Gal☆Cleaning!

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Japanese: ギャル☆クリ！

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 25

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 8, 2018 to Jan 24, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Ecchi

Theme: School

Serialization: Magazine pocket

Authors: Ramunemura, Shuwata (Story & Art)

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Score: 4.24¹ (scored by 4,829 users)

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Ranked: #19209²

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Popularity: #2306

Members: 8,773

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MangaMagazine pocketRamunemura, Shuwata (Story & Art)

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Daisuke Kaji does not like your typical gal. To the dutiful high school student, these girls are nothing but crude people who have no regard for anyone else. Daisuke does his best to avoid them, especially Chiriko Iega, whom he considers to be the most unrefined girl at his school.

One day, Daisuke finds himself evicted from his apartment due to his father's outstanding debts. His new arrangements send him to stay with the daughter of his father's friend—who is none other than Chiriko herself. However, the shock of having to live alone with a girl does not even compare to the shock he feels upon seeing the state of her house. Due to Chiriko's negligence in cleaning, her home has become unimaginably dirty, filled to the brim with trash. Fortunately for Chiriko, Daisuke happens to be an excellent cleaner.

A one-man army in the field of sanitation, Daisuke has mastered all the chemical combinations and efficient methods necessary for quick and effective cleaning. On Chiriko's insistence, and to avoid living in squalor, Daisuke reluctantly agrees to clean the place with her. With a monumental task ahead of them, the pair work together through the mess—finding that as the house improves, so too does their relationship.

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Iega, Chiriko

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Kaji, Daisuke

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Tokimura, Kaede

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Jul 18, 2021

NextUniverse

Recommended

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I went into Gal Cleaning only because it had a low score, I was just on the lookout for something actually bad. If you already know my views on anything very lowly rated, you'd know that I don't actually find such media to be as bad as the score say it is. Sometimes with a mean score of 3.XX only shouts 6.XX or higher to me. Gal Cleaning was no exception, if anything, it is very misunderstood.

The story plays off as a normal generic cliche, in both story and characters, only based around a dude and a gyaru in their mischievous ... time together, synopsis will explain the rest. Nothing too out of the ordinary happens and for the most part, this is done well. I would usually check off stories like these with 6/10 and talk about the next category. But with one particular Gal Cleaning took it to the next level, I won't say what happens, but you will more than likely not see something shift this much in the narrative so much for a good long while. It is the only reason why this manga is rated so low, but it isn't bad. This is kinda like what happened with the AOT ending reaction. In any case, I saw this and thought that it was actually realistic to the world around itself, pay attention to what Kaji says in ch 3 and you will see what I mean. Whether that was a coincidence or intentional is something I don't know, but it was actually fitting regardless. Another, more accurate reason why such an event occurred was something I got out of talking to someone else about it, about how the cleaning is not only physical but also spiritual, though I think it is more mental in my opinion. In any case, it is quite the pretty cool idea snuck into this that I didn't even think of myself, makes you think that pretty much anything can have symbolism. It's really apt in such a case and makes for something you will probably remember because of what it does, whether for wrong or right reasons. Good stuff.

The art is fine, it is pretty much like every comedy manga with no individual style to it. Is there really a point in elaborating here then? Moving on.

I enjoyed this, I find it hard to not enjoy stuff, good or bad, there is a reason to like everything, though some series don't meet a basic standard which means it is impossible to appreciate fully. Gal Cleaning was not one of them. I can't really say I understand why people (if even rationally) dislike this. That one arc in itself isn't enough to pull down the enjoyment if I am honest, it was quite a change though, that is true. Still, this was a fun manga that was also quite clever in its own universe. Also, I must add how the arc just before the one that "brings everything down" is super funny, I found myself laughing more than I should, and I don't really have any idea why, it was just funny. Everything that isn't the hated part is also quite enjoyable, wholesome, and somewhat relaxing. Everything a manga like so needs to at the least keep you attached.

TLDR: A fun manga that has one section which is incredibly misunderstood.

Overall - 6.5 (7)
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Ermm, can I even recommend this one? Probably not, but it is there for most open-minded people, I would suggest looking a little deep into it, even if it does look a little cliche. What a story though, you wouldn't have guessed something this simple-looking could offend so many people. Hell, I thought this was disliked because people didn't like gyaru characters, before I read this that was. Well, nothing more to add, just another bottom 100 manga that needs defending.

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Nov 11, 2020

hexashadow13

Mixed Feelings

tl;dr: A manga that’s really good when it’s simply a light hearted comedy, but that becomes complete trash when it randomly gets dark after which as expected it gets promptly axed.

Up to a point, this manga is a really solid lighthearted comedy. There are only two characters, but they’re both pretty amusing and have good chemistry so its enjoyable to read about their antics. The random tidbits about cleaning effectively are also interesting. There’s a sort of ending in chapter 8 that while not that deep is a bit heartwarming. Without a doubt the manga should have ended there.

After that it doesn’t immediately get terrible, ... but the plot line following that introduces a new character for whom it immediately switches into a flashback that just ruins the manga. Said flashback isn’t the worst thing in the world and it wouldn’t be an issue in other manga, but it absolutely did not fit here at all. The flashback is tonally completely inconsistent with the rest of the manga in that it gets really dark. This is critical because the light hearted tone and atmosphere of the manga were a big part of what made it so good and the dramatic shift to darker content is not just completely worthless in terms of what gives value to the manga, but it also makes it impossible to bring back the lightheartedness, and furthermore casts a shade on everything up to that point in such a way that in hindsight it just doesn’t seem as good. The flashback also makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in terms of the way characters behave considering such an event happened. The flashback is also completely pointless because it's only a flashback for a character that is completely unimportant, in that it goes into their flashback immediately after they were introduced, but the manga was axed no doubt due to the fans disliking the flashback, and thus said new character never did anything of importance. Thus, it makes absolutely no sense why the flashback exists.

Some believe that the author was simply trolling the readers or that his manga had already been scheduled to be cancelled so he was taking out his frustration on the manga. That doesn’t really make sense though, because while there isn’t much after it, the story does continue after the flashback, at which point it seems to try to pivot back to trying to have an actual solid ending relating to the plot before the flashback. Now, that’s completely impossible because there’s no coming back from that level of garbage fire and hence there wasn’t really any sort of way to salvage even a reasonably satisfying ending. But that the author at least tried to do that makes it likely that the whole thing was simply them making a major mistake in thinking that taking the manga in that direction was okay, which is even more flabbergasting then them trying to screw things up intentionally. Honestly, it just feels like a terrible waste, because the manga was quite enjoyable until it screwed up and I would have loved to see it continuing in the previous fashion. Furthermore, this will likely be toxic for the author as well, which is sad because he clearly is able to create a competent manga based on how this manga began, and furthermore I really liked his art and thought he was incredibly good at making a simple art style look really nice.

This manga is really hard to rate because most of the manga is really good but when it gets bad its really bad. Still, the manga stops right after it gets bad so it's not like there’s a lot of it. If you stop at chapter 8, which encompasses the majority of the manga, it’s a solid read. But after that it's more like a 1.

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Sep 6, 2023

NoKOzKamui

Not Recommended

This is going to be tough to beat for the position of worst manga I've ever read. What rollercoaster of trash this manga is, and it only gets worse as it goes. We start with 8 chapters of cringe tier ecchi romcom slice of life story telling, which wouldn't have gotten this manga close to being the worst I've ever read if it had only remained that, but then we reach the infamous decimal chapters as they are known, and let's be honest, these chapters are the only reason most people ever discovered this manga, myself included. Here we are treated to a mini ...

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