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May 4, 2024
This is a bit of a weird one. It's good but also lacks a lot of things that it should have to be classified as good. That's very vague I'm aware but there is no other way to describe it really.
So the story starts of a bit weird but with a nice comedic style. Devil daugher Kanan summons some random person to eat his soul but through a misunderstanding he thinks she's coming onto him and Kanan just goes along. This doesn't make sense in the least, it's funny sure but there is no reason why this would happen but it's a bit funny. They
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continue with the dude thinking they're going to date and Kanan just follows along through embarassment? The question mark is because it doesn't make sense in basically any of the situations and that is quite a bit hit towards the manga. The story makes no sense and it makes less sense as time goes on. But it focuses on the comedy so it's kinda fine.
Now why did I name the female main character Kanan but not the male main character? Because the male main character is no one. He has basically no personality, there is nothing to him. he's uninteresting in personality, presence and style. He's just nothing. An uninteresting person can work if you develop said character and make you understand what his motivations and feelings are, but the male main character isn't like that. Kanan is a good character, she's funny, has motivations, flaws and a personality. The same with the female secondary character Jeanne. This makes the male main character's blandness and nothingness stand out even more. *SPOILER* The attempt to make this into a harem romance story with more people getting interested in the male main character is a source of an attempt at comedy so that Kanan gets jealous but it doesn't work when he's so nothing.
It's pretty alright, but it has elements that would fail many stories but it's saved by some great comedic scenes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 4, 2024
What is there to say about this manga. Not much. A guy forced into confessing to a "gal" and she accepts. It's not a premise that stands out but it makes for a nice story. The problem is that it goes nowhere. They get together but there's little development in their relationship in the first many chapters and in the latter chapters there's even less development. There is so little relevant things happening that it gets hard to keep track of what is going on between the male main character and the female main character. The lack of development causes the author to also attempt
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to flesh out the story with some tropes but in typical stories like this those tropes happen early on in the relationship and it just feels unfitting at the latter parts because the author does not seem to know what they want to do with the story. It's a fine story for a while but it goes on for way too long.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 29, 2023
One of the best mangas I've ever read. The only reason this manga did not land on a 10/10 is because of a few key points that I believe the author could have avoided. The base story is boy meets girl, boy and girl get together for a band and romance follows. But the author makes this typical romance saga into a drama full of tragedy and hope, the likes of which is rarely seen in this medium.
Let's begin with the breakdown.
What makes this manga good is the storytelling, the drama, the tragedies and the feelings of hope. It's a story that brings tears
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of sadness and tears of joy and a mix in between. To break down what makes this storytelling so good is to describe it as follows: It's real. The story in a lot of ways feels real and that's important to understand for how excellent it is. The characters' relationships, their emotions, their reactions. Some feel exaggerated, of course, this is a manga after all, but a lot of it is real. It's not just the storytelling either, but the art depicting each emotion in a perfect way.
But what makes this weaker is the comedy and lewd aspects of it. In this tragic drama that's also filled with so much hope and promise, the comedy attempts fall flat. There's not a single unique joke in this entire story and considering the surrounding story it doesn't feel natural. The lewd art could have been avoided as well without removing from the story. It doesn't add and it feels pointless. The ending doesn't feel rushed, it's perfect but there are two relations that occur in the ending that also feel unnatural, although that won't be covered further in this review.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jul 17, 2023
A manga of somewhat high highs and very deep valleys. It lands squarely in the middle of the spectrum of what would be good. The highs are good enough to keep going but the valleys are so deep that it takes some strength to get further into the story.
Let's talk story. It's a pretty typical story of a girl falling in love with boy in high school. Boy doesn't fall back for the longest time but it's obvious where the boy's feeling will lie later in the story. Considering the manga isn't finished and I don't plan to read anymore of it, the author could
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come with a surprise and make him fall for background girl #43 but that's doubtful. The girl is a former delinquent who only changes because the Male protagonist saves her and she falls for him. It's a psychological phenomenon so it's a possible story I guess. They then try to live their school life with the main female character trying to be with the male protagonist. The problem with their lives is where the story gets its highs from. There is a big rumor conspiracy acting to take down the main female character and it's on the two and their expanding friend network to take this conspiracy down. This plot is great.
To continue talking about the deep valleys mention at the start the next section will have to cover the characters in some detail. Starting at the obvious place: the male protagonist. The male protagonist is named Aramiya Seiichi and he's an incel is the most apt description. He had a bad experience in middle school with girls and so he discounts women entirely and just stays in his bubble playing erotic video games. He saves the main female character by being at the right place at the right time and by calling the coppers and playing a fake siren. But apart from that he's an unlikable loser. The main female character's affection can make sense, but man every time Aramiya opens his mouth it grates on at least my entire being. Obsessed with virginity, referring to real women as "3D girls" and comparing to "2D girls". Now I understand he's meant to be seen as a loser but he's meant to also be likable but that doesn't work.
