Cuter than I expected. The heroine is a "gutsy" (willing to go against the grain/stand up to people) highschooler who'd like to fall in love. ENot bad
Cuter than I expected. The heroine is a "gutsy" (willing to go against the grain/stand up to people) highschooler who'd like to fall in love. Enter the male lead who's a 21 former delinquent classmate with bad rumors, a scary appearance, a troubled past, but is a soft good boy inside.
There's pretty much no flirting or sexual tension and it's the girl setting the pace which makes the age gap less gross. I wasn't particularly interested in the characters, but it avoided most of my shojo squicks.
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Not bad
Cuter than I expected. The heroine is a "gutsy" (willing to go against the grain/stand up to people) highschooler who'd like to fall in love. Enter the male lead who's a 21 former delinquent classmate with bad rumors, a scary appearance, a troubled past, but is a soft good boy inside.
There's pretty much no flirting or sexual tension and it's the girl setting the pace which makes the age gap less gross. I wasn't particularly interested in the characters, but it avoided most of my shojo squicks....more
A tanuki journeys to Osaka intent on playing tricks on humans. She finds herself unable to succeed at her tricks and upon encountering a mysterious woA tanuki journeys to Osaka intent on playing tricks on humans. She finds herself unable to succeed at her tricks and upon encountering a mysterious woman who sees through her tankuki disguise and catching her rakugo act, resolves to become the woman's apprentice. This feels a bit like a less serious Descending Stories but with supernatural fantasy aspects and a much younger female cast.
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A tanuki journeys to Osaka intent on playing tricks on humans. She finds herself unable to succeed at her tricks and upon encountering a mysterious woman who sees through her tankuki disguise and catching her rakugo act, resolves to become the woman's apprentice. This feels a bit like a less serious Descending Stories but with supernatural fantasy aspects and a much younger female cast....more
The heroine is somewhat isolated and leaves little impression on people to the point no one manages to get her name right. She likes hanging out at niThe heroine is somewhat isolated and leaves little impression on people to the point no one manages to get her name right. She likes hanging out at nights because there's no one else around until one night her handsome classmate (Koga) runs into her claiming to be an alien stuck possessing his body. Clueless about human interactions, he wants her to be his friend. Becoming friends(?), their interactions at school don't go unnoticed and the actual Koga is suspicious of his "sleepwalking" strange occurrences.
Another series where I get my hopes up thinking it'll be friendship between the leads only to have it just be ship. This one looks to be the friends/pretend-couple-to-lovers variety. The characters were cute and it was fun, but I don't know its worth a romance for me.
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The heroine is somewhat isolated and leaves little impression on people to the point no one manages to get her name right. She likes hanging out at nights because there's no one else around until one night her handsome classmate (Koga) runs into her claiming to be an alien stuck possessing his body. Clueless about human interactions, he wants her to be his friend. Becoming friends(?), their interactions at school don't go unnoticed and the actual Koga is suspicious of his "sleepwalking" strange occurrences.
Another series where I get my hopes up thinking it'll be friendship between the leads only to have it just be ship. This one looks to be the friends/pretend-couple-to-lovers variety. The characters were cute and it was fun, but I don't know its worth a romance for me....more
More of a 2/5 but I bumped it up a star since male adult platonic friendship is really rare in media. It's a slice-of-life cooking/food maFantasy food
More of a 2/5 but I bumped it up a star since male adult platonic friendship is really rare in media. It's a slice-of-life cooking/food manga spinoff of Witch Hat Atelier and is rather weak as a standalone. It expects you to know the characters and setting since little is addressed in that regard. The recipes are all fantasy dishes, but you can make substitutions with real ingredients. I found it kind of dull since it felt more like a "cooking show" than a story or slice of life....more
She eats monsters, he hunts them. Both are feared.
It's a fantasy romcom with some food/cooking aspects. It leans more on romance than is usual for theShe eats monsters, he hunts them. Both are feared.
It's a fantasy romcom with some food/cooking aspects. It leans more on romance than is usual for the cooking and food manga genre. The heroine has a fixation, if not obsession, with cooking and eating monster ingredients which is stigmatized due to their toxic properties if not handled properly. This stigma makes finding a suitor difficult. The male love interest is feared for being violent and blood-crazed in his gruesome dispatching of monsters, but is in actuality an oblivious soldier-type.
