Here we have a harem manga that starts off with a bit of a twist; I'm not talking about the part where Yamato, the main character, joins a school that until the year before was for just girls. We can all name several that start like that. Unlike the typical harem, Yamoto isn't a goody-two-shoes who's nice to everyone. He's a man. He has a pair. And he isn't afraid to stand up for himself.
So then, on to the review...
Story: 6 -I've already given a little bit of background, so here's the short: the freshness of the series starts to fade after chapter 10 or
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: OPEN SESAME InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 20
Chapters: 94
Status: Finished
Published: Mar 16, 2001 to Jun 16, 2008
Theme:
School
Demographic:
Shounen
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Kawakata, Kaoru (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #43932 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #4785
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Aug 12, 2011
Open Sesame was at best an average story with a mediocre ending. The story starts out typically with a bold boy joining a school that had recently turned coed. That's about as interesting it's going to get.
Story: 5- The story is frustrating. The author set a great tone by having the boy vs. girl theme throughout the first few chapters, but dramatically changes into them doing random things together without enough reasons. That being said, the chapters were long, and not in a good way. Having long chapters can lead to character development, plot twists or advancements, and even more dialogue. Sadly enough ... 
Nov 21, 2014
The manga was really great and enjoyable. It's more or less just your typical harem series where the females get attracted to the main protagonist and have their closure after a while. What really was bothering me was one of the main heroine(Aoi) not having her closure at all. I mean she is one of the main characters from the beginning and having her disappear suddenly is really a big shock.
The tragic factor is not as great as I thought but that's what keeps me reading the entire manga. Too bad it was not much of a development as I have hoped it will. I also ... 
Oct 8, 2014
It wasn't bad but I found too many loopholes, so it's not somehting I would recommend to guys but for girls it's pretty good since the mushy stuff is involved.
Overall this is an 8,5 outta 10 - it's not bad, it's a decent rom com (romantic comedy) and it's got its tragedy and drama but that isn't emphasised upon a lot, so it's mainly comedy. About the ending, as a guy, I felt deeply bored and wished that the manga had ended with the couple going out but the story continued which led to events which loosely closed a chance for any sequel. It wasn't ... 
Aug 7, 2015
No Spoilers ! :)
Open Sesame Is A Very Nice Read If You Ask Me. It all starts with the MP Danjou Yamato who is a high school student who lives by the countryside and is a boxing regional champion as the synopsis says!. His childhood friend Minakami Aoi, happens to be really close to him since young. After that,He transfered schools to Tokyo from Nami island meeting one of the FP Mogami Maki who he happens to meet when having an incident when he just arrived at Tokyo and starts to go to an all-girls school which just turn coed in the year he joined. ... 
Oct 9, 2009
Good ol typical harem manga and it was really interesting during the time when leading characters where feuding with each other.
The story starts when Danzo Yamato the protagonist of this series and his family moves from Nami Island to Tokyo. Yamato is the Tokai regional boxing champion. When Yamato arrives at his new school he is shocked to discover that the class was mostly girls. He soon finds out that there some boys there but that there were only nine. He also learns that the girls are the main power in the school, and becomes enraged by this when he is ordered by some girls ... 
Jan 24, 2015
It was a very interesting manga to read. It started out as like every normal romance story where the girl dislike the main character at 1st but grows to like him over time. Its a pretty good story up until it hits the mid 20's chapters after that character development starts slowing down a lot up till it is around the 40's even late 30's the chapters start feeling very filler like since there is almost know story progression and it not a story of let see how many girls will fall in love with yamato. Which is where the story start to lack
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Aug 27, 2020 For me, this manga is a mix, a mix between very good things that deserve a 9 or a 10 and between things that deserve a 5 or a 6 that's why I rated it 7.5. Let's begin, The story is interesting but quite frustrating. Let me explain. The start is blurry and it's normal because it's made like that. You will be introduced to the characters and to the setting. You will learn some things that happened in the past and that are really important but the author decided to do not reveal it until the very end. It will be one of my main ... |
