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It's just average. Not amazing but definitely has elements that are below average. Functionally it's one of those manga's where the fights end up with people staring at each other monologuing (internal and external) about whatever until someone does something and someone gets one-shot. The pacing is both extremely fast and slow at the same time which is a feat in itself. Getting you as fast as possible to the next fight but then dragging it out by having flashbacks to just a little bit of what happened inbetween fights... but not enough to explain much of what's happening beyond how they got into said ... situation or provide a deus ex machina that was totally planned the whole time trust me bro.

I'll still read it for some of the action scenes because it doesn't shy away from the actual violence, but reading this for any other purpose is a exercise in wasting time.

A story of a less-competent individual who isn't fit for job and work cycle that he's been thrust into by his older brother. Now finding himself in a the immature schemes of a naively obsessed highschool girl that sort of accidentally helps him stop blaming himself.

It's short and sweet. It accomplishes in 19 chapters everything that 100+ chapters or more would of other manga. Just without the mountainous amounts of filler material or uncalled for drama. Does give off fetishy vibes though because of the obvious Master/Servant thing it dances around.

Ending is actually good for what it is. Anything else I feel would have ... been a little off-base and unfulfilling for this story.
Being short though it does leave less impact in you than something that takes the affordmentioned 100+ chapters to do the same thing. But I chalk that up to subconscious sunken cost. Do I want to remember Nisekoi 8 years after it ended? Not especially? Will I remember this in 8 years? Unlikely. But I'd still read it again if I'm reminded about it.

For what purpose/10
It's a mini manga about more or less stockholme syndrome.
With a SUPER autistic human boy that you have to wonder how he even functions as a human and doesn't really learn anything and does the dumbest stuff on a whim that really makes you hate him.
A the female lead whos innocent beyond measure but physically repulsive and mistreated. Some bizarre shock-value implications near the end too for her that are just gross for the sake of being gross.
This was all purposely done.
And they ended on something akin to a cliffhanger AFTER wrapping the story up.

Looking at the author's other works he has some ... interesting ideas... but maybe... idk man. idk.

I don't hate it. I actually liked it... most of the time. But the flaws make me unable to love it because they are such pointless flaws that didn't need to exist but they still purposely did some of them anyways and they do detract from the story and themes.

Pros
-Explores the dynamic between vampires and humans and is very honest about the issues it causes to nobody's benefit.
-Attempts to keep grounded on said issues while exploring mental health issues that can stem from or relate to the above.
-There isn't some random uncalled for reveal about a main villain or whatever.
-Explores other (and related) mental health ... issues.

Cons
-It's just too blunt on anything that isn't clearly the author's favoured content.
-Randomly and inconsistently turns into a shonen battle manga which is a jarring contrast from the usual subject matter.
-MC gets an addition at one point that should not have been a thing. Author doesn't even try to justify it, lampshades he might be breaking the internal rules of the world to do it, and keeps bringing up the fact he's not justifying it. Why?
-After they flesh out actual side characters, they start bloating the cast with undeveloped side characters that don't go anywhere.

And the biggest con... The Ending.
Thoroughly unsatisfactory. Maybe just outright bad because it tries to be inoffensive for the main characters but comes off as indecisive. Like they didn't know how to end the manga while keeping true to the themes and character development. So they kinda didn't do either. It's bordering on disrespectful despite what the author intended to show.

Again, I don't hate it. But I have a bad tendency to only review things that leave a bad taste in my mouth and the ending just tipped me over the edge.

So BAD that despite the fact I rarely keep track of or review manga... I felt compelled to write a review. It's not even funny bad. It's just bad.
Pretty good artwork plagued by the most abominable and terrible writing you could imagine. If you can think of an eye-rolling overdone trope they do it unironically with a straight face. Including doujin tropes.
On that note there are doujins with better characters and writing that care more about the content they are making for a 1-3 chapter throwaway than this does in 5x going on 6x the amount of chapters

The writing is a "didn't even ... try" excuse to have women being beaten by a 15 year old in very dumb ways while he randomly references videogames in cringy internal monologue and they become enthusiastic harem slaves after drugged grape sessions. As said before there are doujins which are unintentionally written better than this.

It just made me genuinely angry. I don't even remember how I stumbled into this but I regret every moment of it.
The story tries way too hard to be "heart wrenching" and even goes on entire chapter-long tangents, having no pacing whatsoever so you can't tell if it takes place over a couple days or a week or whatever.
The artwork is fine but they have waterfalls of tears at every opportunity that feeds into how bad the story is.
Even the ending is upsetting because it's basically not even an ending. It's an epilogue after the events of the story to try and retroactively justify what ... happened. But instead it just creates more questions while leaving other things unanswered.

No redeeming qualities.

