Ayakashi Triangle

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Synonyms: Reo x Leo, Leo x Leo, Reo x Reo

Japanese: あやかしトライアングル

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 16

Chapters: 146

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 15, 2020 to Sep 25, 2023

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi

Theme: Magical Sex Shift

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump+

Authors: Yabuki, Kentarou (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.67¹ (scored by 5,863 users)

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Ranked: #13559²

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Popularity: #936

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Matsuri Kazamaki and Suzu Kanade are childhood friends, bonded by their shared ability to see ayakashi—youkai in search of a life force to devour. However, in high school, their relationship deteriorates. As Suzu's one-sided feelings are growing, so is the difference in their ayakashi views: Matsuri considers all ayakashi a threat to his friend, while Suzu is an ayakashi medium—someone who exudes a significant amount of life force compared to the average human—and loves them all despite the risk.

When the two stumble upon a talking white cat named Shirogane, they are unaware that it is a four-hundred-year-old ayakashi known as the "King of Ayakashi." He is hell-bent on gaining even more power by devouring Suzu, but as Matsuri swoops in to try and save her by sealing Shirogane's powers, the ayakashi uses a jutsu to turn him into a girl instead!

Matsuri vows to protect Suzu from further harm as her best friend, but he must learn how to act like a girl until his grandfather—a famous wind jutsu exorcist ninja—can undo the jutsu. Meanwhile, Suzu must work out her romantic feelings for Matsuri now that he is no longer a boy. But when Matsuri takes the king as his pet, the future of the two friends seems uncertain.

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Volume 16: Reo x Leo

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Ayakashi Triangle was simulpub in English through MANGA Plus. The first 2 volumes of the series were published digitally in English by VIZ Media from July 27, 2021 to October 26, 2021, and republished in print by Seven Seas Entertainment under the Ghost Ship imprint since November 1, 2022.

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Kanade, Suzu

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Kazamaki, Matsuri

Main

Shirogane

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Tsukioka, Lucy

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Hirasaka, Mei

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Ninokuru, Souga

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Toba, Yayoi

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Kourogi, Reo

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Hinojiki, Sousuke

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Suzu's Mother

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Dec 18, 2023

Marco_Yooo

Recommended

THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW

Kentarou Yabuki is one of the most renowned Shounen authors of all time at this point. His first manga was a traditional battle-shounen, “Black Cat”, his second one was an ecchi, sci-fi comedy, “To-LOVE-ru”. His newest manga, that I have followed every week since 2021, combines the two most prevalent genres of his old works with a classic setting. And like always, there are a lot of crazy concepts being explored here.

Story – 7/10

The first few chapters do a great job at setting up the main concept of the show. After that, this manga continues very episodically, with each mini-arc spanning ... 1-4 chapters each. This really has the same vibe as a Saturday morning TV-show.
The main goal of the characters (Turning Matsuri back into a boy) gets put on the back-burner for most of the show. Instead, the series keeps a very fast pace with it´s side content. Every little mini-arc contains a different little magical concept that is being explored. From teleportation, invisibility, magical gadgets and even little time-travel stories, this manga stays fresh and new every chapter. But where this series deviates from a classical ecchi manga is the fights. This manga has full-on, “Naruto”-esque fight sequences which provide some nice little variety in the story. The pacing is very fast, this definitely feels like a modern manga.
On an emotional aspect, this manga is also interesting: If the person you like suddenly changes his gender, could you still love him the same way? And does love really transcend gender-norms all the time? This amount of LGBT content is really rare to find in Japanese media, especially the shounen-genre. This could be a sign of japan opening up to these kinds of topics, which is great, because there are a lot of highly interesting themes to be explored here.
The biggest aspect of this manga is of course the ecchi content, and I have to say, it delivers. This is some of the most unhinged stuff I have ever seen in a Shounen Jump manga. It never feels dull or undeserved, and is mostly combined with extremely funny scenarios.
However, I think the main story does not have enough meat on it for the manga to go on for so long. It mainly serves as a way for the author to play around with ridiculous magical scenarios. I think 100 chapters would have been the perfect length. After a while, the manga starts to lose itself in the side-stories a little bit to much.

Art – 9/10

I mean, there is a reason why Kentarou Yabuki is called the king of ecchi. He has been the most prominent author of the genre for almost 20 years now. To-LOVE-ru already showed his capability to craft immaculate ecchi-scenes but I honestly think that he has improved his game A LOT, which is especially visible in the chapter introductions. Every character is distinct and consistent, the clothing and different outfits perfectly fit the setting and the chapters fly by in a breeze because of his simple but effective paneling. This is one of the manga that would really improve with a coloured version, because I think Yabuki Kentarou is one of the best when it comes to coloured manga panels. This has to be one of the cleanest looking ecchi-works that I have ever read.

Characters – 9/10

I think this category is always highly influenced by the way the respective manga is being read. If you just breeze by it in a few days, the characters might not have a huge impact on you, but if you only read one chapter every week for almost two years, you will have a completely different view.
There is a certain set of characters that gets introduced very early on. Every one has at least 3 little arcs to himself, giving everyone little bits of development sprinkled throughout the manga. The main thing here is of course the relationship of Matsuri and Suzu, and I think this is the mangas biggest strenght. They explore some really interesting topics here that I have never seen in any other type of manga. This is truly a one-of-a-kind love story! I honestly think that after the fantastic ending, Suzu Kanade is one of the best female characters ever in the ecchi genre.
The side characters were also fantastic, with the edgy, but dense Ninokuru being my favorite.
The only downside here is that there were a few weird decisions made by Yabuki here. Why does the female lead, Suzu, have so many different personalities and forms at the end? There exist an adult version, a cat-girl version, a loli version and more(!). These could all be different characters.

