Tonari no Seki ni Natta Bishoujo ga Horesaseyou to Karakattekuru ga Itsunomanika Kaeriuchi ni Shiteita

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Synonyms: The Cute Girl Sitting Next to Me Is Trying to Make Me Fall in Love With Her as a Way to Ridicule Me, but the Tables Were Turned on Her Before She Knew It

Japanese: 隣の席になった美少女が惚れさせようとからかってくるがいつの間にか返り討ちにしていた

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 5

Chapters: 25

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 14, 2020 to Sep 30, 2022

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Theme: School

Serialization: Gaugau Monster

Authors: Miyako, Hachi (Art), Aresanzui (Story)

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Ranked: #20244²

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Members: 8,845

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Chapters: /25

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By some unsavory stroke of luck, Yuuki Narito found himself sitting next to none other than the mischievous Yui Takatsuki. This girl had built herself a reputation of stringing guys along only to reject them when they finally dared to confess their feelings for her. This, in turn, earned her a certain nickname: "The Seatmate Killer."

It was only a matter of time before Yuuki fell victim to the overly friendly Yui, but little did she know that he was as clueless as they come! The tables have suddenly been turned, and the hunter will soon become the prey.

"Damn it! You think that poker face of yours is gonna get to me?! I'll make you regret this, you'll see!"

This rom-com is off to a bumpy start as a now-determined Yui takes it upon herself to get her revenge!

(Source: Tentai Books)

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Tonari no Seki ni Natta Bishoujo ga Horesaseyou to Karakattekuru ga Itsunomanika Kaeriuchi ni Shiteita was published digitally in English as Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer! by KiraKira Media through Azuki from September 15, 2022, to February 23, 2023. The volumes were published digitally by the same publisher from March 23, 2023, to August 19, 2023.

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Apr 10, 2025

Aasimar07

Not Recommended

Imma make this review very brief:

First 10 or so chapters are pretty charming, with a solid romance arc and plot development. Following 15 chapters? Incomprehensible mess, with constant meme references and side characters you do not care about constantly being introduced. Culminating in a lackluster and annoying ending.

Like literally goes from an average, maybe slightly above average romance manga to like a horridly paced, badly written manga. Story stops taking itself seriously at all.

I dont like leaving reviews like this where i dont have anything insightful to say (even when i dislike something, i like to talk about it and give like good ...

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Aug 20, 2024

hexashadow13

Not Recommended

tl;dr: An incredibly generic rom-com in which very little romantic progress is made and the comedy gets pretty dull.

The original premise of this is that a girl named Yui as the ‘Seatmate Killer’ tries to make boys that sit next to her fall in love with her just to shoot them down, but is unable to make a guy named Yuuki fall in love with her. This premise isn’t quite accurate though, and the reality of the situation results in a much more bog standard rom-com without any particularly interesting gimmick to it. It’s the typical story where one-character falls in love with another but ... is incredibly slow at actually advancing their relationship.

Yuuki is an emotionless airhead that’s also pretty dense. Yui is an overtly energetic girl that’s trying too hard to get people to like her. There’s some background given to flesh them out, but it’s mostly just described in passing and doesn’t play much of a role in the actual story. It also doesn’t feel like they grow at all over the course of the manga despite the attempts at making it seem like they have. A lot of the side characters in the manga also have attempts at character arcs, but they either go nowhere or they make progress in such a way that it makes their whole story feel meaningless and like a waste of time. Early on things feel like they are progressing steadily enough, with Mina’s arc feeling especially solid, but it’s all downhill from there as it continues to throw things into the mix.

The manga ends without much progress having been made. And honestly, when I finished the manga I didn’t even mind because I didn’t care about the relationship at all. A rom-com where you don’t even feel like rooting for the main couple is just broken. It’s hard to get invested because the characters have zero chemistry and just overall aren’t very likable. Honestly, I think it was more amusing watching things fail than it would been satisfying to see relationship progress. The reason they aren’t likable is because the writing doesn’t really do anything properly with them. This is a partial adaptation of a light novel so I understand that it isn’t adapting the entire story. But even considering that, far too little of substance happens.

The comedy is also pretty weak. It’s almost entirely of the type that has no wit to it. For example, the type where making references or breaking the fourth wall is supposed to be funny in and of itself without any further joke to things. Or the type where characters just being overtly exaggerated or unexpectedly stupid is supposed to be humorous. I think such comedy is fine in small doses, but with it throwing so much at you it actually got kind of annoying. The art style is pretty generic, but the quality was pretty solid at first so it’s decent enough. It gets worse over time though, with an over reliance on chibi and just in general a lot of low effort art.

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Mar 17, 2023

BSPancake

Not Recommended

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This manga, like many others caught my attention through it's interesting main concept. Of said manga, the good ones will build upon their main concept and use it to propel the story further. This manga did a good job at that for the first 10 or so chapters. The last 15 are some of the most disappointing chapters I've read in quite a long time.

The MC Yuuki is your typical kuudere. There is nothing remotely interesting about the guy. The author seems to feel the same way because after another girl (not FMC) named Rio becomes relevant to the story, Yuuki is almost constantly drawn ...

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