Domestic Girlfriend
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Tenshi_Budo said: Everyone: "dont waste your time reading it, the ending is terrible" Me being a contrarian: "lol nah it will be fine, if so many people dislike it I bet its actually because its good and most people have bad taste!" Me after finishing the manga: "oh God, why I didn't listen? I regret everything" Honestly, this was GoT level of bad ending, like SnK level of bad ending. It really ruined the experience for me, even though there were good moments, I just cant get over the fact of how bad this ending was, author had dropped the ball before, but this was like a slap to the face. I wish I heard everyone and didnt waste my time reading this. Lesson learned Yeah if you unironically think this you clearly missed a bunch of details. |
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Tenshi_Budo said: Nah, it was rushed and badly writen, author is a hack and domestic girlfriend is just bad. Author pulled an 180 at the final moments for shock value and controversy, even saw author saying shes a GoT fan on an interview, cant make this shi up. Face it, Domestic Girlfriend always been like a fastfood guilty pleasure, its just bad and cheap drama, but the ending went overboard with it and was rushed. Read the afterword, Sasuga has had this ending planned for years, and she executed it perfectly. |
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| Sasuga is Natsuo it self. Though Sasuga been in hard way for all this time. Not all bad and not all good thought. The ending feel rushed and plain. |
Avatore said: Impressive!! worst man belong with worst girl. tbh i cant count a man who random impregnate girl and not be responsible as "Man" anymore. This suck logic. Worst story ever. Yaeh yaeh this is scumbag man goal. Good luck to Hina fan hope you found that kind of girl. Natsuo didn't take responsibility for Haruka? So you're going to discard how he raised Haruka while Rui spent her time at work? Him not marrying Rui doesn't mean he won't raise his daughter. You're too caught up in your dumb waifu wars to notice how Rui is far from being "best girl", she's a toxic person, not what Natsuo needed. But clearly you only came for the sex scenes, if you don't even care about whether the main character is happy in the end or not. |
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Avatore said: Lumyh said: Natsuo didn't take responsibility for Haruka? So you're going to discard how he raised Haruka while Rui spent her time at work? Him not marrying Rui doesn't mean he won't raise his daughter. You're too caught up in your dumb waifu wars to notice how Rui is far from being "best girl", she's a toxic person, not what Natsuo needed. But clearly you only came for the sex scenes, if you don't even care about whether the main character is happy in the end or not. Character is happy or not? that up to author she just want everyone happy that it!! easy. You said Natsuo raise his daughter but it end up they leave. if Haruka becoming adult what does she think? It's true Rui not perfect but if you talk about flaw Hina also flaw. I don't care love scene or sex scene i'm just drama fan. Even you accepted or not in this poll tell you just 10% to be glad for this ending. That's fact and how normal people think about that love it dirty even Rui belong with him in the end this story still shit with author logic and common sense. ps. You just a person who think to people who not accept is shit and toxic just because they have another way opinion how kid are you? Hope you fun with judging people. mf really took a poll on MAL as proof that everyone hates the ending, i'm done Rui doesn't belong with him, she explained why lmao, if you can't see that, there's nothing more Sasuga or I can do for you. |
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| Despite my hatred with this series as a whole, this was certainly a guilty pleasure and a lot better than the anime form. |
Tenshi_Budo said: I'm pleased to tell you that she's now publishing a new series!I'm still mad about it. Its not about who end up with, I couldn't care less, its about how ridiculous it was. Even for this manga it was over the top, it was insulting, the author should be banned from writing ever again. I hate this manga. Happy coping! |
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| I would've never guessed where this story would have ended back when I first started reading it, but I am truly glad everyone got the happiness they deserve. All the characters went through so much development and the emotional complexity of the whole story was well delivered. Glad I read this Romance Manga, it was a fun and exciting read. |
| So Natsuo ended up with Hina....that's good and all for some of the shippers outhere I guess....what's that journalist that run Hina over thoughts on this though....? |
| What the hell was that. I feel like the author wasted Hina's resolve. But she got Natsuo at the end, okay I guess? I don't know, maybe Rui and Natsuo should've married instead. Hina woke up anyway. Before she went into coma, she's fully prepared for this. |
bassyeyJul 25, 2023 6:11 PM
| Ohk I change my mind now... Although there are still some things that could've happened differently or just not happen at all in the case of time skip and Haruka... I still honestly kinda like this ending... As I was a Hina supporter from the start and just knew that it was the true ship, so I'm really glad she found happiness in the end, although for said happiness she had to lose 8 years of her life to a coma, and all that pain she had to endure before that happened, but still alls wells that ends well I guess... And all though I would've preferred one or 2 chapters to flesh out their relationship post time skip, and the raw emotions we could've gotten from it... The Days with Hina and extra Rui chapter with her mom kind of quenched my thirst to the point I can't complain at the moment.. So yeah, Thank You Domestic Girlfriend 🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️  |
