Domestic na Kanojo (Domestic Girlfriend)

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Synonyms: Dome x Kano

Japanese: ドメスティックな彼女

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 28

Chapters: 292

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 23, 2014 to Jun 10, 2020

Genres: Drama, Romance

Themes: Love Polygon, School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)

Authors: Sasuga, Kei (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.19¹ (scored by 61,444 users)

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Ranked: #5900²

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Popularity: #99

Members: 114,430

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Natsuo Fujii is in love with his teacher, Hina. Attempting to forget his feelings towards her, Natsuo goes to a mixer with his classmates where he meets an odd girl named Rui Tachibana. In a strange turn of events, Rui asks Natsuo to sneak out with her and do her a favor. To his surprise, their destination is Rui's house—and her request is for him to have sex with her. There's no love behind the act; she just wants to learn from the experience. Thinking that it might help him forget about Hina, Natsuo hesitantly agrees.

After this unusual encounter Natsuo now faces a new problem. With his father remarrying, he ends up with a new pair of stepsisters; unfortunately, he knows these two girls all too well. He soon finds out his new siblings are none other than Hina and Rui! Now living with both the teacher he loves and the girl with whom he had his "first time," Natsuo finds himself in an unexpected love triangle as he climbs ever closer towards adulthood.

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Domestic na Kanojo has been digitally published in English as Domestic Girlfriend by Kodansha USA since April 11, 2017.

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Tachibana, Rui

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Tachibana, Hina

Main

Fujii, Natsuo

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Kashiwabara, Momo

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Kobayashi, Masaki

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Serizawa, Miyabi

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Kurimoto, Fumiya

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Ashihara, Miu

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Kiriya, Reiji

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Shigemitsu, Kurumizawa

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Jul 1, 2020

Funuki

Not Recommended

Domestic na Kanojo is finally over, after it's been dragged for so long and beaten to death it finally can rest in peace.

Art

While the backgrounds weren't masterpieces, the characters's design made up for it, in most cases at least.They were expressive, sometimes making for some good comedic moments. There was also a nice variety in clothes which made it feel more realistic. What really matters, at least in my opinion, is that Sasuga really shines when it comes to drawing the naked body. Even after everything that happened i can still appreciate the way she draws tits. If you only want to experience that, read ... the ".1" chapters, the numbers may differ just look for the ".".
The whole story could be separated in two parts high school and college.

High school

While it was trashy, it was at it's peak, it was entertaining to follow Natsuo, Rui and Hina trough their predicaments, something dramatic happened every few chapters, most of the time topping it off it a twist of a twist, you didn't really had the option to catch a break. While it sounds bad, it didn't feel forced, at least to some degree; you just went along with the ride, sometimes complaining about the decisions they did. On the other hand, most of the time, the drama was cheesy, the plot always moved in the worst way possible to create stupid situations of the cast.
The themes were somewhat interesting, nothing groundbreaking but they served their purpose of making the cast grow, most of the time being connected to love, some examples being unrequited love, breakup.
In this part, the main cast gets the most development. Rui going from someone lost in life, not knowing what to do with it or what true love was, finds her calling while discovering feelings she didn't realise she had. Hina struggled with her love life, her being in her twenties without a relationship, but she finally found someone that she loves. And in the end, Natsuo, the main character, he shares the struggles the two sisters have, he overcomes them while pursuing his dream.

College

From this point the series just went downhill. Story wise, it started feeling dragged on. The drama, the quirk that i once enjoyed became a chore. More and more characters whose only role was to create drama appeared, best example is the drama troupe. The literature club in high school had a role beyond being just there to create drama, after the arcs of each character were done they didn't just disappear, they still had a role after their respective arcs ended. Compared to that, the drama troupe was the opposite, characters after characters from it were introduced, took part in the events that unfolded, then just disappeared only to appear once or twice, depending on how relevant they were. On the other hand we got the "villains". Once we moved to adulthood, the manga started focusing more on mature topics like sex work, drugs, abusive relationships, suicide, racism, just to name a few. With them the need for the bad guy arisen, did they have anything interesting about them?, were they more than plot devices to either "develop" the main cast or move the plot?; sadly no, after they got what was coming to them they either disappeared completely or had another appearance for their last dramatic moment.
Arcs that had no real purpose started appearing, they seemed that were helping the characters learn and grow, but in the long run the changes didn't stuck, they were back to where they were in the beginning.
The ending, was the definition of a bad ending. It ignored character development, struggles that the characters had. The reasoning behind just made it more laughable. Everything that happened, all 276 chapters, just thrown out the window. It feels like it all had regressed back to the beginning.

SPOILERS
I realised that I could never "beat" you.
I'll remember this line for a long time, as one of the most stupid reason for giving up. Hello old Rui, i guess.
I had low expectations for it ever since Tanabe's arc. Story became uninteresting and the characters just competed to see who had the most brain cells missing. But the ending destroyed my expectations.

Conclusion

Don't waste your time, the story and characters just get worse as time goes on, sometimes it feels like the author wants to send a message rather than having a good story. If I had to suggest reading it, stop after high school ended. I still consider that, this series should've ended at that point.

