Kaette Kudasai! Akutsu-san
Please Go Home, Miss Akutsu!

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This contains somewhat of spoilers and I’m at chapter 50 as of this review...

The story is about as slow as nisekoi love development so be warned yeah. If you like rom-com mangas then sure this is for you for sure. You got this got guy and girl who are usually in the guy’s apartment room and basically they (mostly the girl) mess with eachother and don’t realize they love eachother because their skulls are about as thick and hard as a rock. Eventually they realized they love eachother later in future chapters which is very slow development. The art/characters is subarashii but not god-tier. Enjoyed ... this manga a good bit, and overall if your okay with slow developing Rom-com then this is for you otherwise just skip it if yo ur not in to that....

Personally, I love this manga, Although the chapters are h]short and it feels like there's a long wait time for new chapters, I thoroughly enjoyed this manga. It may seem like a cliche ripoff of manga like nagataro this manga has certain parts and charms that make it stand out in my opinion.

It starts out with the usual dense MC and a FMC that seems rough and dominating on the outside. As the story progresses though, you see the growth that each character goes through and the interactions transform between the characters.

(slight spoilers)
The reactions from the MC in the later chapters are more reasonable and ... it actually seems like he has gotten used to handling the FMC. the FMC slowly falls deeper in love and it gets harder and harder for her to hide her true feelings.

In a genre that is oversaturated with characters that have the same personality in chapter 50 as they did in chapter 1, this is a great palate cleanser and I feel like this manga does this part well in terms of character growth. (don't expect insane changes though. It's more subtle in how the MC reacts differently.)


The art is a little on the weak side nut character designs are good and the settings are there but there isn't as much of a focus.
The side characters are minimal but when they do show up, they offer for great interactions and situations between the leads.

The weakest part about this series however, is the chapters and the releases. It feels like the chapters are extremely short for the amount of time it takes for a new chapter to release.

Overall, I really enjoyed this series and I often find myself smiling every time I finish a chapter. It's extremely wholesome and enjoyable in my opinion, is worth giving a chance to read.

Before getting into my review, I have to note that since writing my initial review Kaette kudasai! Akutsu-san has surpassed 100 chapters. A lot has changed in that time, making it a lot more fun of a read. I'll leave my below review unchanged since I still think it reflects the first half of the series well, but I do want to say to any potential readers that the series secures it's footing a lot more as it goes. It doesn't fix all of its problems, but it securely changes my 5/10 rating into a high 6/10. I'm much more likely to recommend it now ... if you are willing to get over the initial slump. Thankfully, the chapters are super short so doing that is relatively easy.

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All things considered, I think this manga's biggest weakness is in how short the chapters are. I feel like the concept is interesting enough, but the way it's executed basically is slapping you in the face with missed potential. Every chapter some form of progress is made, but right before the interesting part of the conversation would likely occur the chapter cuts off and is completely ignored by the time the next one rolls around.

The characters are pretty generic and shallow and the actual investment I have in them getting together is about none. You can tell it will likely not happen till the manga ends due to the fact that there isn't a major supporting cast (or one at all) for them to bounce off with with a new "dating dynamic." Because of this it becomes obvious that the whole manga is just going to be a loop of the characters running around in circles till it ends.

The art is mediocre, the concept has potential yet is pretty generic, and the characters are nothing worthwhile. The only reason I find myself reading it whenever a new chapter comes out is because they are short and easily digestible. Just read Nagatoro or Yancha Gal no Anjou-san if you want something like this, but actually good. No need to waste your time

This was the first rom-com type manga I've read. I started binging it. The art is simple yet acceptable quality. The story is fun and relatively easy to follow despite it revolving in very few places. Objectively the romance progression is very tacit and and could be considered slow. If you expect a fast progression in the romance aspect you might find yourself frustrated but for others and myself, it's fun to enjoy the journey.

Every chapter is relatively short, wholesome, funny and increasingly lovey-dovey. It has lewd parts too but nothing too extreme.

Would recommend, especially if you want something light and easy read.

What to expect from this manga;

A simple story of a guy that is an Otaku. Ooyama-kun wants to be alone with his video games and manga. But a girl comes to bother him and raid his private sanctuary. There are typical ecchi tropes. But it is silly and light hearted. That should be taken at face value. Nonetheless, the art and story are simple, because sometimes simple works.

What not to expect from this manga;

It is not a story that has any depth. Or have some sort of deeper meaning, that allows the reader to look at it at introspectively. If you want that, there ... are plenty other manga's and anime that do that, and do it way better.

