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Let me start this off by saying the only reason I wound up reading this anime is because it was available on the Crunchy Roll manga app. If it wasn't I would never have found this brilliant slice of life comedy. Wagatsuma-san wa Ore no Yome is a manga about a boy named Aoshima that time slips 10 years into the future and finds out that he marries the school idol. The manga ultimately revolves around him using the information that he gains through these time slips to mold the future into what's best for him and his friends.

Now by far the best part of ... this manga for me was the characters, specifically Aoshima's group of otaku friends. They consistently had me laughing out loud at least once every chapter. I do feel as though the female cast was somewhat under used, and not all of them got a closing to their story, but for the most part the character interactions involving them was well done.

The art in this manga, while simple, does what it's supposed to very well. As part gag and part romance manga there are a lot of cut away gags where the art changes drastically from the usual. Think the scenes from One Punch Man where Saitama suddenly becomes very serious. The character designs are fairly simplistic, a lot of them following fairly generic character tropes. You've got your big boobed foreign exchange student, the NEET otaku in the making, and your generic male protagonist. Despite this each of the characters feel unique in their own ways.

The story is easily the part that I'm conflicted about. As a gag manga there isn't much need for a large overlapping story, however because it's also a romance story there are certain events that carry over throughout the run. I will say that the story that is there had me entertained, until the last 8 chapters or so that is. Unfortunately the ending to the story came across as feeling very rushed, and was fairly unsatisfying ultimately. I really wish that those last 8 chapters had been stretched out over 20 or so, I feel the end would be more meaningful that way. The ending to me the way it was done felt like a bit of a cop out, a way to ultimately make readers happy with how things wound up (although I think that there were many other ways it could have ended that would have been better)

Ultimately I think Wagatsuma-san wa Ore no Yome is worth reading. It kept me entertained right up until the homestretch, just don't expect the ending to be as good as the rest of it.