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Cross Account, tbh the title of the manga is quite interesting plus the art itself is good, thats why i gave the mangaka's art a 9. Too bad, that no matter how good the way the mangaka draws, for manga to survive in a
harsh environment in Jump, it needs to have a good story, especially those manga that are in the romance-comedy genre.

Frankly, Cross Account's plot is just in the Ok level. "Normal HS boy who hates normies befriends a random person on SNS, but that person is an actress tired of her life as an actress.. and so on... blah.. blah" then ... what?!
As a person that has been reading a lot of romance comedy manga, that was the first thing that went through my mind while reading Ch's 1 - 3 of Cross Account.

In my opinion, in order for a romcom manga to survive in JUMP or any shounen manga publishers, a manga should have a very interesting plot, just like Nisekoi, To love Ru, Bakuman and many more. No wonder these manga lasted for 20 volumes and more.

Still, I would praise Date Tsunehiro-sensei, lasting for 4 volumes is a great improvement since his Tokyo wonder Boys that lasted only for 1 volume. Sadly, Cross Account's story is just generic plus it also has a strong competitor on the romcom genre in jump which is "Bokutachi wa Benkyo ga Dekinai" by Taishi TsuTsui.

P.S.

i am reading cross account in Japanese. The English TL for this manga is still at 15 Chapters.

Cross Account isn’t a harem (I say this because some people that have read one or two episodes think so and they decided to not recommend this), and it may be pretty average, but I think that it doesn’t deserve a not recommended. That being said, this doesn’t deserve a recommended either because I really think that some parts of the story (and some actions/decisions of the characters) make zero sense. If you want a romance with a typical childhood friend + another girl this is for you. (Complaints about the story will be in the spoiler section, below all the review, you will see ... a sign)

A) WRITING: [28/50]



1. Story (10/15)

Pretty average but not bad story, it’s short but it does a great job. That being said, the ending left me with mixed feelings. (I will elaborate in the spoiler section)


2. Plot (8/15)

Again, average plot. I really think that the ending doesn’t make sense, but at least the mangaka backed down (with an extra chapter, the 28.5) a little. If the extra chapter that I mentioned did not exist my calcification would have been a lot harsher.


3. Characters (10/20)

All the main characters do their job decently, but they are VERY generic, We have the typical loner (btw, the fact that the mc has a lot of followers isn’t relevant in the story in any way) as the male main character, then the typical actress that uses a mask in public cuz she is famous and lastly the childhood friend (with a big chest, It seems that that’s a must). None of them are original, and the support case is very forgettable. Also a lot of the decisions of both loner mc and actress mc don’t make sense. (I mean at the ending)



B) ART: [20/30]




4. Characters (8/15)

The characters look decent, but it’s nothing special.


5. Backgrounds (12/15)

The backgrounds look good and clean.



C) PERSONAL: [15/20]




6. Quality Consistency (4/5)

It’s good, but I really don’t understand the ending, it seems like the mangaka fu**ed up and then released an extra episode to try and fix it.


8. Chapters readed (5/5)

Read the whole thing.


9. Enjoyment (6/10)

I enjoyed this, but it wasn’t anything special, this manga is pretty average.



FINAL SCORE: 63/100


SPOILER ZONE LIES BELOW, CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK
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Complaints about the ending:

My number one complain is the attitude of the actress mc at the ending, she clearly didn’t liked acting at all and she only wanted a normal life, his mother literally said: “You were born for acting” and forced her to be an actress since her childhood and when her mother says that she can finally be free and that she can do whatever she wants with her life she says that she is “thankful” for the “wonderful dream” that his mother gave her. It doesn’t matter how you look at it, it doesn’t make any sense. Why did she forgave her mother, who had a cold attitude since she was a little kid? Come on, she literally said that the only reason she wanted her daughter to be an actress is because herself wasn’t able to become one! The actress mc had a perfect excuse to have a normal life with the person she loves. So as any normal and mentally sane person would do, she quitted acting, went to highschool and had a normal life! Right? NO! For some reason she decided to abandon japan and just like that she went to hollywood! WHAT A COOL ENDING! Now the childhood friend has been dumped ((that was my other complaint, like seriously!? You can’t turn down a girl because you love an idol, that makes zero sense, It’s just like turning down a girl because you love an anime girl. It’s stupid, you will never see neither of them irl. And from the mc perspective the idol he admired only saw him twice so they didn’t have ANY sort of relationship. It’s just DUMB.)) and the person that the mc really loves is going to freaking hollywood and he will never see her again. Luckily for us the mangaka backed down and released chapter 28.5 (an extra chapter) where the actress mc goes back to tokyo, meets with the no longer loner mc and confesses to him. This felt rushed and it didn’t make sense (because it took her 3 years to come back. And also, why would a famous actress go to university!?). But even if it didn’t make sense at all, I’m glad that the mangaka changed the ending, because if we had the old ending my calcification would had been a lot harsher.

That’s all thanks for reading, and sorry in advance for all the typos <3

Mod Edit: This review was originally posted for Gachipin. (99387) and has subsequently been merged into Cross Account (107480).


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