For those that don’t know what it is about, in the world of Love Score, there is an app called Wiss, which you could use to test your affinity with other people. And that’s basically it. It tries to tell a story of the lives of college students (and one lecturer) now transformed by this app.
I say tries to because the story had ended abruptly. Many set ups lead to nowhere, and the information dump in the last chapter is a futile attempt at displaying the depth of the world of Love Score.
It is clear that the author had a lot more ideas. One of the most regrettable, I feel, that they didn’t have time to explore is the dark side of the app, how it *actually* functions and how it could lead to twisted relationships. If any other magazine would allow the author to continue/restart the story promising a longer serialisation, I’ll for sure check it out.
I should’ve said this earlier, there are erotic scenes in almost every chapter of the manga, so take that as you may. I personally don’t think it adds much to the story, but it’s also not hindering it, so meh.
The characters are lovable, the art is great, and the concept is intriguing, for a short story, Love Score ticks all the boxes. But it could’ve been a lot more than that. I find it hard to separate what Love Score is and what it ought to be when writing this review.
For now, although Love Score didn’t even start to explore the ocean of concepts and ways that the story could develop, it is a 11-chapter joy to read. The ending is quite a cop-out, but the effort that the author had put in in building the world and designing the characters are clear. The lost potential still weights on my mind, but that doesn’t mean what it is now is bad, it’s just that Love Score could’ve been much, much grander of a story.
