Kimi ga Kirai na Koi no Hanashi
The Story of Our Unlikely Love

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Where do I even start? In my humble opinion, the art was the only redeeming quality of this manga. With the amount of times the main male love interest, Kisaragi, pulled her arms, her arms should be dislocated by now.

Story:
For an 8 chapter shoujo manga the story was alright. It was centered around their romance but there was nothing besides their relationship. I'm not hating on shoujo manga (I've read some good manga), but this is just not it. It's like they put almost every popular shoujo trope they could think of and tried to fit it all into 8 chapters.

Characters:
What character? ... There was no development around both main characters (or should I say the only characters). It was as if their lives revolved around each other and nothing else around them existed. There are no side characters, everyone else is a background character.

Kisaragi: Bad boy delinquent (and a predator). The only thing I know about him is that he's a bad boy with a bad reputation but has soft spot for this goody two shoes girl. What makes this manga more unsettling is the fact that he does many questionable things. In the first chapter after they first met, he got up close to her face 6 times (I counted). And throughout this whole mess, she was just blushing, she didn't even feel threatened over the fact that a guy she just met was suggesting lip action (even as a joke, you can't deny it's a little creepy). Moreover, this guy really only has one expression. Even if he's the serious, brooding type, you can make him shed one tear or make one small smirk (They did do this in the last chapter-- the last chapter only though).

The girl (I can't even remember her name): Class representative who likes a bad boy. This girl is the most stereotypical shoujo manga female protagonist. I don't understand why she likes him. She starts having feelings for this guy she just met even though her only interactions with him prior to anything else is him getting up in her face. She has no life outside of Kisaragi. When other boys get close to her, she feels scared. But when it's Kisaragi (when they first meet), her kokoro goes doki doki.

Enjoyment:
If you consider ironic enjoyment fun, then I'd give it a 6 for enjoyment.

Overall:
I believe you can make a good manga out of 8 chapters. 8 chapters is not an excuse to write a teenage girl's romantic fantasy. I felt that the author could've added more substance to each of the characters (or even add a friend whose name I can remember that was not those two). A delinquent doesn't have to be a predator. Just saying.

Questionable or Predatory moments counter: 27 (I really counted)

Overview:
So this manga was pretty short, but sweet I'd say. It was not unlike the many Shoujo manga that you read every other time, but that fact that it didn't drag on and on really made it worth the read.

Story:
The story is short, but you feel a sense of completetion at the end without going through the absolute rollar coaster of drama in many other, which aren't always bad but it can drag on for too long.

Art:
The art was very well done and resembled that of may other Shoujo manga. Though it was so unique, the execution was welldone and beautiful.

Overall:
Overall this was a ... good read and I definitely recommend it for any shoujo lover.

It has soo much potential. The art style was so great <3 and the flow was fast yet consistent. However, I was quite expecting more of a character development, I mean I know 8 chapters are very short and we can't expect very much but all I felt was more of a fan service than an actual plot. They focused more on the heart racing moments between the characters and I didn't see much of a character development other than the MCs helping each other out. It was really centered on just the two.

So if you're expecting a story with more depth, well, this ... is not the manga you are looking for. But if you're all up with just enjoying the moment and having your heart race, then this is the cup of tea for you. ^_^

Story:
The story is really cute and the romance flows nicely. Although at points it is pretty cliche I don't really mind. It's nothing special but it was still good.

Art:
The art for this manga is very cute and one of it's strong points.

Characters:
Chihiro (the fl) is a popular trusted committee member. She is my favourite character in the story although if I was treated like that I would of punched Kisaragi. Kisaragi (the ml) is a handsome delinquent. He can be an asshole sometimes and sweet at other times. He is like a mix of Usui from "Maid-sama" and Hajin sensei from ... "Tosuiraku JK to Hajin Kyoushi".

Enjoyment:
I enjoyed reading this manga. It is short but not rushed. I would definitely recommend this to people who want something short to read.

