Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu

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I was browsing through romance manga to read when I suddenly noticed Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu. At first glance it looked like a hentai and I thought of skipping it, but then decided to take a look and binge read the whole thing one night. I was not disappointed.

Saotome is not your average romance heroine. She is tall for a school girl, athletic, shy and has a physique which even I don't have after hitting the gym for 4 years lol. She is also a boxer and a really good one at that too. Also, she's beautiful. Not the shojo romance kind, but beautiful yeah.

Satoru is ... not your average romance MC too. He is short, weak, not at all like a hero and loves boxing. Though he has been a boxer for years, he sucks at it big time.

What happens when one fine day, Saotome proposes to Satoru and their love story begins? A lot. There's a hell lot of cute moments, a nice amount of comedy and a bit of the sports stuff thrown in here and there. Overall it's an exciting package and is worth a binge read. There's absolutely no drama(thank God!) and none of those irritating love triangle BS. Just a plain cute romance story with really good characters that you will love to read. And oh, the mangaka sure knows how to draw beautiful women. If only some of them girls were in my gym...

Overall, Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu is a great romance manga and it deserves to get animated. As a romance manga lover, I would absolutely recommend this.

Saotome is a very interesting read that won't let you down with some buff girls, cute guys, and a pretty vanilla romance which is kind of rare in a sports manga centered around girls. If you want to have a feel-good-3-to-4-days-of-reading, you can read this pretty quick since most chapters aren't that long!

Pacing for the story was nice. Most characters had their time to shine and the story didn't seem to slow down too much, which I only felt did at times. Perhaps it was also a bit rushed at the end. 7/10

The art was the lowest point of this one. It's got ... its good moments here and there, and the fighting scenes are engaging, but from a character design POV and general sense it's just ok, pushing the line of being kinda bland. 5/10

The characters themselves are all unique and interesting to see evolve and interact with each other, and I have no complaints other than some (I think) underdeveloped side characters and some good-for-nothing antagonists that are there just to slow down the story. 8/10

It's just a pure and heartwarming, entertaining series to binge in a few days. Or two if you've got nothing to do. 9/10

Overall: 7/10

Besides girl abs being hot, this was a super wholesome experience, I loved every chapter of it. I loved every fight sequence, every romance bit, every comedy bit, everything. The artstyle is pretty cute and conveys a lot of emotion. My heart is completely melted like butter in a broiler and I wish there was more of this manga, I would read Saotome Senshu forever. 10/10 You would do yourself a favor reading this.

This manga made my week, and its one of my favourites now, I'm probably going to try and buy physical copies of every chapter of this one!!!


I had a great time.

Yours:
Zephyr Alex, ... computer science student and a soft hearted androgynous boi/gal