Nisekoi
Nisekoi: False Love

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Really it was a good read in the beginning it felt like a drag to read through those some filler like chapter and the early story development, but in and all it too was funny and enjoyable, yet kept me indulged and made me read till the end.

overall its a very good story with a very interesting plot of 5 friends pursuing there ten year old emotions of love for the one person, the confessions and rejection were sure justifiable but they could have done it better.

But still the ending was really good, overall the story was a blast and a good read, I would ... surely recommend people to read this manga if they are into the rom-com genre

Starting off by saying I love this manga. At least most of it. It's a wild comedy with good humor and that's basically it for the good things. But some stories doesn't need much else to be good. The story is a twist on the typical romance comedy with the utilization of the fake love aspect. There are some stories that do this and do it well, and this one kinda does to an extent.

Let's talk about the story. It's not deep. But it doesn't have to be. It focuses on the comedy rather than the story and while there is progression in the ... story and some development it doesn't really get that deep. The fake love with the main character (the man) is in love with someone else and that's basically it for almost all chapters. The story is more character based than story based and that's fine.

Speaking of let's talk characters. They're fun, unrealistic and clichéd. But it works for the most part. Certain characters, like Tachibana Marika, do come across as more annoying than funny and in some scenes it just feels forced and criminal. But the main character just accepts Tachibana's actions which is even more infuriating. And that brings me to the main character, who is halfway to a decent character for the story. A dense, rather dull boy who just happen to be involved in humorous happenstances. He works as the lead and I don't have a lot to criticize there except that his kindness, which in some circumstances would be better classified as gullibleness, borders on unrealistic to the point of ridiculousness, and not in the good way. The rest of the characters are fine, shallow but fine. The two side characters Ruri and Shuu are the only ones I felt had a real feeling to them, the rest were just characters.

If we just look at all what I have written it would be a solid 8/10 manga because it doesn't need to be deep, it's a funny comedy and that's what the focus was. The problems and why it landed on a 6/10 comes in the later chapters. I'll try to explain without giving up spoilers by being rather vague. The author clearly had in mind an ending for this manga, and you could see it in the story throughout that if the author followed clichés and tropes there was only one ending. But for this to work, there had to be development and the author managed with a few characters to make it seem natural. But one character, the main character, did not have a natural development of his character which rather than make the ending rather alright even though I wouldn't say ideal, it instead became a frustrating mess. This makes it so that instead of this manga being remembered as a great manga, it will stand as a disappointment.

English (Translated with www.DeepL.com)

The great enemy of Nisekoi is its overlength. It lasts longer than it should, in itself, the base is interesting enough to have given a good story, of reference we have the One Shot, which in its few pages reaches the same conclusion as its serialized counterpart after more than 200 episodes "What the One Shot does not have this tangled plot of discoveries and revelations?” Better

The story when not engrossed in its repetitive arcs or weekly filler, is focused on the mystery surrounding the girl with the key. Of course there was interest at the time in deducing who the promise ... girl might turn out to be, it's once it's finished that the reader weighs "Was it necessary?" Indeed, it wasn't needed. It is remarkable how it was added to give the narrative a "something" because on its own it could not stand (and indeed, it does), plus it remains a patch to cover a huge hole in the wall.

And that hole is the lack of interest in all those additional elements to the One Shot, because again, the length has been treacherous to it. All the main characters (i.e. Raku and the girls) are simple, they don't have a base complexity to have a long development from A to Z, more if they have it to go from A to B. Each girl is a characterization of common 2010s archetypes and lacks any other element that would distance them in the subgenre. Again and for the last time before I keep repeating, it's valid for a short story, counterproductive if you intend to make it longer.

The best of Nisekoi ends when Chitoge realizes his feelings, that evolution I mentioned (from A to B) happened at the school festival, a good segment, drama, comedy, romance, everything the work aspired to be in one moment, unfortunately it didn't have 20 more chapters left, almost 200 to go.

And despite the fact that in other works can defend the excessive length shielded in how the school environment is fun, Nisekoi lacks that teenage charm because it is more focused on their love entanglements, of course, is not nonexistent, we will have the school festivals, doubts about the future and farewells. But they were only isolated chapters, not a context; the school is only close in the experiences of the secondary/secondary characters and if it happens in the protagonists, it is directly inferred to some misunderstanding of the heart.

The arcs of each character is the development that would have gotten them to have more aspects apart from their relationship with Raku, end up serving only to lengthen, because in terms of exerting a change, they are only in alternate areas that basically, we were not interested. They simply lacked that depth to suddenly acquire interest; an attempt to make them genuine where they end up the same as they were.

Simplicity was their best card, and it is the one they tried so hard to get rid of without giving anything in return, on the other hand, where it would have been positive to have subtracted if it was maintained and even densified, clearly referring to Raku and Onodera. Of which too much has been written so it is not necessary to go deeper.

A positive example of what is a good character arc is Shuu's little story with his teacher, it only lasts a couple of chapters, it doesn't undo the simple characteristics of his character nor does it try to make him excessively complex, it's just giving him another layer related to the central theme of the manga, feelings and how we relate to each other taking them into consideration.

Its ending would come to be this lesson only after being so stretched out that it's like a parody of how it should have been.

