Kuzu no Honkai

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Synonyms: Nyan Nyan Prelude, Serenade, Oratorio, Cantata, Andante, Kuzu no Honkai Décor

Japanese: クズの本懐

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 9

Chapters: 60

Status: Finished

Published: Sep 24, 2012 to May 25, 2018

Genres: Drama, Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Big Gangan

Authors: Yokoyari, Mengo (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.26¹ (scored by 19,652 users)

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Ranked: #5128²

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Popularity: #296

Members: 50,520

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Unrequited love is a tragic circumstance with no simple resolution. It comes in many forms, yet each one shares the same debilitating feeling of inconceivable longing.

Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are two high school students who appear to have the ideal relationship. They are the envy of their classmates, and it is easy to portray them as the classic example of high school sweethearts. Unbeknownst to friends and family, however, there is a side to their love veiled by hidden passions: their true affections lie elsewhere, and they use each other to physically sate their unreciprocated feelings.

Hanabi is in love with Narumi Kanai, her new homeroom teacher who is also her childhood friend. Mugi is in love with Akane Minagawa, who used to be his tutor when he was younger. Now teachers at the same school, Kanai and Minagawa begin to show an interest in one another. As a result, Mugi and Hanabi find solace in each other as victims of the same pain.

With little hope of their feelings being realized, these two students face a challenging predicament: cope with and move on from their lust, or become further entangled in their web of unrequited love.

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Included one-shots:
Volume 1: Nyan Nyan Prelude
Volume 2: Nyan Nyan Serenade
Volume 3: Nyan Nyan Oratorio
Volume 4: Nyan Nyan Cantata
Volume 5: Nyan Nyan Andante

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Kuzu no Honkai received a live-action TV series adaptation that began airing on Fuji TV on January 18, 2017.

The series has been published in English as Scum's Wish by Yen Press since October 25, 2016.

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Yasuraoka, Hanabi

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Awaya, Mugi

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Ebato, Sanae

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Minagawa, Akane

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Kamomebata, Noriko

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Kanai, Narumi

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Kirishima, Atsuya

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Terauchi, Takuya

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Hayakawa, Mei

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Moriyama, Take

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Apr 8, 2017

Yautja

Not Recommended

I want to like Kuzu No Honkai, I really do. But I just can't, and here's why.

Art: 8
First and foremost I'd like to praise the superficial, the art. I adore Yokoyari Mengo's art, it's very well done. Each of the character's design feel unique and somehow colorful. Mengo's greatest achievement in Kuzu No Honkai was definitely her art. This is the only aspect of the manga I have very concrete positive feelings for.

Character: 6
Next the character, this is a double edged blade. It was simultaneously good and bad. Characters felt like they could be real people, they were relatable and all but one felt competent. ... Almost all of us can relate to loving someone who won't love us. And Mugi and Hanabi's sexual solace in each other while unhealthy, is understandable. On the other hand a lot of their actions and emotions feel completely unjustified and frankly illogical. Almost childish. Specifically Kanai's (and Mugi's) love for Akane. It makes absolutely zero sense. What does he love about her? Think about it. Everything he knows about her is total bullshit. The only thing he knows for sure, is that she's a pretty face. Why would he willingly commit to being a cuckold? "To make her happy". That's not an answer, why does he want to make her happy, why does he love her. He doesn't know enough about her to love her. It's childish. It's one thing to love someone despite their faults, but to love someone with seemingly no redeeming qualities is just ridiculous. Either that or he's a masochist who want's to be cheated on. In which case, whatever. I'm not going to argue with the disturbing fetish that is netorare.

Another issue with the character in this story is that the characters has this nasty little regression habit. They'd make a little progress, show a sign of moving on only to hit a wall, give up, have a little emotionless sex and go back to a world of self pity. I feel that no one in this manga had any meaningful character development. I feel that given the opportunity, Mugi, Ecchan, or Hanabi, would immediately hop into the arm's of their first love.

Almost none of the characters were likable. Yea you could empathize with them, which is important and good. But empathy means jack shit if you don't like them. Hanabi constantly acts like a victim. Always giving into her surroundings and scarcely making a choice for herself. Mugi is a delusional idiot who believes his first love is infallible. Akane doesn't need anything said about her. She's just a sociopath. And Kanai is just a man child. Ecchan was a good attempt, but had this nasty habit of taking advantage of her love, leading me to believe she more infatuated than inlove. And Moca, my favorite, just fell in love with an idea, the idea of a prince and princess. She's almost a reverse of Kanai and Akane, except Mugi isn't nearly an awful person as Akane.

