Tonari no Atashi

Nina's neighbor, Kyousuke, is starting high school while she's still stuck in junior high. Just walking to their nearby schools together isn't enough for her—especially since they keep running into Yuiko: a beautiful, outgoing girl in Kyousuke's grade who also seems to harbor feelings for Nina's next-door neighbor.

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Tonari no Atashi was published digitally in English as To Be Next to You by Kodansha USA from December 31, 2019 to October 6, 2020.

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Miyake, Shun

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Uemura, Nina

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Tachibana, Kyousuke

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Yuiko, Asou

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Tachibana, Keisuke

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May 5, 2021

Potterz

Recommended

When i first read this manga, i thought the story will just be about love between a childhood friend with a possessive main character. So i just read the first 5 chapters in a rush (not reading the entire thing). But, then it got interesting when the FL got a girlfriend, then i thought "WAIT..., i like this kind of story, it reminds me to one of my favorite shoujo manga, heroine shikkaku. And yeah, it is. So i start to be interested and read it with passion.

Story (8/10)
The story is pretty good for me because i like this kind of relationship. I know ... maybe some people doesn't like intense love triangle because it will be painful to read it. But, i really love it. Then, it becomes more interesting with the appearance of the SL as it makes the story more intense.

Art (6/10)
I'm gonna be honest here. The art is not great. The hair is kinda stiff and overall it's not a neat drawing. But, at least the character still has a good proportion and pretty face.

Character (8/10)
First, i'm gonna talk about the MC, nina. At first i thought she's gonna be an annoying shoujo manga girl just like in other shoujo manga where the girl all clingy to the FL, being jealous all the time, and show it to the FL. But, thankgod she is not that annoying. At least, she doesn't show that jealousy all the time and crying all the time. I'm not gonna say that i like her, she is a fine character for me.
Next is the FL, kyousuke. I know many people hate this kind of character (just like Rita in heroine shikkaku), but i don't hate him at all. I love the fact that he is not super considerate about nina like most the FL in shoujo manga does. I think this kind of action gives a space for nina to grow and makes her looks more mature and doesn't become an annoying girl. Not the best boy out there, but i like him
Next is the SL, Miyake-kun. Perhaps he is my favorite character. He is so nice and always shows kindness to nina. That's why i love him. He also blushes frequently and it is cute.
The last one is Yuiko, the bitch in this manga. Well, tbh, i don't think she really is a bitch. I mean, i found a whole lot of bitches in shoujo manga (even the MC in most shoujo manga are bitches who i really2 hates). But, i am fine with her character, she is annoying, but she knows her limit and we need this kind of person in this manga. So, she is fine for me

Enjoyment (8/10)
I read this manga only in 2 days and it count fast to me because i read slowly. The reason i give it a 9 because the first 5 chapters not really appealing and the second reason is because there is something missing there. And that missing thing is the depth of the story. Sometimes when i read shoujo manga i can feel painful and the feeling of the characters, but i don't really feeling it in this manga, so that is what lacking for me.

Overall (8/10)
overall it is a great manga. I really recommend it if u love intense love triangle thing because it will worth your time. It's not boring at all and it makes u wanna read it all the time till u finish it. And the most important thing u don't find a crying, annoying, and bitchy MC in this manga

If u read this review, pls help me found another good shoujo manga because i'm currently out of shoujo manga. thankyou

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Jun 2, 2019

Chrissolita

Recommended

This is pretty much your typical slice of life manga with a bit more of complicated love interests. You'll grow to hate and like (none of the characters are enough to "love", at least that was the case for me) some of the characters (& by hate, you'll probably reallllly hate them).

The art for me was good enough. Not the BEST, not by a long shot, but it was enough for me to pick it up.

Overall I'd rate this as a good and would recommend this to my friends IF they've already read the better shoujo mangas. Also, I actually enjoyed the ending. ...

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Feb 3, 2017

aguecheek

Mixed Feelings

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Here's the thing about this manga: if you like it, you'll hate the ending. If you hate it, you'll love the ending.

I confess to hate-reading this entire thing, and I'm shocked it paid off. But let me tell you: this is basically 39 chapters of netorare frustration and it is painful. I swear, I almost cried and I don't even like the main guy.

On that. Out of four main characters, three are incredibly unlikable. Kyousuke is probably the one that got to me the most; after our main character admits to being jealous of the new girl he's met ... and in love with him, he gives her the cold shoulder and immediately starts dating the girl. And rejecting her in and of itself is not wrong, but he treats her so carelessly that it's as if they weren't even childhood friends. He rejects her with a cold "I can't look at you that way" (with no tone of apology, with no "thank you for your confession, I hope we can still be friends") and comes to her a day later saying "I'm not going to hang out with you anymore. I'm dating the girl you were jealous of." And when the girl he leaves her for - Yuiko - asks him not to see her at all anymore, he tosses away his longtime childhood friend like a day-old sock. Of course over the series, he starts missing her and trying to secretly hang out with her again, but you definitely get the feeling of "too little, too late" and also "how about you pick a fucking girl, asshole."

Yuiko is so evil you almost don't mind it. Whereas you know you're supposed to like Kyousuke, you're not really supposed to with her, so there's nothing to fight against, no reason to shout off rooftops how much you want to murder her ass. But Yuiko is also not really evil; she's manipulative and emotionally unstable, but it's because she's incredibly insecure. And you can tell why she is; her ex-boyfriend severely mistreated her and her new boyfriend - who promised to take care of her and that he liked her - clearly has a lot of unresolved feelings for his next-door neighbor, who has made it painfully clear she likes him. The thing is, though, even though you understand her, her underhanded methods get iritating and tiring after a while. But also, that goes for most of this manga: irritating and tiring.

Nina isn't anywhere near as unlikable as the two I mentioned before, but she is tiring. She's way too desperate for Kyousuke, and when you watch her cling desperately to the guy who treated her like nothing, you really feel like she doesn't know her worth. Her clinging stops right before it gets intolerable, but even as you watch her try to move on as much as she can, you see it's incredibly hard for her and you get frustrated that she's hung up on such a jerk. Personality-wise, she's very standard shoujo, to the point of being overdramatic.

There's another guy who comes in later, but it's much later so I won't say too much about him, other than that he's the stereotypical unrequited-love shoujo character who comes in and makes the guy who rejected the main girl jealous.

So about this series: If I could take the time I spent reading this back and use it to read something else, I probably would, but I'm glad I kept reading this once I was a sizable chunk in instead of dropping it. Honestly, this manga was really hard to read and I hated nearly everybody, but there's something to be said for the fact that I couldn't put it down. I was so engaged I was literally yelling at the characters as I read. I'd recommend this if you can take ntr and unrequited love, but you need to be able to take it while also standing firm against the people who caused the ntr pain.

Also, spoilers for here on out.

You can probably tell this by the fact I like the ending, but she doesn't choose Kyousuke. Just letting you know because I'd hate being 40 chapters in a manga to find out that my guy lost. But let me tell you, being 40 chapters in a manga I expected to hate because a shitty guy was gonna get a happy ending while a good guy was gonna get a bad one and then finding out she chooses the good guy? It saved my fucking life. I believe in humanity again. But damn, was this story frustrating as hell.

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