Pajama na Kanojo.

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Synonyms: My Pajama Girlfriend, PajaKano

Japanese: パジャマな彼女。

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 26

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 27, 2012 to Sep 3, 2012

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Ecchi

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Hamada, Kousuke (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.80¹ (scored by 3,559 users)

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Ranked: #11699²

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Popularity: #2944

Members: 7,238

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Ranked #11699Popularity #2944Members 7,238

MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Hamada, Kousuke (Story & Art)

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Keisuke and Makura are childhood friends who grew up together almost like brother and sister. One day, due to a misunderstanding they had, Makura left the house angry until Keisuke's Mom is worried about Makura not coming home yet, thus Keisuke is told to go look for her.

Reluctantly, Keisuke went out to find Makura, He ended up at a place they used to go often, the sunflower field. Luckily, Makura was there. Keisuke joined her sitting on the bench and they began to reminiscence.

When Keisuke decided that they should head back home, he phoned her mom to say that he found Makura, only to be shocked when her mom told him in panic to head to the hospital. At that same moment, he looked at Makura, who was not standing but floating in the air...

(Source: Pinoymanga Scans)

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Otomaki, Makura

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Mezamashi, Keisuke

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Shirai, Yuki

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Shirai, Alice

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Jul 23, 2014

Johncli1171

Recommended

Story: 7
The story is not bad. However, it's not a story that you can consider as something that will stand out. Throughout the story uses the cliche: Childhood friend x MC x Popular Women while adding a supernatural element to make it different.
Some of the playful scenes of Makura were hilarious while Yuki's teasing scenes were spicy at first but they died down too fast. There is comedy in it but a comedy that does not standout that much.
The pacing is slow, the portrayal gave off a sad feel and the ending was sudden but it was still enjoyable.

Art: 7
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Jan 22, 2021

hexashadow13

Mixed Feelings

tl;dr: A manga that starts out with an interesting plot and relationship development only to throw it all away without resolving anything to turn into a manga that's really different, far more generic, and significantly worse.

This manga is pretty good at first. The core mystery about a girl being stuck as permanently asleep with various references to fairy tales with princesses sleeping was interesting. The rate of development of this mystery was slow but it did move along well enough and there were various events outside that felt substantial enough to keep the pacing feeling solid. These various events did a good job of developing ... characters relationships, particularly the love triangle that serves as the other core element of the story. Both heroines are well developed and get decent relationship development, and though there are certainly elements of denseness to the protagonist, it leans more towards him struggling to understand his own feelings which is sympathizable and not as annoying.

However, all of that gets thrown away pretty abruptly about two third of the way in. There are mangas that go through pretty big transitions with varying levels of success, but this has to be one of the worst I've seen so far. It pretty much throws away everything from the first two thirds, with essentially none of it being explained and just suddenly resolved, and none of the characters seeming to care all that much. Even worse, it also feels like it throws away all the relationship development that occurred as well. Characters actions in the last third not considering the first two thirds are still somewhat random, but taking into account what occurred in the first two thirds they're incredibly inconsistent and simply don't make sense. The disconnect is extreme.

Furthermore, the last third is pretty terrible. There's no overarching plot anymore, so it's focusing solely on its characters. All three of the main characters are just kind of annoying at this point, adopting the worst traits of characters in such roles in the genre. It also randomly adds characters and plot events that are interesting enough on their own, but don't fit the narrative at all. It isn't clear at all where the manga is going or at all until the end which is awful. The ending in a broad sense is one that's pretty much what was expected from the beginning, but the way it's told is awful and not what the manga needed at all. It's trying for the standard bait and switch in order to bring out stronger emotions for when things get reversed, but the build up to it wasn't nearly enough to warrant it, and it felt overtly melodramatic, and actually left me kind of bitter as the reversal into good doesn't feel anywhere near strong enough to counter out the bad.

The art is pretty decent in quality throughout. It felt like the artist was trying harder to have panels that were eye catching during the first three quarters or so, but stopped putting as much effort in the last quarter.

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Feb 19, 2016

elementalcobalt

Not Recommended

It's rare that I read a manga that actually genuinely makes me angry, but this is one of them. It's basically a bait and switch. It starts off is a very basic romance, with a childhood friend whose loved the MC forever, the most popular girl in school suddenly liking the MC, and a love triangle between the two girls and the MC. The MC tries to decide who he likes, while both girls get hurt at his indecisiveness. Basically, every romance ever written. However, it throws something new at you. The childhood friend falls into a deep sleep, and noone can wake her. On ... top of that, her spirit starts to haunt him. Awesome catch right? Bait set.

If you were interested in a ghost love story where a boy tries to put together the pieces of the mystery and find a way to save his child-hood friend while steadily becoming closer to her in the process, you'll get some of that... as long as you replace "getting closer with childhood friend" with "getting closer to the other girl while he continually alienates his childhood friend." Although, even that's okay as a story, then about 15 chapters in, the switch comes.

The entire ghost arc gets wrapped like the manga was suddenly cancelled and the author had to finish it in two issues. It was finished hastily and without any care for any of the characters, sleeping beauty metaphors, or really anything this manga bothered to do. It was jarring how quickly the whole story just got tossed away. It was as if the author got bored of their own story half way through and decide to just flip it into something else. And that something else happened to be just a very very generic love triangle story, complete with challenging little sisters, the formation of a new club, and everything else that makes these kind of stories uber cliched. So what you end up with is a very generic high school romance story with the atypical love triangle and the 'will they/ won't they' unclear confessions that could be resolved in two pages if anyone was just honest for once.

The ending... oh god... the ending is atrocious. If you want to know what the ending is like without spoilers... I have one word for you. Sapranos. Yeah. It's like that.

I've never seen a manga that seemed to actually hold contempt for its readers, but if one existed, I'd imagine it'd be like this. If you came for the supernatural, don't even bother. NONE of the lore gets explored, the story gets a brief and incomplete toss away explanation, and the sleeping beauty angle is never explored. Even the parts where the friend is a ghost spend more time focusing on the love triangle and his steadily growing closer relationship with the new girl. If you came for the romance, it came off more annoying than romantic, since every romantic scene is followed by ghost childhood friend crying and being in physical pain (because of some kind of curse nonsense that is NEVER explained). They even throw in a 3rd girl into the romance 3 chapters before the finale... who does that?

This was a well of untapped potential. Unless you are happy to guzzle down anything with a romance tag, you'll almost certainly walk away from this manga disappointed.

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