The female main character Ayame Kotoko is slightly better but is a bit much in a stereotype camp. The kind delinquent who uses violence to help people that then turns into the quintessential good girl. It's not that deep and her character isn't that deep. She follows the main character's hobbies and tries to style herself to be his ideal girl so she loses a lot of her own identity.
Then there is the first good character of the main group and that is Ayame's best friend Hatsushiba Yuuka. She's a conflicted person that tries to be by her best friend's side but is quite mentally weak (no elaboration as that would lead into spoiler territory). She isn't enough to lift the series and she's not great, just in comparison to the rest she's good.
The rest of the characters are difficult to describe without spoilers and won't be necessary for this review. All in all the characters get a 4/10.
Now to talk about the deep valleys. The valleys come mainly from the interactions with Aramiya. He's such an unlikable person that it makes most of the scenes with him unbearable. The love plot is annoying because the two characters are one with barely an identity and an unlikable person. The love plot both gets better and worse at the same time the longer the story goes because more stuff that doesn't feel like it would work even within fiction happens. The only reason to read is for the conspiracy because that is interesting and becomes somewhat like a detective story. It's not great but it's passable at least. Story gets a 6/10 (conspiracy story a 7 and love story a 4)
All in all this is a mediocre manga. It's not funny, the romantic plot isn't interesting but it got a redeeming factor that pushes it up to a 5/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jun 21, 2023
Note this review was written after reading chapter 29.
This story is perfectly servicable. Just the fact that I use that language is a criticism of it. It's servicable, not much more. While it is entertaining enough and the use of a deaf character as the main character is rather interesting it falls on certain aspects. So let's talk about that. The main character, Hiiragi, is deaf and joins a new class. She doesn't go to a special school or has an interpreter so she has felt outside for more of her school life and thus changed schools. This works though because she can read lips,
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which is quite common among deaf people so they can understand people who don't know sign language. It does portray the struggle in a rather alright way although there are certain aspects that seem weird. The author shows that she needs to focus and look straight on to read lips, which is the way to do it, but usually ignores that aspect and makes it seem that she can read lips from the side. It's a small issue but it's part of a whole that I got bothered by.
Let's break the manga down into categories and talk more from there
Story: It's a simple slice of life story just with a deaf girl. This comes with some usual tropes but it's not as overt with the tropes as other mangas. In the first 29 chapters the manga hasn't gone that far in development, but that's not terribly unusual although this might be slower to do anything than is common. Overall the score for the story sits at a 6/10. Nothing special.
Characters: There are a few characters. The main character Hiiragi being the best of them. She's well grounded and reasonable. She got that cute quirky side of her. Although there is one aspect of Hiiragi's character that is annoying: She's basically perfect in all sports. It just comes out of nowhere and is so unnatural that even the humor that is supposed to come from this aspect falls flat. Then we have what is obviously Hiiragi's best friend in the school, Sakura. She is also a good character, always lively and it's a wonderful sight. Although not a lot of depth of substance, she works as a character. The older sister of Hiiragi also makes multiple appearances and the way she's written is absolutely wonderful. Begone the caring sister trope, begone the angry sister trope welcome the teasing annoying sister reality. The way she's written is so real, that's how siblings are, teasing and annoying each other.
Now for you who have already started reading this manga you might be wondering why I spent so much text on the side characters and not the male supporting character. Well that's because he's a complication. While the characters are good in most parts, not great but good, the male supporting character Taijou is not even good. He's written to be this overly nice guy in the eyes of the author but he mostly comes across as absolutely annoying and somewhat creepy at times. Like there is a limit to being a nice guy where you turn creepy because why are you like that? Taijou crosses that limit with strides. He tries to help Hiiragi but always goes against her will, he cares only for his own ego and after reading more and learning more of his character his helpful nice guy habits could be seen as a way he uses to stroke his own ego. This is fine if the author means for you to hate the character but he's written as sympathetic and someone that could potentially be a love interest which brings a disconnect and thus the character can't be called well written. The characters without Taijou would get a 7/10, servicable, but with Taijou it drops to a 5/10 mediocre.
Comedy: Not a lot. Not that good. It's better to read this for the good characters rather than to get a laugh 5/10 mediocre.
Conclusion: A pretty mediocre to fine manga that is pretty interesting to read mainly due to Hiiragi. I wouldn't recommend it but I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading it either. Final score 6/10, nothing special.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jun 18, 2023
There is very little to not like about this manga. The story of a girlish man turning into a woman by a mysterious drug and his attempt to hide it and continue as the gender he identifies as. The story really brings out aspects of dysphoria as the man doesn't identify with his new body and the struggle he has with his body, his romantic interest and his social life in general while searching for a way to cure his affliction. There is a good mix of comedy as well but the big focus is on the serious stuff in my opinion and it's very
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well done. There is a lot of depth to the characters and the story and it develops in a natural way to keep the reader gripped throughout the story. Be warned of some nudity as the manga does not shy away from showing the bodies of the characters (albeit with genitals and nipples censored).
