Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai
Ao-chan Can't Study!

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I've decided to read this manga after watching the anime, it was quite a good surprise even though it's just your casual, fluffy romcom. I wouldn't really qualify this manga as "Ecchi", since it offers little to 0 fanservice (most of the scenes happen in Ao's head and don't occur in real-life), but instead the scenes are just sweet and sort of innocent, contrasting to Ao's inner personality (closet pervert).

Even though the series gets published in a monthly magazine so there are only a few chapters (38 so far to this date), the pacing is actually entertaining and fluid which makes you feel attached ... to the characters and actually caring about their relationship. The story is kinda predictable, but we're not looking for anything exceptional, just something cute to read before going to sleep. The plot is rather plain, some scenes are pretty comedic but I wouldn't say funny. I wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for a romance with a consistent plot, character developement or realistic theme.

Speaking of character developement, it actually exists but is poorly executed : anyone beside the main cast doesn't really matter and they don't bring any developement to Ao or Kijima. Ao herself is the hard-working girl who's awkward with romance and has prejudices with men, meanwhile Kijima is the popular handsome classmate who's actually inexperienced with romance and fell in love for Ao on the first sight. The two of them are rather shippable, they do have a lot of cute moments together like Kijima struggling to tell her how he feels and Ao being embarrassed. We get to see the two of them grow as a couple and I find it quite lovely.

The art is acceptable, definitely not amazing but some panels managed to bring the emotions to the readers.


Overall, enjoying this manga or not totally depends on you, but if you don't mind spending few hours reading a rather cute romance just to relax, then definitely give it a try. I stopped reading romcom a few years ago after getting bored, this one actually surprised me to the point of writing a review.

If you want a masterpiece or a life changing experience this is not for you, but if you want a sweet and hilarious romantic comedy to lighten up your mood I definitely recommend Ao-chan Can’t study.
I often see the same kind of long reviews that say too much and nothing I actually wanted to know. I HATE SPOILERS, but I also don't want to waste my time with a story that starts great but decays and ends poorly or one where, after all their trouble, the couple doesn't end up together.. for no reason at all.

So I thought I should review in a different ... way, YES or NO answers to the questions:
- IS THE ENDING GOOD?
- DOES THE MAIN COUPLE END TOGETHER?
- IS IT WORTH MY TIME?

***If you don't want to know the answers to these 3 questions you should stop reading right now.***
If you're like me who just want to know if the story is worth your time, go ahead. So without further ado:

Is the ending good? YES
Does the main couple end up together? YES
Is it worth my time? YES

BRIEF FULL REVIEW: This is one of the few stories that made me cry from laughing, it’s HILARIOUS, the mangaka’s comedic timing is off the charts. The art is fairly good and fits the genre. The manga is currently completed and the anime adapts until Vol. 05 Lesson 20, it goes up to Vol. 08 and Lesson 36, 42 chapters in full with some extra ones. If you came from watching the anime you don't have to reread it, they adapted exactly the same as the manga, even the same panels as scenes and facial expressions. The manga is as funny as the anime adaptation and does go a little further on the story, but I feel like the story wrapped pretty perfectly the way the anime did it. I felt the manga stretched the story a bit too much for no good reason, but it’s still as good as the anime.

I intend to make my reviews brief, focusing on answering these three questions. If you like this kind of review I try my best to write in all animes and mangas I've experienced, so you can see a complete list of reviews next to my name just above.

Thank you, you're welcome and peace out. ^^

The series is about Ao-chan who's name comes from A for apple and O for Orgy. Why you ask? well because the father is a dipshit of course. The father (Well at least he exists) is a very famous erotic novelist and has no intentions of hiding it. As such she has been ostracized from her peers. Now she doesn't talk with them, doesn't interact with them. All she does is study so she can get into a great college and be as far away from her father as possible. And honestly I'm on her side. The dad brought the series down. None of ... his comedy worked and his chibi form was kind of immersion breaking.

The series kicks off with our male lead trying desperately to talk to our FMC. But she's having none of it. Why you ask? Well stop asking.... She grew up reading the pornos her dad wrote and as such she basically thinks that all men are nothing but horny filled predators that think about sex all the time. Which is totally not true as a man myself I only think about sex a respectable 69% of the time.

So you have these gags throughout the series where she misunderstands what his intentions are as to being sex related. As someone said. Everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power.

Yeah that quote may seem completely out of place and that's because it is. I wanted to add this for my anime review but i forgot.

So during this push and pull relationship where the female lead tries to avoid the MMC because he can only think of dick presumably. The male lead tries to make the female lead like him so they can finally do all the things they can do. In a sense now that i type that out the FMC was right wasn't she? Like the thing he constantly backs off because you know he likes her but he does still wanna do all those things....

I think where this story starts to lose me is when both of the characters feelings get noticed right? Both of them being to like each other and accept that. So whats with all the bullshit in between? Thats where this series starts slipping.

It doesn't like straight up nose dive in quality but it is noticeable and it sucks that this is the case. I think with more bolder characters this could've been more exciting. There is a sequel to this series so that might be exactly what i wished for.

There is also this issue with side characters romance(?). There are introduced. It is shipped but then it doesn't go anywhere. There is also this friends thing that has no real impact on the plot what so ever. Like whats up with that.

In the end i enjoyed this series but i'm also disappointed in it. It looked like it could've had the potential to be more. If you watched the anime and want more of that sure. But if you are expecting a little bit more variety something more dynamic than you may want to stop there.

TLDR: From the maker of We're new at this. Enjoyable just not a must read or anything. 6/10

Ao-chan cant study has an anime by the same name, I can't vouch for that, however I can for the manga.

The manga follows Ao-Chan who's a diligent student but as of recent has made contact with a boy whos incapacitating her ability to study.

The story as a romance manga moves at a very normal pace and it's all about dispelling this notion Ao has about boys, love, and all of that. It has a concrete ending that wraps up Ao's character arc as a whole and it's honestly just a really fun read.

7/10, definitely not a bad romance manga and I really do look ... forward to watching the anime for this manga.