Zettai Kareshi.
Absolute Boyfriend
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Zettai Kareshi.

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: I Won't Let You Become a Star!, Ohoshisama ni wa Sasemasen!, Aromatic Boy, Shounen Aromatic
Japanese: 絶対彼氏。
English: Absolute Boyfriend
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 6
Chapters: 35
Status: Finished
Published: May 20, 2003 to Oct 5, 2004
Genres: Comedy Comedy, Drama Drama, Romance Romance, Sci-Fi Sci-Fi
Theme: School School
Demographic: Shoujo Shoujo
Serialization: Sho-Comi
Authors: Watase, Yuu (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.661 (scored by 2211622,116 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #19722
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #494
Members: 38,432
Favorites: 1,487

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Chapters: /35

Synopsis

High school student Riiko Izawa has gone through a series of unrequited crushes. Each time she works up the courage to confess to a boy, he rejects her on the spot. After yet another rejection, Riiko becomes dejected and takes a walk through a nearby park. There, she discovers a lost phone and returns it to its owner.

The owner of the phone, Gaku Namikiri, is bizarre, to say the least. A traveling salesman, he pesters Riiko to accept one of his company's products as a reward. She tells him, sarcastically, that what she wants most of all is a boyfriend. Unfazed, he directs her to visit a website advertising "lover figures," which she assumes to be dolls. Despite her skepticism about the company's integrity, the face of the "Nightly Series 01" model enchants Riiko, and she registers for a three-day free trial. She is shocked when a life-sized naked boy is actually delivered to her the next day!

Riiko follows instructions to activate the very realistic robot with a kiss, and for the next three days, Night Tenjou is the best boyfriend she could ask for. However, Gaku reappears to inform her that she missed the deadline to cancel the free trial, and now she owes one hundred million yen. Alternatively, she can decide to keep Night and act as a beta tester so that the company can collect data in order to improve their future products. What choice does Riiko have? She is broke, and what's more, she has already begun to fall for the artificially intelligent Night...

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Released in North America under the title Absolute Boyfriend, Zettai Kareshi. has spawned several live-action adaptations. A Japanese drama series, Zettai Kareshi: Kanzen Muketsu no Koibito Robot, aired in 2008; a Taiwanese drama series, Jue Dui Darling, aired in 2012; and most recently a South Korean drama series, My Absolute Boyfriend , aired in 2019.

The series was published in English as Absolute Boyfriend by VIZ Media under the Shojo Beat imprint from February 7, 2006 to May 6, 2008.

Characters

Asamoto, Masaki
Supporting
Shirasaki, Yuki
Supporting
Muyai
Supporting
Ito, Mika
Supporting
Nurse
Supporting

Reviews

Dec 14, 2024
I adore You Watase's work so much. The art, the humor, the romance! All incredible. This story is so fun and I didn't mind the love triangle. Night and Sushi are both so different but I love them both, I get why Riiko would be in the middle. The only thing I found disappointing was how quickly it ended and how the only thing moving the plot was the romance. There was nothing else going on. I thought it was so interesting that Riiko had friend drama but that gets resolved so quickly. Even at the end I was rooting for Soushi to come back, ...
Dec 26, 2018
Mixed Feelings
Absolute boyfriend makes absolutely no sense .girl is stupid af.side boy.is retard.. and i am not even want to say anything about main hero or object.
With all things.. said ..this was still.enjoyable. . because mangaka dose not take things very seriously.. it was regular.. basic shit.. but.... Dont read..there is much more better manga to read it is soild 5 out of ten
My story - so i like this chick.. she likes me back too ..
And all i have to do just say.. lets date we both like each other but i wasted my time in reading... Some stupid chick ..wrost girl i ...
Feb 17, 2025
33 chapters of a spoiled teenage shithead getting everything she wants with absolutely zero consequence. She's about as likeable as a cockroach yet somehow she manages to seduce several guys despite being so selfish and sometimes almost psychopathic with how little care she has for the men that she apparently loves. It really doesn't help that the story becomes so fucking frustrating due to the entire situation having been so easy to avoid.

Throughout the story she keeps treating Night terribly and offers absolutely nothing to the relationship. There is absolutely zero reason for Night to love her outside of the fact that he is programmed ...

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