Kimi wa Kawaii Onnanoko
My Sweet Girl

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A manga about an underdeveloped girl that gives up on love but immediately falls in love with the male lead because he's the male main character. And she falls in love with him because he harassed her quite a bit, but since he's hot its called flirting not being a weirdo (at least that's what they tell me when I do it.).

The series is actually more of about there relationship and her boost in character and confidence then them finding each other. The thing is the Female lead basically falls in love with the male lead almost immediately. We know it. However She takes ... an entire volume.... to realize she has feelings for him. So with the next volume We have the male lead doing the same thing. The first 2 volumes are definitely the weakest. We already know they are in love with each other but now we get to see them realize....slowly....over the course a full volume.... of something we already know. Which is fun right? Who doesn't like being told something they already know. This reminds me of the time people say *slow burn* which is really just another word for shit pacing.

With that being said. I do quite like this series. The FMC's blushing is literally carrying this series. Her blushes alone make this series worth reading. It is adorable. It is cute. It makes me wanna hug her right out of her manga. Sadly she's not real and my Mom said if I hug the screen one more time she is going to smack me.

The main issue of the series is I would say the love triangle that was *supposed* to happen. One of the girls is in love with the MMC (because this is a shoujo manga), she insults the FMC and then disappears..... Just gone. Comes back at the end though. I literally thought the Author must've forgotten her. I read her notes on this and she said that originally she had a different idea but decided to change it. I presume that's why she ended taking up a back seat instead of being the loser of the love triangle.

The characters get together by Volume 3. It is about there ups and downs in a relationships. Her being to shy to be intimate and getting over it. I'd say it gets boring but I'd be lying. I'm sure all the ugly women that are going to read this manga will relate to this series a lot especially if they have found love. The feeling of reaching the next step. Not being confident. To have someone to catch up when you fall.

The male lead is a bit annoying in the beginning. Especially since his feeling for the FMC basically boil down to her being the female lead. He absolutely falls in love with her but its when they are dating where you sort've get that connection. As I mentioned before the male lead is somewhat of a harasser but he compensates this by not being mature either. There is this whole thing about another guy being kind of into the FMC and he gets jealous. Honestly that arc is handled quite well. But when the female character is all over the male lead her immaturity escapes him. Which is odd as fuck. I really thought there was gonna be a small arc of understanding of characters here. But nope...

The series also had the occasional time jump but it was a bit odd here again. The main section of the series is the First year of Highschool. But like the breeze through 2nd year and 3rd year. Just so the author could draw more cultural and story moments. I guess the story had wrapped up and everyone sort've gotten an arc. But it did still feel a bit odd.

In the end the series is cute and adorable. The side characters could use more development. Especially since the author did end up teasing there romance. But the couple growth, the confidence boost puts this series is one of the must read sections. One of the better series I have read. Also fuck you. You know who you are.

7/10. Give this series a chance. It will surprise you.

While this seems like just another standard shoujo manga out of thousands it does differentiate itself with being fairly low drama with the biggest issue so far stemming from the Mc's own body image issues. The thing that really stands it out from many series is it doesn't drag out the MC's relationship or end as soon as it starts. Even more so though is it doesn't shy away from the subject of sexurality and sexural desire. It doesn't treat them as a solely holy subject never to be addressed or acted on in any form till the very end of a series. It treats ... it more as you might expect from two teens in love being that it of awkwardness but with a actual mutural interest in it. So ya while it starts out seeming like another cookie cutter fluffy Shoujo manga it ends up deviating into areas you generally wouldn't expect for this tye of series.

I'm not going to lie, My Sweet Girl is a manga which I started reading with high expectations due to its fairly similar theme to Hiyokoi; However, this manga is considerably worse executed.

Tsugumi is our protagonist: short (very short), insecure about her "bony body", she feels ugly and has serious trust issues. The truth is, when we are introduced to a protagonist like this I always look forward to seeing how she develops (her development of her, surprisingly, is somewhat rapid but, at the same time, inconsistent). She is nice most of the time, but on many occasions she tends to err on the side ... of hypocrisy.

Sena, on the other hand, is the male protagonist of this story: tall (on several covers they make him look like a giant), outgoing, kind, and seemingly perfect (prince charming of any shoujo). This character started off pretty well; Unfortunately, his jealousy problems regarding our protagonist's childhood friend began to displease me; At the same time, Sena was being too insistent.

The rest of the characters are uninteresting, the protagonist's childhood friend who was part of the "bone club" (and who is in love with Tsugumi) was moderately interesting, but is discarded too quickly. Tsumugi's best friend, a fan of "Honey Magic" (Mahou Shoujo) had perhaps the most boring arc in the entire story. Her drama and her regrets seemed forced and put into the story more than anything to fill out. Tsugumi's rival... we barely know about her during the story (she was overweight and the topic of her is very poorly treated). A forgettable rival in general.

The story itself begins with our protagonists at 15 years old, then they turn 16... so far so good. When they turn 17, the forced jumps begin, since out of nowhere we have the ending where they are 18 and, a couple of dialogues later, 27. The time jump is too abrupt and accelerated.

Even though I seem very negative about this manga, there is something good that I must admit: this manga does not demonize sexual activity in adolescence. We all know that adolescence is a stage of self-discovery and the fact that they have addressed this topic (surprisingly in a respectful way) is greatly appreciated.

Overall, this manga reads quickly and is very engaging for the first 15 to 20 chapters. Unfortunately, from there, it begins to decline in my personal opinion.

Anyway, I encourage anyone to read the manga and draw their own conclusions. Since I don't consider it to be a bad read, but rather that it has a mostly mediocre execution.