Hino-san no Baka

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Guess I gotta write one of these since the negative review bros are tripping. I'll do a quick overview of the manga as a whole after.

I guess spoilers since it's like .70% of the manga about 2 unimportant side characters and spread out. If you've even ended up on this page you're probably a yuri fan that runs through everything you possibly can. You got the greenlight to read. You've read much worse offenders than this. It'll be a 7/10 probably, or an 8/10 if you're sappy and get emotional at basically everything.

Anywho

... If you're worried about the "Pedo arc" or the story going that direction, you're good since the offending content is basically single chapter. The small girl falls in love with one of the MCs and gets rejected outright, but has a few chapters trying to see if she has a chance. At the end you have a chapter where the secondary friend of the MCs that's been helping her admit she likes the younger girl and nothing comes from it, but lays the foundation of that maybe changing, which is soon followed by the character worrying about it because she knew she'd have to wait until the girl was older and was afraid it might not work out with so much time to wait.

And it's never brought again after. In total it's like 8 chapters spread over like 30 because it's like a side background thing. Yeah it's a bit of a weird crush with the 4ish year age gap, but it's so short it's not even worth worrying about. With the format of this having shorter than average chapter length it feels even shorter than it looks as well. Chapters cap out at 14 pages but can be less so the 134 chapters can feel more daunting than it actually is.

It's also wild calling the above grooming when the only interactions are-

young girl venting > help try to figure out who Hino likes > Admit she has crush > vent to friends about unsure feelings and having to wait for her to be older

End Rant. If this still feels like it could poison the well then by all means pass this up. At least you'll be more informed on the matter that's being complained about instead of accidentally passing something that could be enjoyable.

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The main focus of the manga is Koguma(shorter girl) trying to stop Hino(taller girl) from skipping their class, usually by conceding to the teasing of Hino that are often affectionate or lewd to some degree. Sometimes Hino goes too far, sometimes in an attempt to push her away, but pretty early on you realize the situations conclude with mutual feelings towards one another that they don't realize yet. The more absurd requests usually fizzle out because Hino, despite her forward teasing, can't really handle the situations if they actually end up escalating. It adds a layer of innocence behind everything which helps balance out some of the more absurd teasing she does.

That's the loop for the majority of the manga. It uses the growing relationship between the two girls to keep the story pretty fresh along side other situations that deviate from the loop some here and there. It can be a bit absurd at times, but nonetheless it's a pretty adorable and funny story overall with no drama making it a pretty relaxing read if you need a break from that. The characters get some solid background to expand on their motives and personalities as well.

Lastly i'll the say the art is pretty cute and consistent with a lot of blushing to double it down. If you're looking for ecchi moments you'll probably want to look elsewhere despite some of the lewd/absurd teasing. That aspect of the manga is usually painted in a heavily comedic light instead of trying to be something more ecchi. Probably why the tag isn't here in the first place.

That about wraps it up. A shame most the review focused on some random background narrative that leaves as fast as it came, but that's why I wrote one in the first place. Also one of the positive reviews makes you wanna shake your head as much as the negative ones so it feels a bit better to have another thrown down either way.

It's a girl's love manga that for the most part is formulaic. To be honest, it can be a boring read because it starts off every chapter with Koguma having to do some potentially lewdish task for Hino, only for Hino to then reveal that she wasn't intending for her to do it that way. After the first chapters, the plot does pick up with Hino realizing that she was burdening Koguma, but Koguma was willing to do so because she was...her friend. Yeah, sure, let's go with that. Afterwards, they exchange phone numbers and refer to each other by their first name. Their interactions ... thereafter become legitimately sweet as you can tell that they both care for each other. Maybe as more than friends.

Characters...they are the main ones. Koguma is the typical good girl who tries to be the motivator. Hino is lazy, outrageous, and has that morbid love of teasing Koguma. Out of the two, Hino is the one that has the most character to her. Especially when she began to realize that she was burdening her after seeing what kind of life she had in the classroom. And her interactions with Koguma - when she isn't doing lewd things to her - is truly sweet. Despite her trickster nature, she does truly value Koguma as her friend. She was even willing to cut ties with Koguma so that she wouldn't suffer more. Koguma...sadly, has less characterization. Aside from getting flustered easily, she comes off as being too flat. She starts to question whether Hino has feelings for her, but she comes off as too one-note.

The art is bland. It was obviously drawn by someone with skills, but it isn't awe-inspiring. The shading often feels off in places. It doesn't overall distratct from the rest of the story, but I feel like that should be noted.
Overall, a pretty average GL manga. While it has some pros such as Hino and the gradual development of the girls' relationship, it is otherwise a forgettable manga that becomes too formulaic and tedious of a read.

TL:DR: Straight up starts being a pedo story do not read this it's a waste of your time.

I wasn't going to review this manga, but after reading the more recent chapters I just feel like people need to know about this before even trying to read this. So this is a manga about two girls who slowly become better friends and eventually start to like each other more and more. Pretty standard romance stuff, it's even hip with having the the main love interest make the mc do embarrassing things though I guess it's usually the other way around. Now where things start to become ... weird is the appearance of the mc. While initially, atleast to me, it seemed to be more so caused by the art style, it's a pretty major plot point that the mc has a childlike appearance. Not only does she look like a grade schooler, not my words btw it's said in the manga multiple times, she also often acts like one. But ok, this can still be summed up to cutesy shoujo ai stuff however, not after what happens a bit later in the story. Around the 100 chapter mark a literal grade schooler gets introduced as a rival in love for the love interest. And not only is she considered as a viable option, and is applauded by the characters for her guts to confess even though there is so many societal issues standing between Hino (the love interest of the mc) and her, another girl in the friend group Chihiro Omi who has like 2 total conversations with her just out of nowhere confesses to the grade schooler and is apparently in love with her. Not only did they have absolutely no build up for this, it's also just straight up creepy. And the reaction to this puts basically everything else that has happened into perspective. And let me tell you the light the entire manga gets painted in is not great. Now every single thing that has happened comes of as creepy and all the themes which are pretty common in the genre of youngish girls discovering themselves start to seem more like a self insert for the author. It's just really creepy and I really wish I hadn't already spent like 10 volumes reading this manga. It's worth writing this review simply because the more positive reviews mostly seem to have been written by people who didn't read past the first 50 or so chapters. In my opinion this is reason enough to just not read the manga at all. Even if we disregard the pedo stuff it's not really all that outstanding of a story. The characters are pretty one dimensional and uninteresting, everyone is weirdly accepting of girls liking eachother though that does seem to be a trend in these types of manga, but it always bugs me a lot, and it's mainly just a softcore porn gag manga with some story elements sprinkled in as an afterthought. So yeah, please do not read this, even if it's just purely out of principle.