Dengeki Daisy

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Synonyms: Hetakuso Cupid, The Hopeless Cupid

Japanese: 電撃デイジー

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 16

Chapters: 80

Status: Finished

Published: May 12, 2007 to Dec 24, 2013

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Betsucomi

Authors: Motomi, Kyousuke (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.28¹ (scored by 51,064 users)

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Ranked: #345²

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Popularity: #104

Members: 117,848

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8.28

Ranked #345Popularity #104Members 117,848

MangaBetsucomiMotomi, Kyousuke (Story & Art)

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Volumes: /16

Chapters: /80

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Teru Kurebayashi is left all alone in the world after the death of her brother, Souichirou. Well, all alone except for "Daisy," someone that she can always talk to and who never hesitates to cheer her up. However, Teru has never met Daisy, she has no idea what he looks like, and her only means of contacting him is through a cell phone that her brother left for her.

In stark contrast to the kind words and encouragement Teru receives from Daisy, she gets nothing but grief from the rude school janitor, Tasuku Kurosaki, who forced Teru to work for him after she accidentally broke a window. But while Kurosaki seems like a lazy good-for-nothing who only enjoys making her miserable, is there more to him than meets the eye?

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Included one-shot:
Volume 16: Hetakuso Cupid (The Hopeless Cupid)

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Dengeki Daisy was published in English by VIZ Media under the Shojo Beat imprint from July 6, 2010 to April 7, 2015.

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Kurosaki, Tasuku

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Kurebayashi, Teru

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Kurebayashi, Souichirou

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Akira

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Onizuka, Riko

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Masuda

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Hasegawa, Kiyoshi

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Andou, Kazumasa

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Ichinose, Rena

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Sawaguchi, Haruka

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Mar 24, 2015

neekoneko

Recommended

Let me start with what I loved the most about this manga. (And this is going to be a long list...)

1. Characters.

There's no place for a Mary Sue (or Gary Stu) in Dengeki Daisy. No one is perfect. You cannot just use a blanket descriptor like "kind" or "sweet" for any of them.

Especially the two main characters, Teru and Kurosaki. Dear lord, these two. They're real people - when you finish the manga, you feel like you've known them forever. You understand the things that worry them, the things that make them happy, the things that MAKE them. Their past, their feelings, everything defines and ...

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Jan 6, 2020

N0tActive

Mixed Feelings

Let me start by saying: this is not a terrible manga. I like the protagonist, Teru. A lot of other Shoujo manga protagonists don’t stand out or are boring. She felt a lot more distinct to me. I do think that kurosaki’s hacking abilities are very nonsensical and convenient. Also have a problem with kurosaki and teru’s relationship. She is a 16 year old high school student and he’s a 24 year old janitor. The art is also anatomically ridiculous. If you took away kurosaki and teru’s hair their head would be nearly twice the size it should be. The story, even though it is ...

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Aug 15, 2019

Kundalini

Not Recommended

Preliminary (27/80 eps)

At chapter 3, I felt this should not exceed 20 chapters. At Chapter 27, I've dropped it. Please. I can't stand cringiness for 50 more chapters, no way.
Honestly, when people are giving rave reviews on this, it feels like they had only read sooo many bad manga that this was a saviour to them. Please, save yourself from wasting your time.

A good shoujo manga, no matter if it's full of cliched situations or tropes, is nuanced. NUANCED. It is the tiny details, the reactions, the expressions and the analogies that give the characters a body, a persona. There's no ounce of the meaning 'nuance' ... in this. Everything is just blatantly open and put out there. Then again, it was a manga that was expected to end in a few chapters but kept getting revived, so at every chapter, it feels like the end is close, but just because the mangaka got more pages to fill, she was forced to drag on the story.

While Dengeki Daisy surely wants to move away from those cliched high school semester activities and have adults in the mix of protagonists, it takes the route of programmers and hackers (and dare I say even gardening), but all of it is very very amateur. Terms like registry, defrag, proxy are all just thrown in to make it appear technical and complex. Every so-called mystery situation is so blatantly obvious, and immediately given away - there's no good build up. It's like the mangaka thought, "Oh, I want to draw a shoujo romance, but let's give it a mystery turn - ah! Let's spice it up with a hacker hero!" And obviously there has to be some trauma because of course, hacking/cracking is illegal - you don't want to influence kids the wrong way. I mean, sure, use it as a setting. Sure, there's no need for technical accuracy and detail (and honestly, I no longer know what was possible in 2013 as opposed to 2018, but surely it was much more than that). But if you've introduced a plot device which requires intelligence and strategy, be intelligent and strategic about it and rise up to it. This manga surely could not. A loooooot of the situations were just soooo convenient just to give the characters a reason to come together or say something.

When the meaning of the name "Daisy" was revealed - I actually thought - WHOOOAAA - just what does that imply?? And I saw a whole different scenario pop up that diverted this from a shoujo to a seinen thriller. But nooooo... they killed that intensity right at the end of the same chapter with the characters' immaturity. Alas, it remained a shoujo. Just because it was being published in Betsukomi? Who knows.

The characters are as flat as the flat chested female lead, and you can predict that it will never grow. The bad guys are good guys gone awry, or just plain dumb who take their sweet time, the good characters just have so much trust to spare they want to donate it, and of course trauma and guilt needs to be slow-burnt in. The side characters are just there to fill in space, and not actually give support. 90% of the humour is not humourous. Ugh. It just became cringy. While I am 5% happy that Teru, the female lead, is a bit proactive, she still becomes a damsel in distress - not the usual type, but still yes. I can already see she'll heading towards having a saviour complex soon.

At 27 chapters, I don't feel any closeness to the characters. They are not growing on me. I am not excited to find out more about them. The guilt/trauma that's being built up, I don't care about that because I feel like the character is just whining.

I'm just tired.

Here I'll recommend reading cute shorts like 'Nanairo Sekai' or the much more rooted 'Seishun Kouryakuhon', the more nuanced love-tug-drama of 'Hirunaka no Ryuusei', 'Taiyou no Ie', or an actual debate on guilt and moral in the nuanced and intense 'Bones of an Invisible Person' that leaves you feeling something instead of empty.

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