Masamune-kun no Revenge
Masamune-kun's Revenge

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--The review contains spoilers--


Unlike the anime, the manga actually has an ending albeit a weird one.

The anime suffered from the worst possible ending in the whole world, a confusing cliffhanger that would make many seem that the story itself had no purpose. If only they realized that anime is just a marketing tool to create interest in LN and manga....


The anime ending is bad, indeed, but it made me curious to know the ending enough the find the manga. And now that I've finished the manga here is my review.
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The story is great in the beginning, it has good characters, a unique story line, and is very interesting. However, near the very end, as in the last 6 chapters or so the manga turns WEIRD. Somehow, Masamune is allergic or something to Adagaki....and then we are tricked into believing that he doesnt actually like her even after it was revealed that he was the real Masamune and started dating Adagaki...and then YOISHINO became the love interest for 2 chapters after it was revealed that she actually liked him....and then Masamune legit tricks the audience into thinking that he likes YOISHINO TOO but in the end at the very last minute its revealed that he actually rejected her when she confessed and likes Adagaki actually....meanwhile fujinomiya is being a salty betch and is gunning for her own love development with Masamune...the ending was a huge mix of a thousand love interests condensed into a few chapters. basically the harem elements multiplied too much near the end and ruined the pure ending this manga couldve had

I'll try to sum up what i think.

I watch the anime first and considerate that despite the rocks that have in its trayectory it was entertaining.

Now that i know all the story i can't comprehed the objective of the autors. It's a very interesting beginning, a Male MC that it isn't the typical good boy, and the female MC that's can have more personality and not be simply violent tsundere because fuck it. Yes, we have our "childhood friend" of the MC with a disease that in spite of being only revelant times to times i can take seriously her character.

What happened then?
I'd like to ... know, without my knowledge the manga become weider and weaker with each page since the last arc of the anime.

I think that the authors want with madness include a plot twist in the manga for later give us a plot twist even bigger than the first to later lead us to explore the mind of the main characters with only ten chapters for the finale, and probably that wasn't a good idea (and at the same time i wouldn't have faith with more chapters).

I can't help thinking that the authors after decide the main idea of the manga, they only trust in the power of the plot twist until the end. And yeah that wouldn't be a problem itself, but the really issue is in how the authors achieve them.

This manga could have been one of those that i like to remember in the future but at the end i only have a headache while a write this, with the hope of feel better after this.

Now that i think, i can't remember a simple moment when i honestly laugh with the "comedy" of the author.

There aren't great many routes a romance series can take. Especially the high school settings are limited and suffering from unoriginal content where most series are more or less the same thing. Masamune-kun no Revenge introduces something fresh as like the title implies - the plot of the series centers around a revenge.... kind of.

Our main dude, Piggy, got his nickname from a beautiful girl who ended up bullying him for his outlooks. This happened at a very young age. Good for him, the handsome boy genes kicked in after the childhood phase and he turned into a nice teenager. Just so happens to be, ... Piggy and mrs. Revenge target are now in the same high school, so naturally, it's time for the payback! .... kind of.

Piggy comes up with a masterful plan -- that was clearly inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo -- to make mrs. Revenge target fall in love with him just so he can turn her down and break her heart for good! Muahahaha. *evil laugh* Unfortunately this proves to be impossible because the girl is a literally evil biatch..... kind of.

This starts off a rather bumpy ride centering around soap opera level writing stuff and side characters who all seem to serve less meaning in the story as it advances. Once the not-exactly-an-epic journey ends, we get the conclusion that anyone was expecting after seeing the romance tag in the series genres.... exactly and literally.

In case the story wasn't problematic enough: the characters are pretty much full of nonsense as well. Piggy and mrs. Revenge target are pretty much the exact same thing: the opposing party is the villain to them both, yet this is just a contradiction caused by fear of nothing less than... being happy.

In one way, the whole point of the series are teenage insecurities and growing over them. Dealing with regret and anger. This is pretty cool and genuine idea, but the characters and story aren't exactly doing a good job on making it meaningful... or interesting.... or really anything else either.

As a conclusion, if this series had been 30% of its current length, didn't contain harem and the characters had spend their time accepting themselves instead of pondering in self-pity, Masamune-kun could have been an average romance story. Now it's clearly below the typical quality of high school romances which isn't that high in the first place.