Worth checking out if you like cute (blushing and flustering) romcoms with some fantasy food appearances. Bit too strong in the romance department for me....more
Features a bashful tsuredure male lead in love with an oblivious prince-type heroine. I usually get some laughs out oGenderswapped prince and tsundere
Features a bashful tsuredure male lead in love with an oblivious prince-type heroine. I usually get some laughs out of the subverted gender tropes, but this leaned a lot harder on the romantic tension than most which was a turn off for me.
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Genderswapped prince and tsundere
Features a bashful tsuredure male lead in love with an oblivious prince-type heroine. I usually get some laughs out of the subverted gender tropes, but this leaned a lot harder on the romantic tension than most which was a turn off for me....more
The MC isekai reincarnates as a virus that can take over hosts and learn/evolve new traits onto the host. This wasn't bad, but thOP evolving MC isekai
The MC isekai reincarnates as a virus that can take over hosts and learn/evolve new traits onto the host. This wasn't bad, but the MC had weird flippant attitude that set a sort of silly slap dash tone that made the story difficult to engage with. I also kept waiting for the virologist to question being a sentient non-living thing or how his experiences as a virus are so different from his field of study, but it never came up.
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OP evolving MC isekai
The MC isekai reincarnates as a virus that can take over hosts and learn/evolve new traits onto the host. This wasn't bad, but the MC had weird flippant attitude that set a sort of silly slap dash tone that made the story difficult to engage with. I also kept waiting for the virologist to question being a sentient non-living thing or how his experiences as a virus are so different from his field of study, but it never came up....more
A shonen action series from the author of Yozakura Quartet 1. It has a similar feel and style (particularly in character design), though perhaps more A shonen action series from the author of Yozakura Quartet 1. It has a similar feel and style (particularly in character design), though perhaps more typical to the shonen genre in its plot and tropes. The main focus is people with magic shoes fighting people with magic gloves. There's some silly wordplay and puns to it that felt rather out of place given it has an "angry shonen" vibe.
The MC was the victim of an encounter with one of the magic glove bearers and lost his sister and his leg. Using his magic prosthetic, he joins an organization of similar victims to hunt down and defeat the glove people. Pretty much slightly worse than okay, one of the main appeals of Yozakura Quartet was the setting and action + small town slice-of-life vibe, before I dropped it for getting more serious with stakes and drama. This leads of with the stakes and drama, so I don't see myself following it.
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A shonen action series from the author of Yozakura Quartet 1. It has a similar feel and style (particularly in character design), though perhaps more typical to the shonen genre in its plot and tropes. The main focus is people with magic shoes fighting people with magic gloves. There's some silly wordplay and puns to it that felt rather out of place given it has an "angry shonen" vibe.
The MC was the victim of an encounter with one of the magic glove bearers and lost his sister and his leg. Using his magic prosthetic, he joins an organization of similar victims to hunt down and defeat the glove people. Pretty much slightly worse than okay, one of the main appeals of Yozakura Quartet was the setting and action + small town slice-of-life vibe, before I dropped it for getting more serious with stakes and drama. This leads of with the stakes and drama, so I don't see myself following it....more
This was a hard series for me to place, the art style wasn't really something I would expect from manga, but wasn't bad. The writing was harder for meThis was a hard series for me to place, the art style wasn't really something I would expect from manga, but wasn't bad. The writing was harder for me to place as I couldn't really tell who it was targeting. It had a cute bland silliness I'd expect from a more juvenile work, but something about it felt like it wasn't trying to be a "kids book" despite there not being anything particularly mature about it beyond a character's buxom design. It was alright, but I was mostly bored reading it.
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This was a hard series for me to place, the art style wasn't really something I would expect from manga, but wasn't bad. The writing was harder for me to place as I couldn't really tell who it was targeting. It had a cute bland silliness I'd expect from a more juvenile work, but something about it felt like it wasn't trying to be a "kids book" despite there not being anything particularly mature about it beyond a character's buxom design. It was alright, but I was mostly bored reading it....more
General premise is Natsuaki, the lead, crushing on and pining after Nashida who's oblivious to his shy and flustered attentionsCute, but not much else
General premise is Natsuaki, the lead, crushing on and pining after Nashida who's oblivious to his shy and flustered attentions. Lots of longing but fairly devoid of sexual tension. Vol 1 ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. It's cute and no drama, but there's not much to the plot, characters, or setting other than "look at that blushing."
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Cute, but not much else
General premise is Natsuaki, the lead, crushing on and pining after Nashida who's oblivious to his shy and flustered attentions. Lots of longing but fairly devoid of sexual tension. Vol 1 ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. It's cute and no drama, but there's not much to the plot, characters, or setting other than "look at that blushing."...more
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