Black Kanojo

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This was very poorly thought out,

Black Kanojo is a manga that has a somewhat interesting idea about a psychopathic stalker that puts the protagonist's life in danger with her presence.

Characters:
The manga has many psychopathic and deranged characters who do awful things to the protagonist (Teru) and get away with it. What you need to know about Black Kanojo's protagonist is that he follows the cliche trope of the "righteous nice guy" and "will do anything for his friends'', and follows it to a concerning degree. There are times where people he gets close to turn out to ... be crazy criminals who frequent murder or kiddnapping, he also is the victim in these events and next chapter he just forgives the committer. He will not just accept their apology but become friends with them, WTF is wrong with him? Was the author sympathetic to Ted Bundy or something? Also many of these "forgiven" characters do not change their deranged way of thinking, they still enjoy killing and being stalkery. However, it's just played off as a funny or cute trait, WTF!? We see how they traumatize Teru but it is brushed off. I understand that manga/anime is fictitious and strays far from reality but I just cannot suspend my sense of disbelief to make it so I can believe that a cowardly 13 year old boy would be ok with befriending a psychopath that tried to kill them yesterday. In conclusion the characters are not believable and the main character is an idiot.

Art:
Sometimes it's a 7/10 on the splash pages but mostly stays as a 5 or a 6 as it follows the standard art style that majority of shounen artists tend to spew out. Nothing too impressive but still is visually pleasing nonetheless.

Story:
I have saved this for last as it is by far the biggest crime "Black Kanojo '' has committed. The story is equivalent to a shart explosion one creates after consuming anything from Taco Bell. It is loaded with a lot of things you shouldn't consume and at the end you regret having such a shitty sense of choice.
However despite the downsides Taco Bell is a good idea on paper when you're in the drive thru, Black Kanojo wrote its ideas on sandpaper which then was used by the author as toilet paper. The author then looked at the piece of defiled paper and thought it was some complex piece of intricate poetry and decided to share this unholy spread with the world via “Black Kanojo”. The author seems to have forgotten that the police have access to and can use forensic science in a crime scene, which is commonly used by many police in developed countries such as Japan. Also the police have no shortage of DNA. Every crime scene in this show has a lot of it, characters are bleeding a lot in this manga and would certainly leave trails, but apparently the victims and suspect are left unknown despite their red splooge being left everywhere.
Another big plot point (I will keep details vague to avoid spoilers) involves a convoluted plan made by a main cast member that when revealed is supposed to be this big twist. But like it's so confusing, so many events are just thrown away as “fake” to support this twist, and the plan and reasoning makes no sense. So many explanations and events shown/told just dont matter and are thrown away. One of them is also a big main plot point established early on and is just thrown away. It feels as though the author just changed his mind then went "Lol that's actually fake" it makes no sense, and the story became overly convoluted. The main romance in this show is really dumb and problematic, the guy has the weakest reason to like the girl after she shows massive red flags, and still fixates himself on her. Also he thinks that he can fix her serious mental issues himself, instead of doing the right thing and calling a mental hospital or the police. Also he isn’t being forced by her to do this, he does this willingly and in turn puts himself in unnecessary danger and many other decisions made by Teru and the cast are terrible, make no sense, and put other innocent people in avoidable danger.

Conclusion:
In the end “Black Kanojo” is a manga that I had more enjoyment ripping on via this long winded review then reading it. The plot gets overly convoluted, the characters are not believable and the art is passable through its lack of uniqueness. I would not recommend this manga, unless you are attracted to serial killers. If so, it wouldn’t kill you to check it out (only a few of your brain cells).

This manga was a fever dream, and not the good kind


For a non-spoiler synopsis, Hoshino (the mc) is a teenage boy with the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome I have ever seen, and he also happens to be a psychopath-magnet. I’m not sure if he’s just really unlucky or he lives in some parallel universe where Japan is basically Arkham Asylum.


Story: 3

I can give it credit for at least trying to have a mystery plot but I can’t decide if the final twist was good or awful and predictable. There are also so many sub-plots and it switches from horror to comedy so fast it ... gave me whiplash. It’s also a mess because sometimes it doesn’t properly show when a flashback ends so i’m left wondering if a certain scene is a flashback or a continuation to the story.


Art: 7

Art is pretty good, not much else I can say


Characters: 2

The worst part of this manga. It’s only 20 chapters but there are about 10 psychos in it. However the main 2 get half the chapters so the rest of the cast get a chapter or 2 at most and then are forgotten and irrelevant to the story. And the MC just forgives all of them despite the fact that many of them were close to violently killing him.


Enjoyment: 4

If you want to enjoy this manga even just a little bit, don’t pay attention to the story or characters because they don’t make sense.



Thanks for reading

English is not my mother language, may have misspellings.

Good night, so, this manga is just awful, but i have to explain why, so let's start.

The author try to make a complex story, but in the end is just bad, dont have so many plot holes, but still a poor story telling, in the end what makes the story this bad is the characters, they are so plain, and feel like they are empty, none of them have a unique persona, they are all Psychopaths and nothing more.

The art style is slightly above average, some scenes are truly awesome, but is not something special that deserves ... your time to read.

I really dont know why I read the entire manga, but I dont recommend this to anyone.

Genuinely don't think this is the worst thing ever. The art is awesome and the tension they try to create is really there.

Fun thriller read for a 4 volume manga, the main yandere was a well written and developed character imo. Definitely not the highest quality writing, lots of overused tropes and predictable plot points and it felt slightly rushed with not a very defined ending.

Really my expectations were super low seeing this 5.8 average here but they were surprisingly blown away. It's definitely mid but not dogshit.

So yea pretty good yandere manga, short read kinda generic, good scenes. 👍

My english is not very good. But i suggest it. It is my first yandere manga. I saw it in tiktok and interested in. After 10 hours i complated reading. I enjoyed while reading.

i don't kow how i fix this:
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