Shiunji-ke no Kodomotachi
The Shiunji Family Children

Edit

What would you like to edit?

SynopsisBackgroundAlternative TitlesPictureChapters/VolumesPublishing DatesRelationsTypeExternal Links  

I do have to say upfront, if you come from Rent a girlfriend, this one is imho much better.
The MC at least isn't room temp IQ + Stalker and the girls aren't extremely oblivious.
The plot moves along each chapter and something actually happens on screen.

The girls are incredibly bland though. Like... trope to the max. Kuudere, Tsundere, Ara Aradere, Smartdere and Sportsdere.
And if you think of a specific character now, you know all there is to know of the 5 girls.
At least they have cute designs, are drawn decently well and actually have a meaningful changing wardrobe.

IF you want to read a ... very simple dumbed down Harem with cute Girls it's worth a read.
IF you want good writing, decent characters and a well put together drama it isn't.
It's on a level with Quintuplets, Oreimo and Girlfriend Girlfriend, which puts it above the likes of Rent a girlfriend... but far from Bunny girl senpai, Golden Time or Saekano.

It may seem unfair to review a, what seems to be, future long running harem series which tends to be a slow genre in general. But fuck it, no one has written a review yet.

The story is about Arata, who is a bitchless loser but at the same time handsome tough guy. He lives in a house of 5 sisters (and a younger brother) who are all popular and conventionally attractive. Arata thinks the same, but of course doesn't try anything with them because he thinks they're related to him by blood. Turns out they're not, which is lame. Seriously all sense of drama is ... shot down by the end of chapter 1 as they learn that they're not actually siblings.

None of them really care, it's glossed over insanely quickly. Aren't these characters supposed to have been a family who've been living together for years?

Anyway, afterwards they don't really treat eachother as family in the first place. Hell, by the end of the first volume it's pretty damn clear that all the girls wanna hop on Arata's dick and never saw him as a brother in the first place. Can we think about this for a second. Imagine growing up in a house full of people you regard as family but as soon as they find out you're not related to them they treat you like a love interest instead? Again I get it, they're pretty girls but it's pretty fucked up to think just how little their previous relationship mattered.

The girls themselves so far have nothing much to stand out beyond their token bishoujo stereotype. There's a shy one, a sexy one, a tsundere one, yada yada you've seen them before. There's also a girl who isn't related to the Shiunji's and therefore it's obvious that Arata will never get with her so who cares.

All of them have the exact same establishment though, they wanna fuck Arata. That is all, so far none of them have expressed exactly why or how Arata seems so attractive to them that they wanted to fuck him even when they thought he was related to them but realistically it's gonna be some dumb spiel about how he's "kind" and "reliable" or some other basic bullcrap.

So far it's...Strange. It's supposed to be for people with an incest fetish but the family members don't treat eachother like family nor are they actually related. (although from the little hints so far there might be future plot twist where it turns they ARE related but idk why the dad would lie about that???)

It's not really great, nor does it appeal much to people like me who like the incest trope. The usual normie audience will likely not pick this up because of the supposed incest. So who is this for?

So far it's average, I would not be surprised if it gets axed after 3 volumes.

6.5/10


Why do so many harem mangas get such a bad rep? Well, it’s quite simple — the characters suck massive balls. Introducing and developing one or two characters is already a hard enough task, however, harem mangakas decided it was too easy to write two fundamentally sound and engaging characters, so they opt for the much harder challenge; sadly, the world is not some kind of fairytale where an inexperienced writer can accomplish such a feat, this is no exception.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7 characters that have been info dumped onto each panel by the author, only to be forgotten with the mindset of “I ain’t reading all of ... that.” Call it self-awareness because despite the author already dedicating 5 or so panels in explaining the heroines, each chapter that reintroduces the heroines to “develop” them, there’s a summary about their characteristics and background, which I find quite laughable.

The characters themvselfselves are rather bland, which is why I decided to gloss over their summaries. There are your typical cliche archetypes, however, it’s also done in a rather poor manner; the drawback of having seven characters to develop is that no singular one will become greatly engaging or moving, instead, the characters act beyond unrealistic by sharing zero personality traits befitting of the sibling status.

The pot is self-explanatory by being apart of the harem genre, so I’ll quickly gloss over it: There are the usual progressions and developments while also having similar traits in an incest not incest manga of “this is not okay… But Imma do it anyways!”

It is not a matter of if you should read this manga, but when you should drop the manga. Besides for being a perfectly average harem manga, there’s not much that makes you want to smash your head through a wall, but it’s also nothing unexpected.


Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”