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

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TLDR -> 7,75/10
This is... different. I... just read it all at once. When I realized it, I had already read all 196 chapters. So... yes, it's very good.

ART - 6/10
The art might be a bit strange for those who are not used to the author. I won't deny it, it can be disconcerting. When you start to observe, you might find it a bit odd. However, it's still worth it. The comedic moments are very good, the romantic moments are very good, and the dramatic moments are sensational.

STORY - 8/10
This story is really light-hearted. It's just this. It is really, really good to read. Once ... you notice, you're reading everything that is to read. It's funny, it's comedic, it's cute, it's... You really feel the love the author had for this. So, yeah, it is wonderful. I don't know how to describe how... captivating this series makes you. It's this good for a comedic manga.

CHARACTER: 9/10
For me, the highlights are the trio of women, Youko, Akane, and Nagisa. To me, they are the best characters. I have nothing against the protagonist, but the three of them, especially Akane, are what carry it for me. And that makes me love this work a lot, because the interactions between the characters are very good. You have to see, you have to read. You simply, absolutely, have to read this work.

ENJOYMENT: 8/10
As you can see from the rest of my review, I really enjoyed this series, so I will give a pretty reasonable rating for this run.

I started reading because I looked at the top review for the manga and it read "this damn manga made me laugh SO MANY TIMES, and made me cry EVEN MORE times." -AIIpha. I decided I had nothing better to do and coupled with the fact I'm a romcom junkie, I just had to give it a go... Wow. I genuinely can't accurately describe what this manga did to me over the course of 2 months of reading.


-To start off the story/plot is really good... surprisingly. You wouldn't think a stereotypical romcom would have a decent plot but I really liked this one. It moved ... at such a slow pace to allow us to enjoy the superb characters and comedy without it feeling pointless, yet not so slowly that when it was time for the main plot to kick it felt jarring and unnatural. Not much to say here as it has virtually no depth to it as it's not the focus of the manga for 75% of the time.


-The comedy is incredible, I laughed so much I lost count, even when I didn't laugh I appreciated the attempt and that alone made me smile. I actually believe this manga has some of the best comedic moments in the form of visual gags, they were all fantastic and nearly all of them had me laughing. Obviously not all of it was gold, there were a few repeated jokes that got really annoying but listen I'm trying to be biased here.


-Characters... Holy shit there's 16!?!?!? AND I LIKE ALL ALMOST OF THEM!?!?!?
A common troupe in long-running romcoms and just manga in general is what I call "character padding", basically the writer for one reason or another feels the need to add pointless characters to the story to keep us entertained, this normally ends up poorly; as the characters feel poorly written and just not-meant-to-be. This is not the case here (thank god I was so worried at the time).

All of the characters are incredibly endearing, even the later ones that showed up whom I sighed at, at first turned into characters I actually love and kept me reading along with existing incredible cast.
When it comes to character quirks it's extremely hit or miss, they can either be incredibly funny and entertaining or make me want to skip the chapter. Yeah all but three... 13 characters with incredibly funny and personalities and I got to enjoy up to 150 chapters of them all.


-Art. It's overall good, no complaints whatsoever and it shines especially with the character designs.



I can't describe this manga any other way than happiness, I felt pure bliss for almost the entire duration of me reading, possibly partially because it's one of the most wholesome things I've ever read, it's the definition of light-hearted entertainment with the FIRST cliché tripped into boobs scene being at chapter 150. There were mildly erotic scenes leading up to that which did annoy me at first but that quickly turned into insanely funny comedy as soon as Rin was introduced and after that all I could do was smile at the pair of tits instead of being annoyed at their existence. (This is not a joke, I had to take multiple minute-long breaks between reading because I was laughing too much at these)

At around episode 145 characters start getting conclusions to their progression, this is also when it stops being so light-hearted and the story begins to speed up a lot. Almost every character I care about got a satisfying conclusion to their aspirations and love interests which plays into the feeling sheer happiness I mentioned before. I can't even say the story is bad after it picked up pace, it's nothing ground-breaking but it was interesting enough to grip me and after spending a month and a half with some of my favourite characters of all time I hardly cared about the story despite how good it was, I just wanted to see everybody happy at the end.


I went into this show with the promise of tears, I can confidently say that might've happened; but not for reasons I expected. This manga had so many character arcs going on at once and it tried to conclude them in a manner that had impact without taking too many pages. As a result the author unfortunately used a LOT of teary eyed characters to try to replace the impact felt through thorough character building, unfortunately this meant that I came to expect tears from characters and happy scenes all around, this expectance obviously prevented me from getting too emotional as I could so much as predict what was gonna happen. Don't get me wrong some of these pages are still fantastic and contained great writing, it was just the expectation and the pacing that prevented emotions from me...
However I did cry twice. Once was at the end when something completely unexpected and a frankly masterful and incredibly emotional conclusion to one of the more troubled characters. The second was interesting... I cried when I closed the last volume. I was finished and I just sat on my bed and started crying.
This is the hardest case of black-hole I've felt in years and I hope this conveys how much this manga means to me and how incredible it is.
Thank you.

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 ... needed, the suspense in this manga is dry.

Although, I don't see much for story dynamics, evil newpaper girl that loves gossip, stirring up nonsense,

the deepness of issues seemed resolved almost instantly, which I don't find it helps the premise of keeping a secret. This occurs multiple times.

The build up and tension isn't there, so the secret doesn't feel as potent in impact to keep. So the comedy feels dry too, the punchline just whooshes before any actual crafting is made to claim it.

This book is okay enough to read, but it's like those radio songs into background you only accept as background music,

I can't see myself reading book 2. Like I am not taking a risk missing out on anything

that's why this manga gets 6/10, it's story writing was fair, integrated good aspects with main protag friends and his waifu, but the way the whole manga goes

feels like a scattered 1/3 fever dream that isn't unpleasant, but unmemorable when you wake up