Ranked #10058

Mayonaka wa Dame yo (Manga)

The art is great but the story is a joke.

As a note, this is the work of my favorite author. This is to show that I don't play games of favoritism. If I find the story great, I'll say it's commendable. If it's not, then it's not and I have no problems saying as such.

Silly teenage girl is one of those gullible teens who thinks love equates to sex. So she does her "duty", as it would seem, and has sex with her "boyfriends." Rather than giving the relationship time to develop so she can get to know the guy, she actually jumps into the sack with them very early on.

After being taken advantage of one last time she thinks the best way to live is to play men the way she has been played in the past. In steps her best friends younger brother, meaning a guy younger than her. He decides he'd be her playmate.

Ugh, it's depressing how horrible the story plays out. The characters are dull and unremarkable with stiff and uninteresting dialogue. The lead female character is naive, ridiculously promiscuous but enjoys playing the untried ingenue. The lead male has no real purpose in the story besides enabling her promiscuity a bit, even if it is implied he feels something for her. In essence the lead male had no depth, no presence, and gave nothing to the story. In her case, she had no depth, no presence, and gave nothing to the story besides being a dummy who is easy to get into bed after a few days of dating.

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