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Mod Note: This review was initially posted for the one-shot, Gyu...tte Shite Ii?, and was subsequently merged into Kaworu-kun to Hana no Mori.

This manga will be enjoyable for people who are not veteran shoujo-readers and for those of us who are able to sit back and laugh at cliches. It's the kind of story to read on a summer day when you don't have anything else to do and you need something cute to laugh at.

The plot really doesn't make much sense logically (Why did the heroine have to be his replacement pillow? Couldn't he have just gone to any store and bought one?), but ... there were a few scenes which made me giggle a lot. At some points, I wanted to roll my eyes, but at other points, this one-shot really surprised me with its bubbly sense of humor.

If you enjoyed the general look/feel of this manga, I'd highly recommend you try reading some of Aikawa Saki's works. This one-shot's art somehow reminded me of that mangaka's style.

It would be a terrible lie if I said that I liked the manga the moment I saw the summary. I quote from my pending reads list: “Iffy at best.” Must contact Manga Fox at some point and tell them that the summary makes the manga sound like a circus or story about a girl with a bad case of bestiality. However, I was pleasantly surprised. The characters were easy to love and multifaceted. The mangaka tied the story up with a well-composed reflexive ending, which I love finding in books and manga, and the romance was quirky and adorable. It didn’t make me cry ... like Absolute Boyfriend, but I was pretty darn close.