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Nov 21, 2022
A wonderful one-shot of the climax of a hero's party and their final journey back home.
The art is beautifully done and is capable of depicting the emotions of the characters throughout the entire short story. On a second reading, you'll understand especially what I mean by this
Nina's experience of bringing her comrades back home while shouldering all the hardship along the way makes this an endearing one. I don't mind the short story due to how well done and neatly it ends.
I do believe that given the situation and the theme of this world that all the motions and thoughts were very logical and
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sound. Even more so due to the promise that was made.
If you experienced hardship in the past and endured through this one shot will be a nice treat to read.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Nov 21, 2022
You know this reminded me of a domestic girlfriend in a way, like a fascination of watching a slow-motion train crash. If you get the reference then you realize this manga is not only near that level but somehow surpassed domestic girlfriends level of bad.
The main character Kazuya is one of the worst characters I have seen in any romance genre, his sole goal in the beginning portion of the manga is getting a girlfriend so he decides to use an app to hire a "girlfriend" to give him the experience of having one. And then the dude gets pissed off at the worker
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for giving other people this experience because he wants to keep Chizuru to himself and literally blows up on her when he sees her with another man doing her job.
My first complaint is he doesn't find self-improvement as a goal to aid his desire to get a girlfriend instead he finds using money given to his family to fuel his artificial experience of having a companion, this idea I find incredibly harmful in society, and yet is viewed as GOOD in this manga so much so that he rents Chizuru out to his friend when he finds out.
He does have some merits and is not a complete write-off character because he is willing to save another person even with the thought of being harmed in the process and aids Chizuru in making a film for her grandmother. Those two moments along with the art are the only reason why I kept on reading this manga.
But the reasons to hate him and the rest of the cast keep on growing and growing, the only four characters in this entire dumpster fire I find actually decent and normal are Kibe (Kazuya's friend for some ungodly reason), Nagomi (Kazuya's grandmother), Sumi (Shy character who wants to get over her shyness so is trying to improve with the rent a girlfriend job), and Sayuri (Chizuru's grandmother). And I just realized why I don't dislike them as much as other cast members It is because the author decided to make them normal people due to not being heavily shown in the manga.
Kibe calls out Kazuya for his bullshit and tells him that he needs to get his shit together and stop thinking of his ex and think of his current girlfriend. Every time this dude is on the panels he's just trying to help out Kazuya or try to make him into a better person, and Kazuya either doubles down and says he's not wrong or two get his ass handed to him and then says he'll change and then proceeds to completely forget about it.
Both of their grandmother due to the lack of screentime I don't really have any issues, both are very thoughtful and want to best for their grandchildren and function like normal people thank god.
Sumi is the only member of the main four casts of girls that is the most normal of the bunch, this isn't high praise but its better than nothing since she actively is trying to get over her shy nature which is commendable and she gets money while trying to do this which is money smart.
All right let's go over the rest of the cast members
Mami: the two-faced ex
- probably the most hated character of this manga when it should be Kazuya
- why do you have so much free time
- what is your damage with seeing your ex having a good time
- holy fuck stop threatening Chizuru with going to Nagomi, to tell the truth about the artificial relationship just say it and get this ridiculous plot blackhole done with
- the only character who probably has the trigger to end this ridiculous farce that is called Rent a Girlfriend's plot
- the hero we need not the hero we want
Ruka: heart palpations are the least of your problems
- has a heart condition
- her entire premise is built on the above point
- falls in love with Kazuya due to the above-mentioned point and now proceeds to try to do anything to get into a relationship with him
- except tell his grandmother that the relationship that he has with Chizuru is artificial like the plastic
- is relegated to the third wheel when Kazuya's initial desire was to GET A GIRLFRIEND
- why do you stick with Kazuya? Just ride a rollercoaster and become a thrill seeker for fucks sake, become a stunt double or something
Chizuru: wants to go into the acting business, proceeds to whore herself
- incredibly well drawn in nearly any panel she is in
- can't seem to separate business and pleasure
- wants to become an actress and use the rent-a-girlfriend company as a jump pad to get a start off her acting career
- can't seem to properly convey to her grandmother and Kazuya's grandmother that they are having a misunderstanding
- what other personality does she have other than wanting an acting career and looking incredibly well-drawn
- after the film arc is just relegated to a wheel of the never-ending cog of the machine that is a romance drama manga
Kazuya: "A walking bruh moment."
