Ai Kora

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Synonyms: Love & Collage

Japanese: あいこら

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 12

Chapters: 120

Status: Finished

Published: Jul 6, 2005 to Feb 6, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Ecchi

Themes: Harem, School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Sunday

Authors: Inoue, Kazurou (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #2032²

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Popularity: #1266

Members: 16,136

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MangaShounen SundayInoue, Kazurou (Story & Art)

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Maeda Hachibei is peculiar, because, when most males lusting after gorgeous females, he instead lusts after discrete parts. When he relocates to Tokyo to attend school, he finds himself living in a dormitory with five females, each possessing a distinct ideal physical trait he desires: gorgeous blue eyes, bullet-train breasts, a deep dulcet voice, and straight "anime-esque" legs. Can he manage to keep his wits when these women surround him? Although you would not be completely incorrect if you believe this is like Love Hina… Hachibei is no Keitaro.

(Source: Musashi Quality)

Included one-shot:
Volume 12: The Boy Who Heard Too Much

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Maeda, Hachibe

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Tenmaku, Sakurako

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Ootori, Kirino

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Tsukino, Yukari

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Yatsuhashi, Ayame

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Aburazaka, Seishirou

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Kureha, Kano

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Outani, Umeka

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Kikuno, Haiji

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Shibusawa, Ryuunosuke

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Sep 22, 2019

the9thone

Recommended

I have read this manga about 4 or 5 times now and it is still so good. There are a few problems I have with it however. The ending was kinda odd for what the whole story was. Several chapters felt like throw away chapters. They felt like the had no impact on the actual story. There weren't really many "arcs" if you would call them that. They were usually 2 or 3 chapters that shared plot. This story is very interesting and is very good early on. It does kinda get into a slump midway, but it is still fun to read none the ...

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Jul 1, 2011

zaharat

Recommended

Ok, my friend from Thailand was reading this waaayy back then like 3 years ago when I was 12, 13. At that time only the first few volumes came out I think. I saw him reading it and I read the first few chapters from him and thought it was pretty. However I couldn't remember the name so I spent like a whole hour trying to find it like a few days ago hahaha. Anyways this story was really good and I liked it. Every single chapter was worth it to a certain extent, though some just seem off-plot, but overall it was good. So ...

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Mar 2, 2008

Marshall-Turner

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (1/120 eps)

Star Rating (out of four): **

(This review is based on having read the first chapter.)

I think Ai Kora would really be worth reading if it didn’t feel so much like a Ken Akamatsu rip-off. Akamatsu, as you recall, created the famous Love Hina and infamous Negima!, two harem comedies that redefined the genre. Ai Kora does no more, it seems, than copy Akamatsu’s technique.

Two of the four girls in this manga look like descendants of Asuna and Nodoka from Negima! Identical appearances are fine by me - except that they also seem to share the same personalities. One, named Sakurako, has long orange hair and ... a feisty hatred of Hachibe, the protagonist, while the other, Yukari, has shorter hair and is so timid that she says nothing when the he is fondling her breast the first time they meet (don’t ask).

Then there are the usual Harem clichés: at the moment Hachibe commits to do good, he winds up walking in on Sakurako, who is in a state of undress. Skirts fly up frequently. Hachibe has to move into the girls’ dorm (Love Hina, anyone?).

Ai Kora’s one masterstroke is Hachibe, a character that belongs on that ever growing list of Characters that could Only Exist in Anime/Manga. This list is composed of characters who are so eccentric, if they were to spend a limited amount of time in the real world, they’d probably commit suicide.

Hachibo nears the top of this list. Essentially, he’s a pervert, but what he craves in the “ideal girl” is highly specific. What he wants, explained in a brilliant monologue that would make Quentin Tarantino proud, are four body parts: 1) transparent blue, cat eyes, 2) a husky voice, 3) breasts shaped like the tip of a bullet train, and 4) legs that are the same width from the thigh to the feet. This last desire is where the character would commit suicide, since having such legs is humanly impossible. (But I digress because, after all, this is a manga, so logic is not applied, nor is it wanted.)

Unfortunately, while this trait makes him interesting, it doesn’t place him high on likeability. We could connect with Keitaro of Love Hina because his needs, if not his actions, were more down to earth. This protagonist wants what no what can understand, and most likely wouldn’t want to. He is all alone.

The plotting of this manga scares me with its contrivances. The protagonist moves to Tokyo to go to school and find his “ideal girl.” However, upon reaching the boys’ dorm, he finds it has been burned to the ground. Why? So he can be moved into the girls’ dorm, of course, where, by astonishing coincidence, the four girls (well, three girls and the teacher) all happen to have one of the four traits he desires in a girl. Talk about fate.

Immediately we get drenched with stereotypes: the two girls I mentioned earlier, and another named Kirino who seems to be a ninja (anime rule 8: if a manga/anime casts more than two lead girls, chances are the third one is a ninja, samurai, or something of that nature). They start out hating him because they think (correctly) that he is perverted. Out of grief, and after seeing Sakurako nearly naked, he leaves.

And that’s where things go straight down to Hell.

A stranger assaults the girls because he wants revenge on the teacher. Why? Who knows. You see, it was he who burned down the boys’ dorm so he could show the teacher who’s boss. The three problems I had with this were: 1) if the intent was to get revenge on the female teacher, shouldn’t he have burned down the teacher’s living quarters in the girls’ dorm to make a stronger point?; 2) where are the other boys who would’ve been living in this dorm? Shouldn’t they have been with Hachibe in the girls’ dorm?; and 3) why wasn’t Hachibe immediately notified? Why is the teacher so calm when she explains to him what happened?

The answer to all these questions is that the author failed to find a plausible (there I go applying logic again) reason to have Hachibe have to live with the girls, and clumsily added the bit about a fire as the plot device. And none of the characters find this strange. Love Hina and Negima! at least had the decency to realize how ridiculous they were.

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