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Nov 12, 2022
I was looking through my manga list the other day and spotted one I didn't recognize this one. I apparently read it years ago, and rated it highly but couldn't recall anything about it. So I decided to check it out on a whim. The moment I started to read it, I instantly started to remember this manga. Despite it's short length, it's absolutely great. I love the characters and their dynamics. There are moments that are genuinely hilarious as well. I am shocked this one doesn't have more attention. It deserves so much more. Check this one out. Just be warned that it is
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short, so what most people would consider the end of Arc 1 in longer mangas is the end of this one. Would like to see more of it, but since it's been 6 years, I am doubtful.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 28, 2022
I do not understand this manga at all, or how anyone could get enjoyment out of this. My first thought from chapter one was that the MC was a complete scum bag. But as the story, if you can call it that, continued, I grew more and more frustrated. The MC is supposed to be unlikable, but then everyone likes him, and tries to cheer him up and tell him he's better than he thinks he is...
Let me explain my frustration a bit more.
At the beginning of this manga the MC is shown to have have two girls that are close to him, a
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childhood friend and the student council president. The MC has a plan to try and get these two girls to fall in love with him so he can have a harem. This backfires on him when these two girls tell him that they love not the MC but his best friend. So MC gets depressed and shocked about this, but decides he will help these two girls because if they fail to have the best friend fall in love with them, then he can go and get the other girl. Complete scumbag move, but then his secret is revealed by another girl in the library who demands the MC follow her commands otherwise she'll spill his secret. Because shocker this library girl is in love with the MC, for reasons? Long story short this library girl becomes the main girl that our MC falls for, only because she reveals that she has large breasts hidden under wrappings. But before that his secret does get revealed and the two girls and his best friend come to hate him. But then he makes up with them. But then the two girls start to actually fall in love with him? And there's also a a bit of weird relationship tension between the best friend character and the MC? I honestly couldn't grasp at all what this story was trying to do, and even when it started to make sense a new "plot twist" would enter the fray that doesn't make any sense at all and drag the story out for another 20 chapters. Like another girl coming out of nowhere with the hots for MC and mixing up everything to try and win his favor over the other girls. This happens three to four times after his secret gets revealed... I just don't get it. I couldn't tell if the story was trying to be a secret conspiracy kind of story that reveals all of the cards at the end or what. I legit thought that the library girl was gonna reveal that she was someone from the MC's past and she was doing all of this to get revenge on MC for some reason. But I guess no, the things that are supposed to look like secrets and lies are the truth and the truth is just as dumb as you think it is. And this doesn't even begin to cover every dumb thing that happens in this manga.
To the people who enjoyed this manga, congrats. For me I couldn't stand this horrible manga at all, and honestly should have dropped it and kinda regret not doing so. But my morbid curiosity wouldn't let it go especially since I saw that this manga finished at only 44 chapters, so I read it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Sep 21, 2022
Long story short, this manga means a lot to me and I love it. It's not perfect. There are some gags and jokes that run on for maybe longer then they should have, while other sections feel shorter than what I would have liked them to be. But nontheless, this is a romcom manga that is special. Because it focuses not only on the romance side of things, but also the comedy as well. And the comedy (maybe minus some parts) is hilarious.
This manga is also a bit special to me. This manga started when I was in middleschool, but I didn't discover it
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until the end my 2nd year in highscool. I then fully started reading it while I was in my 3rd year and loved it. I was even able to find some friends that enjoyed it along side me. But... things started getting busy for me around this time. Had to take school more seriously and everything. So I had to take a break from this manga. And I never really got back into it. That was back near chapter 160, sometime in the first half of 2017.
And time continued on. I didn't fully loose my hobby of manga and anime, but I kept reading new stuff. Eventually I went to college. Eventually I had graduated college and starting working my field. Now it's been roughly 9 months that I've become a "full adult" in my eyes of my teenager self from years ago. I had some more free time recently and had a random thought, "Oh hey, what happened to that one manga I really liked about the vampire girl and the guy trying to keep her secret?"
So I looked it up. I had known already that it had finished some years ago, but I started reading it again from scratch. It was a great time remembering what I had read all those years ago and finally getting a conclusion to the story I started reading. I kinda regret not reading it to completion back in the day, but I guess I can't change the past so I might as well be happy that I have these memories now. This shall always hold a special place in my heart.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 11, 2022
First and foremost: I really do not like this adaptation of monogatari and it pains me to not like something like this. The art is fantastic and Oh! Great did a great job with some of the panel work and art direction. Maybe minus kissshot's design. But I just can't get over how bad of an adaptation of the original story this is. Some may not have an issue with how things have changed. But for me there are so many little differences in story beats and characters that I just can't stand it. And see this as nothing more than some glorified fan fiction.
