Koi to Uso

*SPOILER WARNING*

As someone who just binged all the chapters up to the most recent chapter 86 of Koi to Uso, let me just say this manga is very frustrating. It's good but it's also very frustrating...

The initial story is interesting. Age 16, you get assigned a marriage partner using genetic, psychological, and a variety of other data (Go Science!) in order to find a perfect match and combat the declining birth rates in Japan.

The art is fantastic, though the trade-off for that is that the chapters are extremely short.

The frustrating aspect is that the MC is so stubbornly in love with Grill 1 despite the fact that the government sent him a notice that he will marry Grill 2.

Problems arise because Grill 1 is also in love with MC, but she tries to do the right thing and keep that as a memory and move on with life. MC ends up crawling back to Grill 1, neglects Grill 2 (Who is extremely accommodating towards the MC and a better choice but just gets tossed aside basically), and MC breaks Grill 1's resolve to do the best thing for both of them so many times. He's so oblivious to what the right thing to do and is making matters much worse. He's made both Grills cry already. MC is a jerk.

Oh and MC's bestie is probably gay for him.

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If you're hoping for an in depth detailed review, go somewhere else. Or better yet read it yourself; perhaps you'll understand how much of a slog it felt like to me...

eventually that is. I came in with a decently open mind. I can't say I loved it but it didn't bore me the hell out like Infection or World's End Harem. Though they're not in the same category but regardless, the point is that I read quite a bit, beyond chapter 100 but around 150, I just couldn't anymore. I lost all interest in every detail and character, most of whom were pretty forgettable. That one guy that's probably gay but really popular, the generic pussy main character, cow tits girl, and that one petite girl. Point is I lost interest as it was boring and monotonous. Perhaps others like something like this; I could've but this one fell flat for me.

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I didn't expected that story to be so good, and as far as I read I am nicely surprised.

Honestly I think that the characters are amazing, all of them have something different to tell to the reader, and at least for me that make the story really powerful. I know that things will be saying by the characters so I can have expectations.

Now speaking about the main theme, for a story based on simple sentimental relations the mangaka has been able to attach a real importance to this relationships. In this manga the high school relationships are far to be simple childish whims, rather they are something that will determinate the future of the main characters. All of that due to a rule, all the partners will be chosen by the state and the penalties for go against this rule is a future that will turn around hardship. So the characters are going to make their decisions taking into account hard consequences. The environment of the story make easier to get a story that is almost only about relations.

On the other hand, well, this is clearly not high level literature, there are really too much scripts facilities. In few moments it can be a little incoherent with the rules of the partners matching, and also some times there are characters that pop-up in the good moment in the good spot without a real reason. Although this small incoherence don't hurt really the characters or the story development.

I think that this story deserves a mark between 7 and 8. For now I will be going for the 8 because a like to be optimist with my reads :-), but only the future development and the end of this story will prove if I am wrong or not.

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