Boku to Senpai no Tekken Kousai

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Alright, So I've tried to as fair as a job as I can at rating this....... abomination, so please bear with me here.


Story- 5
This manga starts out with the pretense that there is a rich girl out there who has a mental problem where she is attracted to bad guys, i.e. serial killers, rapists, serial rapists, the whole nine yards. Since she is a rich girl, she has bodyguards protecting her and dealing with her "darlings" in a way that is fitting for them (although it could be more severe, they are a tad soft at times). So with this whole set up, the story ... seems to be pretty good, right? WRONG. The execution of it was terrible, and at one point in the manga the artist tried to make it into a harem rom-com, which of course flopped and they went back to the main story.

Art- 6
While I didn't like the rest of the manga, the actual art was pretty good. It was super clean, however the fight scenes in it didn't really suit the mangas feel that emanated from the artwork, which lowered my rating for the art portion (which is something I don't usually do).

Character- 3
Oh sweet baby yeezus where do I begin? Well lets start off with our tragic backstory main hero, who preaches his moral ideals at least once every chapter. Next up is the main heroine, another tragic backstory main character BUT THIS TIME this character falls in love with horrible people! It's like reading the love story between a woman named Star and Charles Manson, except Star changes serial killers every chapter. Sure she has some recovery in the Axed ending, but that little bit of character development isn't enough to redeem her for her appearances in this manga. Now, I could go on and on about the bad characters, but there were only two semi decent characters here and that is the hero's friend/ally/partner in crime (lets call him Blondie for lack of a better term) and the psycho who is in love with him, the constantly suicidal girl: Manic Girl! These characters made me laugh, which is a shock considering every other character. Anyway, bad characters all around.


Enjoyment- 2
Honestly, the only times I really enjoyed reading this manga was when it first started, and when Blondie and the Manic Girl made their appearances to lighten the overall mood. Does this manga make you want to read every page? Nope. Does this manga make you want to finish the entire series in an hour, that way you don't have to read it ever again? Yup. Does this series make you want to punch your computer? Possibly. Does this manga make you feel any sort of closure in the end, and does the ending make you feel as if the characters properly grew and are no longer the characters you were originally looking at? That's a hecken nope.

Overall- 4
Now, this overall is taken as an average of all the other scores, but I really wanted to rate it somewhere in the 2-3 realm, as I did NOT enjoy reading this. In fact, I had already dropped this once but then found it somewhere and picked it up again since I had forgotten the story. Of course, I remembered right away and instantly felt regret for picking this back up. So let this be a warning to everyone who runs across this manga, STEER CLEAR, unless of course you like angsty manga with some terrible characters, redeeming art (at least for the overall score), a bleh story, and a manga giving the feeling that you want to write your own manga just to prove that anyone can create something better than this, then this manga is for you! But if you are like me, then please heed my waring.

I think the concept seems really interesting, but I probably personally don’t think it was well executed maybe?

It seemed a bit all over the place at times, and that could just be that is was rushed to all fit in 19 chapters. They kept introducing characters and I feel like I really only needed to know the main girl and boy. Limiting the characters would give them more time to BUILD those two instead of feeling so scattered.

I came close to dropping it after the first 8 chapters, but I decided to persevere! I think it got better at the end. Got the ... lore I felt was missing the whole time in the final 3 chapters, which feels slow maybe?

Like first few 3 chapters to introduce main girls quirkiness and her relationship with main guy. Then like 10 chapters introducing random 7 additional characters that i still don’t full understand the purpose of. And finally the climax and ending which doesn’t really seem to require the 7 additional characters? Two of them (Butler and Suicidal girl) are cute relationship foils for the main two, but the rest seem like too much.

Overall, I love the art style and the concept, but it’s hard for me to want to recommend it because of all the unneeded side characters.

Surprisingly I liked the idea of the plot, at first, I really thought it was something like something of black humor, I did not pay so much attention to it, however, as the truth progressed, I caught the attention of the characters and this idea the somewhat strange truth of Himeko.

in the end the characters were to my liking, including some who are true villains in this series.... but it's a shame that there is only so little of the plot and it stayed so open....

as a final answer what I liked most was the development, although it is too quaint and quirky Himeko helps ... advance the plot... but if I have conflict with the ending and the taste of Himeko... although minimal... left an indication that at least something can make her reconsider for the future....