The art is genius, the double pages are especially beautiful, a pity that the character design is a bit simple, which explains why little has transcended the leading girls. Komi sensei has a good eye, or at least a good advisor, on how to manage action scenes, even without having reviewed his other works, I hope he has decided or is in the production of a more action-oriented manga, even as an illustrator.

Instead his management of pacing is uneven, for both fully action-driven and plot-driven scenes, though it may just be another inherent symptom of the extended story, where the chapters should have been finished sooner than they last.

You can get carried away just by the flow of the situations and still, you will feel that something is missing, if you get to be somewhat involved with what is presented, whether it will be even more oppressive to you as what had captured your attention gradually ceases to be so even though it seems to be the same, or maybe it simply stopped having that shape you thought it had from watching it so much.

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El gran enemigo de Nisekoi es su exceso de duración. Dura más de lo que debería, de por sí, la base es lo suficientemente interesante como para que hubiese dado una buena historia, de referencia tenemos al One Shot, que en sus pocas páginas llega a la misma conclusión que su contraparte serializada tras más de 200 episodios “¿Qué el One Shot no tiene esa trama enredada de descubrimientos y revelaciones?” Mejor

La historia cuándo no está enfrascada en sus repetitivos arcos o en el relleno semanal, está concentrada en el misterio alrededor de la chica de la llave. Por supuesto que en su día hubo interés en deducir quién podría llegar a ser la desconocida, es una vez finalizado que el lector sopesa “¿Hacía falta?” Efectivamente, no hacía falta. Es notable como fue agregado para darle un “algo” a la narrativa porque por sí sola no podría sostenerse (y ciertamente, es así), más sigue siendo un remiendo para cubrir un enorme hueco en la pared.

Y ese hueco es la carencia de interés en todos esos elementos adicionales al One Shot, porque nuevamente, la duración le ha sido traicionera. Todos los personajes principales (es decir, Raku y las chicas) son sencillos, no tienen una complejidad base para tener un largo desarrollo de A a Z, más si lo tienen para ir de A a B. Cada chica es una caracterización de los arquetipos comunes de los 2010s y carece de otro elemento que le distancie en el subgénero. Nuevamente y por última vez antes de seguir repitiendo, es válido para una historia corta, contraproducente si pretendes alargarla.

Lo mejor de Nisekoi termina cuándo Chitoge se da cuenta de sus sentimientos, esa evolución que menciono (de A a B) sucedió en el festival escolar, un buen segmento, drama, comedia, romance, todo lo que aspiraba a ser la obra en un sólo momento, desgraciadamente no le quedaban 20 capítulos más, faltan casi 200.

Y pese a que en otras obras puede defenderse la duración excesiva escudado en cómo el entorno escolar es divertido, Nisekoi carece de ese encanto adolescente porque está más concentrado en sus enredos amorosos, por supuesto, no es inexistente, tendremos los festivales escolares, dudas acerca del futuro y despedidas. Más sólo fueron capítulos aislados, no un contexto; la escuela sólo es cercana en las vivencias de los personajes secundarios/secundarios y de suceder en los protagónicos, es directamente inferido a algún malentendido del corazón.

Los arcos de cada personaje es el desarrollo que habría de conseguirles tener más aspectos aparte de su relación con Raku, terminan sirviendo sólo para alargar, porque en lo referido a ejercer un cambio, sólo son en áreas alternas que de base, no nos interesaban. Sencillamente carecían de esa profundidad como para repentinamente adquirir interés; un intento en volverlas genuinas donde terminan igual a quien eran.

La simpleza era su mejor carta, y es de la que tanto intento en deshacerse sin dar nada a cambio, en cambio, donde si hubiese sido positivo haber restado si se mantuvo y hasta se densifica, claramente referido a Raku y Onodera. De los cuáles se ha escrito demasiado así que no es necesario profundizar.
Un ejemplo positivo de lo que es un buen arco de personaje es la pequeña historia de Shuu con su maestra, sólo dura un par de capítulos, no deshace las características simples de su personaje ni intenta volverlo excesivamente complejo, sólo es darle otro capa relacionada al tema central del manga, los sentimientos y cómo nos relacionamos unos con otros teniendolos en consideración.

Su final vendría siendo esta lección sólo que después de haber sido tan estirado que es como una parodia de cómo debería haber sido.

El arte es una genialidad, las doble páginas son especialmente hermosas, una lástima que el diseño de personajes sea un poco simple, lo cuál explica porque poco han trascendido las chicas protagónicas. Komi sensei tiene un buen ojo, o por al menos un buen consejero, en cómo administrar escenas de acción, aún sin haber revisado sus otros trabajos, espero se haya decidido o esté en la producción de un manga más guiado a la acción, así sea como ilustrador.

En cambio su administración del ritmo es irregular, para escenas completamente guiadas a la acción como las concentradas en la trama, aunque puede que sea sólo otro síntoma inherente a la extendida historia, donde los capítulos deberían haberse terminado más pronto de lo que duran.

Puedes dejarte llevar únicamente por el fluir de las situaciones y aún así, sentirás que algo está faltando, de llegar a estar algo involucrado con lo presentado, si te será todavía más opresivo el como lo que había captado tu atención poco a poco dejar de serlo aunque parece que es lo mismo, o puede que sencillamente de tanto verlo dejó de tener esa forma que tu creías que tenía.