Kobayashi ga Kawai sugite Tsurai!! (So Cute It Hurts!!)

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Synonyms: Kobayashi Has It Tough Being So Cute!!, Koba Cute, KobaKawa

Japanese: 小林が可愛すぎてツライっ!!

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 15

Chapters: 76

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 20, 2012 to Dec 19, 2015

Genre: Romance

Themes: Crossdressing, School

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Sho-Comi

Authors: Ikeyamada, Go (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #1536²

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Members: 9,277

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Ranked #1536Popularity #2055Members 9,277

MangaSho-ComiIkeyamada, Go (Story & Art)

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Volumes: /15

Chapters: /76

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The mixed twins—Kobayashi Mitsuru and Kobayashi Megumu, who haven't seriously fallen in love for someone and other who doesn't know anything more than 2D world. A situation arises were Megumu and Mitsuru are forced to cross dress, and go to school? Mitsuru's encounter with a cute girl in Megumu's school and Megumu's meeting with the guy she met earlier is actually in her brother's school?? Will they find themselves and their first love??

Included one-shot:
Volume 15: Megami-sama wa Furimukanai!?

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Kobayashi ga Kawai sugite Tsurai!! was published in English as So Cute It Hurts!! by VIZ Media under the Shojo Beat imprint from June 2, 2015 to October 8, 2017. The series has also been published by Shogakukan Asia as Koba Cute since May 28, 2014.

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Adaptation:	Kobayashi ga Kawai sugite Tsurai!!
Other:	Sekai wa Nakajima ni Koi wo Suru!!

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Sanada, Aoi

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Kobayashi, Megumu

Main

Kobayashi, Mitsuru

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Tokugawa, Azusa

Supporting

Uesugi, Chiharu

Supporting

Takenaka, Shino

Supporting

Yukimitsu, Mogami

Supporting

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Mar 27, 2023

CataOrShane

Recommended

I'm familiar with Ikeyamada Go's writting style and I'm very pleased with how much she grew over the years. This manga is much more mature and better written throughout. The fact that it tackles something very real in her life (and her staff's lives) are probably factors that helped in improving the quality of this manga she wrote.

I started reading it without expecting much because I considered Ikeyamada Go's ideas to be very repetitive, basic, sexist and outright problematic. I'm very happy to say that my expectations were 99% wrong and therefore this was much more enjoyable than what I initially thought. There's still ... problematic content but it's almost non-existent.

There are two main stories that are happening at once: the brother's story (Mitsuru) and the sister's story (Mego). Initially they are handled 50-50, meaning both are given the same amount of spotlight but eventually Ikeyamada Go focuses a lot more on Mego's side of things. This upset me because as someone familiar with several of her other mangas, this character and story mostly felt repetitive and unoriginal after chapter 24. Mitsuru's story for me was so much more interesting and I always wanted more spotlight on his side of things.

At the end it becomes obvious why Ikeyamada Go decided to portray Mego's side more often and in a more detailed way compared to Mitsuru's story. However, since I was really into the brother's side of things and the sister's story felt boring and bland to me, on a manga this long, it's unavoidable that I didn't enjoy reading several chapters.

Regarding characters, I think Mego is a copy paste of Ikeyamada Go's previous heroines. However she did an outstanding job with Asuza and her character development. I was also pleasantly surprised how some really big plot moments happened in the most epic way throughtout the story. Really memorable stuff that's definitely worth reading.

However a big flaw of Ikeyamada Go is her terrible habit of spoiling things before they happen and that occurred a few times unfortunately.

I definitely recommend people to give this manga a shot and stick to it because it's so worth it. The best compliment I can give is this: when I started reading, my expectations were as low as they could possible be because I disliked Ikeyamada Go's works prior to this. However, it immediately hooked me up in a way I never expected. I stayed up late almost 3 hours past my bed time because I just couldn't stop reading chapter after chapter. Now that I'm done with the whole manga, I can surprisingly say that I'm a fan of her work now. It took several years to get to this manga but I'm really happy that I decided to give another work of hers a chance.

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Jan 26, 2020

yaneYao

Recommended

It's a simple manga, like everything that Go Ikeyamada writes. Very fun to read, full of tropes of manga and romance in general. I like the main characters and the romance is very simple, so if that's what you looking for, go for it. Full of nerd stuff like everything that the author usually does. Very fun to read, the characters are funny and you usually cheer for them.
Though, if you dont like cliched stuff, I suggest you to not read anything from Go Ikeyamada.
Her art its waaay too ....Idk how to explain, its too much sometimes, but its cute if you like it. ...

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Sep 4, 2021

HuTao_88

Recommended

Preliminary (71/76 eps)

I've got to say this is my favorite manga. I've read up to volume 14 and I'm missing volume 15. But overall this manga is really good. It may sound or look boring but I recommend it fully. There's lots of romance in it to enjoy, sad moments to.

I loved to read this manga very much so I really would read it again. It's got to be about the only manga I have finished almost completely. But yes I recommend it to all otaku out there.

I'm hoping this review helps some people, and makes you want to read it. My reviews kind of ...

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Poll: Kobayashi ga Kawai sugite Tsurai!! Chapter 22 Discussion zxrdm - Feb 13, 2016	1 replies	by CataOrShane »» Mar 27, 5:06 AM
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