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Jun 28, 2020

Akagi-kun

Not Recommended

I tried to avoid spoilers, plot summary, and other things, but still, something can be considered as such, so read all of the following at your own risk.

The success of a work often depends on its finale. After all, an unsuccessful ending can easily disappoint readers, leave an unpleasant "aftertaste".
I didn't want to write a review of this manga right after I finished reading it. I thought that after some time after the final chapters my opinion of the manga would improve and I would give a higher score. And so it happened. I initially rated this as a 3. But anyway, I just can't ... score it higher than 4 and still think that the author of "Domestic Girlfriend" failed the ending. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. The scores drop from 7.71 before the final arc to 7.32 at the time of writing this review say a lot. And it doesn't matter which girl you were rooting for.

Just a warning. Whatever you do, if you haven't read the manga yet, I recommend do not read it. But if you are going to start reading it anyway, don't get attached to any of the manga girls.

I'm really used to love reading this story till the last arc. But since chapter 265, the story has fallen off the cliff in the most contrived nonsensical way imaginable. This, two cheap timeskips, discarded development of all the characters, the inability of the MC stand by his choice, denial of fatherhood, family values, and even love, the replacement of all the above with the word "Fate" make DomeKano one of the worst manga I ever read. The author came up with too good a love triangle, but not how to solve it and instead of a well-thought-out drama, insight into the characters, conflict resolution and choice of sides, in the end we are getting an unnatural, artificial plot twist so moldy and formulaic that the nuclear compartment of the teams of both ships just explode (well, unless their goal was just to see their girl won no matter how it was done). It does leave the feeling that the manga was completed in a hurry, and it's really strange, with such number of chapters and a pile of fillers. May be the author wanted to please everyone, but it didn't work out. Readers have already compared the ending of this manga to the ending of "Game of Thrones". It's really just as bad, if not worse.

From the manga positive points I can note artwork. The art is quite good and detailed for weekly manga, although not awesome one and exaggerated happy faces with wide open mouths do not look very good.

P.S. Out of all the gals who had to deal with Natsuo, Momo the most fortunate than anybody in the manga.

For some reason I doubt the possibility of the second season of the anime.

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Jul 12, 2020

yucoffee

Not Recommended

This is absolutely the definition of “What are you doing step bro, this is so wrong”. Well in a way, I guess.

Reading through all the chapters all the way to the end was a train wreck full of countless counts of facepalming, cringing, or the absolute face of disgust that makes you want to strangle someone.

You ever get that feeling that you want to strangle someone just because of their shitty decision? Well that’s that feeling reading through all of this.
Don’t even get me started with the shitty plo-- you know what let’s all calm it down for a second and start from scratch. ...

A little backstory on my end here before starting this review, when I’ve read this manga, I already finished the anime adaptation of it and oh boy was it just as shitty as this one. Well one being the difference that the anime adaptation had a less time in developing the characters and including only the small part of the plot. And if you’ve watched the anime of this show and thought “Man, was that a shitty show” then you’re in for a shittier ride continuing onto the manga.

Alright, let’s start with the plot. I’m sure you’ve read at least the synopsis of it so there’s no actual point in me telling you the synopsis. I also don’t want this to be any longer as I’ll probably just rant about how the MC is crap and so does the entire story, but we’ll get to that.

The plot is nothing unique or anything new in any particular, in short it’s about a guy loving someone and apparently that “someone” is his teacher and apparently that “teacher” is his on to become new step sister after his father remarrying to their mother and apparently that “teacher” has a sister and that sister was apparently the one that was in the first story that f** the guy. And NOW they are living in the same roof. Yeah, what are you doing ste—

All jokes aside, this plot itself is a mess, even reading the synopsis will make you go wut… A good plot needs to have, not only a good story but it also has to have a decent character development, flow, and overall, the way the story should be portrayed. Not rushed not too slow.
For me the characters are important and that is usually the main drive that keeps me and the reader from – reading.

Eventually at some point of the story the MC did grow for short amount of time, deciding which one is best and which are is not. But then again, ultimately leading to a bad route EVERY time he gets to choose one. Which then leads to frustration in our part.

As the story progresses further, we get to see the MC picking side whether he’ll pick over step sister 1 or step sister 2, and again, always the wrong choice. It literary went back to back whenever he chooses one.

It goes something like this: “Ok, I’ll pick step sister 1 because I love her most,” conflict* “Ok, I’ll pick step sister 2 then because she’s always there for me” another conflict* “Ok, apparently I love step sister 1 because I was too fucking blind to see the things she went through” and honestly we can keep going on and on and on. Its like the author gave up on his idea and let the readers pick which is the best girl so he’ll make the MC go for the most voted girl in a few chapters.
Like a battle of the best onii-chan for the MC, absolute disaster fuck.

Overall, I think that basically explains the plot.
The plot had little to know any kind of decent development and it if it had, it usually tries to ruin it back with a few chapters. the timeline felt a bit rushed at some parts and I feel like some characters could have been a bit more exposed (my opinion), and overall, frustrating at its best.
The art is alright it’s decent though. 7/10
So, the question is: is this manga recommendable?
No. read something else.
Overall, 4/10
Cheers.

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