TL;DR: Primitive Boyfriend was... weirdly good. Should you read it? Depends how you feel about monkeys.
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I thought I'd seen everything in the shoujo manga world after that one about the girl falling in love with a lizard (Tokage Ouji)... but Primitive Boyfriend just had to strut in and blow that out of the water. The concept? Bizarre. Wild. Weird. The execution? Cringe-inducing. But... damn, it kind of works?
Protagonist Mito returns to monkey, quite literally, as she is sent a few million years in the past by a delusional goddess to a time where humans were big buff monkey-dudes. And one of them is her soulmate,
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Senkou no Giselle, Giselle's Flash Japanese: 原始人彼氏 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 3
Chapters: 14
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 10, 2017 to Jul 24, 2018
Theme:
Time Travel
Demographic:
Shoujo
Serialization:
LaLa Authors:
Kitafuku, Yoshineko (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #68492 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #20181
Members: 703
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Sep 4, 2020
An incredibly silly premise played surprisingly seriously. Mito looks like your usual gorgeous shoujo female lead but grew up doing farm work and is the most hardy person around. So all the pretty boys around her seem real weak in comparison so she has zero interest. A fun difference form the usual reverse harem series with the lead having possible romantic paths with all the boys. She wants to find someone who will make her heart pound and boy does she find that. Of course there are silly reactions but there's a believable connection between Mita and the primitive man she runs into and that's
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Sep 17, 2022
At least unusual, Genshijin Kareshii (or Primitive Boyfriend) is a shoujo manga published between 2017 and 2018, written by first-time mangaka Yoshineko Kitafuku who dedicated herself to several researches in books, museums and other materials, before and during the composition of her constructions. The manga has only 14 chapters, but it brings us a story beyond unique: through time travel, the protagonist goes after her soulmate, going back about 2 million years and coming across nothing less than a primitive version of the homo sapien and her future husband.
The first impression one has of this manga is a mixture of curiosity and strangeness, but ... |
