Jitsu wa Watashi wa
My Monster Secret: "Actually, I am..."

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Ive never done a review before, but i just felt like doing it for this manga.

I dont really know how to do it either, i know tha a serious review would talk about art, story and all these thing that are importante for a good manga
but for real, i just want to say how much a apreciated the experience, this damn manga made me laugh SO MANY TIMES, and made me cry EVEN MORE times.

And thats all that i need in a manga, something that make me experience all these emotions, thats what i call a good manga.

I honestly can't do this manga justice, I really can't. If in your entire life, you could rate one thing, one manga, one anime, one anything, a 100/10, this would get my vote. Let's talk about it.

Jitsu Wa is about a boy who can't keep secrets falling in love with a girl who turns out to be a clumsy vampire. Along the way, he meets an alien, a werewolf, a demon, an angel, and so much more. From the basic concept, this story should fail, right? Right? No.

Jitsu wa is a manga that subverted my expectations.

The story is pretty simple, the end goal being to ... graduate, which is way harder than you would think. The art is a bit... odd at first, and changes around chapter 30 to be still odd, but you get used to it, and it suits the story.

The characters, despite there being a lot of them, are all well developed and have an good story, they feel real despite their absurdity.

The Enjoyment is 10/10. It's funny as hell, it's more heartwarming and inspiring than anything I've ever seen, it can be badass and suspenseful when it needs to be, it's a manga that is everything, and succeeds at being everything.

They subvert tropes, parody themselves, make non badass moments badass as hell, and somehow manage to make ridiculous things happen, and still remain consistent. A chapter could happen where the characters do nothing but study, and I would still die of laughter.

Chapter 30 is the turning point. From there, the art changes, the comedy becomes sharper, and it just becomes better. Then from chapter 111 and on, it changes again, this time, more seriously. The characters start developing more than ever, stories start coming together, details start adding up, and changes start happening.

This is a story where the more you read, the better it gets. I can't recommend this enough, just go watch it.

I had my eye on this a while ago as I was waiting for it to be completed before reading it. Once I saw it was complete I started but unfortunately I didn't realise the scanlators didn't catch up yet so I've stopped at chapter 164.

From the concept of the story, I was taking back to thinking of 'Rosario + Vampire' as that involved Vampires and school settings in a similiar manner. The cover art shows you what kind of style it goes for and it looked pretty decent which also drew me in but unfortunately I have to say 'Jitsu wa Watashi wa' didn't ... really live up to my expectations.

Story:
I feel like I may have came expecting too much out of this, the general premise of the story is what you can get from the title "Actually, I am ...", which being with the main heroine depicted on the cover art is a Vampire (hope that wasn't too much of a spoiler) and the main character finds out and helps keep it a secret. So far so good, I'm okay with that as it's just standard. Although as the story progresses you see various characters introduced, some I am fine with and they have their own interesting appeal to but at times I'm just left thinking "In this manga, they are just adding as much weird things as possible" which I feel slowly reduces the quality. If you can imagine you were writing a story and then your friend comes along and says "Hey it'd be cool if you added X", you add X then someone else comes along tells you to add Y...then Z...then F, H, K, L, etc.

The story isn't a battle manga, it's just a school comedy romance. So nothing major really happens in it and personally I didn't find much of the comedy to be that funny, at times it felt quite tedious get through some chapters in hopes that some form of development would happen in the story. Although I did find some moments where I was intrigued by the story development at most times it felt quite a bore, if I had to say, it felt as if 3/10 situations was interesting while the remaining 7/10 was some boring filler. My main comedy segments I enjoyed involved the Principal with her crazed plans and whatnot.

As I'm only only chapter 164, with around 32 chapters before it ends, I can only wonder how things are going to end up.


Art:
The art was alright, majority of times it's not detailed but when it does go into detail you can tell how the theme/atmosphere in the manga is changing. Often during it's comedy scenes you will get characters that go into berserk mode and the transition from light comedy detail drawing changes to fuller detail drawings is a nice but at the same time as you read more you'll notice that the situations occur quite often and the appeal slowly fades as you seen it quite a bit by now. As it's a comedy, facial expressions help determine the mood but I found one style that often comes up when relating to food was a a terrible style as well as the story element that went with it.


Characters:
As previously mentioned, it felt like a lot of various characters were just thrown in for variety and I'm just left thinking "okay this character choice is just stupid", I'm sure most people who read it will understand when I say "glasses" but besides that, there are some interesting characters where they actually have some depth to them and you want to know more about their background (for me that would be the Principal).