Amano Megumi wa Sukidarake!

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Japanese: 天野めぐみはスキだらけ！

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 28

Chapters: 280

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 25, 2015 to Sep 1, 2021

Genres: Comedy, Ecchi

Themes: Romantic Subtext, School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Sunday

Authors: Nekoguchi (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.76¹ (scored by 5,925 users)

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Ranked: #12287²

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Popularity: #874

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Shindo Manabu is a student at a very prestigious high school whose goal is to get into Tokyo University. He studies constantly and tries to never lose sight of that goal. That is, until his childhood friend, Amano Megumi, who goes to the same school, starts to distract him. He only saw her as the tomboy she was as a kid until they meet up again when she has become "more developed." As the two get closer to each other, Manabu gets more and more distracted from his goal of getting into Tokyo U, so hilarity ensues.

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Amano, Megumi

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Shindou, Manabu

Main

Misawa, Mio

Supporting

Teshigawara, Himawari

Supporting

Fujishiro, Yukino

Supporting

Shindou, Aki

Supporting

Wakura, Tooru

Supporting

Juumonji, Kanae

Supporting

Tamaki, Shiori

Supporting

Arai, Yuusuke

Supporting

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Sep 8, 2022

rti9

Recommended

Amano Megumi wa Sukidarake is an ecchi romance/comedy manga. The concept of Amano's character is based on Amanojaku, a demon in Japanese folklore. From Wikipedia: "It is usually depicted as a kind of small oni and is thought to be able to provoke a person's darkest desires and thus instigates them into perpetrating wicked deeds". As the male protagonist is pursuing his goal of getting into Tokyo University, Amano keeps disrupting his studies whenever they meet. Each chapter is basically a setup for the same joke over and over of the female protagonist accidentally showing her underwear to the male protagonist. Despite that, the story ... is much more than just that.

Its extremely amicable cast of characters provide a low-drama setting. Megumi isn't just a voluptuous body. She is an energetic and hard working athlete who isn't very fond of studying. In the doujo she is admired by her colleagues of the kendo club. Outside the club, she relies on her childhood friend, Manabu Shindou, for whom she secretly has a crush on. Manabu isn't a generic male protagonist. Tall and bookish, he is obsessed with studying due to his dream. Traumatized by failing the test to enter a prestigious high school, he vows to enter the celebrated Tokyo University. Completely different from one another, they form a great pair that complements each other.

What brings me joy in this story is the relationship between the two main protagonists, Amano and Shindou. Despite not formally being a couple, their constant acts of kindness towards each other just show how much they care about each other. Love is not just in big acts of sacrifice. Love is in the details. It is in their casual tenderness for the sake of the other. They are in a relationship. They just don't notice that they are. When one needs help, the other one is always there for the other. A couple whose relation is based on their friendship is just lovely to watch. If you are looking for romantic drama, kisses, and/or sex; give up on this title. It is through and through a situational comedy focused on the friendship side of a relationship. When people complain about that, I can only point out that one of the reasons Amano loves Shindou is exactly because he doesn't keep thinking about getting as quick as possible to a physical relationship. To some people, sex is the whole point of a couple. If you think so, don't even bother with this manga.

It has an episodic nature in the sense that it is a series of short stories that most of the time begin and end in one chapter. Despite that, the characters aren't stuck in an eternal status quo. They are all slowly changing as time goes by. The manga covers the three years of high school and delegates about 100 chapters for each year. It is really cool to see Amano's growth from being a promising rookie picked on by the teacher to becoming the revered captain of the kendo club. It is also nice when a teacher points out to Manabu how well he is progressing on his studies by having Amano on his side. Focusing only on studies is stressful and ends up being detrimental to one's well being. Amano's interference balances Shindou's life into a healthier state of mind. Not only that, it is thanks to all this disturbance that Shindou finds out what career he wants to pursue later in life.

This manga may seem like an excuse to show scantily clad women. While it is, it isn't just that. Beyond the provocative pages, there is a heartwarming tale.

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Jul 5, 2023

Samukzs

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TL;DR: This manga is for those that are looking for a history who doesn't take itself seriously, an innocent love story, with a light-hearted tone and themes, where not much happens and the setting stays the same, packed with ecchi - in every single chapter - and with two charismatic protagonists, then this manga is for you.