Ok so this is very short which I like when it comes to romance. Instead of unnecessarily continuing something that does not need continuing it ended off of at a nice conclusion. Since it was short it didn't have any unnecessary love triangles or unbearable misunderstandings.

Before going to the critique I wanna add that I liked how they liked each other no matter how different they were and would liked to preface that Kisaragi did have development but I will critique the extent of that development. In the end I liked it a lot more than didn't.

Critique
Even with its length it had some things that ... bugged me.
Main one would be Kisaragi's character development. I know that he is a tsundere (personally not my favorite trope but sometimes I will divulge in it) but I feel as though he should have been challenged more by the FL (Chihiro). To explain, it seemed like she was always at his beck and call. He said some pretty mean things to her and he never apologized (unless he did somewhere but to my knowledge he didn't).

I think Chihiro should have play a little hard-to-get with him; instead of always being the one to go to him. That would have been more satisfying because then it would be very clear that they liked each other if Kisaragi showed a bit of his softer side and letting his tsundere persona slip a little for Chihiro. But only for her because when he's with her he still has that hard, bad boy vibe but ya know according to the ending that's the part about him that Chihiro likes. (^;^)

Overall 8/10

This is one of the cutest SHORT schoolRomance mangas that I've ever read!
It's so cute and straight to the point! No needless drama👏
I love how the FL is not that shy and she is straight forward when needed.
Honestly, she's more special than the ML and is the front wheel of this ship!
She's always jumping into action I love her! And she's so cute but seductive 🤭
ML is cute and kinda tsundere. He's cool and his glares are CAPTIVATING.

Because it's short there weren't much development or characters depth there but the author's priorities were set straight cuz this is an 8 chapters work, if they had ... added any more details things would probably have been messy. That's why I find this work so close to perfection when it comes to short SchoolRomances.
For me short mangas are all about the enjoyment! and this definitely was a cute change of genre for me~

Story (3): It's simple and predictable, like any other generic romantic shoujo. There is not much to say, it has a lot of clichés (e.g. the girl falls on the top of the boy, clumsy girl falls for the bad boy, etc.), which is not necessarily a bad thing, I even liked some of them, however this story features some clichés that I can't stand.
The story is short, so it doesn't have much development apart from the love relationship between the main characters. It just ended the way it has to end. I just would have liked that the relationship between the main characters has ... more development, I feel like it hasn't much depth as I would have liked.

Art (8): The art is pretty cute, I really liked, the strokes looks smooth, you really feel like you were reading a shoujo manga. The proportions of the characters are quite good, the environment also looks pretty good. The eye style is cute, it isn't exaggerated. I'd like that half of generic romantic shoujo that I have read were so well drawing like this manga.

Characters (2): They are too simple, and I feel like they don't have "something" that makes them different from any main character of another generic romantic shoujo manga.
The girl is clumsy, but it seems she has good grades, she can't say "no" to others petitions, she's weak and can't defend herself from "threats". I literally don't know any other detail about her.
The boy is like the typical "bad boy", he skips classes, he doesn't get along with others (why?), and I don't know why, because nobody explains it, but he's extremely good at everything he does, literally at everything. He also enjoys invading her personal space, which I don't like, but it seems she has no problems with that for some reason. It seems that he has no expressions, because he has the same face throughout the entire manga, I don't like that either. I'd have liked to see some kind of explanation about why the boy acts certain way in certain situations, but there isn't.
There are other characters, but I don't even know their names, I have no idea why the bad boys act the way they act either.

Enjoyment (6): I enjoyed it, I wanted to read a short manga, that's why I read it. I knew it will be simple, so I didn't have any problem with that. I really loved it's art. I think that if you want to read some short and simple manga, this one would not be a bad choice.

Overall (5): This manga is ok, but I think it has nothing that makes it different from any other shoujo manga apart from the art. I don't feel like reading it again.