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Jan 30, 2025
aside from the constanly great art, there are a lot of issues I have with pearl boy but my biggest one by far is that it doesn't seem to know what kind of story it wants to tell or what it wants to be. we're constantly switching between two extremes; namely "someone gets raped/abused/assaulted/abducted" and "everything is sunshine and rainbows" (the rest of it is literally just Dooshik and Jooha fucking). it is also always Jooha who is suffering the most without any purpose except for cheap shock value (I'm talking about being 70 chapters into the story and he STILL gets gang-raped????). the resulting,
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briefly addressed "ptsd trauma treatment", which should be a pivotal part of Jooha's healing, is glossed over in a flippant way during a flashback (because whatever could Jooha need professional help for if Dooshik can just fuck his post-suicide-attempt-sadness away). the characters aren't the cream of the crop either. starting with the fact that Pilwon is a bad, uninteresting, under-developed villain. he's literally on screen just to look hot, say and do two bad things, and then he's gone again. furthermore, in the course of the story, Dooshik slowly turns into a Pilwon 2.0 appearance-wise, which is the biggest red-flag for him. other than that, he's simply not a good man. he regularly attracts negative attention generally but also by being a total ass in bed (Jooha: "stop it, put me down, that's enough, Dooshik stop it please", Dooshik: "isn't this romantic, hyung?" / Dooshik: "I have to be forceful at first. you're not going anywhere. can you stop talking? if we don't do it right now I might lose my mind"). nevermind the fact that he had someone raped out of revenge. i know some people see it as some big brain knight in shining armor move or will argue that one bad deed warrants another bad deed but it just reinforces that he is not a good man, and definitely not the best choice for Jooha who, at the end of all his suffering, is doomed to stay with the "lesser evil."
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jan 23, 2025
i cannot say anything negative about the art because it was consistently great and pleasant to look at (hence the 1 star, i'd have loved to give it -1 stars otherwise). the story on the other hand, oh ...
the added value this story brings to the reader is truly abysmal. it downplays, normalizes, and romaticizes emotional, physical, as well as sexual abuse. the main character nakyum (poor, submissive) is written as innocent and pitiful while his love interest seungho (powerful, dominant) is written as objectively unlikeable for at least 70 chapters (which is more than half of the story). seungho is arrogant and narcissistic and
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regularly threatens, sexually violates, manipulates, and beats nakyum bloody in those first 70 chapters. this behavior, albeit lessening in frequency and gravity, continues all the way to chapter 86 before (one could argue) seungho's supposed "redeeming arc" begins. unfortunately, the progression of his (presumptive) character development (if there ever was any) gets disrupted by a sudden special chapter in which he is shown to explicitly rape nakyum in an out-of-universe "stuck in the wall" scenario. to what purpose would someone sabotage their own characters and story like this if not for cheap rape slop? the consequence of all of this is that after almost 90 painful chapters, every seemingly consensual sex scene between the characters still feels distasteful and wrong.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Jun 24, 2023
not gonna lie, the first 3 episodes had me in a clutch. I started watching this on a whim late at night, not expecting it to be so compelling that I’d feel like I needed to know what would happen next. I was seriously ready to lose some sleep over it that night. luckily I decided against it and instead continued watching the next day. sadly, the show couldn’t hold me much longer than five or six episodes. the metaphorical chess game was a bit tiring and I feel like a lot of the twists were predictable. there were some instances of lazy writing, like
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when that boy “bumped” into Mom to steal that super very important key from her… the animation was a 8/10 though.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 29, 2010
Until now, Kimi no Iru Machi taught me one certain thing: "If you were a boy in a manga, you should absolutely pray for the genre (not) to be harem." Oh... well, seems like it is actually not that certain.
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* Haruto, our lucky protagonist of Kimi no Iru Machi, has to fight himself through several hardships; which - and that's for sure - are always somehow connected to at least one female. And that's pretty much it.
Haruto. Females. Problems.
This rough draft cotinues until the point I currently stopped reading, but I guess this will go on forever, or at least until Haruto finally finds his
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true love and thus gets rid of his problems.
This rough draft - Haruto. Females. Problems. - is like the dry bone of Kimi no Iru Machi's story, luckily enough there's sufficient meat at that bone for it to be tasty.
But, to get away from all the meat and bones and for all the veggies: the concept of KnIM's story is easy to see through, yet the stuff that is wrapped around this rough concept (-> great portions of drama, humor and ecchi!) makes everything interesting. If you don't pay close attention and just go with the flow of the story you might not even realize that easy concept, ha.
* The art is at the very least good. And that goes for just this manga itself, not comparing it to any other artists style. Beautiful, clear lines, also, the grey shading makes everything livelier. I think the art pretty much fits both the characters and the theme of the manga.
* Now comes the point where my newly absorbed knowledge gets into action: the characters = the females (if you really want to, you can count the few males into the cast too)!
Like I said at the very start, this manga has taught me that it must be paradise for a boy to live within a harem - but ONLY if that boy gives all that 'love hurts' stuff a wide berth. Surprisingly, and really no one saw it coming, steering clear of Love isn't quite possible in a harem manga. And that's most likely because, well, it happens that at least one of those pretty harem-girls developes/has a crush on the boy in charge.
In KnIM now we have almost a dozen of those cute and pretty (I'm serious, the female characters are mostly beautiful ones, IMO) girls that like Haruto-kun or begin to develop a crush on him. I hate that. But just because I hate that I won't get biased. After all, that's what I get for reading harem, huh? xD
I guess I have to at least bring up her name once; Eba, the allegedly main characters (major?) love interest is only ALLEGEDLY Haruto's major love interest with justification, because things happen with her that no one sees coming but on the other hand everyone wants to happen -- which put Haruto (and me) into deep sufferings of cunfusion.
I don't really get what's going on there anymore, and while Haruto seems to move on I stay put and Eba is... I don't know.
I really liked her character, though. She is, by far, my favourite of the female characters.
So, while the female characters in KnIM change quasi every fifth chapter, our little, ever-so-blushing main protagonist Haruto doesn't seem to change at all. Well, he did change, but I kind of get the feeling that he's stuck at some point now.
However, all in all the characters are nice and the different female's personalities vary!
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Enjoyable reading, nice art, a good story and a lot of girls - I have high hopes for this manga to get even better in the next time -, you should really give it a try if you like/love harem, romance and humor!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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