Meguro-san wa Hajimete ja Nai

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Synonyms: Meguro-san Is Not A Virgin

Japanese: 目黒さんは初めてじゃない

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 11

Chapters: 89

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 19, 2018 to Jun 25, 2024

Genre: Romance

Theme: School

Serialization: Palcy

Authors: 9℃ (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.82¹ (scored by 5,661 users)

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Ranked: #11735²

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May 6, 2020

JohnbarHinge

Recommended

Preliminary (27/89 chp)

When I first came across this Manga, I saw a lot of negative reviews surrounding it, so I didn't bother to pick it up and give it a go. That was probably one of the biggest mistakes I've made!

Reading this Manga is like experience a gust of fresh air, let me tell you why!

If you hadn't already worked it out, this manga is about two high schoolers dating, sounds pretty bog-standard. What makes this story different is the fact that Meguro (the woman) has been in relationships before dating the male protagonist.

Many people can not stand the fact that Meguro ...

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Apr 10, 2022

WhoCanPeliCan

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (7/89 chp)

I'm sure a lot of people rate this low because of its concept. I don't need to be the one to tell you that a lot of men have a weirdly twisted view of virginity and the sanctity of the act of sex. However, I bring this up to emphasize that my middling feelings on this manga are not about that at all. I'm writing this review mostly to justify that fact to anyone who sees the score I gave this story. The fact of the matter is I think that the base concept behind this manga is actually decently interesting on paper. Seeing how ...

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Dec 16, 2024

DDDDDaandadan

Not Recommended

Preliminary (77/89 chp)

The worst final 5 chapters I think I've read of any series ever. I don't blame people for not bothering to translate 78 and its not even worth reading, it manages to completely destroy years of surprisingly good storytelling with a terrible redemption arc (if it can even be called that) for an objectively disgusting person. Arguably even more amazing considering the authors apparent reversal on his own outlook on relationships and sex compared to the earlier chapters.

If you force yourself to read stop at Ch72, for your own sake. A 7/10 turned into a 3 *at best* in under 40 pages.

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May 9, 2020

dope22

Recommended

Preliminary (27/89 chp)

Alright I'm doing this to add much needed context to this thing.

So the story itself is actually a very good and heartwarming one. At its core it is a girl who has been devoid of almost any emotional connection finally experiencing what it is and learning to love again. It is a very wholesome and feel good story. The protagonist is someone very accepting and clearly what this girl needs in his life and the affect she is having on him is improving him like he is improving her. It is a very good and healthy realtionship that is heartwarming to read.

Now... for the clickbait ... in the title...

This series pisses me off and from the premise itself pissed me off. As I read on I found reason to not be pissed off as evidenced from above. However I have to dock points for how her past is portrayed and also a certain character in that past. We find out pretty early on who her first love was and how that relationship turned out. If that was it I could go on with no issues. However, the way that first person was portrayed is something I cannot help but disagree with and the heroine's reaction to that in the most stupid manner is something I also cannot dissociate with. I have a lot to say about it but its not appropriate for a review but tl;dr that first love seems to espouse the values of the manga itself and being seen as her teacher and thus her guide in life its saying those are the rules to live by in love and its just so wrong unless you don't think about it too much. It is such a dissonant value that I can't reconcile with it. Another review touched on this but I agree it really did feel he was grooming her and also its a visual detail that is easy to ignore but based on the uniform she was wearing in the flashbacks I can safely she was in middle school during this time and I hope I don't need to explain why that's bad. Sex in relationships (especially previous relationships) is something that isn't brought up in manga very often and is something I respect it for attempting to but making the girl so naive as to have been seemingly groomed and misinterpret what that man said or think that the way to make people happy is to have yourself walked all over by people you don't care about and make THAT so the reason she has had so many lovers is something that I just cannot reconcile. The writer is simply not competent enough to discuss that subject with any nuance and brings up her past too often (in my opinon) to let me focus on the story of a girl who just wants to learn to love again. I actually only got into this series so I could understand the backstory of this as the title made me want to not actually see what happens to the girl but what happened before the series and I can safely say I hate everything about it. Because my view of what has happened before and how that influences the story I am too pissed off to enjoy this for what it is. It ruins MY enjoyment but I know that enough people can overlook these issues and even those parts of the story to enjoy the rest of it.