Summary: "Amano Megumi wa Sukidarake!" depicts the blossoming of love between two childhood friends, the naive first-year kendo athlete, Amano Megumi, and the level headed bookworm, Shindo Manabu. At first Manabu thinks that Megumi's presence in his life would interfere with his studies, since her attractive body breaks ... his concentration, but he soon realize that he actually has to protect her dignity from the dangers of her own innocence, given that her carefree and clumsy nature always gets her in embarrassing situations. At the beginning it seems they would be a bit of an odd couple - a kind of opposites attract -, but as the story unfolds they find what they have in common and that in a way they complete themselves.

Review: The story is pretty straightforward and has all the common tropes that come with the genre, some are rather shoddily done, and some pretty important tropes only come at the later part of the history, which leaves a big gap in the middle of the story, hurting the pace as no new things happen for a long time.

An almost still pace, with noteworthy advancements in the story being few and far between, the first few volumes are the worst offenders of this, with a dozen chapters always seeming the same. Then we have a pretty uninteresting supporting cast, this is where the story gets hurt the most, it barely takes the time to develop the side characters, the few exceptions coming in the final volumes, even though the manga is 280 chapters long, most characters are shallow and one dimensional, leaving all the stakes and emotions to Megumi and Manabu relationship, and since their love story develops at a slow pace, there are chapters excruciatingly dull where nothing happens.

The final third of the narrative does the heavy lifting, with the introduction of new, and most importantly interesting, characters a sorely needed breath of fresh air is given to the plot and some advancement is made, the last 2 volumes have the dumbest use of a
misunderstood confession that ruined some aspects of their relationship, and in the end left the feeling of only happening in this fashion only to stretch the plotline as much as possible, which leaves this huge feeling of lost potential of how much more this story could've been good, since most of the time the plot is dead-bang average, dragging the enjoyment down quite a bit.

At its highest the manga is an 8, but most of the time is spent in the mediocrity(5) and at the lowest of the lows it's nearly unbearable(2).

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Oct 23, 2018

Dreyus

Not Recommended

Preliminary (40/280 eps)

This manga was good at first but then after a few more chapters, it became irritating to read. These are the reasons why:

Story: It was too repetitive, to the point where there wasn't any development occurring. The relationship between the main characters don't change at all. There were obvious signs of both having feelings for each other but somehow they haven't noticed and when it so plainly obvious that If I had a friend who was in that situation, I would punch some sense into him and force him to say his feelings.

Characters: There are way too many incidents where Amano was flashing her panties ... or in some type of ecchi situation that didn't seem natural; Don't get me wring that happens all the time in other series but sitting down without properly fixing your skirt or not noticing your panties showing because you skirt is too short when her friends have already told her about these things is plain retarded and how she keeps hitting Manabu when he points it out trying to help her just like what her friends do for her. It pisses me off that she is that ungrateful and doesn't even learn from her constants mistakes.

Manabu isn't any better. He constantly get distracted by Amano from these ecchi moment and can't concentrate in his studies. No normal dude thinks that hard about a girl unless you like them. It amazes me how he doesn't even realize this; His denseness is worse than Ichika from Infinite Stratos. He didn't realize the obvious signs that his childhood friends likes him. How can you not tell?

Other characters like main characters parents and friends already realize that they like each by seeing them together ONCE but decided to only give a little push but not actually help to progress their relationship.

Art: Its good and probably the reason why I'm not giving this manga a lower score.

Enjoyment: I actually liked it but I couldn't stand the denseness of the main characters and there was no development in their relationship at all. It was too frustrating to continue reading while knowing there was any exciting events happening and irritating that the main characters were in situations that could improve their romance but it never did. It's just frustrating.

Overall: Its a RomCom with repetitive ecchi moments but no romantic development and there won't be any for a while even 120 chapters in the story based from other reviews. If you like thicc and sexy girls in ecchi situations then this is for you because that's the only thing that this manga has going for itself. It had a lot of potential but makes me say this is so stupid every once in a while.

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