Kamibukuro-kun wa Koishiteru
Mr. Paper Bag Is in Love

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"I love you, Asagi Umi!"

This is such a wonderful manga. It's about a boy who wears a paperbag over his head because he's shy and he tries to win over his crush Asagi Umi. Every romance has its ups and downs, and Paperbag-kun tries his best to not let Umi be exposed to any harm.

It's another short manga with a refreshing story. Even though such mangas could be considered overrated with the sheer amount of them, I never get tired of seeing a short romance. The plot progression is also very good and not too fast paced.

In my opinion, it's definitely a must read. Any ... person who stumbled their way to read this review probably is a fan of romance and shojo, and I fully recommend you read it.

“Maybe there's a place I can't reach, but if it still makes your heart fluff a little, that makes me happy.”

Kamibukuro-kun wa Koishiiteru is a very short 2 volume manga. Literally you can finish this in under 30 minutes if you really chose to, which I did. Because I randomly remembered out of nowhere that this manga existed, I then decided to read it and to my surprise there were only 17 chapters. So to read I went.

And I enjoyed every minute of it.

This is a very simple comedy romance manga. A very simple story to understand. Very simple everything as a matter of fact. ... It’s not confusing to understand it’s literally 17 chapters ( technically 15, there’s extras ).

But just because it's super simple and what not doesn’t mean it’s bad at all. This is a very cute and nice manga. The quote at the beginning is a message from the author, making my heart fluff they did indeed manage to accomplish. They made more than just my little fragile heart fluff. Reading this manga is such a nice fun experience, you read it and it’s just a cute manga overall. That’s about the only way I can describe it.

The characters are also very enjoyable, to be fair you only get to see the two main characters the entire time. But still that doesn’t matter because they’re super cute to see together and very likeable anyway.

The art here is fine, it’s nothing crazy or complicated, but it’s not something so bad that it’s offensive. It’s just nice simple art for a nice simple romance manga. It’s just very “in the middle art.” That’s how I would describe it.

Like I said, I really enjoyed this for how short it was and I’m glad I read it overall. It was a nice read and made me laugh, and give my heart that “fluff” feeling that the author wanted.

If you have nothing better to do, I would recommend this to you or someone. It’s a very short read and it’s enjoyable and likeable.

8/10

Let us be fully aware, that "mr. paper bag is in love" was axed very early by its publisher, which forced the mangaka to wrap up the story in a very unfullfilling way. We cannot judge what the mangaka wanted this to become, only what the final product is!

Aaand the final product is absolutely horrible. An autistic boy takes all experiences very litterally, and courts a girl he haven't seen in 10 years, while wearing a paper bag on his head. Not due to him being and uggo, or carrying a scar that the girl was responsible for, but because she worded her feelings with ... "I don't ever want to see your face again" 10 years ago.

Paper bag-kun is a hottie, giga kind and a tryhard with bad communication skills, but not in an endearing way. Suddenly the story had a stalker plot for like 2 chapters, which was never elaborated upon.

Nothing of value is lost by skipping this one, althought the full manga might have reached slob tier up around 4-6/10. I gave this 2/10 and I am not wrong on this one.