- a lonely character who wants companionship but never self-improves in any form to better himself to have a healthier mindset for a relationship
- proceeds to rent girls out to have a fake experience of a relationship
- wastes money that is given by his parents to the point he gets a part-time job to fuel his unhealthy fix
- prances around his family and friends with his fake girlfriend to try and prove he is doing fine
- lashes out when called out for behavior that a normal person would obviously question
- when provided sound advice proceeds to forget and never look back on it
- gets a girl who is willing to be his GIRLFRIEND and proceeds to label her as a compulsive liar in front of his family to try and get with Chizuru
- refuses to come clean to his grandmother and his family or friends because afraid of the consequences
- is probably never going to come clean with this
All in all, fuck this out of 10 I wasted a bunch of my time. Go read the doujins, they have all the benefits of this manga which is the art
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Nov 21, 2022
Kabane is a ghoul who gains the desire to find his origins after Kohachi visits his village and exterminates the issues plaguing it. From there he is transported to Tokyo where he is introduced to his companions for the rest of the journey Akira and Shiki. We also meet Kon and Yoko during this process. From here we get the main cast members of the manga.
The basic premise is that there is a corpse of an incredibly powerful ghoul that had multiple clans infuse their powers upon it and then it got dismembered with each of its body parts embodying the power of each
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respective monster's clan. Kabane has one such piece and is currently trying to assemble it with his friends Akira and Shiki.
The issue I have with the manga is that it feels very plot hole heavy, x character forgets an entire event, Kohachi is a detective yet unable to do basic background checks on his employees, and Yoko basically given free rein to do whatever she pleases with no consequences whatsoever even when supposedly the fox clan and the raccoon clan are supposedly in check with one another makes me question a large portion of this manga.
There are amazing arc points in this manga that will make you desire the triumph of the characters, but there are others where you wonder why this was included at all other than comedic relief. The art is very satisfying to look at but the plot points feel very weak or not really thought of with the future set in mind. Its almost like there is no drive in this manga is what I feel in this manga in a way, I don't mean that the author isn't trying it just feels like the goal of meeting Kabane's ancestor feels lackluster in a way.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Nov 21, 2022
Following the current trend of the villainess manga troupe, x person gets into the mind of the villainess from a game/novel and tries to make the best of the circumstances. The main difference between this manga to the other variants is that it primarily focused on her trying to become a successful businesswoman who maintains her territory. I do enjoy these types of things as my guilty pleasure it deviates from the norm of not making Iris an immediately detestable character since she saved another person while she was just a child without any outside forces.
However, we do follow the standard troupes afterward of
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the antagonists being the love interests of the "protagonist" of the story just because they were told the "villainess" was cruel. Characters like the prince and her brother fall under this idea and although I don't mind these archetypes I do wish there was more depth to their character rather than blinded by love to not being able to have any sense of reason until they are nearly disowned.
I also do not like how near the later ends of the manga there is a love interest being made, because of course we have to have a romance and drama. I don't like this because I enjoyed the idea of Iris being a businesswoman more than any other aspects of the manga, having a love interest and causing issues because of said love interest to give a happily ever after feels forced.
All in all, it will satisfy your thirst for villainess mangas but it is slowly transcribed so probably have to go search for another series soon.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Nov 21, 2022
How do I describe this situation, high school kid gets thrown off a building by accident and is seemingly isekaied into another world where there are creatures that are incredibly hostile towards him. Along the way, the way he is saved by other humans and finds that he is in fact not the only human left alive and in fact has other humans as well but is for some reason all female. These humans are however cursed by a jealous god that kills them after they reach a certain age above 18 range is what I'm assuming.
But nobody cares about a general summary, in
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short, to stop this curse the main character needs to have sex with these female characters, and by god, it nearly reaches nudity levels that you would think are in hentai, not a manga. The story was very bland, find x village, find x girl, fuck x girl to keep her alive, near the end after some 100-odd chapters we finally start talking about how this new world is somehow a future of the main character's original world. At that point, you have to wonder why the author didn't make the entire manga based around the concept of how this entire situation came to be instead of just drawing softcore to hardcore porn but at that point, you'd probably be like me, and be disenfranchised from this "plot".
TLDR: Manga is basically softcore/hardcore porn, enjoy if you like your manga that is actually just that. The interesting plot points you would think should be expanded more are just relegated to the main character just fucking a bunch of women. Pass
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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