Hetakoi

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This story got the best confession line ever in manga.

I must admit, the author got really good job putting everything to work out in this Hetakoi. I easily enjoy every page, and every second of this. It's easy for me to get the feel of falling in love, jealousy, excitement, happiness, and anxiety, or even anger while reading this. And after all that roller coaster of emotion, we got one heck of a confession line. I love it.

That in itself is good enough to make a good manga, but this manga is not limited to just that.
The characters are really well done. they got drawn ... really well. With point-to-point traits that is easily for readers to empathize. I especially like the male MC. He is caring, not only to those he like, but also to the one he doesn't like (He cares even to his love rival at some point). And it's just one of many likable trait he had. As the story progress, we get to see him maturing both in mind and in emotion.

The art is also excellent. Besides the characters, the world itself is a great work. Because this revolve around a hot spring lover club, of course there must be beautiful hot springs involved.

This is a great seinen love story. If adult romance with a good happy ending suits you. I definitely recommend you read Hetakoi.

If you are hopelessly romantic like me who loves pure love with a little bit of lust, you will not like this manga. Well also if you don't like manga there is some douchebag who gets in between the relationship of our Hero and Heroine, this is not the manga for you.

WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
I apologize if this review might come up as a rant or very opinionated but if you wish to read this you will see my point.

In the first half I enjoyed the the manga even though if there are some ups and downs but when the main event entered it will ... really annoys you that makes you want to drop it. Well you will kind of anticipated what will happen but still you will not anticipate how it will happen.

I will elaborate the bad taste that the manga left in my memory and this is related with the douchebag. Our Hero (Shizuka) and Heroine (Ruka) are all lovey dovey then there this Tsuchiya, whom Ruka is in love in the past, entered and forced a kiss on our Heroine wherein our Hero saw so he decided to love someone else, his former classmate and first love Nagisa.

Well to me this event could have been better to me if not for Ruka who did nothing to Tsuchiya, I mean this guy forced a kiss then you still hang out with him even though you still love Shizuka you should be angry to him to the point that you should slap him but instead you hang out with him, this act is kind of slutty.

After all the shenanigans happened our Hero and Heroine are now single, this guy Tsuchiya didn't even apologized for the problems he caused. But after that main event, I begin to enjoy the manga because it feels like new beginning then there is this side story about our Hero's brother, Yuu and their childhood friend Kotono which is a little refreshing.

Then comes the ending, of course in the end you know they will be both together but I kind of don't get how they ended the story wherein our Hero and Heroine had sex. They should have ended it further in their relationship because somehow the manga tells the reader that love is all about SEX!!!

So if you still want this kind of manga then go for it but if not I salute you. I continue reading it because I don't like reading manga then dropping it, besides if I didn't read it how can I warn those who are like me to not read this manga =))

This is a prime example of one of those manga with forced misunderstandings and pathethic characters. These type of writings can be forgiven by having a strong start, or better yet a strong finish, but this story was disappointing throughout, amazing.

I am writing this as I am on the second last chapter, and without spoiling anything, the maincharacter shows he hasnt learned, nor grown anything at all throughout the story.
I find it astounding how a character thats been making mistakes for almost 60 chapters still hasnt grown anything at all. Not only does he never keep his word for longer than one chapter, but ... in the end he doesnt even want to touch Ruka until he is financially stable. Is he retarded?

Do not read this manga if you are after a romantic manga that makes sense.
The characters and inconsistent, and the plotdevelopments are forced through dumb misunderstandings. The longest misunderstanding lasted for about 30 chapters, which is like half the manga, and thats because the MC boy and the MC girl didnt talk with each other. Even though they often were in the same room or at least in the near presence of each other, plus everyone else pushed them on, and they still couldnt get their thumb out of their ass.