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Sep 30, 2023
TL;DR: The story didn't need to drag, it's logically and internally inconsistent, and it's more interesting when we're not focusing on MC's life.
As an anthology, or an episodic work, this is an amazing piece of fiction that regularly makes good use of its metaphor given form to explore the complex feelings surrounding young (and old) love. As a single, cohesive story, it's the second most disrespectful piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure of reading. The entire overarching story, all 167 chapters, could have been solved in literally the first two chapters! And that's only because the FMC, MC's explicit love interest, and the
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original for "Eve", the zombie, only has a single page set aside specifically for her introduction.
It COULD have been solved, had the author not introduced a contrived "Revenge" plotline that involved FMC lying to literally everyone about her gender to avoid becoming fap material. After that, the story focuses on the love lives of other students, and their zombies, which make for interesting, self-contained stories. And then comes MC. In addition to the stupid "revenge" plotline, there's also a budding love triangle between MC, the reverse trap, and the busty athletic friend (who I will refer to as the "Human Sacrifice") which goes about as well as you expect: Human Sacrifice makes several moves, gets all sorts of moments, and the story pretends she's got a shot. Then come the end of the story, the objectively worse love interest, the one with the smaller boobs, that lied to, insulted, and hit MC regularly, suddenly gets carried to the finish line by sheer narrative momentum. And this is AFTER they go ahead and manipulate her to try taking MC one last time, after he'd already rejected her.
Reverse Trap (Who we will now refer to as "Tiny Boobs") starts off hating MC for entirely irrational reasons, and spends a good chunk of the early chapters actively spiting MC. As time goes on, her attitude softens, and she's downgraded to merely lying, insulting, and beating MC for daring to treat her like a man (which she continues to pretend to be) whenever she's not busy trying to prevent other people (of which there are many) from telling MC she's a woman. At that point in the story, Tiny Boobs is, for all intents and purposes, your average Tsundere, who expects MC to read her fucking mind and complains when he can't.
Every time, and I mean EVERY TIME the story tries to change some foundational premise, it bullshits out some excuse to return to zero with contrivances up to, and including, MC PRETENDING NOT TO NOTICE FOR MORE THAN HALF THE MANGA
It wastes so much time between the good arcs on stupid, irrelevant bullshit, including characters that add literally nothing to the story but a convenient excuse to make cheap gags, or, in the case of the last third of the manga, pointless drama, that by the end, the author has to sift through the dried pile of shit he's made to find a way to reach the conclusion everyone knows he's wanted since chapter 1.
Finally, despite the emphasis on the exact mechanics of the zombies, this story has no actual internal consistency. There features an entire arc surrounding Tiny Boobs' dad where he actually got a NEW zombie despite it being explicitly states people only get a single one for their whole lives. Then halfway through, they try to have their cake and eat it too by saying it's the first zombie turned into the second, for ... reasons. But then at the end, the same zombie responds to his feelings for Tiny Boobs' mom despite the story (Again, explicitly) stating that the zombies react to the person's feelings towards the person's first love (He had left his family in search of the first, entirely different zombie's original).
P.S.: If they had noticed the distinct lack of male Zombies, they would have realized that Tiny Boobs is a girl right away: Only Guys make zombies, and the zombies are only girls. But Gays exist.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Sep 23, 2023
This work stands in contrast to "The girl I like forgot her glasses" by the same author. The key issue here is the fact that FMC's primary reaction to social interaction is to just run, sometimes literally. Any time there's a difficult, awkward, or otherwise unpleasant moment, the discussion is over, and she's darting off. Couple that with a low self-esteem, and a boy who's not nearly socially adroit enough to deal with an insecure avoidant, and you're basically spending almost the entire story watching a boy say the quiet part out loud, and his love interest spontaneously apply for a place in the 400
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meter dash.
