Jul 7, 2024
Story: 1
Kowamote Kouchai ga Ichinichi Ikkai Suki tte Ittekuru is a story that tries its best to teach you a lesson about love, but fails to do so in an unbelievably stupid way. Before getting into any more details, I just want to say that there are so many aspects of this story that are just unrealistic to a pretty high degree. Usually, that would not be a problem in most stories. However, this is a Romance story, and in a good or even decent Romance story, you as the reader should be able to at the very least identify or empathize with one of
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the characters, specifically, one of the main characters of the story. But the absolute absurdity of this story just prevents you from being able to identify with any of the characters at all. When it comes to the story, we have Haru who is basically manipulated by her boyfriend into continuing her relationship with him through nothing but him telling her “I love you” everyday. However, it turns out, he was using her to have access to her apartment/house so that he could bring women over to cheat on Haru with. And then we have Okuma who is Haru’s coworker, and after he finds out about Haru’s situation, he confesses his love to her and begins to tell her “I love you” everyday from there on in order to try to win her over. So this story is basically about Haru trying to know what it means to love someone and what it means for someone to love her back all in a romantic relationship type of way. So basically, the moral of the story is that the three words, “I love you,” are very powerful, but it can either be a blessing or a curse depending on how you use them. At least that is what this story is trying to convey, but it fails to do so because of the absolute absurdity that is this story. It will probably be more clear once I get into the characters, but all that I really have to say about this story is that it is as if the author knew nothing about the concept of love when writing this. Love as a concept is portrayed in the wrong way in this story where you explore the idea of love. It boggles my mind that the author that made this manga is the same person that wrote the story for Maria no Danzai. But to be fair, Maria no Danzai takes the concept of love and turns it into the idea of obsession or insane love which is not a hard thing to imagine, but the author completely butchers the general idea of romantic love completely in this story specifically. I am not trying to compare this story to Maria no Danzai, but I just want to point out how wrongly love is portrayed in this story compared to another story that this author has written. Like, I do not recommend reading this story at all, but if you do want to read it, you will understand completely where I am coming from, especially if you go on to read Maria no Danzai. It just hurts me just how wrong love is used in this story. Anybody with a brain cell can tell you that this story has no idea what it is talking about when it comes to love.
Characters: 1
We got 2 main characters and 3 antagonists. First up, we have Haru. I don’t even know where to begin with her. She is a very hard-working person and you can observe this pretty well as there are multiple points in the story where she is very willing to put a lot of effort into her work and she is very proud of her effort and her work. There is a literal scene where she sheds tears from being so happy that she accomplished something big at work. From this, you can garner that Haru is a hard-working, strong-willed, and capable person. Except that is completely irrelevant when it comes to her personal romantic life. It’s as if she has no stats in romantic awareness because I swear that anybody that breathes and has at least 1 brain cell can make better romantic relationship-related decisions than she can. She started dating this dude who has no job and does nothing to appeal to her romantically in any way other than telling her “I love you” everyday. And with her having a full-time job and not going out with her boyfriend that often, she just practically hands over her literal home to him for the entire day. I don’t know if you could even call it him manipulating her more so than it being him using a completely oblivious person for his own personal agenda. I just do not understand how you could come up with such a stupidly idiotic and oblivious character who is just so weak-minded. It is a complete 180 from her work personality. And moving over to Okuma, he isn’t any better either. This dude is expressionless for the entire manga and starts telling Haru “I love you” over and over and over again like Pokemon saying its name. Okuma is literally bull-heading his way into a relationship with Haru, and if it was not for Haru’s absolute inability to make any sensible decisions when it comes to a relationship, he would’ve been pretty much knocking on wood. He does save Haru from her situation with her boyfriend, but at the same time, it is her overwhelmingly weak, feeble, and oblivious character that got her into that situation in the first place. He was basically saving her from herself at that point. No wonder the title calls Okuma “bear-headed,” he is literally trying to get into this relationship the same way a wild animal would force themselves onto a mate. He is just such a boring and one-dimensional character, it is just crazy that he is who Haru falls in love with (not that she was any better in the first place). Antagonists: we have 3 of them which consist of the boyfriend, the friend from school(?)/coworker, and the parents. Starting with the boyfriend, he is made up to be this person who was taking advantage of Haru and actively cheating on her and forcing her to continue their relationship so that she could continue to reap the benefits. He is made out to be such a problematic individual, but in the end, he, himself, is nothing more than fresh meat. The only reason why he was a big problem for Haru was because he was basically preying on the weakest possible person he had ever come into contact with. Once he is dealt with, he is a literal nobody and a massive weakling once Haru is out of reach. He is not a great character, he is not a well-written character, he is a literal nobody who was only successful because he was basically a lion preying on a singular ant. Next up, we have the friend from school or the coworker I guess because there is literally only one panel mentioning that she went to school with Okuma or something and the rest is history. Basically, she was cheated on and now she wants to squeeze herself into every and any romantic relationship to make it seem like the man is cheating so that his girlfriend will break up with him. I’m sorry but what the actual hell is this. That is the most petty thing I have ever heard of. Like that is like Eobard Thawne the Reverse Flash going back in time to kill Barry’s mother type of petty. And then she is thrown to the side of the road again, just like Haru’s boyfriend was and we never see her again. Lastly, we have Haru’s parents whose whole spiel is about “love is irrelevant and you just need to marry into money.” Well, they only last for 1.5 chapters, so you can guess how that went. To sum up the characters in this story, they are some of the worst-written characters I have ever seen. Some are completely unrealistic and some are written to be so stupid that it hurts.
Art: 4
I mean, the art isn’t great, but I just want to out that there is a part in the story where Haru is slapped in public while she is sitting down next to Okuma on a bench and the force of the slap sends her flying, almost doing like a 360 in the air, and has her falling to the ground on her back. I thought I was reading a romance story, not an action/martial arts story. I mean it is so unrealistic, but it is so funny I had to mention it. Haru literally got slapped with the force of a thousand suns and was sent flying in a goddamn romance story.
Overall: 1
Yeah, don’t read this. It is a waste of time. When a story like this presents itself with a lesson or a moral to take away, you expect you to learn about that moral or at least take a part of it with you. The only thing I got out of this story was that you need to understand love to correctly describe it with this manga being a good example of not that. The overall concept of the story is pretty generic, but I could see how someone can take it and turn it into a good or at least decent story. Yet, that still depends on the various aspects of the story and the characters themselves being well-written or designed in a way that makes sense and is enjoyable for people to read about and possibly even relate to. This manga’s story was murdered by how terrible its plot elements are and how indescribably bad its characters are. You can make characters weak and/or pathetic, but there is a difference between making a good one and a bad one. I’m sorry if this just seems like me ranting, but there are just so many different elements to this story that are so clearly badly designed that I just had to point out all of them. This manga misses the mark so badly and it doesn’t even come close to even reaching the level of decency it set itself for. There are no redeeming qualities to this manga, so it is best that you do not waste your time with this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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