I don't understand why everyone is ranting and raving about this. I'm thoroughly indifferent from how generic it is. About the only point I can give to it is that it's violent and has blood which isn't very common for anime. However like alot of anime that does have blood it decides to go overboard and focus heavily on it as a focal point for alot of the visuals. I haven't been this disappointed by an anime that's been largely "acclaimed" by the masses since... Darling in the Franxx actually. But at least that show settled at a reasonable score and didn't maintain the praise ... throughout the whole series.

It just has so many issues. It's not an excuse to say that it isn't taking itself seriously either. It IS taking itself seriously. People have just suspended their disbelief thinking "surely they knew this was dumb" when it continuously does dumb things while seeding obvious effort into the cracks to it's own detriment. I think the visuals are the sole factor holding this show up because it sure isn't much of anything else.

It's truly a show that shows about as much promise as you could expect from a combination of Comedy/Ecchi/Harem and Action/Magic, except somehow misses most of those marks. Everything this does, something else has done far better... and sparse few have done worse.

The story is actually really bad. It starts with a dumb premise to begin with. You'd be forgiven for actually thinking that there will be payoff of any sort or an actual explanation as to what the hell is even going on... but there isn't. It's just a circlejerk for 11 episodes and a sad, sorry excuse for an ending that doesn't actually ... do anything. Well it actually does do something... it introduces characters that are more interesting because they are likely to never get more screentime than they need to be badguys. Ergo less screentime means less time for them to be ruined. There's also nothing in the way of "Action" or "Fighting" beyond a grand total of maybe 20 seconds (combined) in the whole show. Most of it is done offscreen as you see them preparing and the end result with nothing inbetween. Or it's actively avoided for no real reason.

The Characters are all definition tropes with exception to 2 characters. The "aloof" student council president is one of them because she has more balls than everyone else in the show combined and isn't afraid to get what she wants. The other is the magically-enabled personality disorder girl who is basically just fusing the polar-opposite "Twins" trope into 1 character, which is a real shame because half of her is painfully boring and the other half is a dominating presence ready to dictate where the show goes.

The sound is very average. The only exception is the Tsundere half of the personality-disorder girl who actually sounds like you would expect from a Tomboyish Tsundere in an actually good anime.

I wouldn't recommend anyone actually watch this. It's just not good.

About 10 years after the fact I'll briefly talk about this. It's ironic in context.

As with any "synopsis" it's incredibly inaccurate or rather it's misleading. All those beefy lines and elaborate description is for naught as it describes the first 5 minutes. It quickly spirals out of control with convoluted time-travel. Now that's all fine and dandy because such concepts can create branching possibilities and "unique" character development, but I could predict *everything* that was going to happen. Not even the kind of speculative "I wonder if..." predictions. More like "oh boy let me guess..." kind of predictions.

Or rather I could accurately predict everything up ... until the story gave up and overused time-trave for no real reason and drumming up drama. You can tell that they really didn't have any idea how to end the Manga either as it got progressively worse and worse as time went on. Only in the final few chapters do you get any sort of explanation to what's going on. However it still tries to be "mysterious" by just conspicuously leaving information out. So it explains just enough, but leaves just enough out, to make even less sense than if they didn't explain anything at all. How do you manage this? It just becomes mindless and virtually contextless content that just seems to be happening. One character in particular just keeps getting metaphorically beaten up for literally no real reason other than having a goal in life beyond "here and now".

It's not a terrible read and the art isn't bad, but it really became mindless and convoluted. Especially when (not really a spoiler) the romance elements are fully introduced and a love triangle forms solely based on the events of the first few chapters. It might be the most "forced" thing I've seen.

It's a solid 5.5/10 because it has it's moments and a remote few good characters, but it's negatives are really negative.

In a somewhat unusual fashion I'm going to keep it "fairly short".

It's a decent enough anime that however it ends in a poor way. The closest comparison I can give to this is the anime adaption of "Deadman Wonderland". Characters were cut, the story was condensed but still managed to leave some of the overarching plotlines and intrigue, and more importantly they went ahead and did something that Deadman Wonderland didn't even do... they completely changed when and how the story ends. They basically cut maybe... 1/2 or more of the story and altered what remained so it ended when the anime did in ... a concise fashion.

I went to read the Manga out of curiosity and... immediately had no idea what was going on. This seems to scream that they didn't see much potential in the series itself and probably just wanted filler anime that would attract attention with the amount of Edge™ it contained in the first episode alone. Adaptions typically don't retcon half or more of the story so that it ends when the anime ends, is what I'm getting at. They weren't trying to sell the Manga or build a fanbase, they just wanted a timeslot filler.

It's a decent anime, but a downright terrible adaption. The sheer amount of cut content and story alteration is mindblowing, but if you feel like you aren't going to read the manga anytime soon (or at all) than it's a fine anime to watch on its own merits.