We get basically no insight into her internal life and instead have to rely on our own intuitions, and those of the people around her, to piece together what she's thinking. Sure, that's how people work in general, but these walking messes also tend to get abandoned pretty quickly after the second or third time they try to sabotage their own relationships. I just don't see what's so special about this one specific girl when the boy is canonically surrounded by far less difficult girls, and why a whole story had to be made around this.
But, then again, here I am, reading it until the end, so it's clearly doing something right.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jul 26, 2023
The whole thing starts off as a fish out of water story built around a huge misunderstanding. The premise is dropped pretty quickly to turn it into a rescue mission, and giving us an excuse to explore the underground instead. Thais arc is basically 80% of the manga. My real complaint is the confusing ending that leaves everyone in the group split up and just wandering around aimlessly. The stalker plot thread is "solved" by having him be acknowledged, and then he just... disappears. Like, he's deliberately abandoned underground and it's just assumed he'd find a way back. The friend MC has that may
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or may not have romantic feelings for him literally wanders the planet with the other residents of the underground, and MC himself shows up again in the last three pages in a sort of "Yup, this was a fakeout", after a confusing ass pull regarding the king.
An otherwise fun, explosive manga just ends in a confused whimper. I notice some manga have this weird tendency to split up all the characters we love, and the trend continues here. I do not approve.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 16, 2023
This is a bad manga. Don't read it. Now I will continue to pad this review to conform to MAL length requirements by describing the bad:
The premise is this girl likes a comically poor boy in her class. The comedy comes mainly from puns, and his poverty. So far so good, but somewhere along the way, the manga steps away from the premise that she likes him, and that he's poor, and just turns into ghetto cooking/chemistry lessons with the world just being an excuse for said ghetto cooking/chemistry lessons. There's nothing else to it.
Now I understand why MAL might demand minimum
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length requirements for reviews, but the problem is that I've described the entire manga in way more words than is actually necessary.
Girl likes boy.
Boy is poor.
Girl hangs out with poor boy.
Feel bad for poor boy.
25 chapters in, it turns into a bad cooking manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Mar 26, 2023
At first you think the story is about the family, but really it just follows the sister as she bumbles her way through random events. Everyone else in the story is very one-note, while MC herself is just a handful of tropes cobbled together (explicitly so in-universe) into one. 30 chapters in and we have basically the same jokes and story beats being repeated across different scenarios. If the comments accompanying the chapters are to be believed, the Light Novel itself sees no real progression for literally hundreds of chapters, with more of the same that we've seen up until this point- though presumably with
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a few more characters thrown in.
One brother's a lolicon that keeps getting cockblocked in spite of his new body/life, the mother wants her kids to get married, dad's into sewing, and sister wants to avoid marriage like The Plague. Does this sound funny? Laugh. It's basically all you're getting.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Mar 18, 2023
This entire season has been composed almost exclusively of melodrama. We're getting all sorts of backstories for characters I don't care about, with the worst offender being Endeavor's family drama taking up several episodes for no good reason. I don't even really remember much about this season other than Deku punching a couple of people and then hours of just sitting around either expositing or giving out some speech about god knows what for the tenth time.
At the same time, the pace of the show has also somehow accelerated. OFA is a joke again, Deku's got a bajillion quirk's all at once, civil war
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broke out in mere days, and yet we still can't seem to find an interesting plot thread in all of this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Mar 4, 2023
This work has the distinguished honor of being the most offensive piece of media I've ever seen.
I'll sum up the moment I decided I was rating this a 1 and you'll understand whether or not you need to avoid this:
Early in the story the side chick is trying to get MC to cheat on his girlfriend with her. They almost do the deed, until it comes out that they're both virgins. MC decides this is now a line he refuses to cross and backs out. Side chick's solution? Have a threesome with some guys that had been talking about her earlier to stop
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being a virgin and finally get with MC.