[Warning:
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some minor spoilers for monogatari in this next paragraph]
One of the biggest offensives for me is right in the beginning. Senjougahara is afflicted with having essentially no weight. This is due to her having a crab god remove her emotions, as she couldn't handle the things in her personal life, mostly her mother. This meant that Senjougahara was cold and stern with everyone she encountered. Because she simply did not feel anything towards anyone. So, why do I mention all of this? Well because in this manga version of the same story, we see multiple times that Senjougahara is flustered with Araragi and shown to be blushing. All of this before she was given back her emotions. I think this completely undermines her character development as she is meant to start off as a girl who doesn't know how to control her emotions and ends up being maybe a bit too harsh on Araragi at the start. But as the series goes on, she is meant to be shown more and more loving towards Araragi. Or I guess we could just shove it in the face of the viewers by showing Senjougahara is flustered by Araragi's face being equally shoved into Senjougahara 's crotch. Which, by the way, never happened in the books or the anime. Just extra fanservice for the sake of it, I guess? Ugh.
Again these changes might not seem like a big deal to some, but for me this is one example of how the story is changed from the original. Shaft may have took some liberties when making the animes, but it seems Oh! Great has created a whole new set of characters that just share the names from Monogatari. With some of the story beats added in there. This reads more like fan fiction than it does an actual adaptation in manga form.
Now, I have only read through to ch.8 before I dropped the manga. After all why keep reading something if I'm not enjoying it. So, who knows it might have gotten better over time. But I seriously doubt that the *little* changes to the story are ever going to stop.
Some may even wonder why I would write a review on something like this. Clearly people tend to enjoy this adaptation and my view is quite a niche one. I just wanted to write down my own thoughts on this and give a clear conscience to anyone out there that might be feeling the same way about this manga.
If you like this adaptation, I am happy for you. I just worry if this is anyone's first interaction with the series, and they go to the books or anime, they might be in a for a surprise to find things different from what they are used to.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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May 5, 2022
This manga really started off promising but fell off recently and I don't know if it can recover.
Quick Summary (WARNING Spoilers ahead): The main protagonist, Ichirou Kobayashi, of this manga has a inkling to become the best "side character" of a protagonist after playing a side character in a play when he was a kid. So naturally he spends his life trying to find just the right story beats and find his so-called perfect "protagonist" to follow. Which eventually he does in a man named Ryuuga. As Ichirou Kobayashi is trying to weave his own version of a story we get see many tropes played
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on - quite hilarious at times too. Including the classic trope of the so-called protagonist Ryuuga with his harem of girls fighting against evil that no-one else is supposed to know about. However things get mixed up when one-day Ichirou Kobayashi find out that his "protagonist" Ryuuga isn't a he, but instead is a she. And she has been hiding as a female this whole time, trying not to show her deep feeling for our main protagonist, Ichirou Kobayashi. This utterly crumbles Ichirou Kobayashi's plans and he really doesn't know what to do. He planned to simply be a bystander character in this story, not the main love interest. He wanders around trying to figure out what to do in life and accidentally stumbles on the harem girls and accidentally starts setting up red flags with all of them one by one. This causes Ichirou Kobayashi to accidentally fall into becoming the actual main protagonist. All of this being quite hilarious. Then some other events happen and then the manga just takes a nose-dive in quality for me.
Now, where this manga started to fall flat for me was when the Demon of Greed was shown to be living in Ichirou Kobayashi as a sort of doppelganger. This character really just dragged the whole story down for me. Especially since this greed demon loves the once thought to be a male Ryuuga, and actively goes around pretending to be Ichirou Kobayashi trying to seduce Ryuuga. All the meanwhile Ichirou Kobayashi really doesn't seem to care too much? He really just kinda lets things happen at this point. All his drive as a character is gone and feels like this story just started going a complete different direction, that includes Ichirou Kobayashi allowing essentially a look-alike to cheat on his pretend girlfriend Ryuuga.
I just don't know where this story is going anymore. Unless the demon of greed is killed or just removed from this manga in the next few chapters I might just drop this one, cause it went from being pretty good to bad really quick. I really don't know this can recover at this point.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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