Binbougami ga!

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Synonyms: Binboukami ga!, Binbou Kami ga!, The God of Poverty Is!, Kaette Kudasai.

Japanese: 貧乏神が！

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 16

Chapters: 81

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 4, 2008 to Jul 4, 2013

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen, Supernatural

Authors: Sukeno, Yoshiaki (Story & Art)

Serialization: Jump SQ.

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Score: 8.21¹ (scored by 6,121 users)

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Ranked: #368²

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Popularity: #712

Members: 16,070

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Synopsis

Sakura Ichiko is a 16-year-old girl who leads a charmed life and is blessed with beauty, brains, and health. She has an abundance of "Happiness Energy," which can make people happy, but at the cost of absorbing all the "Happiness Energy" from her surroundings. She has caused the energy balance of the world to become unbalanced and because of this, she becomes the target of a Poverty God named Momiji. Momiji goal is to remove Ichiko's power of absorbing other people's Happiness Energy and to return all the energy she has taken to its rightful place.

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Included one-shot:
Volume 1: Kaette Kudasai. (Binbougami ga! pilot)

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Background

Binbougami ga! was published in Spanish by Ivrea España from April 27, 2012 to June 2016.

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Related Manga

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Characters

Binboda, Momiji

Main

Sakura, Ichiko

Main

Rindou, Ranmaru

Main

Tsuwabuki, Keita

Main

Adenokouji, Nadeshiko

Main

Statice, Bobby

Supporting

Inugami, Momoo

Supporting

Kumagai

Supporting

Tanpopo

Supporting

Yamabuki

Supporting

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Apr 4, 2020

81 of 81 chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

Larcus (All reviews)

4 people found this review helpful

Back in early 2013 I decided to give this manga a shot. And a couple of chapters in I had putten it on hold. Now 7 years later I find myself finishing the manga in just two sittings. So what happened, why did I end up picking it up again in the first place? It would be hard to argue that Binbougami ga does anything different than other shounen series. But it would also be hard to argue that this series doesn't do traditional shounen exceptionally well.

The story follows the Life of Ichiko, a lonely rich girl whose life gets turned upside read more

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Aug 5, 2013

73 of 81 chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

gtzice2 (All reviews)

7 people found this review helpful

thought's: If i were to describe Binbougami ga! in just a a few words it would be drama and comedy

story: Is about Sakura, Ichiko a girls who has exponential Fortune energy and lives her ideal high school life. Until a god of misfortune comes to take it away from her.I find the story in this series to be great in how it the premise of this manga expanded upon it tossing in a lot of interesting plot development to make a great cohesive and entertaining story.

Art- while good overall i do have my gripes for instance during a fighting scene in which read more

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Feb 17, 2021

81 of 81 chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

Pixeldrum (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

I'm not going to lie, I watched the anime back in 2014, and revisited the show and finished the manga just now, so of course I'm looking at the series with some nostalgia. Clearly, the series and show wasn't as polished as I remembered, and it fails in a few departments. That being said, I still enjoyed the series for the most part.

The star of the series is clearly the battles between Binbouda and Sakura. Their interactions and the scenarios that they face against each other is always entertaining to read, and I never really got bored of their battles against each other. Facial expressions, varied settings, and random events really make for a good slapstick comedy. That being said, the supporting cast is kind of weak. You got a perverted monk for fanservice scenes, masochistic guy for slapstick, and a rich ninja girl so the only characters that feel characterized and fleshed out among the supporting cast end up being Randou and Keita, and of course, Sakura and Binbouda.

Hey, a few character archetypes is fine, as long as they serve their role in the comedy. I get that, but the more pressing issue I have with this series is how focused it is on romance and action. Like, more than half, I'd say, of the manga is plot and action focused, veering away from the slapstick comedy. Add some romance in there, and you have Binbougami ga! I really don't understand why there is such a divergence in genre. You have episodic slapstick comedy, which is good, and then you just have a lot of serious/fighting arcs. Why? Barring the arcs with Sakura's personal/emotional development which was well made and important to her personality, I don't understand why there is so much fighting later on in the series. It's like it converted to a fighting manga halfway through. There's so much fighting, yet the fights themselves are pretty boring to read, since power levels are arbitrary. As it turns out, a comedy slapstick cast of characters don't have much training or techniques to speak of, so they usually power up or get beaten up in some fashion. And no, it's not a Medaka box, which manages to make this comedy/slapstick/action work.
It just seems like an unholy mixture of bad shounen arcs, mixed with some comedy. It doesn't really work out. I enjoy the comedy focused arcs, but more often than not, I'm being spoonfed some serious antogonists that are trying to kill Sakura's friends or steal her energy, and there's some massive plot arc that spans the course of tens of chapters. It just doesn't work, guys. When people get powered up by random "god items" that appear out of nowhere with little to no explanation, fights aren't interesting. If you're not equipped to create a fighting manga, just don't do it.
That's my biggest criticism of the show. While characters are archetypal and outdated by today's standards, it still is a pretty good comedy. Again, the battles between Binbouda and Sakura don't get old. However, I just can't stand the serious plot arcs that take over the series.

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Jan 28, 2014

70 of 81 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

akittenx (All reviews)

2 people found this review helpful

To be honest the story was just ok. It wasnt bad at all, but it wasnt particularly gripping. Now just because it wasnt the most intricate plot doesnt mean that the manga itself was shit in the slightest. Thats mostly due to its immeasurable character development and its masochistic sense of humor (it often made fun of itself and all of the cliches we see in a lot of other mangas). The romance was orgasmically done. With just enough suspense to keep you reading without dragging it out too long. You also cant help but fall in love with practically every character you meet and read more

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