Tatoe Sekai ga Owattemo, Watashi wa Kanojo wo Erabanai
I Won't Choose Her When the World's End

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Yeah, so...

I'm gonna be honest. This isn't great. It's not exactly what I would refer to as "bad;" it's (mostly) wholesome, has nice art, and doesn't turn out to be quite as bad as the first few chapters might imply but this is a very short, concise work. It centers around 2 young girls (one of whom is stalking the other) who traipse along in a post-apocalyptic world, doing whatever it is cute girls do in that scenario with a side element of yandere comedy and sprinklings of some romance and drama. Given that, there's not much room for much of anything. There's certainly not ... enough time for any sort of meaningful character development or world building and everything just kind of... ends after 17 chapters. Rather conclusively at that. I don't see that as a good thing in this scenario, and elaborating more would probably be a spoiler unto itself. I don't even know what the author set out to accomplish by writing this, as it doesn't feel as though there's much of a payoff for reading this story, and the conclusion felt incredibly contrived and unsatisfying to me, even though I'm sure others might see it as a cute and wholesome ending.

In short, I think there are some people who will like this manga as it's cute and sort of funny at times, but overall it is honestly just not that good and there's not much substance to this story. Maybe you'll like it more than I did if you're into this kind of thing but there's just not much to see here.

As of now there's only one other review for this and as someone that has the opposite opinion of theirs I wanted to leave a quick review to juxtapose theirs (NOTE: By doing this I am not attempting to invalidate/argue their opinion, I actually understand why they feel the way they do and it's valid....also it's a well written review!).

I Won't Choose Her When the World's End does a lot in it's 17 chapters. You get a fun adventure arc, you get a survival arc, you get yandere comedy, just enough back story to make the characters feel like they existed before page 1....and you ... get romance. That's a lot to accomplish in 17 chapters and it does it well. Sure, you're not gonna get the depth you'd get in a 100+ chapter manga, grand journeys with amazing character story reveals and intense action but this somehow makes you care in spite of that. The pages are well drawn, the translation (English) is solid, and the character interactions are fun. It begins, it pulls you in, and then it DEFINITELY ends. What more can you ask for in an extended lunch break length read?

Flipside: Does it feel rushed? Yeah, this really did have the potential to double it's chapter length without getting stale...which is a bummer, I would have loved to have read that. Do I wish I knew more about the characters? Yes (especially Kunohama, it must have been wild considering all she can do and the quick hint of where she learned it)....but, wanting more means I was happy with it. Wanting more should be a sign of quality not a detriment.

So, should you read it? Will it feel like a waste of time? You absolutely should read it. Perhaps you won't like it as much as me, and that's awesome you get to have a different experience with the story, BUT I highly doubt you will walk away feeling like it was bad.