Kore wa Koi no Hanashi (This Is a Love Story)

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English: This Is a Love Story

Japanese: これは恋のはなし

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 11

Chapters: 45

Status: Finished

Published: Jul 28, 2010 to May 28, 2014

Genres: Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life

Authors: Chika (Story & Art)

Serialization: ARIA

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Ranked: #1115²

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The male protagonist is a well known published author who is suffering through severe boredom in the midst of his success. He has decided to move into a house in the countryside in an attempt to overcome his melancholy but it isn't working. Then one day a young girl stops by and asks him to allow her to raise a kitten at his home. This young girl causes an unexpected reaction from him and he agrees. What is in store for him? Why does he react this way to this young girl? Why did he agree to let her hang around his house with this kitten?

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Kore wa Koi no Hanashi has been digitally licensed in English as This Is a Love Story by Kodansha Comics USA.

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Utsumi, Shinichi

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Morimoto, Haruka

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Oogaki, Kaoru

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Sonohara, Utako

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Mar 27, 2016

45 of 45 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

Mako (All reviews)

17 people found this review helpful

Since it's been a long time Kore wa Koi no Hanashi was last reviewed, I feel like an update was overdue. I cannot guarantee giving an unbiased review, however, I am quite sincere in my assessment of this manga. Now that I finished reading it, I can say with absolute confidence that Kore wa Koi no Hanashi found its place in the top of my all-time favorites. This manga received various comments and a lot of critique. Some argue that a romantic relationship between characters with such a huge age gap is bizarre and indecent. But I can assure you, there is nothing indecent about read more

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Oct 30, 2020

45 of 45 chapters read

Overall Rating: 4

Shellshock123 (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

This series is the love story about a 31 year old man and a 10 year old girl. Yes i too tilted my head 45 degrees. The main character is an author and the main heroine is this aloof girl who wants to save this cat. She can't keep it at home due to family issues so the guy allows her to take of the cat in his yard.

Now age gap romances have been done before. Its not really a unique idea. What is more rare though is that she's 10 years old. Funny thing is i think the author did a passable job in making the romance enjoyable. Now i don't think the author did a phenomenal job or anything. Like i didn't think that only those 2 could end up together. But in regards to the romance including the hard part of the 21 year old age gap. I thought it fine. The only type it really irked me was when he made moves on her when she was 13. Yeah......

The problem lies elsewhere. The characters more like. The main character is kind of a dick and i understand why. Considering his past i understand thats why he allowed her to stay. He knows how hard it is to live alone and doesn't want that for her either. I liked the character development of wanting to get out of traumatic experiences. I think the author applied really well. For not just the main character but the main heroine as well.

The series just in general is not that great. Like you would expect more from a series like this. In a sense i guess it does do more. Being an age gap story already means you have to try harder if you want the audience to accept that relationship. In a sense the author succeeds but thats it. Thats how far the author got. It does the mininum of what you would expect out of a good series and thats just not good enough.

Their are other issues like the glasses guy. He was entertaining, than his side story is revealed and he is just this asshole. Other characters are also pretty medicore to bad. Their aren't that many memorable moments. The series is just kind of a mess. Their plots opened up and yet never expanded on. Like whats the glasses relationship with his family. How is the chick that took care of the MMC in his young days and other stuff. A lot of these are opened up to be this big things and yet are just never talked about ever again.

I wanna congratulate for being able to make a age gap series with such a large gap without it feeling creepy (most of the time). I will also berate the author for making medicore characters, unlikable love traingles and a very weird time lapses. The time skips were also odd. I get they were necessary but the author could've done a way better job.

You know their are series out there that did the age gap romance much worse but they were also much better series like Ran and the gray world. Kinda disturbing main romance but otherwise a very solid series. Otoyomegatari is an age gap romance of 8 years with a 12 year old boy and it is a such a phonomenal manga that it practically beats the shit out of every other romance series out there. It might be a bit unfair to compare kore wa koi no hanashi to one of the best romance series created but its the best example i can think of with an age gap.

TLDR: Age gap was fine everything else was meh and thats not good enough. 4/10

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Oct 3, 2017

45 of 45 chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

finwatchin07 (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

This is like a 8-9. This won't be a helpful review, but more so for me to be able to recall how I liked this manga (for future purposes haha).

I am actually quite disturbed by age gaps greater than 8-10 years. In fact even just student-sensei relationships in manga have me cringing sometimes if its not played right. So the fact that there's 21 age gap had me really... -____-

BUT after reading all the positive comments and reviews I gave it a try. I do have to say it is a relationship I still can not say I completely understand because I feel she fell read more

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Nov 8, 2018

45 of 45 chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

lunahoney (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

SO OVERALL I HAVE TO BEGIN WITH: That was the most unsatisfactory ending oMg wHyYyYYy!

Recently I have been into mangas where the MC and the love interest has an age gap... obviously by this I mean like a 5-6 year age gap (think Dengeki Daisy or Keishichou Tokuhanka 007). So when when I read the first chapter and it turns out the MC is an elementary student and the guy is already 30 years old, I was extremely hesitant and unsure if this was something I wanted to continue– like yes, that is creepy.

But I DID. And I really enjoyed it! I know people are read more

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