My small complaints with it;

The small amount of characters in the manga. It could use a few more. Or perhaps flush a little bit more about the other characters. Like for example Akutsu friends. Since the MLC and the FMC tend to be dense, and their own feelings towards each other. It would be nice to have the Akutsu friends point out the obvious and the following to HER PERSONALLY; She is into him. To drive the plot forward. Since love tends to be blind, and it lacks objectivity. A third party is usually needed. The last thing people want, is to have a story with no real romantic development. That is because human nature is compelled towards closure. To put it frank, the author should respect the time of the reader.

Another idea that could work is to have a scene that does not take place in MLC bedroom. Where they could have some sort of hint towards a date but not really? In my experience in real life, relationships do not have any intention of being that way. They just sort of happen. Perhaps they could do it this way? Yet again, I am not the author of this manga. I will leave it to them to choose.

The last thing I would want from this manga is something like an Ecchi Harem and its clichés. I am frankly done with that genre.

This is a reupload of my earlier review with minor edits as my last review was reported.

Please go home, miss Akutsu is another high school rom com where the 2 main characters have no chemistry and how they begin to spend time with each other apparently doesn't matter.
The excuse given in this manga as to how the 2 MCs start to spend time together is that Akutsu uses Ooyama’s bedroom as her after-school hangout spot because his parents are never home. How she came to find this out is that she HAPPENED to be standing, waiting for ... absolutely no reason in front of his house, and Ooyama was forced to let her in. Why though, Ooyama even states she had never spoke to him prior to her barging into his home.

Ooyama, the male lead, is a typical typecast meek high school student who can’t stand up for himself, and throughout the series is intended to slowly become more confident. This has been done multiple times in better, yet still flawed 'teasing' series. The primary issue I take with Ooyama is that he's a poorly written lazy attempt at a self insert character. Ooyama's personality boils down to he likes manga, anime, and big boobs. If this were any more self insert Ooyama's character would be replaced with a dotted line and text inside that states "You, yes you the reader". I've noticed that main male characters in these 'teasing' 'gal' or 'delinquent' genres are all shallow and lazy, and seem to only exist to be self inserts for wish fulfillment.

Art in this series is really nothing that special, if anything it comes across more lazy just like everything else so far. A majority of the series takes place in Ooyama's bedroom so I wouldn't be surprised if the mangaka reused the backgrounds. Also, Akutsu basically has only 2 facial expressions, one with a closed mouth flustered look, and the other an obnoxious gaping mouth expression that is used in every other panel.

Akutsu is presented as an ecchi manga, now I’m not opposed to an ecchi series if well done, however this is a shallow depraved attempt at a rom com. Akutsu will flash her panties or bra and joke about charging Ooyama for a peek, fine whatever it’s already established that she’s a delinquent.
The moment Please go home Akutsu-san crosses the line is when Ooyama gets horny from smelling Akutsu’s armpit sweat. Ooyama’s air conditioner was broken in his room, but they remain in the hot room. Other, more competent romantic comedies would take this opportunity to have them go outside together on some kind of unofficial date, or accidentally run into their classmates while out and rumors begin to spread that they’re dating, therefore advancing the relationship. Instead they remain inside a hot room with a broken A/C, Ooyama smells something, realizes it’s Akutsu’s sweat. She then proceeds to rubs his face in her armpit, Ooyama gets horny and subsequently faints from his excitement.

I dropped this series immediately upon reading this chapter, upon reflection I cannot think of a single redeeming aspect from what I've read.

Preemptive TL:DR: very good or extremely bad, depending on your tastes. Like simple romance manga? Give this a try. Don't like repetitive plot points? Better pretend you were never here.

It's classic romance manga where the male and female lead for no particular reason are extremely drawn to one another. The attraction not having a good reason is very forgivable in my opinion — if you're reading a story about a delinquent who randomly starts hanging out at a random guy's house 24/7, you shouldn't expect fully realistic romantic development.

Once the premise is well established slowly the romance does develop. Most of the short chapters lead ... up to a single embarrassing moment which can get old, but depending on your taste it can also be cute or funny. Overall the story does progress and in my opinion has enough entertaining plot points or characters to be worth reading.

--- (Predictable) spoilers from this point on ---
Until chapter ~130 I would give the manga an 8 or so, it's entertaining enough for my tastes. However, at some point repeating the same thing in a different form does get old. They've implied or outright said they love each other ~40 times right now, yet the guy is still oblivious and the girl somehow can't just ask him out.

I'm currently at 171 chapters. Before they started almost confessing every other chapter I liked the story quite a bit, but by now it's become too repetitive even for my tastes. Still, if you can handle some forced situations and enjoy simple romance this is definitely worth checking out.

I would stay away from this if you're looking for meaningful progression between the leads.

