Domestic na Kanojo (Domestic Girlfriend)

Natsuo Fujii is in love with his teacher, Hina. Attempting to forget his feelings towards her, Natsuo goes to a mixer with his classmates where he meets an odd girl named Rui Tachibana. In a strange turn of events, Rui asks Natsuo to sneak out with her and do her a favor. To his surprise, their destination is Rui's house—and her request is for him to have sex with her. There's no love behind the act; she just wants to learn from the experience. Thinking that it might help him forget about Hina, Natsuo hesitantly agrees.

After this unusual encounter Natsuo now faces a new problem. With his father remarrying, he ends up with a new pair of stepsisters; unfortunately, he knows these two girls all too well. He soon finds out his new siblings are none other than Hina and Rui! Now living with both the teacher he loves and the girl with whom he had his "first time," Natsuo finds himself in an unexpected love triangle as he climbs ever closer towards adulthood.

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Domestic na Kanojo was published digitally in English as Domestic Girlfriend by Kodansha USA from April 11, 2017 to
February 9, 2021.

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Tachibana, Rui

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Tachibana, Hina

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Fujii, Natsuo

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Kashiwabara, Momo

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Kobayashi, Masaki

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Serizawa, Miyabi

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Kurimoto, Fumiya

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Ashihara, Miu

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Kiriya, Reiji

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Shigemitsu, Kurumizawa

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Dec 14, 2024

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Plot Outline:
Domestic Girlfriend follows the troubled relationships surrounding Natsuo (17 yo); a kindhearted and well intentioned highschool boy. Natsuo's mom died years ago, and lately, his father has establish a romantic relationship to a widow over the internet. The first chapter depicts the father inviting the widow to his house, to become Natsuos new stepmother. With her, she brings her two daughter, Rui (17 yo) and Hina (23 yo). Here the trouble starts, as Natsuo already knows both girls. He recently lost his virginity to Rui in a one night stand after a mixer and is his teacher at high school, whom he has ...

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Sep 26, 2024

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I'll probably be one of the next ones to get a kick out of Domestic Kanojo. I read the manga in record time for me even though my English isn't the best, and I have to say I was incredibly entertained most of the time. The story is a roller coaster ride where you have a fluffy manga moment where someone is always blushing, throwing themselves in bed or just having sex. Other times it's all depression, crying and angst. Considering that I probably have the perverse opinion that step-sibling (not blood related) are actually two strangers who were "forced" to live under the same ... roof, I'm not offended by this topic. Nor does the whole plot about Natsuo sleeping with Rui at the beginning. As far as I know, they were both 16-17 years old, so what guy wouldn't take advantage of that in his situation.

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Natsuo is pretty straightforward to me. Throughout the manga he keeps telling us how he wants to be a successful author and whatnot. He sacrifices quite a bit for that. I've come across the opinion that he can't decide what he wants, but I don't think that's true. There are x number of moments where he makes a decision and stands by his decision. However, we're still living in the manga here, so even though he's over 20 years old at the end of the manga, he's still surprised by the panties and boobs... then it's clear that Japan is getting old when a guy in his "prime" years is afraid of boobs...

Hina, a character that makes me uncomfortable from beginning to end. From the very first chapter, she more or less puts down the main character for not being an adult (yes, he isn't). This opinion of hers doesn't change much, it's just not talked about as much anymore. She, who says she's an adult, spends most of the manga unable to even make tea without burning it, unable to display basic communication skills, or to break up as an adult and face the consequences of her decisions. A girl who decides to end a relationship by writing a rambling goodbye letter and evaporates like steam over a pot has no say in whether someone is an adult or not. Okay, I guess that would make the manga half as long, but at least it would make it more palatable.

Rui, for me, a character that went through a perfect development along with the main character. She pulled him out of the worst depression that Hina caused him with her behavior or indecision. In the beginning, Rui is introduced as a girl who can't show her emotions, can't read them, has no friends and more or less has no love. Just the perfect character for the protagonist to change her. Once she realizes her feelings, she goes for them and the relationship moves forward.

Natsuo x Hina - An entire relationship built around a teenager falling in love with his teacher. Okay... aside from the fact that it's seen as taboo, if Natsuo was 30 and Hina was 36, no one would give it a second thought. The rest of the manga is about Hina saying "I love you" to herself, but never saying it and doing nothing to change anything, to not hurt Rui or to not damage Natsuo's career. By the end, it felt more like obsession than love.

Natsuo x Rui - the gradual building of their love for each other, with Natsuo having to overcome his initial love for Hina and their breakup. Getting to know each other and herself. Building trust in each other when they are not together etc. Trying to find a balance between working on themselves and working on the relationship. For me, an absolutely unnecessary chapter 215 that was a slap in the face. Maybe it's my inferior English skills to understand what led Rui to do what she did, but so be it. Let's just say chapter 250 made it better again though.

I'll say up front that for me the last 5 chapters don't exist, or exist but with an alternate ending that I found on reddit. What the manga showed in the last 5 chapters was worthy of being erased from history. More or less all character development has been erased. Please show me people who say "yes, that ending makes sense". Rui and Natsuo obviously still love each other, because that's more or less how one chapter ends, followed by a time skip of 5 years where they live together, raise their daughter together, and take care of Hina in the process. They both obviously still love each other because why else would they be together. Natsuo at Rui's is apparently wallowing in self-pity over the fact that the "adult" Hina hasn't been able to come to terms with the fact that she's been with Natsuo for 3 years, and therefore they're not officially together and he wants to marry Hina out of "pity". The grand finale where she actually has to talk Hina into marrying Natsuo. Truly horrible and awful. That aftertaste from those last 5 chapters will stay on my tongue for a really long time.

Without the last 5 chapters, I'd give it an 8. Otherwise, I give it a 4.

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Nov 18, 2024

Rei1997

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Summary: A great story bombed by a horrible ending.

This manga is a great piece of literature, with an ending so dissatisfying, it ruins the entire thing. All of the struggles of the MC that he overcomes over the story, the inner conflict of deviating from social norms while being unable to provide for his crush, the outer conflict with his romance rivals - some of which are his friends; everything is thrown in a garbage bin and set on fire in the final chapters, when the greatest conflict of his lifetime is resolved by itself, with zero input from the MC. Well, he did have ...

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