Renai Boukun

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Synonyms: Love Tyrant

Japanese: 恋愛暴君

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 14

Chapters: 61

Status: Finished

Published: May 9, 2012 to Dec 5, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural

Theme: School

Serialization: Comic Meteor

Authors: Mihoshi, Megane (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #4702²

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Popularity: #694

Members: 23,758

Favorites: 223

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Seiji Aino is an ordinary student living a seemingly boring life, until a strange girl calling herself Guri shows up at his doorstep and claims that if Seiji does not kiss someone, she will die. Ignoring the event as some sort of attempted religious soliciting, Seiji closes the door and walks away, only to find that Guri can phase right through it!

Guri wields a "Kiss Note," a powerful magical notebook that can cause two people to instantly fall in love if their names are written in it. As a cupid, it is Guri's duty to use the notebook to create couples. And as it turns out, she accidentally wrote Seiji's name in the book, forcing him to complete the pair by finding someone to kiss.

At a loss for words, Seiji believes Guri's ridiculous story and kisses his crush Akane Hiyama, the school's most popular girl. But Akane's feelings for Seiji go far beyond what would be considered normal, and she develops an obsession with him. As if things couldn't get more ludicrous, Guri announces that she also harbors feelings for him, marking the start of Seiji's chaotic and comedic love life. Will either girl be able to win Seiji's affection, or will their personal lives interrupt their dreams?

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Hiyama, Akane

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Guri

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Aino, Seiji

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Kichougasaki, Yuzu

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Shiramine, Shikimi

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Aino, Akua

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Stolas

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Maou

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Oct 8, 2020

Equalator

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Have you ever lain awake at night unable to sleep because a certain question now plagues your thoughts? A question so ludicrous that you know there could never be a definitive solution. So now you are left with no choice but to go another sleepless night without answers. Was the question “What if Light Yagami was a lazy, irresponsible, cosplaying fujoshi with the power to force people into relationships instead of killing them?” If this incredibly specific question has been keeping you up at night then you can now rest easy. Renai Boukun also known as Love Tyrant is here to bring ...

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Jan 30, 2021

hexashadow13

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tl;dr: A manga that is good at being a generic harem comedy but not very good when it tries to veer out of that into anything more serious, which it does far too much.

This is a manga that in a lot of senses is pretty generic. A kind but otherwise incredibly plain protagonist basically ends up getting forced into a situation where a tsundere, yandere, and airhead are in love with him. It does go a bit farther than most similar manga though in that it actually establishes there being an actual romantic relationship between the protagonist and all the heroines, which I think does ... make it unique enough to stand out. Still, a lot of the time it sticks pretty close to the standard type of stories for the genre and the characters are pretty flat and cliche.

What it does do well is use all of those well for some really good comedy that is all around amusing and makes the heroines seem pretty likable too. However, it veers from that quite often in trying to be more serious and have more depth. To be honest, I wish it didn't though and just stuck to being pretty generic comedy, because while that was good, essentially everything it tried that was more serious and more unique fell flat. The core premise of the manga is completely ridiculous. The characters involved are also completely ridiculous. There are a ridiculous number of plot holes and instances where characters actions simply do not make much sense based on their established motivations. And if it was just comedy, that would be fine, as the purpose is to be funny and things like that don't really matter much.

However, the manga gets really serious quite often with a heavy focus on drama, but these stories are pretty much universally pretty bad. In such moments despite the aforementioned issues the world and characters actually need to be taken seriously and both the world and characters simply don't hold up. Characters are likable when it's just random comedy, they can get really annoying when the plot actually matters. This is especially true of the protagonist who is pretty much lame from beginning to end which can be really grating when he's supposed to be doing things that actually matter. These portions also often bring up things that just don't fit well in a harem manga and are kind of off putting to have to focus on or think about, often making me question what the manga was trying to do. Because of this, it's hard to really get into the manga during these portions, and they just feel kind of boring.

There's a good amount of parts that try adding depth to the story and characters by focusing on character and relationship development, but they simply don't feel like they're that well written and are hard to really get into. The only character that felt that they were getting a good character arc in that it felt properly fleshed out and easy to get invested in while also making them more likable, feels like they got shafted pretty hard in the ending in that their character arc never reaches its conclusion and they're just sort of left out. The pacing also felt pretty bad, in that having so many serious parts prevents there from being enough comedy, but there isn't really any sort of overarching story, so the serious moments aren't really progressing towards anything, and thus the manga feels dreadfully slow at times.

The ending is actually a true harem ending in detail, which is how I usually prefer such manga to end, but the build up to it in general wasn't very good due to the previously mentioned issues, and the buildup to it right at the end was especially weak, in that it was an attempt at trying to show the protagonist growing and not being lame anymore that just felt like it further emphasized how lame he is, and also highlighted how the character I liked who didn't get a complete character arc not getting one, and thus it wasn't all that satisfying. The art was okay, with some good designs and decent quality, but it rarely felt all that eye catching.

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