Henai Heartbeat
My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!

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The first time ever I felt I was going to give a manga a 10/10 from the very first chapter.

Yandere love interests have appeared many times in manga, but are always treated like dirt. Always the butt of jokes, coming in last, put in their place by the normies and end up sad and defeated, while the beta MC runs and flees from her sight at all times.

In Henai Heartbeats first chapter, our MC is told by an acquaintance that the girl who keeps following him and bumping into him is an obsessed stalker who doesn't take no for an answer. The actual Gigachad MC ... hears this and his first reaction is to find her and ask her to be his girlfriend, realizing she's the thrill he always wanted. As the story goes on, both change in interesting ways adding more depth.

The side characters are refreshing too. The normies this time are the ones who come in last and are humbled and outdone. The Mom character is one of the most chill parents in Manga, her reaction to her son having a gf is very positive and after they spend time alone in his room, she even banters with her son about not scoring yet. What a cool mom.

Anyways its cliche to call things a breath of fresh air, but this Manga is full of fun and totally destroys and subverts some of the most overdone and tired cliches of manga and turns it all around.

First of all I wanna say that I have never read a "Yandere manga" before so this is my first time reading one. Initially I thought it had a pretty interesting premise, I mean everyone who's normal would be freaked out if they found out that there is a yandere that is overly obsessed with you and stalks you. But this was not the case with the protagonist of this manga, he rather sees it more of a "thrill" and even went to date her.

This manga is addictive, even with how strange it is it's very addictive. Every chapter just always have something exciting going ... on and I'm always very interested in what Kisaki is about to do. Funnily enough she wasn't even the most twisted character in the manga, it was rather the protagonist Haruka. I've seen a lot of edgy protagonists in animanga but I've never seen one this emo before, I don't want to go into spoilers but his intentions are very dark and edgy. Despite that his unpredictability is what makes this series super exciting.

So if you asked me whether this manga is worth reading or not my answer would be yes. Go for it, it is very strange and can sometimes come off as "corny" but it's weirdly addictive and very exciting!

An interesting point of view for the Yandere genre, This manga answers the question what if Yandere's were someone kink, so far i have enjoyed reading this, I would say that so far(chapter 15) she's Yuno Gasai level obsessiveness minus the assertiveness. Haruka and Kisaki's relationship is a story of obsession vs obsession. Haruka is obssessed with the unknown which he placed into words as " Ghosts are only scary because of what you can imagine, The dark is only scarry because of what you can't see this strange, twisted behavior born of pure selfishness that kisaki has developed is what makes her so mysterious ... and it's beautiful ". While Kisaki's obsession is Being number one in the eyes of Haruka. This manga looks promising!