Love Score

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Love Score had such a unique premise, overflowing with potential. It’s unfourtunate that it had to end so prematurely.

For those that don’t know what it is about, in the world of Love Score, there is an app called Wiss, which you could use to test your affinity with other people. And that’s basically it. It tries to tell a story of the lives of college students (and one lecturer) now transformed by this app.

I say tries to because the story had ended abruptly. Many set ups lead to nowhere, and the information dump in the last chapter is a futile attempt at displaying the ... depth of the world of Love Score.

It is clear that the author had a lot more ideas. One of the most regrettable, I feel, that they didn’t have time to explore is the dark side of the app, how it *actually* functions and how it could lead to twisted relationships. If any other magazine would allow the author to continue/restart the story promising a longer serialisation, I’ll for sure check it out.

I should’ve said this earlier, there are erotic scenes in almost every chapter of the manga, so take that as you may. I personally don’t think it adds much to the story, but it’s also not hindering it, so meh.

The characters are lovable, the art is great, and the concept is intriguing, for a short story, Love Score ticks all the boxes. But it could’ve been a lot more than that. I find it hard to separate what Love Score is and what it ought to be when writing this review.

For now, although Love Score didn’t even start to explore the ocean of concepts and ways that the story could develop, it is a 11-chapter joy to read. The ending is quite a cop-out, but the effort that the author had put in in building the world and designing the characters are clear. The lost potential still weights on my mind, but that doesn’t mean what it is now is bad, it’s just that Love Score could’ve been much, much grander of a story.

Smut can be good! Smut can be good, I say to myself, as I read smut. It can be good.

This is definitely one of those manga I didn't expect to properly enjoy. I thought I was just gonna read smut and move on, but the idea here is actually cool and well-executed in the short 11-chapter run. You get to see a lot of different situations, both sexual and not, with a surprisingly nuanced cast of characters in a bunch of different pairings. A lot of good questions are posed; some of them are answered and others are left for the reader to stew on. ... Big thinking points from the smut.

It's always nice when an axed manga like this sticks the landing so well. The last chapter was genuinely satisfying despite the short run; way more satisfying than smut tends to be. And of course, the art was superb. It has to be. Since it's smut.

Read this smut

First of all, this manga was canceled with only 11 chapters, but it has a "closed" ending, with a desire to read more.

Story 7/10: It is short, unfortunate, the created universe leaves many questions (always wondering "what could happen?"), These questions are partly answered, but if there were more chapters it would be better.

Art 8/10: She is good, the ecchi parts are well drawn, but not very detailed and the characters are cute.

6/10 Persornagens: The chapters will focus on different protagonists with interspersed stories, but they are not very developed due to the short time of the manga.

8/10 fun: This is certainly more personal, but ... I was imagined what the world would be like if it had this kind of technology and my head exploded ...

Overall 7.5 / 10: There are only 11 chapters so it doesn't cost much time to read this manga and imagine what would happen in the real world.