Jul 25, 2021
I feel like coming from someone who went through the same thing Komi did in Middle school and High School, this Manga should have been an easy 9/10. It starts off really good, telling lots of mini-stories build into a larger overall arc as it’s main storytelling theme. Through this we get to see the main characters, Tadano and Komi, get put into all sorts of typical (as well as atypical) Japanese School-life situations. The first portion of this manga (The Class 1-1 arc) is actually really good, the only flaw really being that lots of characters could be way more fleshed out, which isn’t
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really a huge problem considering the story is mostly about Tadano and Komi. If I were to write this review just after finishing the first part, it would be a solid 8/10. Now enter second part of the manga. At first, this part starts off really strong, with Komi doing the same thing for Manbagi that Tadano did for her. But as the story progressed, the original theme went away. Soon, Komi’s goal of making 100 friends went away and was now replaced by a love triangle trope (and an incredibly bad one at that) between the three main characters. Because of this, many of the new characters became hollow as the focus drifted away from making and interacting with friends (Though some characters to come out of this arc we’re still really cool). old characters from the first arc went away only to come back every 30 chapters or so. Considering this is a manga that tells its story with mini-stories, the overall story was crippled when the smaller stories suddenly were filled with less interesting characters and settings that had already been used in the first arc. Tadano and Komi did however carry this arc. Every story with the two was usually enjoyable and heartwarming. Seeing the two very awkward characters come together romantically after all that they had been through together was rewarding after hundreds of chapters, but was sadly complicated by this unrealistic and unnecessary love triangle. I’m not going to blame everything the love triangle, I think if the goal was 30-50 friends, all of the characters throughout the manga would have had more time to be fleshed out and given more chances to appear throughout the story. I also think that lots of the mini stories were a little dull at some points. More of the chapters could have been more absurd, considering that the story revolves around a girl who has to use a notepad to talk. The more absurd the story, the funnier and more interesting it was. The first arc did this pretty well but as characters became less interesting, the absurd comedy sort of went away. I would give the second arc a 3/10 honestly, with Komi and Tadano being the only reason this arc getting anything over a 1. So far, the manga isn’t completed and there could possibly be a third arc for their third year, so I’m hoping that this final arc could hopefully change about how I feel (I have high hopes considering that the love triangle is now gone as of now). I really want to give this manga a 7 or an 8, I love lots of these characters, I relate to the premise, and I have yet to drop considering the nose dive in quality. Until then, we’ll just have to see where the story goes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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