Manga like this create meaningless barriers to prevent characters from getting closer to one another, rather than actually putting thought behind what might stand between them. As an example, Akutsu not wanting to reveal her feelings could - in a similar story - be based in pride, given the fact that she is a delinquent and Ooyama is on the wimpy side. And, Ooyama, despite being wimpy, could have redeeming qualities that Akutsu might find attractive. Instead, Ooyama remains a dense cardboard cutout for self-insertion, and Akutsu can't admit her ... feelings out of a vague sense of embarrassment that is never really explained. At some point, you would imagine these characters would break past these trivialities given their interest in each other, but it has yet to happen.

"Please Go Home, Akutsu-san!" acts as if a confession is a requisite for dating someone. Sometimes, relationships just happen; people spend time close to one another, develop feelings, and eventually romance is born. A confession is not needed for this connection to proceed - but in stories like this everything comes to a stand still. It's quite obvious by observing the relationship that the feelings between Ooyama and Akutsu are mutual. Both leads know about their shared interest in one another - so why harp on a confession? Well, the answer is simple. The author wants to milk this for as long as possible. This is likely because the author believes that interest in the story is sustained by the "will they or won't they" aspect of the narrative. While this is correct, it is not the only method to keep people reading. How the relationship develops after both characters come together (whether it is "official" or "unofficial") is plenty interesting - as long as time is taken to develop these characters. It is, however, easier to keep interest hinging on the "will they or won't they" aspect. All it requires is for the author to keep doing what they are doing. Unfortunately, this leads to a loop. And this is why stories like this are frustrating. We, as readers, simply want to proceed.

With that being said, my recommendation is not to waste your time. That is, at least, if you are looking for something that gets to the point.

This is the type of manga you read if you want to smile like a dumbass.

A very vanilla and sweet romcom that gets sweeter as time goes on. It starts fairly like as if its going to be a oneshot but it soons develop a really sweet story of people who didnt expect to fall in love but did - but now dont know how to tell each other since theyve been so used together. Makes me relive my days of falling in love with my best friend.

Smile like crazy and skip a day to enjoy this heartwarming manga.

(Also unlike other manga which has the ... main girl be perceived as bit problematic *ahem Nagatoro - this one is plain ol goodness fun, and both characters actually like one another (and dare I say already know it but too pussy still))

Yeah this one is real mediocre, I generally wouldn't recommend getting into it unless you enjoy horny content.

The art is good and the characters play well off each other, but it just drags on for way too long, even after it gets straight up unrealistic. I mean, they do everything short of straight up kiss and somehow still don't progress at all in their relationship for 100 chapters. Mind you, the chapters are very short, but still, it's just ridiculous.

I kept going due to a vague hope that this would change. Every chapter it seems like, FINALLY, after this something has to happen, but next ... chapter it's back to basically normal every single time.

So yeah, I'm not going to follow this one any further. The fan service was too much and it was already looking to be going nowhere, and I just don't have patience for it any longer. Feel free to check it out if you're into the whole fanservice teasing romcom thing.

Stay away if you want any actual romantic progress.

*Rapid Review*

As of chapter 176:

This is an extremely low 4/10 ecchi romcom, barely avoiding 3/10. As a binge read, it must be unbearable, but as a one or two chapters per day experience, it's decent fun. Just don't expect any variety though, 99% of the manga takes place in a single room, with the same shtick every time, leading to an insanely repetitive experience, and, with the amount of chapters it has, has barely any actual plot progression. There's neer any character development, and the premise gets asinine real fast, particularly when reading weekly. The scanlation team is great though!

I'm NOT a contrarian, and if ... your opinion differs, be civil. Your opinion is as valid as mine. Don't rate this as "confusing" just because you disagree with my view, instead, criticise the actual writing of the review. That's what it's there for. Don't be a child. Thank you for reading my rapid review, have a nice day/night!

I bet quite a few people have commented on this, but the length of chapters and they content they have to offer is probably the main limiting factor for this manga, asides from the shallowness present amongst both the protagonist and Akutsu.

Forewarning: if you're looking for in-depth, complex literature with evolving characters and scenarios, I'd turn that mental switch off and enjoy it as a story dependent on a continuous gag.

But with that said, at least this manga does at least have some romantic progression; this becomes more apparent the longer Akutsu spends around the main character.

Honestly, as far as interpersonal progression goes, it's pretty ... palatable. But in terms of any action outside of the MC's room, there really ain't much to go off of. Sure, there's a couple references to Akutsu's outside life that tie into the plot directly, like when she's failing school as a lazy delinquent or when she runs away from home; however, if you compare it to a vaguely similar manga like Nagatoro that also shares a similar gag, it's pretty clear that this story's scope is far too limited.

