNA's Manga Box app from May 23, 2014 to August 28, 2015. During the Manga Box serialization, the original 39 chapters were split into 67.

The series inspired a 9-episode NBN TV drama series that aired from October 21 to December 16, 2014.

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Toudouin, Seiya

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Kirishima

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Saotome, Ruri

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Miyata

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Hayashi, Yuki

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Oohori, Emi

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Rika

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Sep 3, 2018

hexashadow13

Recommended

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This manga is very different from most. In a way it’s a reversal of the typical harem, in that instead of having a protagonist that has girls falling in love with him for no clearly apparent reason but development later on, rather the case is that he protagonist is unable to get into a relationship with a girl despite having so much going for him. The reasons for this are very clearly developed later on in that he is incredibly socially awkward. As someone that it also incredibly socially awkward, I could certainly sympathize with him to an incredibly degree. But at ... the same time, he tries to overcome that at an extreme level. The social awkwardness is cringe worthy but I could sympathize with it, but him trying to get around it through extreme aggressiveness and desperation went well beyond that into often being pure cringe. It was a complete train wreck, but one that's written incredibly well, and hence difficult to look away from. Still, at some level, he's a good at heart, though incredibly lonely and just trying his best to get over that, which I totally get. Seriously though, he needs to learn better when to back off. He also seems to have terrible luck, actually terrible luck, not just standard manga terrible luck, but something that felt a lot more heavy and realistic where the reader can feel the pain of being screwed over by thins beyond your control. All of this leads to there being a lot of really heavy raw emotional moments, especially towards the ending to each arc. This is in part because his romantic interests are also written quite well and fleshed out. The arc with Haruka and Hino was especially amazing, and I was really hoping something would finally happen there. Unfortunately, that was not to be and the ending was weak.

I feel that talking about the ending at all is impossible without spoilers, so I'll just go at it. In the end, the main character does feel like he's grown. Not in ways that tremendously impact his actions or improve his chances of success, but it feels very much like his outlook on the world has improved. But he still doesn't get a girlfriend. I got pretty heavily emotionally invested in him, so him in the end getting nothing was a pretty big blow. In many ways, it fits with the manga quite well, in that that's what had been happening up to that point. But still, as it's the end, I feel something should have happened. After all of that, he deserved something. As it is, the ending simply felt depressing and left me feeling hollow. It's a manga that seems to have a strange sort of dark comedy at its core, but in the end, it just felt sad. It wasn't badly written or anything, so I can't say it's a bad ending exactly. Rather, it feels like it's meant to be intentionally unsatisfying and to evoke those sorts of emotions from the reader, which I can't say I'm much of a fan of, and ultimately can't look beyond. The art overall was quite good.

A very interesting premise that is written quite well, but that seems to make the choice of intentionally having an unsatisfying and hollow ending, for better or worse.

8/10

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Jan 24, 2018

Astromeria

Mixed Feelings

This is a story about a guy who falls into holes. He falls into them, climbs out, swears up and down to never fall into another hole again, then willingly dives headfirst into the next hole immediately.

Story: 9
The story is a good one. It feels like the author poured his heart out in it, and there are many good moments in it.

Art: 8
Some characters have some really great scenes art-wise. The author's really good at expressing emotions through expressions and gestures, and a lot of scenes have that to thank for the power behind them.

Character: 6
If this manga was just about the girls, this would ...

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Apr 13, 2017

MondoX

Not Recommended

Preliminary (16/39 eps)

I found the story decent, but why did I rate the mango so low? The idiotic and horrible mc. The mc is unable to find a girlfriend, usually because he second-guesses himself most of the time. It is understandable and I did not blame the mc at first. As the story progresses, some of his actions do not make sense. As soon as a girl is being nice to him, he assumes she likes him and confesses or tries to confess. The mc as a hard time figuring women, but he has an attractive made two years older than ...

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