Aho Girl
Aho-Girl: Clueless Girl

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It's a silly, stupid comedy that goes all out with over the top reactions and absolute dipshit characters.

Sometimes you might think that a character has a brain but NO, they are just as stupid as the rest of the cast.

Yoshiko manages to be annoying but in a charming way. She's just so highly energetic and constantly gets up no matter how many times she gets beat down (literally) by Akkun. There were certain characters that I wish could've gotten more screentime or perhaps SOME sort of development, since there actually are some storylines that get a conclusion, but overall I think the author ... managed to squeeze a ton out of the initially simple line up.

A negative I could give is...the same face syndrome.

Now, personally I think there is nothing too wrong about finding a specific face and using it multiple times on different characters. Sometimes it can work by giving them small tweaks such as different eyelashes or unique pupils/iris. Heck, if you change the hair and body up enough it can also work.

But...many times the characters will have very similar expressions. THAT same expression. Over and over and over whenever they are reacting to something ridiculous. It got a little annoying.

Overall though, it's a really funny manga and I hope it can get a sequel of sorts someday!

tl;dr: A gag manga that starts off funny but gets boring due to how little variety there is to the comedy.

This is very much a gag manga without anything more to it. And it starts off really funny. The premise stems entirely from the cast of characters, and though they're a simple bunch they're amusing enough in the various stories it tells about them together. However, the thing is that there is essentially no change at all over the course of the manga. An amazing plot or character arcs aren't necessary for a gag manga, however some sort of change is necessary as otherwise things ... start to go stale, which is exactly what happened here.

The comedy really doesn't have a lot of range, and without much change it starts getting incredibly repetitive and quite dull less than half way through. While certain characters like Yoshiko and her mother are hilarious at first, they start getting less funny as essentially the same gags involving them keep getting repeated, and by the end I found them both tremendously annoying, which is a problem as Yoshiko is the main character. Of the other main characters, there is humor born from sympathy at Yoshiko's childhood friend Akuru's situation but that too faded pretty much completely by the end into a general feeling of indifference, and while Yoshiko's main friend Sayaka is likable due to how kind she is and how she serves as a good foil for the weirdness of others she isn't all that amusing on her own due to being so normal.

Thus, the characters that really stand out are the few side characters that actually have changes in their character or relationships as that actually results in fresh situations and comedy. These were mainly the Head Monitor, who isn't even properly named, but is incredibly likable due to how crazy she is and how hard she tries to grow eventually which even results in Akuru showing unseen sides of himself, and Akane, one of the gals in Yoshiko's class that actually ended up getting pulled into an actually decent romantic plot thread. Still, in the end none of these really go anywhere, and there's not even a halfhearted attempt at trying to give these or any of the stories in this manga any proper closure at the end. Rather, the ending is just basically a run through of all the various characters that appear over the course of the manga without actually doing anything with them, which while a flimsy ending is a fitting one considering how flimsy the manga is, though that doesn't really make it satisfying.

The art is really simple but overall okay. The style works well for the comedy with facial expressions and such being pretty exaggerated and it overall being really easy to follow due to how basic things like paneling are. Though the character designs aren't all that interesting, there's decent amount of variety  considering it's supposed to be a pretty down to Earth manga, and the cast though pretty small, did all feel distinct visually.

I haven't touch the manga in quite a while, but it is the first manga that I actually read from beginning to end which makes me feel weird but whatever. The reasoning for this is mainly due to how I read Aho-Girl. It was during rest between sets of weightlifting to distract me from thinking about the next set I was about to push my way through. I truly believe that that is the best way to get through this manga; when it used to get through a minute or two of wait time. This is because Aho-Girl lacks any real substance to it. It ... is just about a really dumb girl who is annoying and loves bananas. She is so annoying that she gets beat up all the time by the MC and no one even cares. This joke is pretty funny in the beginning of the story, but it doesn't stay consistently funny. It is a gag that gets really repetitive really quickly, but the manga is able to bring in several side characters that are genuinely interesting and spark up the humor the manga first had. One character (a particularly sheltered monitor) is quite fun, with some level of character development and interesting plot lines. She was more memorable than Yoshiko Hanabatake which is the manga's biggest issue. Yoshiko is an interesting twist on genki girl: she isn't shy, ashamed, or cutesy. She is just really stupid and annoying, and that is why its funny to watch her get slapped around so much. she gets punch in the face and is too dumb to stop herself from getting punched again, but she is so annoying that you want to see her get one to the face. However, that's why this character doesn't work. She is dumb and annoying; what exactly do I root for here? What is the character's intention? what is their goal? Bananas and sleeping...well that isn't that memorable. Which is why Aho-Girl works so well when doing reps at the gym. When you have a minute to spare for a fun distraction and quick laugh Aho-Girl is a good time. But it is purely a quick laugh.