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Oct 21, 2024
Preliminary (25/? chp)
Do you like cute, fluffy rom-coms? Yes? Great. Do you also like more dramatic stories with a bit of an edge? Yes? Great, then this is the manga for you.

I think it's fair to say that the recent score-bombing of It's a Little Late says a lot less about the quality of the manga than it does about the fragile and overly-sensitive nature of a large section of the manga community. Or, to be as charitable as possible, it says that a lot of those score-leavers would answer "yes" to my first question and "no" to my second.

I think it's also fair to say the ...
May 14, 2024
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (5/24 eps)
To all the younger viewers complaining about how boring the start of this new season has been, let this serve as a warning for your future: working for companies with a poor "meeting culture" will suck the life out of you.

Some managers just love a meeting, and will schedule one for pretty much anything. Partly it's a way to make them feel important, but mainly it's a way to fill lots of time and make it seem like they're busy people. The fact that these meetings actually waste everybody else's time seems to escape their notice. I can only assume the decision-makers behind this season ...
Mar 23, 2024
Preliminary (11/? chp)
"Toxic AF". "Surprisingly wholesome". Both are descriptions I've seen attached to Destroy It All And Love Me In Hell. Both are also true. It's hard to explain why they're both true without going into spoiler territory, but let's try anyway.

First of all, yes, this story clearly ticks a whole bunch of the toxic yuri checkboxes. If toxic yuri is your bag, or toxic relationship stories in general, then this is an easy recommendation and you might as well stop reading this review now and go check it out. No judgement here, I love a good toxic story myself, the more messed up the better.

But surprisingly ...
Mar 23, 2024
Preliminary (121/? chp)
At a glance one might be forgiven for assuming that 2.5 Dimensional Seduction is a clone of the much more well known My Dress-Up Darling: both are ecchi rom-coms that use the world of cosplay as their setting, and the former started publishing about a year after the latter. But whatever the authors initial motivation for writing 2.5D might have been, the reality is that it tells a very different story, and has grown into something that far surpasses its rival.

Both mangas leaned heavily into their ecchi fan service early on to build a following, and then shifted focus more towards the cosplay side of ...
Mar 23, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (102/? chp)
Bait and switch. This isn't the fist manga to pull a bait and switch, and it surely won't be the last, but my god the switch sure is jarring.

The bait: a somewhat ecchi rom-com with cosplay as the setting; the perfect opportunity to showcase our beautiful main girl in a variety of ridiculously skimpy outfits. Cue nosebleeds all round, rave reviews, and a well received anime adaptation.

The switch: a cosplay manga which goes to great length detailing the minutiae of creating cosplay outfits, multiple chapters showcasing nothing but photo shoots at various events, and a complete retreat from anything that could be described as romantic ...
Mar 23, 2024
Preliminary (17/? chp)
In a genre dominated by teenage high school romances, anything with an adult cast and literally any other setting is automatically something worth checking out. Unfortunately, if this is the best we can manage outside of the norm then we might as well just go back to the teenagers.

As of chapter 17 there's literally no rom in this rom-com, and at the current rate of progress there'll barely be any in a hundred chapters time. There isn't even the slightest hint that the older male love-interest sees our MC as anything other than a co-worker and possible surrogate daughter, which means that there's zero sexual ...
Mar 13, 2024
Preliminary (77/? chp)
Every now and again you come across a manga that really feels like it breaks the mold, either in the art style that it uses, or the kind of story it wants to tell, or the way it wants to tell it. Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta seems intent on doing all three.

The art style is extremely distinctive - possibly even off-putting if the front cover is all you've got to go on - but it's really worth bearing with because it's actually beautifully drawn and suits the story perfectly. Characters are expressive and fluid, backgrounds are nicely detailed, the use of lime green ...


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