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Sep 2, 2024

CrankliftYuuki

Not Recommended

Preliminary (76/89 chp)

I will write so short in order to not waste your valuable time, unlike this waste-of-time manga. As expected, a town bike and her doormat. There are better mangas that you can enjoy without rolling your eyes every page. Author doesn't know what he's trying to do and tons of loopholes. All the other reviews are just based on a couple of chapters and since they found a good looking fmc, they didn't even look at the plot. When you finish it, which you shouldn't even start reading this manga, you will just say it was a waste of time. So there you go, ...

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Aug 27, 2023

mr_steal_your_ai

Recommended

Preliminary (68/89 chp)

I feel like this manga's general audience would be people who feel like their value has been placed on them based on what people had wanted from them in their past relationships. Meguro is so used to appealing the needs of he former significant others that she does not know what she wants anymore; that itself resonated a lot for me which got I'm into this manga.

This manga does not give a straightforward answer to what love looks like, its open minded enough to say " just because you disagree, Doesn't mean you cant be friends" most of the manga I've read so far ...

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Jan 12, 2025

bergars

Mixed Feelings

Interesting, no reviewer here has actually finished the manga (at least as of me writing this).

As a small TLDR; it's a great idea for a manga to touch the mature side of a relationship built on a disparity, but the execution is boring, with a pretty, and weirdly stupid final arc. Read it if you still find the synopsis interesting.

“Meguro-san wa Hajimete ja Nai” is one more in the many “manga about a normal guy and a girl with a twist”. You have the Komi-san, and her communication problem, Uzaki and her massive plots, Nagatoro and her bullying, and many others which I started ... all those years ago. All of those ending, or close to ending at this point, but all of them understanding how to make a plot slightly more exciting than this one.

Meguro-san, to be honest, is the definition of mediocre in the whole genre. The story itself sounds pretty great on paper. A girl who's got loads of experience meets a meek guy, and both have to understand how to deal with this kind of relationship. It felt adult, like a more interesting exploration on the wish fulfillment manga that are those I mentioned. I was excited to read about a good angle in that situation, but it was just… boring.

The story explores the relationship, yes, and many others. Kinds of relationships, and how their dynamics may be too disfunctional to work, how some can be saved, or how many are utterly ruined by the difference in both sides. These outside problems ideologically test the relationship from our protagonists, but it repeats that throughout the manga. The main couple has little to no disruption that's too palpable, but the way they solve their problems makes the issues feel empty, meaningless. In that sense, it doesn't feel like a story worth telling, and that sounds like “I wanted more spice”. Not really. In fact, there are many manga with adult couples where there's not really ANY difficulty.

How could it have been done well? It's the amount of testing the relationship gets here. They get tested so many times, and every time it felt like the author telling you how easy it is. Instead of focusing on the couple, we focus on their meaningless issues, which don't change the relationship. How about their chemistry? How about their dates? There's too little of that. It wouldn't be bad as a small guide in how to deal with strange relationships, but then it came the last arc.

Out of nowhere, the author tries to throw a hammer in the relationship. Not from an outside force, but from the main guy himself. For no apparent reason, HE is the one testing the relationship in the most nonsensical way ever. No moment before set this up, he just decides:

SPOILER

“Hell yeah, let's make my girlfriend SPEND DAILY TIME WITH HER EX, WHICH IS A TEACHER I KNOW”.

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It didn't even lead to anything. They met again, and it just… ended. Empty, like an author not knowing how to end it. A series, not abandoned, but ended like that. I expected it to move on from that, but acknowledging the issues the main guy's got. Some sort of self reflection, or something to give us an idea as to the why. He explained himself with empty words, but I guess he was just, not romantically responsible, and maybe that's the point.

The story itself isn't that interesting anyway. I didn't care about them. Their chemistry was slightly there, but never to an appealing degree. This is a middle of the road story, with middle of the road characters, and mediocre progression which I finished simply due to obligation. People won't like it because they might think “NTR”, but there's never an instance of that. Those problems are unfounded, but again, there's no outrage here, just a boring story, with side characters that have a much better arc than the main couple.

4.5/10. Not the “hate it and love it kind”, but the “Meh” kind.

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