Obaka-chan, Koigatariki

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A new star in the genre of shoujo comedy, Obaka-chan Koigatari by Sato Zakuri starts off with a cliche but hilariously presented premise which soon takes a plot twist to become a spectacular love-polygon drama. The high ratio of early chapter jokes will keep the reader laughing from page to page, and before they know it the plot has already thickened, its depth pulling them in.

Starring in Obaka is Sonodo Neiro, a heroine of the strong, stubborn, and violent (but not tsundere) variety. After being known as a delinquent with the reputation of "Kansai's strongest woman", Neiro transfer schools to Kantou region and decides to ... have an image makeover. So she walks into the school and... punches the first guy she sees.

As a result of both her past and current idiocy, she get enrolled into a special class: except this one is for other socially unacceptable people, henceforth the baka class. Just as depression sets in and Neiro ponders about leaving for another school, she finds this super gorgeous princy guy napping in the courtyard and becomes a fan of him instantly. When dear Tokio, the man she punched returns for another challenge, he inadvertently triggers her temper yet again and gets another lashing, right in front of Prince Shin. Just as Neiro becomes worried about her image in front of Shin, he comments from the distance that "like those kind of girls... the strong ones". With such never-before-heard-of encouragement (since guys run away from her), Neiro finishes breaking Tokio's nose for a second time in the same chapter and decides that she wants to become Shin's girlfriend, even if the distance between them is worlds apart: he's in the Prince of the academically advanced class, talented and charming enough to have his own fanclub; meanwhile she's in the infamous baka class.

In the meantime, Neiro gets to discover who else is in the baka class. There's Tokio, the guy who received a broken nose from her, twice, and is just as much of a delinquent who lacks common sense; Nijika, the best-girl-friend whose fashionable and toys about with multiple boyfriends; Kenichi, the gay megane exhibitionist who supports her love love relationship; and Saburo, the guy so shy and quiet hearing him speak is like a school legend. The characters are quite archtypical and overdone by other series, but the way they interact is absolutely hilarious.

Of course, it doesn't take long for Neiro to find out that dear prince Shin-sama is actually not so princy and is simply using others to fulfill personal desires (amusement and otherwise). Just as Shin begins to uncover his true intentions, Tokio steps in and forms the other side of the main characters love triangle by developing a crush towards Neiro from those beatdown and reveals a serious side to him that's both shy and naive.

Thus marks the beginning of an epic journey for the sake of the cast's relationships. I wasn't quite expecting it from the start, but by the time I recognized this series for more than just its comedy, I was seriously attached to the character pairings.

I'm not the biggest fan of Zakuri's art style, mainly because it feels like she's not putting enough love into drawing the characters to her full potential. The images tend to feel hazy at times and the luster of the characters' features isn't quite consistent. But the style does grow on me, mostly since it fits the humorous actions of the characters quite well, and the way Zakuri is goofing off with it is simply hilarious.

Neiro, notorious for being good at fighting since her childhood, causing people to fear her and making it hard to have a mutual love relationship. She decides to transfer to another highschool were no one knows her in hopes of finally finding love. On her first day there day she finds a boy beating up (bullying) a few students and charges without thinking and punches the boy. Which later she finds out the situation was visa-versa; he was just defending himself. Dealing with the consequences she is placed in a classroom specially assembled for delinquents.
In the mist of sulking she finds ... a boy sleeping under a tree..even after he finds out about her he does not fear her..causing her to fall in love with a boy...{but somethings not right}.
**Review: Its been awhile since i've read a manga where most of the characters are so odd in a very amusing way...i love it. The "comedy" is never ending, even if you had a problem with the way you were reading it with previous mangas this is guaranteed to hilarious, of-the-wall to make you laugh. Although its not a" slice of life" manga it give you the feeling with different attires( sometimes...ok rarely, but the point is, its not always school uniforms) and hairstyles. While im enjoying the enjoyment with forecasting twists..you will probably fly through chapters enjoying this manga

I read the summary for this manga and thought it was gonna have a strong female lead in it, in fact i found this manga because people recommended it as having a strong female lead. BUT its truly misleading

-The story goes to fast/the series is to short
-The main character is physically strong but barley uses her strength
-The lead female is kinda wimpy when it comes to "love"

MY first point is the story goes to fast. one minutes she is entering a new school, same chapter (few pages later) she is in love. No many people fall in love that fast that deeply, so that ... is just to fake right there.

Second point, In the beginning she uses her strength twice in the first chapter, after that you barley see her being really strong? she cowers when she sees a bear and the lead male takes over, when Shin tells her he is using her and never liked her, she weeps and later confronts him and ur reading it going '"punch him.... Tell him how horrible he is!" instead she straddles him and be's pathetic my crying cause she still loves him. Are you kidding? This is about a strong female! but this whole series makes her seem weak and wimpy.

Third point is kinda in my first and second point, she falls in love way to quickly, its basically making women out to be emotional wrecks at the sight of a pretty boy

So all in all, this manga kinda makes me mad, the way they portray the woman, its suppose to be targeted for girls/women but really it seems more like to cater to boys/men having the woman trail after the male like a lost puppy.

This manga is full of LOLS.

Plot: When the story started It was a typical shoujo romance comedy manga, but then the author started to focus on the comedy (around from chapter 15 ~17) This made the whole manga ridiculous. The chemistry between the character doesn't matter that much later on, in my opinion. The comedy overshadows it.

Neiro (main girl): I heard someone say she doesn't use her strength that much but... uh uh, she's a monster XD In this manga the guys aren't even a match for her, she's always protecting them when it comes to fighting... I'll ... give you an example where the guy acutually protects her...*Spoiler*The girl walks, she slips on a banana peal, and alomosts falls off a deck... the guy catches her before she falls off. *Spoiler*

Im going to rate this manga a 7 because I prefer drama/shoujo over comedy. The comedy is a 9.