Jitsu wa Watashi wa (My Monster Secret: "Actually, I am...")

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Synonyms: The Truth Is I Am...

Japanese: 実は私は

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 22

Chapters: 196

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 31, 2013 to Feb 16, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Champion (Weekly)

Authors: Masuda, Eiji (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.98¹ (scored by 16,426 users)

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Ranked: #832²

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Popularity: #341

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Apr 11, 2017

Makey

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (164/196 chp)

I had my eye on this a while ago as I was waiting for it to be completed before reading it. Once I saw it was complete I started but unfortunately I didn't realise the scanlators didn't catch up yet so I've stopped at chapter 164.

From the concept of the story, I was taking back to thinking of 'Rosario + Vampire' as that involved Vampires and school settings in a similiar manner. The cover art shows you what kind of style it goes for and it looked pretty decent which also drew me in but unfortunately I have to say 'Jitsu wa Watashi wa' didn't ... really live up to my expectations.

Story:
I feel like I may have came expecting too much out of this, the general premise of the story is what you can get from the title "Actually, I am ...", which being with the main heroine depicted on the cover art is a Vampire (hope that wasn't too much of a spoiler) and the main character finds out and helps keep it a secret. So far so good, I'm okay with that as it's just standard. Although as the story progresses you see various characters introduced, some I am fine with and they have their own interesting appeal to but at times I'm just left thinking "In this manga, they are just adding as much weird things as possible" which I feel slowly reduces the quality. If you can imagine you were writing a story and then your friend comes along and says "Hey it'd be cool if you added X", you add X then someone else comes along tells you to add Y...then Z...then F, H, K, L, etc.

The story isn't a battle manga, it's just a school comedy romance. So nothing major really happens in it and personally I didn't find much of the comedy to be that funny, at times it felt quite tedious get through some chapters in hopes that some form of development would happen in the story. Although I did find some moments where I was intrigued by the story development at most times it felt quite a bore, if I had to say, it felt as if 3/10 situations was interesting while the remaining 7/10 was some boring filler. My main comedy segments I enjoyed involved the Principal with her crazed plans and whatnot.

As I'm only only chapter 164, with around 32 chapters before it ends, I can only wonder how things are going to end up.

Art:
The art was alright, majority of times it's not detailed but when it does go into detail you can tell how the theme/atmosphere in the manga is changing. Often during it's comedy scenes you will get characters that go into berserk mode and the transition from light comedy detail drawing changes to fuller detail drawings is a nice but at the same time as you read more you'll notice that the situations occur quite often and the appeal slowly fades as you seen it quite a bit by now. As it's a comedy, facial expressions help determine the mood but I found one style that often comes up when relating to food was a a terrible style as well as the story element that went with it.

Characters:
As previously mentioned, it felt like a lot of various characters were just thrown in for variety and I'm just left thinking "okay this character choice is just stupid", I'm sure most people who read it will understand when I say "glasses" but besides that, there are some interesting characters where they actually have some depth to them and you want to know more about their background (for me that would be the Principal).

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May 12, 2022

dervisher

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (7/196 chp)

so I read book 1, here are my thoughts

characters, fall under some pretty stereotypical tropes.

like the characters are alright, but pretty flat bread, the dynamic aspect of them, seems as though they are one line on a dimensional scale

we have main protag, and he can't lie cause he's too obvious, but than, the premise makes no sense when, he has to keep secrets,

but everyone is on the dumber scale apparently, so that's the catch, when he getting almost caught, dumbness saves him.

if main protag wasn't sold as being a dumb honest person, I think it would do justice for unsureness, which is ...

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