Ayu Mayu

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Ayu Mayu is one of my childhood favorite manga. It's a romantic comedy with a very very simple (cliche) plot but it's very entertaining to read.

Usually, Japanese authors seem to love cliffhanging ending, leaving a hole in the readers' heart, or simply mess up the ending to piss the readers off, but Ayu Mayu went all the way to the end, perfectly completed the story. The protagonists actually slept together and thus the ending feel completed.

It also hadn't been dragged on and on like 30+ volumes, like the other harem manga. You can finish the whole story within a day.

The art style is mediocre but ... acceptable. The characters are adorable and they compensated the mediocre arts.

Too bad there's no anime adaptation and probably will never get one, considering how old is this manga.

This manga starts off pretty slow, with most of the humor being focused around the protagonist being incompetent and hated. It then transitions to actually caring about the main mystery, which pushes the plot forward causes the story to pick up tremendously. The main character begins to act in a way that is more appealing, and the humor also improves. However, they decide to attempt to sweep the solving of the mystery under the rug, and go back to the previous status quo of not knowing who the sister is in order to keep the story going rather than end it. This reversal felt pretty ... forced and awkward to be honest. Still, once it gets over the strange feeling hump of doing so, the manga is pretty good, in that the story continues to move at a good pace, the main character is still appealing, and the humor is also solid. All of this leads to a conclusion that is pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be, but it's pretty sweet at being so and I was satisfied with the ending. The art is pretty good. 

tl;dr: A weak start that turns into a pretty solid rom-com.

Yousuke after many years finds out that his sister is living in a mansion. When he visits he finds out that there are 2 of them, both from the same orphanage and both have a brother. Which one could be his real sister?

Story: This a really short romantic,ecchi, comedy, manga. The plot isn't really that well developed, but it compensates with much funny moments. It is probably filled with every single corny/cliche harem,ecchi, and comedy scene possible, but who knows, someone might beat it one day. Overall this manga is just filled with funny scenes that just probably exaggerates like crazy, but this is ... what makes this mange good, IS because of its comedic scenes and exaggerations.

Art: The art is pretty simple and cute. Not really realistic type of style, going toward the big eye cute girl type kind of style. And the simple male type.

Character: Saying that this series has any kind of character development, might be an overstatement. But the characters are pretty good. They are all funny, like how Mayu accepts Yousuke as her brother while the other is like the tsundere character. All of the are funny especially those moments where Yousuke shows his brotherly love.

Enjoyment: Even though this series lacked character development and plot, I still enjoyed it very much in the sense of entertainment it provided me. It was a pretty short read, and it was pretty funny too. Though I did felt like the last few chapters were a rush, like many other short manga. It just seems like the writer just ran out of ideas and just through in a quick conclusion that makes the reader goes: This is it? But the ending of this manga wasn't that bad, probably because it didn't bring your hopes up, so there wasn't anything to let down. I'd recommend you to read it just for fun since it is a pretty short series and is pretty funny too! Well hope you enjoy!