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After his horror manga Furudate-sensei changed genre to sport and while the prototype one-shot of Haikyuu still lacked "something" and it wasn't so well recieved (mostly by the "western" audience ) it got green on serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump and author took advantage of Haikyuu's potential to the fullest and created one of the most popular sport series in WSJ in years with addition of really well recieved anime.

The one who first looked as nemesis became biggest ally. Of course the path isn't so easy and takes time. And so by turn of fate our main duo (a promising ... prodigy and quirky but high-spirited newbie) joins the same volleyball team. The team's goal is to become once again as famous as they were in past... While it is quite cliche proclaim in sport genre, it's overshined by characters. Their individual struggle, inside and also outside of the court feels quite realistic and really resembles a path of anyone who tried seriously doing a sport in school. With story progressing, we can see that even after some time, the team that come quite close to each other, still has it's own problems. Even if it is studing problems, sometimes low self-esteem, personal dispute or focusing on individual future. So step by step the team moves forward and while the path isn't easy, they won't give up (well you know, shounen sport manga :D) But...
One of the best part of this manga is the cast, there is a lot of different, unique characters and especialy their interactions with each other (often in very funny way). As the story goes on, aside from the main cast, which is expanding little by little, there also is vast variety of supporting characters, mostly from other teams. Thanks to experiences from matches, training,personal chalanges or even some common interests, the team bonds become stronger and after time some characters start to open up and develope. While we can see their growth, they still manage to keep their main quirks. We see a lot backstories, so it's easy to understand why are characters behaving as they are. It feels natural and it's fitting for sport manga stated in high school.
Artstyle is unique, and you can recognize author right away from it. On one hand it works nice with comedy aspect (author often uses funny visualizations of characters to lighten the mood) but when the atmosphere is serious, like in matches it is drawn really thrilling.
This manga is really enjoyable, especially for the characters and nice balance between comedy and sport. So if you are a fan of realistic sport manga, with a lots of humor, you should read this one ...

Story - 8
Basically whole manga is retelling a thread from 2ch where a otaku asks for help because he (Molester Man) was mistaken for molester. He takes a advice from 2ch and tries make a move on girl(Miss Understanding) who mistook him for molester. Thanks to this Molester Man meets new friends and tries to make progress in his relationship with Miss Understanding. He founds out thats not so simple but with advices from 2ch he realizes that there are more doors open for him....

Art - 6
Art is pretty simple and sketchy. At the start it hasn't many backgrounds and mainly focusses on characters, that's ... a big plus because their expeessions are more clear and you can understand how they feel. It's not only facial expressions, the body movements helps easy get the atmosphere and enjoy it. Art gets better and more complex every chapter but doesn't lose focus on characters.

Character - 10
Molester Man has only few main characters, but each is unique and important to the story. We can see many emotions from each character and after a little backstory we could understand why where their actions or reactions as they were. Because this is MC storytelling, we can see most of his character.As the story goes on we can see more of his otaku habits (mostly for comedy) but more importantly also his progress as a person - he is little by little going out of his shell. Even after that we can see his inner struggle when he has tomake a big choice or be more iniciative. In some ways we can see this struggle to the end of manga but this make this manga more realistic and more unpredictable.

Enjoyment - 10
This manga is very enjoyable mostly because of its characters which are
realistic and pretty easy relate to. Autor does very good work when shows simple details like when Molester Man was totaly in to texting and was simply changing postures from sitting, lying or rolling on the ground. Thats one of many examples from which you can feel familiar athmosphere.

Overall - 9
Molester Man is a manga with good and very realistic story, perfect pacing,
unique and well developed characters and art wich does its role.