Sensitive Boy

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Japanese: センシティブ・ボーイ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: May 26, 2022 to ?

Genre: Drama

Theme: School

Serialization: Ganma!

Authors: 46 (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #5124²

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Popularity: #3884

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Seventeen-year-old Kaede Seto only wants to be a normal teenager. Following a traumatic experience in middle school, Kaede and his two best friends transfer to a boys-only high school, hoping to start anew. Though he sets his sights on getting a girlfriend, Kaede finds it difficult to allow others close due to what had happened at his previous school.

As Kaede struggles to come to terms with his trauma, he begins to receive attention from Tsubasa Arisaka, a hopeless romantic attending an all-girls school. As an avid shoujo manga fan, Arisaka has always fantasized about a perfect love story for herself, but her life thus far has not taught her that relationships in reality differ from how they seem in fiction.

Tsubasa's affections spur Kaede to work harder to overcome the demons that continue to haunt him. Despite his resolve, it is not solely his personal issues that stand in the way of a happy ending for the two of them. Both Kaede and Tsubasa—immature in life and love—need to learn that real relationships are not without their own challenges.

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Seto, Kaede

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Arisaka, Tsubasa

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Ayase, Izumi

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Koga, Asahi

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Aug 15, 2023

Mike74

Recommended

Preliminary (22/? eps)

This is a deconstruction of the typical romance manga, exploring the darker side of romantic relationship. What if someone has baggage? What if there are misunderstandings that are more dangerous than they appear at first glance? Do men and women even need to date in the first place?

These questions and many more are answered in this alt-romance blowout. It can make you cringe with how uncomfortable you will feel, but that's part of its charm. Unlike most romcoms, this story is unafraid to showcase just how ugly interpersonal relationships can get. However, this difficult material is handled with patience and grace, giving every character the ...

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Nov 7, 2023

SolsticeWhisper

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (35/? eps)

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Sensitive boy is one of those mangas that it's good in concept but it stumbles on very crucial flaws that makes you feel a bit dissapointed.

Art: Very decent, there are some very good panels in this one and character's expression are very much decent and great. On the only thing that it's not that great is on those blacked-out traumatized faces. The first time impact it's decent and not a bother but when you see the same one 4-5 times it feels a bit jarring. Overall an 8/10

Characters: Semi acceptable main cast, while somewhat decent on the surface they pack a lot of inconcistencies that ... does not make them very appealing to emphatize with. The characters are very black and white, there is very little room for originality. Kaede is the most acceptable part of the cast, a very optimistic but "sensitive" boy (good job, author. He stays true to the title). His SA story feels very real and I felt real emphaty with his reaction to his teacher's doing.
Ayase and Koga are fine. Nothing very particular about them, they don't go out of their characters and the only bad thing I could say they are not that deep or even interesting, they are there to support MC and there is not anymore about them to say.
Tsubasa is not that great. While I get that she's dealing with her first relationship she comes off as a very manipulative and one-sided character. That's not an issue but it is when coupled to that you put her in a terribly bad stance on Kaede's situation. She does not feel nor real nor appealing. Her whole catch of disgust against mc's SA feels like it's there to drive the plot more than anything. It's not well written.
What else... Oh the asexual classmate that was just there to say he's asexual and that's it. And the teacher that for some unholy reason appeared to lightly stab someone and get arrested again. Appaling.
Overall: 6/10.

Story:
The story gets the pacing very well but it's very lacking on the narrative.
Let me get this straight first of anything: I know this is a fictional story, but if the author decides to preach on this story about their negative views on SA while putting characters on either very against it or very in favor of it, It ends up very cartoonish. It really feels like people are drives for the author to impose their real views on a fictional story.
While this is not a bad thing and very common in fact, it ends up feeling that the story get’s caught up in the fact that SA is bad and forgets that MC is a person that needs to heal.
The way that the author demonize the perpetrators is so edgy and unrealistic, while trying to tell a story that they want to impose as real.
If you want a good portray on SA and healing, “Jibun no Karada wo Yurusu made” is much better.
Anyhow, MC gets SA’d by his teacher and his friends find him after that, he tells his parents and police caughts her. Then after 3 years MC is still traumatized from it and meets with a girl in the most unrealistic way, they go out after she is super pushy and his trauma ends up in the way of their relationship. They break up and he starts to work on a coffee shop and he feels safe with an adult girl, thing he could not feel before because of the trauma. She rightfully rejects him in the most acceptable dialogue of the manga and then everything is fine.
Then Tsubasa gets shouted out by an ex classmate of mc because of victim blaming, on one of the most terrible scenes of the manga. It does not feel real, it does not feel emotional, it does not feel more than conflict because she apparently was at fault for not being able to accept MC’s SA story. This really felt the author getting angry with their own character for being a bad person rather than two people arguing.
Overall: 5/10

Enjoyment: 5/10.

Final score: 6/10. I got a lot of bad things to say about it because it had the potential to be better. It’s still ongoing so maybe they can expand on the story to let everything that happened so far as a footnote. But as of now, I’m not sure I can recommend it.

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Oct 23, 2023

sogopogo

Not Recommended

Preliminary (13/? eps)

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I had to revise my review since it got removed literally and figuratively because of a "Sensitive Boy" LMAO.

I've read through many manga with pathetic weak MC but this one really take the cake, i can't help but to NOT RECOMMENDING this to anyone who doesn't like to waste their time, This manga is just poorly written, it is out of touch with reality while true it is still fictional writing it begs to be taken seriously which is unreasonable considering the horrible story telling, the psychological stunts that supposed to serves as shock value are overdramatic and overexaggerating, the interaction feels very shallow and ...

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