As for the art, I didn't find much issue with it. It's not bad at all, and if anything, I really like Akutsu's character design.

But overall, if you liked Nagatoro and can take it with a grain of salt, this is a good little read; you'll probably fly through those 61 chapters (at this time of writing).

Since it's still serializing to my knowledge, it'll be interesting to see where the author wants to take this. Only time can tell.

oh. well I didn't expected to like this one tbh.
I started reading it as I head it was kinda similar to nagatoro. so I bought the first manga. I really did tought the ecchi was too much at first. BUT. I was curious.. something got me thinking. So I got the second one. Little did I knew, I was to impatient to wait vol.3 official translation to release so I went to mangadex and here I am now.. read all 155.5 chapters.

This one is unique and the female antagonist's growth is just pure awesomeness. If you didn't liked the first vol, read the second one ... and you will start LOVING it.

A must for romcom or romance lovers!

Always looking for new chapers of this manga!!

Story
A delinquent girl (our FMC Akutsu-san) uses our MC's room as her daily hangout place when she's skipping classes. She's often bullying him and somehow, we see some romantic feelings develop between them at a snails pace.

Review
The "hook" for this series is the popular delinquent girl bullying our loner "nice guy" MC. If that tickles your heart, then you should try giving it a try.
As with every fetish, there's a limit. When you keep repeating the same hook for 100 chapters, its bound to get boring. When the story barely changes for 100+ chapters, it gets simply annoying. When characters keep chickening out at ... crucial times, you even start hating them to some extent. This is my problem with this series.

The series starts out fine. Its pretty generic in terms of characters or content. But did any of you look at the title and thumbnail and think "wow, this seems super unique"? Of course not. Its a comfort trashy series. And the series delivers exactly what it promises. You can easily read around 20 - 30 chapters. Its just the same "badass delinquent girl" being a pure maiden at heart cliche, where she falls in love with the loser classmate... for reasons.

But before long, you start to feel saturated. It starts feeling right nothing really changes in the series. And you are absolutely correct. Its the same shit every week. You can skip 50 chapters, and you won't feel any difference except for maybe some new side character. because its still the same shit.

Its not like the manga became low quality with time. Its still roughly the same quality (and may even have improved). But its just so repetitive and the progress is so slow, that you are more than happy to keep it on hold or drop it.

Also, MC is a boring cuck, whose entire role is being a doormat for our FMC.

Read the first couple of chapters. If you don't like it, then drop it.

Considering the length of its releases and the slow, episodic pace, it is very difficult to get into as the characters generally have zero development for the first 30-40 chapters. Even after some development, the next ones still take as long as the previous. For the first half of Akutsu-san, it mostly focuses on romantic subtexts and ero but as I mentioned earlier there will be some development and character changes and I find that the low character-count really compliments well with this. The second half, I'd say, focuses more on the romantic aspect with less subtexts and more actual romantic tropes. I'm also a ... big fan of the Sadodere to Tsundere transition that the FMC goes through.

The negatives for me are the artstyle and the insanely slow pacing. Each chapter is about five pages long so it is to be expected and the artstyle is, without sugarcoating, not the best. If these are stuff that turns you off, this might not be one for you but as one who suffered through its bad parts, I can safely say it was worth it. It's still slow even on the later stages but slow character developments are still better than none.

Why you might not like this manga: ecchi, gals portrayed as stupid or delinquent, story not yet completed and new chapters are slow to be translated.

Why you would like this manga: If you like tsundere girls, gal x otaku love stories, lots of (mild?) ecchi, high school rom-coms, cute and funny side characters...

Despite the irritating delinquency of Riko, and the unflattering focus on her laziness, her crush on Ooyama is adorable, and the eventual progress in their romance provides satisfaction for the reader looking for love. The side characters, including parents, all serve as a chorus or stand-ins for the reader, and sometimes provide ... some serious humor and help the plot to move along.

Kaette Kudasai! is a silly, fun, cute high school rom-com. It is a pleasant escape that will not strain your brain but will make you smile and look forward to the next chapter.

I really just can't get into the micro chapters. Eight chapters in and I feel like I still have no idea where this story is going since I only know the bare minimum about the two characters in this story. The 4 page chapters don't really lend to a long format reading since it always goes nowhere. Am I supposed to read 1 chapter a day to avoid burnout? Any other manga and I would have given it one or two chapters, but for this manga that's 4 pages. So am I supposed to read 20 chapters before I call it good or not? The ... first volume alone has 27 chapters so who knows. Maybe the formatting just isn't my thing and it turns into gold later, I don't know. I'd much rather read something like Nagatoro where the chapters can fit a reasonable arc even if it still takes forever to actually go anywhere.