Nov 8, 2020
As always, I like to post reviews on less known, and less talked about Manga/Anime. Be it to get more readers, or to at least peak your curiosity, or to steer you away potentially from a mistake I felt I made. This took a bunch of stereotypes, tropes, and cliche scenes, and turned them on their heads and really blossomed an interesting cast of characters, a lovable RomCom, and some unique art style, to deliver a growing & interesting story.
PFItStFJKH ... Man that's a mouthful, since this is an English site, we'll call it Dumb Prefect, which is part of the translated name. Is
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a coming-of-age Highschool Romance Comedy centered around a prefect who seems stern but... Really is just dense. Stupid, acts before thinking, dense as hell, and doesn't really understand the world around him, he's bound by morals and things he can understand. He's a great leading male because it's refreshing from the typical "I'm a handsome guy" or "I'm ugly and a loser but I can become better" or any of those effects. It's very straight forward, he's unique, dumb, straight-laced, and has a great heart, and he's learning to small things about the social world through a cute girl he just happened to have an instance with.
Story: 8/10
While it may not be heavily in depth, and lacking in certain areas of the story, pay it no mind because it has a great line of story. Our Dumb Prefect, is learning to cope with life, while also "keeping an eye" on Poemu and her friends, while slowly running into the usual "fall in love scenario." You run into a colorful (and I really do mean incredibly colorful) cast of people along the way who brighten up the story in ways it needs. At the end of the day though, you're going to pick this up and read it for the two main characters this story is about, and it's cute, heartwarming, comical, and captivating in light way.
Art: 7/10
Now here is where I hit the struggle-bus, I'm an avid lover of all things unique and risk-taking. As long as they do it right, and put an honest effort into standing out, I can grow to enjoy the unique art styles that are coming out into the scene. The lines, and drawings of Dumb Prefect are anything but usual. The characters are drawn a bit more blocky, but it works out perfectly, lending a hand to some serious tones, comedy sequences, and overall light moods that it aims to be often. I love it, but it's also a bit on the stranger side, and isn't "true beauty" it just works for the scenes.
Characters: 8.5/10
There are so many stereotypes and tropes for characters here, that it's wild. The cast is mostly small, but there's just enough personalities that you find yourself entertained. You have the usual Gyaru Trio (not sure why but Gyaru's usually work in squads of 3), the rule heavy prefect, the suave Librarian, the gangster, the Adult-esque Student Council, and so on. The great thing about Dumb Prefect is, they take those tropes, and flip them on their head by sprinkling in some extra factors that really spice it up. Like "what if our super responsible student council rule enforcer, who are normally studious... Was dumb?"
Enjoyment: 9/10
I'm a sucker for fun, cute, and well-paced RomCom's like this, what can I say? I'm having a great time turtling my way through the uniquely drawn panels, the fun and zany cast of characters. Of course there are some silly points that I just think that it's like any other manga, but while I can't always explain it, this is one of the ones I'm sticking with, and I want to see through. I'm rooting for the two characters all the way, and I think you'll find yourself able to enjoy it as well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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