Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san (Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie)

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Synonyms: Miss Shikimori Is Not Just Cute, That Girl Is Not Just Cute, Kawaii dake ja Nai Onnanoko Manga

Japanese: 可愛いだけじゃない式守さん

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 20

Chapters: 201

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 2, 2019 to Feb 18, 2023

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Serialization: Magazine pocket

Authors: Maki, Keigo (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.57¹ (scored by 19,153 users)

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Ranked: #2340²

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Popularity: #244

Members: 60,493

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Yuu Izumi is a high school student whose life is filled with misfortune. Ever since he was young, he would always return home with injuries. Due to his unlucky disposition, his days are full of nothing but unfortunate events—that is, until he started dating Micchon Shikimori.

One can describe Shikimori as the perfect girlfriend: cute, adorable, and unbelievably in love with Izumi. However, she is occasionally not so charming; instead, she becomes the coolest girlfriend in the scariest way possible! Her demanding presence and earnest concern for Izumi's wellbeing never ceases to take his breath away. With the cute yet cool Shikimori now by Izumi's side, his luckless days are over, bringing a life full of happiness and warmth.

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Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san, originally released under the title Kawaii dake ja Nai Onnanoko Manga, is a web manga released on the author's Twitter account from September 8, 2018 to February 2, 2019. Official serialization began in Magazine pocket on February 2, 2019.

The series has been published in English as Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie by Kodansha Comics USA since October 27, 2020. It has also been published in French as Shikimori n'est pas juste mignonne by Meian since December 22, 2021.

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Shikimori, Miyako

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Izumi, Yuuki

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Kamiya, Ai

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Hachimitsu, Yui

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Izumi, Motoko

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Shikimori, Fuji

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Inuzuka, Shuu

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Nekozaki, Kyou

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Shikimori, Miyabi

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Izumi, Akisada

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Mar 25, 2023

WreathedLamp

Mixed Feelings

This manga is highly disappointing. The art is really great but that's the only thing I like aside from the concept. I find Shikimori to be a very boring character and her gimmick is not as great as it sounds on paper. Izumi isn't as bad as her but I still don't care about him either. The romance is either kind of cringe or insufferably tepid. Usually I'm fine with stories where nothing happens as long as the characters are likable, but these are not. Their chemistry falls flat and it's kind of repetitive. I also don't mind repetitive stories, as long as it's a ...

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Apr 3, 2023

HM0710

Not Recommended

When I started reading this, I hadn't read any manga where the main characters were a couple at the beginning, so I was curious to see what would come of this. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with what I got.

The series fails where most rom-coms fail, namely on the characters. Shikimori is a one-dimensional character as it is almost perfect, except in cooking.While Izumi has only two personality traits, kind and unfortunate. In essence, two sentences were enough to summarize their character. That's pretty sad for a manga that's almost 200 chapters long.
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Mar 30, 2023

honilock

Recommended

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This is great. Ticks off all the boxes for a wholesome highschool couple manga.

Hasn't done anything else so far though... I love pure slice-of-life but even then this doesn't have anything special going for it (well there is Hachimatsu, I give them that; she's the best). At least they've dropped the "my girlfriend is such a cutie"-"my girlfriend is so cool" thing, it got pretty boring after 30 chapters of it.

The story so far is good. Nothing stellar even for its genre but it's aight. Gotta check off the whole trope list right?
I don't know why I'm being so harsh but it just feels so ... aggressively artificial. None of the characters go out of their box in any way and while they're fine as they are they could do a bit more imo.
So far there's only been one situation that peaked my interest a bit more but it got resolved in two chapters (I hope Kamiya doesn't just forget everything after this).
A pure 7/10 for the story. It does it job. 👍

The characters are (with ine exception) the weakest part of this manga. They literally have nothing going for them except their predestined roles. Shikimori's cute but also cool, Izumi's clumsy and cute, Inuzuka is the extroverted best friend for Izumi and Nekozaki is the extroverted best friend for Shikimori.
The only character I really like is Hachimatsu. She's the best, literally melting of laziness and being just a vibe. She's cool with just lying around and will disagree with anything that requires any physical labour. I love her.
The characters also get a 7/10 but only because of Hachimatsu. Might be my bias for loving these kinds of characters but she's the only one who's really interesting so far. Without he I don't think I'd giv e the characters anything higher than a 6.

The art is cute and cool. I'm referencing the premise because it perfectly captures it. The cute scenes are indeed cute and the cool scenes are very cool.
I also like the rougher look, manga doesn't need to be perfectly crisp on all edges to be great. Makes the important scenes way more impactful too because it only kicks into 6th gear there (another example would be Kubo-san).
9/10

I recommend this manga. It's very good for its genre. I just constantly have an odd feeling about it. I could talk about it a lot but there just isn't anything super noteworthy about it.
Even Marin has a personality despite being known as THE conveyor belt waifu. Shikimori's personality is literally described in the MAL description and so far she hasn't dared to go anywhere else. She's cute, she's cool and she loves Izumi. That's it. I'm a third of the way through and not even her family have appeared yet. I feel like I'm still on the first chapter with her.
I guess if you want to switch your brain off and enjoy some doki dokis this manga is great. If you want to get attached to the characters all I can say is good luck because I feel like I'll forget them pretty soon (not Hachimatsu though, she stays right beside Chika, Najimi, Carol and Misuzu and many others).

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