Ore no Yome wa Aitsu no Tsuma

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My Bride is His Wife has a lot of good ideas, but the execution of both the plot and characterization are poor throughout.

It begins as a reverse harem: two best friends agree to alternate being married (they each live with her one month at a time) to a woman that they both love. The protagonist has always looked up to the other man; never as smart, popular, wealthy, or successful.

The manga doesn't really dwell on how they get into this relationship. Instead, it wants to be a thoughtful examination of the interaction between love, marriage, and fidelity--and to what extent any of those ... can exist without the other two. Besides his own experience in this odd relationship, the protagonist encounters a variety of other marriages, all of which have their own quirks or dark sides.

But the manga has three big problems:

First, the central love triangle is never firmly established. Characters assert that they are in love with each other, but you never really see it. The manga really needed to spend more time developing each relationship as a pair--both the relationships with the woman, and the friends' relationships with each other.

Second, the plot moves at lightning speed. Clearly the manga was axed--the last chapter covers easily a volume worth of plot. But even before then, the author just jerks you around. In one chapter a character is revealed to be seriously ill. In the next, the protagonist finds out about it. In the next, the problem is solved. What should have been a major plot of the whole manga is wrapped up in a neat little bow with very little consequence in less than a volume.

Third, the major plot of the second volume is about a third man who enters the scene, for no apparent reason. The character adds nothing to the themes and only makes you think less of the woman.

A mangaka with more experience writing Seinen romantic drama could have made an interesting story out of the premise and themes. But, as it is, this manga is best avoided.

TL;DR - Boomer soap opera for people into NTR, polygamy etc

I am going to touch on major spoilers here because in order to properly express the distaste I have for this story and really give an idea of how sloppily written it is I feel it is necessary do be warned.

Honestly this manga is all over the place, I don't even like cuckoldry and NTR adjacent stories they just aren't really my thing but I was high and decided to give this a go.

It's a half okay manga but here are my main gripes with it

The love triangle, is teased a lot ... but never really goes beyond that. It's not a "will they won't the story" at all, in fact there were times where I genuinely questioned whether or not the secondary male lead was actually into the female lead despite them having a few pages of a flashback where he expresses his woes about not being able to be with her despite liking her.

He is very hands off and seems more like he's doing this for his friend, then his friend expresses disinterest in the whole ordeal because he expresses he can't handle the thought of sharing the girl he likes with him.

Shortly after this the secondary male lead, even says something that almost implies he was only doing this for his friend to try and force him and her together because he knows he's a very tepid dude with no balls to go for what he wants in life lol.

But then secondary male lead also does stuff like invite her to live with him and seems almost as if he's just ignoring his friend and when the main lead sees this he feels excluded and even loses interest.

The main male lead, after all of this, expresses his distaste in the ordeal as he begins to feel alienated and even spends time with a girl that spurs him into almost cutting off this entire thing and like maybe they would have been together by the end. Then, as he is about to grow a pair and leave since he clearly isn't happy, the female lead somehow starts to hang out and flirt with some Yakuza out of nowhere and it honestly makes the female lead seem very shallow and unpleasant. At this point in the story she is also doing all of this while knowing she is pregnant (with whos baby, I honestly don't know I had trouble following that much)

So after the yakuza she flirts around with decides to rape and kill her the main male lead steps in and gets his ass beat for her and it makes her seem even worse and worst of all because of all of this he changes his mind and decides not to stay with the previous woman that was teased and thinks staying with the female lead who is honestly, just played as whore (I'm not saying this to rant or anything, if your read the manga you will better understand what I mean) who is too much of a coward to pick a man to be with and has lucked out in meeting a bunch of cucks who are also too cowardly to have any self respect.


To top it all of with all of these poorly explored taboos, the author rushes like an entire volume or two of plot in the last chapter and it makes all of this wishy washy garbage just really, REALLY hard to like.

I assume this is the authors way of glimpsing into the taboos and not talked about parts of married life and relationships and blah blah blah blah social norms, you get the idea, but it was way stagnant in what it was trying to do and failed to actually explore much of anything. There's a lot that goes on, but it's so surface level and rushed you're stuck thinking "What honestly was the point of any of that?"