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jun 16, 2023
Starting off by saying I love this manga. At least most of it. It's a wild comedy with good humor and that's basically it for the good things. But some stories doesn't need much else to be good. The story is a twist on the typical romance comedy with the utilization of the fake love aspect. There are some stories that do this and do it well, and this one kinda does to an extent.
Let's talk about the story. It's not deep. But it doesn't have to be. It focuses on the comedy rather than the story and while there is progression in the
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story and some development it doesn't really get that deep. The fake love with the main character (the man) is in love with someone else and that's basically it for almost all chapters. The story is more character based than story based and that's fine.
Speaking of let's talk characters. They're fun, unrealistic and clichéd. But it works for the most part. Certain characters, like Tachibana Marika, do come across as more annoying than funny and in some scenes it just feels forced and criminal. But the main character just accepts Tachibana's actions which is even more infuriating. And that brings me to the main character, who is halfway to a decent character for the story. A dense, rather dull boy who just happen to be involved in humorous happenstances. He works as the lead and I don't have a lot to criticize there except that his kindness, which in some circumstances would be better classified as gullibleness, borders on unrealistic to the point of ridiculousness, and not in the good way. The rest of the characters are fine, shallow but fine. The two side characters Ruri and Shuu are the only ones I felt had a real feeling to them, the rest were just characters.
If we just look at all what I have written it would be a solid 8/10 manga because it doesn't need to be deep, it's a funny comedy and that's what the focus was. The problems and why it landed on a 6/10 comes in the later chapters. I'll try to explain without giving up spoilers by being rather vague. The author clearly had in mind an ending for this manga, and you could see it in the story throughout that if the author followed clichés and tropes there was only one ending. But for this to work, there had to be development and the author managed with a few characters to make it seem natural. But one character, the main character, did not have a natural development of his character which rather than make the ending rather alright even though I wouldn't say ideal, it instead became a frustrating mess. This makes it so that instead of this manga being remembered as a great manga, it will stand as a disappointment.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 6, 2023
Note the end of this review contains major spoilers for after chapter 80 so click "read more" at your own risk.
A fun romp of a manga. Two dudes being dudes looking for work gets a job as a stay-in handyman at a handyman's agency. The issue is that the daughter of the owner, who also works there, is a high school girl who is incredibly interested in the phallus and erections and can even sense erections happening. She is passionate about handyman's work as well and that's basically her whole character. She gets interested in one of the dudes, Takamura, due to his perverse nature
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and masturbatory practices while being ambivalent to the other dude, Sugita, due to his more stoic and serious nature. This is played for laughs because Senko is only interested in the phallus of Takamura. It's more sexual harassment than anything while Takamura doesn't appreciate the harassment but it's obvious he's attracted to Senko. This story works for the first 80 chapters, with some sections that gets in the way. The humour in my opinion comes from Senko treating Takamura as a plaything more than as a person and Takamura getting annoyed with it. Of course this gets a bit repetitive but it's still fun. Paragraph continues at the spoiler section at the end of the review
To break it down into categories
Plot: It's not good and it's not supposed to be good. It's a fun comedy romp of individual chapters that can be read in almost any order because the continuity is minimal. It works for what it tries to do and if the author kept it as such and not try to advance a bigger story, I would give the plot a solid 8/10 based on what it wants to do. But considering the romance plot, there is a disconnect that drags the score down quite a bit. Overall I give the plot a 4/10 due to it not feeling certain if it wants to be an individual chapter comedy or a big romance comedy.
Characters: The characters are fun. I like the group of girls around the main cast who are all perverts as well. It works for what it does. I would say the best character is the supporting male character Sugita because he's the straight man that balances out the comedy. 7/10
Art style: I love it. The artist really captures the look of indifference on Senko's face. Otherwise it's just a well drawn manga. 8/10
Overall: Enjoyable, comedic. Brought out a few laughs. A perfectly fine manga. Starts strong and weakens with time. Early chapters a solid 8/10 then it goes down and by the time we get to chapter 80 it's around a 5/10.
Final words: I recommend reading it as far as you can bother but don't go into this thinking it's a manga you'll finish. I imagine there are people who will finish it but it doesn't stay consistent enough with the vibes that I doubt most will finish it.
Spoiler: this doesn't last as there is a romance plot between Takamura and Senko which comes to fruition after chapter 80. After that it just becomes boring. The fun interactions between Senko and Takamura are gone because now it's not the fun harassment type relationship but a mutual relationship, which transforms what the comedy is in the manga to a place I personally don't like and if you're a fan of the first 80 chapters, the new type of humour probably won't speak to you as much.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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