Yes, I know Shoujo Ramune exists, I know Metamorphosis exists, I know about all the funny numbers and meme hentais. But this is real shit. Hentai has an air of "It's porn, just turn off your brain, bro" that insulates us from the horrid nature of the people actually involved; if we're being honest, if the vast majority of Hentai characters actually existed, they'd all be bad people. This? This is a relatively grounded story that didn't actually need to include this little bit of conflict. It did though, and the author decided to "resolve" it in the most realistically disgusting way imaginable.
This is the third most disgusted I have ever felt about anything. And the first and second times were when I accidentally drank rotten milk and ate moldy pudding.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Feb 19, 2023
The second season of this show has moved on from "Accidentally get OP" to "Make the devs cry". New updates keep coming out, and the devs, rather than try balancing their game properly, decide to keep piling on more and more unique skills with each expansion, then marveling when Maple inevitably uses them to beat their newest boss. There are only so many times you can hear "Oh, we must balance the game. But then if we balance the game then it'll REALLY be unbalanced." before you throw your hands up and give up on this shit-show of a premise.
Half of the issues revolve
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around the fact that they have no minimum level requirements, so a dedicated tank can use high DPS attacks and abilities without issue. Another quarter of the issues revolve around the fact that there seems to be no actual drawback to just busting out your best stuff immediately. Hell, she'll regularly go from busted flying AOE form to busted monster form in the span of minutes! It really makes you wonder why they even have a DPS in their guild (because, yes, they have glass cannons in their guild). Everyone just may as well go full tank and be done with it. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the skills she's getting seem to be unique. That is to say, it looks like nobody else can get them after her!
Finally, the devs just leave in a bunch of stupid oversights, like Telekinesis not being able to move people, but then it's magically fine if you move something that's carrying them instead. Low move speed? Just hop on your shield and yeet yourself around. Feeling tired of yeeting yourself around? Summon a turtle and ride on its back. Tired of turtles? Ask a friend to carry you! Why have actual mounts in the game when you can just make everything a mount in the first place and avoid paying a price for dumping literally all your points into a single stat?!
There are other issues, like the fact that the stakes and figures are never really clear, so every fight you just watch people do a thing and then it either instantly kills the enemy (bosses included), or it doesn't work. There are no numbers to ground the fight in anything, so you're just watching an abstract spectacle where it feels like everything lives and dies according to what's convenient for the story.
Yes, that's how all fights in stories go, but this one doesn't even try to sell us on them.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Feb 11, 2023
This is officially the first piece of literature I have ever spent money on. I can sing its praises as much as I like, but my score should be enough to let anyone know the standard of quality we're dealing with. My time here is better spent talking about the issues (and yes, there are issues) with this story. Starting with, by far, the biggest one of all: It ends.
What am I supposed to do now? Do I just sit around and try to find the next best thing? No. I've been spoiled. I spent a week at the Ritz Carlton and now I have
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to go back to a mud hut in the middle of nowhere. Sure, there are plot holes and contrivances. But really, the dangling plot threads are the bigger problem; especially during the third book. And that's just looping back to the fact that this story ends! The author says there might be a fourth if this sells well enough. So here's hoping I can actually find out where all the loose ends lead.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Feb 10, 2023
This manga's great save for three crucial problems:
1. It's short. It's a short read. Probably for the best that it's too short rather than too long, but it's short nonetheless.
2. It sets up its premise and the dynamics between characters very early on, then it just... stays that way. No progress, no changes. It's just "Today I'm going to make her like me", succeeding, but then not knowing because the girl doubles over her efforts to act like a mom- partly because she's not clear on what she's feeling, and party to avoid confronting it.
3. The ending: It takes a Deus ex machina
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in the last chapters to fix the stalemate the author's set up. The boy's dad literally shows up without warning for a couple of days, basically tells them both to get together, they do, and he leaves for over a decade. This is followed up by a chapter of filler, and the last chapter is just a massive time skip of 10-12 years where they're married.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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