Story: 2
Finally the story, Kuzu No Honkai's great short coming. I have two things to say about the story. First and foremost, it is my belief that a story is only as good as it's ending. And Kuzu No Honkai's ending was frankly shit. It end with a sociopath marrying a manchild who claims to love her when he knows nothing about her, and our two main characters who actually move on (which is good) just deciding "this person who helped me through the darkest time of my life to date, who I probably love, lets just completely cut them out of my life". People are saying this is a fitting and lovely ending. I think it's illogical and emotionally regressive.
Second, it feels like this story never had a clear ending in sight. Any good story teller knows two things when they begin to write a story. It's beginning, and it's ending. Kuzu No Honkai felt like it knew's it's beginning, but had no damn idea what the hell was going to happen after that. It just threw side characters at us and the "resolved" the story. What do I mean? It felt like Ecchan, and Moca were just there to kill time and attempt to add some more sympathetic characters.

Enjoyment: 1
Kuzu No Honkai never had the intention of making anyone happy. It simply expressed the fact that there is misery in the world and that we have to deal with it. Kuzu No Honkai had no intention of creating any enjoyment and I certainly didn't find any.

This manga lived up to it's name.

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Nov 21, 2017

psychpth

Recommended

WARNING: This review contains explicit language.

Kuzu no Honkai is the only manga I've completed with a fast pace. This is also the first revie that I'm going to publish for a Manga here in MAL because I cannot keep myself from shading my thoughts because this fucking manga has scarred me big time.

Character: 10
I love them and I hate them. I love Mugi and Hanabi and I just fucking shipped them throughout the whole time I was reading this Manga. I'll continue on shipping them till the day I return to dust but at the same time I also hated them occasionally for being so ...

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Dec 28, 2017

Nunnally03

Recommended

Kuzu no Honkai is one of those series that looks deep but will leave you feeling empty at the same time. However, I wouldn't say it's no good - because it's good. It's one of those bitter-sweet stories that I actually like.

Story: 8/10
After completing this manga, I was a bit disappointed with the way it ended.. I thought "that's it?" (no I am not talking about the romance part) but that feeling of being let down, I expected something more - especially from the characters, but I didn't get anything except of what they have shown.
What I like about this manga is ... the way it shows that realistic side of life when it comes to love.
That just because you met that person first, doesn't mean they will like you first.
That just because you have been with that person longer, doesn't mean they will love you more than anyone else.
That just because you have a history and strong bond with that person, doesn't mean they wouldn't choose someone else over you.
That just because you wanted to fill the void using someone, doesn't always mean you wouldn't feel empty.
That just because you get along just fine, doesn't mean you will fall in love with each other - even if both of you wanted to.
And that even though you are obviously the better choice - you love that person and both of you knew that you can love them better - sometimes they still choose someone else (who obviously are no good for them) - it's unfair but that's life.
And our main characters had to learn and accept that reality of life - no matter how painful it is.

Art: 10/10
I love the artwork, the characters looks good and it doesn't look so messy.

Characters: 7/10
There are characters that made me disappointed because they were really interesting at first, only to make you feel empty and disappointed in the end. Characters that you wanted to understand but wasn't able to understand - probably due to the lack of time to develop them (it seems to me that the author rushed the ending)
Although I love the development for the main characters. They were both in a long unrequited love and got their hearts broken, they tried to find a way to heal themselves, they may have wandered for a while but never let themselves get lost. In the end, they realized that they wouldn't heal that way, it's just covering up the wound without treating it but the wound it still there.
With all of that, I ended up really liking the ending for the main characters. Accepting that reality, facing the pain, facing their fear, admit they have lost, they may have wandered for a while but in the end, they didn't let that pain ruin their life completely and didn't let that pain become a reason for them to ruin someone else' life.

Overall:
I gave this manga a score of 6/10 at first but after thinking about it and re-reading the manga, I realized it wasn't that bad, it's not perfect and has it flaws but it's actually pretty good and deserves a higher score than that.

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