Enjoyment – 8/10

I wish this manga was shorter, but although there was some meandering in the middle it was never outright bad and the good aspects outshine the bad ones. This is a highly creative and inventive entry in the ecchi genre and i am eager to see what Yabuki Kentarou is cooking up next!

- Marco_Yooo

FINAL SCORE - 8/10

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Dec 21, 2023

Yubisoft

Mixed Feelings

Hello there . I won't bother you with a huge of text so I will be as fast as possible . The review will be split into two small parts :

First part (it is for people who haven't read this author's previous works and are just interested in reading an fan service/ecchi manga):
Yabuki Kentarou's strong points were never :the ability to write well constructed stories , well developed characters but in Ayakashi Triangle they were unexpectedly below average . I personally felt more connected with the side characters rather than the Matsuri who was completely uninteresting and existed as a ...

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Sep 25, 2023

Wibikant

Not Recommended

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*/* THIS CRITIQUE CONTAINS SLOILERS FOR THE ENDING. */*
This is a critique of the manga Ayakashi Triangle by renown ecchi mangaka Kentaro Yabuki (To-Love Ru). As a gender bender enthusiast, I was at first happy of a new series in Shonen Jump about this theme, rarely seen in mainstream stories except small episode or arcs in more comedic stories like Gintama and Witch Watch. However, as one of the podiums in popularity for the genre, both the general story and the gender bending aspect are bad.

First off, the gender bending nature of the story. While exceptional stories like Shishunki Bitter Change have a longer ... period to breath, my personal rule of thumb is 1 year. A year where the person discovers the opposite gender and start accepting it. But, in Ayakashi Triangle, Matsuri has been only 6 to 8 months a girl, because it started before the start of the school year in April and finished in October/fall a bit after the school festival. This dilatation of time is created by the adding of Rochka (the snow spirit) who made a mini "winter" arc. And during that whole period, Matsuri only realized that he/she likes Suzu and that using a fudonshi is awkward to wear after using panties for that amount of time. Do not tell me that this guy decided after 15 years as a man to stay as a woman, even though his girlfriend is bisexual and that he/she can still be friends with his circle of girl friends. Matsuri is during the whole series a "tomboy" who still play video games "for boys" and as a more masculine side than his/her other friends. There is no chapter where Suzu force Matsuri to wear dresses and other feminine clothing, it stays with only the school uniform for the whole series as the only thing shown to a development physically. The final revelation is not then worthy for the lack of character development link to his/her gender and questioning of it, partly because of the episodic nature which feel like filler in the eye of that end. This lack of character development can also be trace to the loyal nature of Matsuri who just never refuse his new gender for the greater good of training and, to a certain extent, body guarding (example: the switching from fudonshi to panties). Generally, a gender bender story is supposed to make this transformation an obstacle to the daily life of the character who need to balance his physical sex and his memories with the other gender. But by accepting all the time, this crucial development is eliminated. The lack of character development makes the final choice some major undecidedness where they will decide after the 2,5 years left of high school where the choice in these stories is very clear about the final result.

Second of, this series is the typical high school ecchi story where every chapter is punctuated with a character falling between the breast of the other and lots of panty shots. Only normal for that type of turn-the-brain-off for authors who are incapable of having natural occurrences of "ecchiness". It would be important to think that after the dozen first chapters where the gender bending storyline is the focal point, the latter is almost indistinguishable from another story from that author. The triple Suzu was just a half-baked idea that made less sense in a larger "theme" of traditionalism against bisexuals/homosexuality and modernity that Shirogane initially took part in. And if someone reference the flashback with the previous guard of the Ayakashi Medium being a woman too which would prove the final choice of Matsuri, that reason is nonsensical in that same opposition to tradition with Suzu refusing the heritage of the previous Ayakashi Medium from Dark Mei. Even worse, even after he/she just fought a sizable portion of the ninja exorcist organization, respecting the past is the opposite of normal in that situation. While I was at first exited for the last arc, the finality announced “sneakily” 10 chapters before the actual ending ruined it. I even coped for months that he/she would actually stay as a guy, which is rare occurrence in those stories like in Ame Nochi Hare. It could even go to a non-binary/bigender or intersex ending (Intersex could however be dangerous in something that mainstream which would create a "futa" fanbase) for more uniqueness (even though the author probably does not know what those are). But, to no avail. For a similar setting, all points are better in Natsume's Book of Friends direction.

So no, Ayakashi Triangle is not the savior of a dying breed of gender bend stories, which is not the case when stories like Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to, the one-shot Woke-up-as-a-girl Syndrome from Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man, Fire Punch) and the excellent (for more ecchi stuff) Futari Switch from Akira Hiramoto (Prison School) exist. Is it the worst? Nah, Boku Girl exists on the throne as the worst. Want something to jerk off? They are minors, bro. Just watch regular porn.

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