| Kei Sasuga as the Queen of Ambiguity, she left us on our toes to the very end, but saying that, it ended the way it was meant from the very beginning, specially if you caught the clues left behind the author it becomes clear that Hina and Natsuo were meant to end together. I understand that for many it got to confusing, used to take the context at face value without really dwelling into the underlying context, thus Sasuga's writing style of letting the reader fill the gaps, is not everyone's cup of tea, but I was certainly my cup of tea.  |
| It's rushed in parts but it's a beautiful ending. My girl Rui did not win, but she has grown as a person. From selfish she became selfless. My girl Miyabi has grown to be so beautiful. It's really touching how Hina and Natsuo loved each other. And I'm still pissed at that scumbag. Hina lost 8-10 years of her life. So 5 years in coma, 1.5 years just to be able to talk, and 3 more years to walk. I can't imagine being in coma for years. |
| In the afterword, Sasuga says "Domestic Girlfriend was the story of Rui's romance, Hina's love, and Natsuo's life." Rui's romance is listed first and foremost, of course. Yes, unfortunately, Sasuga sure portrayed this well throughout this manga, as Hina's romance was practically nonexistent until the very end. And what does Hina get? She gets the most chaste kiss I've ever seen -- their lips barely touched! This wedding kiss is more chaste than Cinderella's kiss with the Prince in a Disney film! -- and Hina gets to raise her sister's illegitimate daughter. Wonderful! This series was sold on teacher-student romance -- it's in the synopsis, it's on the front cover of volume 1 -- and we barely got any, and what we did get, instead, was Reverse Netorare as Natsuo banged and impregnated the teacher's sister. What a disaster! My disappointment aside, this manga had some amazing aspects. There were some great character arcs, some really emotional moments, and fantastic art. I loved Miyabi Serizawa, as well as the Lit Club -- even Forester grew on me -- and, best for last: the romance between Natsuo and Hina in earlier volumes was wonderful for what it was. Speaking of romance, you might ask: even though I'm no Rui fan, shouldn't I just admit that Natsuo x Rui had heartwarming moments, too? Their romance lasted for over half of the manga, after all. And I'll be honest: no. Rui's romance with Natsuo sucked, and I never enjoyed their time together. Frankly I don't even see Rui as a real character, in some sense. What do I mean? I mean she has no discernible personality; her character growth didn't make sense. Who she was in volume 1 and who she became by volume 28 is not the logical progression of a character; I can't even tell she's the same girl. She goes from kuudere, to some kind of happy-go-lucky, determined, bland Mary Sue who can do no wrong, while retaining zero aspects of her initial kuudere self! And please, forgive me for using the term Mary Sue, but seriously, Rui excelled at everything! And she had no real hardships once she and Natsuo got together -- their breakup only strengthened their unfathomable bond! Sasuga says it herself in the afterword: she did everything to make Rui happy. "Rui got everything except for Natsuo" but even then she still gets to raise his bastard child with him! Such a stupidly and infuriatingly perfect character, who steals Natsuo from Hina, cannot have beautiful romance in my eyes, and I felt nothing with Natsuo and Rui's so-called chemistry. "Oh but their bantering was so funny and witty!" is something I've seen Rui fans say. Yeah I beg to differ. Rui and her bland generic personality left ZERO impact on me, which is why I wanted Natsuo with Hina or Miyabi, two fine ladies of whom he had much better moments with! Anyways... I just had to throw that anti-Rui rant out there. She ruined this manga, and were it not for Sasuga's apparent Rui-worshiping, Hina could have had her time in the spotlight, she could have had some genuine development in her romance with Natsuo, the romance that she deserved. That is what was stolen from her -- stolen from us, because of Rui. (And because Sasuga just had to write Hina as being pathologically altruistic to the point of cuckoldry... but that was all to appease Rui, too. It all comes back to Rui in the end. Oh and I can't let Natsuo off the hook for being a dense piece of trash, either!) Despite all that... I'll give Domestic Girlfriend 7/10 overall. The journey for about 75% of the manga was good to amazing. The last quarter dragged on and on with the insufferable NTR of Hina, and this ending was just as abysmal as its reputation suggested. But I did enjoy my time with Domestic Girlfriend (aside from the parts that made me rage, although rage has value in terms of enjoyment too), and it has definitely left an impact on me. Therefore, I really wanted to be able to score this with an 8 or a 9/10, as it had those great moments. But a 7/10 will have to do for me. Perhaps it's higher a score than it deserves, but I do like this manga despite all its major shortcomings. Oh and for the record, having a child out of wedlock and then marrying the mother's sister is degenerate, no two ways about it. Just has to be said. It sucks, it's not romantic, and Haruka is growing up in a broken household. But Sasuga wouldn't understand such a thing considering what politics she not-so-subtly shoved into this story. "B-B-B-B-But this whole story is degenerate!" you might say. Well, this crossed a line for me. It's not beautiful, it's not idealistic yet it's portrayed in a positive light. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It is what it is. Tenshi_Budo said: even saw author saying shes a GoT fan on an interview Which is funny considering she goes out of her way in the afterword to state that "I have a responsibility to make me characters happy." That's sure not very GoT-like if you ask me! Isn't GoT a really dark series? The only thing DomeKano shares in common with GoT besides the bad ending, is a large cast of characters and a whole lot of promiscuous sex. The end. Granted I've never watched a full episode of GoT and I never plan to, but I'm going off of what I know... |
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