May 18, 2022
Ai wo Tomenaide is a shoujo manga published in 2000. 2 chapters are dedicated to a main 'story' and 1 chapter is an independent one-shot.
This manga is the literary equivalent of eating sand at the beach. What better way to ring in the new millennium than by cursing humanity with this bland soggy NTR-themed garbage 'romance'? I've read this so that literally no one else has to and this is my review.
-Art-
I don't know what was going on in the early 2000s for shoujo manga but the art was REALLY weird back then. Not to say that the art in this was hideous, but
...
it was more of an acquired taste, like my grandma's buttery onion peas. I didn't love it, but I could withstand it at least.
One strange but hilarious thing is that the characters in the main story and one-shot were drawn...the exact same. Like the same faces, hair, hair colour, bodies. I had to check 3 times to make sure it wasn't the same story, it was so weird.
-Character-
This is a manga about a married woman cuckolding her husband by cheating on him for no reason other than she is an airhead ditz. She has all the charm and morals of a snake suffocating a small child. Her boyfriend was just as much of a lame loser and I wish them both milk-induced diarrhoea sh*ts for the rest of their fictional lives. I felt bad for the husband who did nothing to deserve any of this.
The characters in the one-shot seemed a lot better, especially the main girl who had valuable character development, until the ML (male lead) joked about raping the FL (female lead) and the FL stalked him and found out his address and then I was like oh wow well never mind then!
-Story-
I don't like NTR but I admit that in some cases it can be written really well and I might actually find myself rooting for the couple. None of that happened here. The story is your typical bad daytime soap that airs at 2pm and has a budget of $10 and a KitKat bar. Nothing is explained, nothing is justified. A few times I felt that the author was trying to make a moral commentary by leaning in the direction of 'cheating bad huergheh' but that fizzled out and died too. We are meant to see the cheating as fine, or even romantic! Oh how I swoon!
There are really amazing, epic one-liners in this manga that not even the likes of Shakespeare and Chaucer could ever hope to replicate. Sentences like 'His girlfriend...is I' were so astonishing that I had to take a deep breath before I fainted clean on the floor.
-Enjoyment-
I think I would've enjoyed this a lot more if I could've fist-fought every single person who was responsible for bringing this manga into existence.
-Overall-
I rated this a 2- 1 point for art, which was actually not bad, and 1 point because I kept laughing out loud at random parts that were absolutely not meant to be funny.
-Recommended for-
People who love NTR, people who want to disappoint themselves and their parents.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
