Tomodachi toshite Daisuki

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Synonyms: I Love You, As a Friend

Japanese: 友達として大好き

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 17

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 24, 2020 to May 25, 2021

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Afternoon

Authors: Yuuchi, Mikumi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.08¹ (scored by 3,050 users)

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Ranked: #7592²

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Popularity: #3106

Members: 6,960

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Ranked #7592Popularity #3106Members 6,960

MangaAfternoonYuuchi, Mikumi (Story & Art)

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Chapters: /17

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Sanako Hase is infamous within her school—she often seeks sexual relationships with men, causing many of her classmates to call her a slut. While running away from a group of girls who accused her of seducing boys, she encounters the student council president, Yuito Takashi. It's love—and lust—at first sight, and so she asks him out! Yuito promptly rejects her, stating that relationships between boys and girls are strictly prohibited according to the school's rules. Nonetheless, all she wishes is to be his friend, and Yuito reluctantly accepts on one condition: that she follows one thousand rules of friendship.

With Yuito's rules as guidance, Sanako slowly comes to learn what it truly means to be a friend, all so that Yuito can love her back... as a friend.

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Hase, Sanako

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Takashiki, Yuito

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Akaura, Yukihiko

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Takashiki, Megumu

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Azuma, Mayuri

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Fuwa, Kazuomi

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Natsumoto, Rei

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Oomori, Honoka

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Kikuchi, Touya

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Dec 6, 2021

Zurheide

Recommended

This manga has a description that, while accurate, will never be able to properly portray this story's strengths. Hopefully, this review will help.

There is no better word to describe this manga than just straight-up RAW. No holds barred. When a character is happy, they're elated. When a character is angry, they're fucking furious. No beating around the bush; just about every character wears their heart on their sleeve and it really makes for a compelling story.

It seems like a classic, albeit tiresome premise: promiscuous girl meets straightedge guy and hijinks ensue. I definitely almost dropped it after the first chapter. But something made me click ...

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Oct 29, 2023

Andasen

Recommended

Keep in mind that this will be my first review.

I came here expecting some clone of a clone of a clone, just another generic high school romance manga, but instead i got a really wholesome friendship manga. This manga failed at being a romance manga, but excelled at the slice-of-life friendship manga, so keep that in mind in case you are going to read this, don't expect romance too much.

It was very sad that this manga ended in such a short run, the ending came out of nowhere, but i still believe it is a proper ending, if this manga been going for almost 100 ...

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Aug 3, 2021

shutcardboard

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (16/17 eps)

The average manga reader will most probably turn away from this type of manga- the "omega slut trying to turn into a "proper" girl" type of manga, that is. TLDR second to last paragraph.

There has been an increase in releases of manga with this exact theme for some time now, with "Meguro-san wa Hajimete ja Nai" being a rather well known one.

These manga first of introduce the heroine- always being a female with a body count(number of sexual encounters) of about 100+. That is not an exaggeration. There is always huge emphasis on how these girls would have sex with anyone asking/they meet. This is ... one of the not few, big flaws of many of said manga. "Meguro-san" is also a huge offender and tried to push it way too hard, to the point that the whole school went through her once (again NOT an exaggeration). At this point the manga starts losing its appeal, as they try to take too much of the cake, ending up with shallow stories while seeming way too tryhard. The story is pretty much always said girl meeting a boy that they stop being promiscuous for. That's about it.

Now onto the next, huge problem. These themes and stories make place for huge amounts of character developments. But no manga really develops their cast. This one here is no exception. Our Male Lead gets developed splendidly. But the character enabling this whole story, our Female Lead, stays stagnant. And it is the same for Meguro. In all of them authors create the illusion that our main main characters grow. But they stop sleeping around- and that's it. They behave the same as before. Their feelings do not change. And it is over- the whole shtick is gone. The manga has turned into your average slice of life romance comedy. Meguro takes this a step further, again, and makes FL say that she still loves her groomer and showing signs of "relapsing" when using kissing as a way to deceive ML- after 35 chapters in. This manga here won't kick you in the face like this but after 16 chapters Hase still behaves like in the beginning. Gets too close to every male person. Is annoying in her pursuit of relationships. The only thing that developed- is that she follows Yuito's rules slightly. It is weird. Like watching gras grow. But it is by no means bad. There are many wholesome interactions but at some point you realize that all of them have no significance and don't bring forth any change.

TLDR;
It is a controversial topic. But the way it is handled could be so much better. The slut behaviour is pushed so much it always seems artificial and over the top. It makes this seem like a parody at times. The characters aren't nearly as fleshed out as necessary to tell a satisfying story. Giving them a 5 pages long "tragic" backstory and bragging about how much they fuck is not engaging (again Meguro being another huge offender). And finally, just showing so little development makes most of these stories look like some self insert hero stories a lot of the time. I honestly believe this is the second biggest cause of these manga having such low ratings/reader numbers, the biggest being people just being uncomfortable with lead characters sleeping around.

The manga deserves a read. Is it a good one? Not really. It is just okay. And that's okay, too. Introducing these topics is important. But as these are some of the first of their kind, they mostly fall flat.

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