ZETTAI KARESHI

Zettai Kareshi or Absolute Boyfriend is ranked one of my top five mangas to read. The story line is fresh and it make the reader wonder on the boundaries of love and just how far you can take it. Since Night is so human like and shows emotions and personality as such it is hard to remember he is an android. This is great for the story since it really pulls the reader into the book. The series is so sweet and I love all the character. Each character balances out the next. I do wish that the character Gaku Namikiri showed up in the manga just a bit more, but his presence was used enough for the story plot. Night’s character was just perfect. It was easy to imagine someone in his place acting so childlike but remain loving and romantic.

This boyfriend-in-a-box situation is more like something I'd expect from a shounen manga, only in that case it would be a girlfriend-in-a-box and an ecchi tag. I was expecting this to have some more indecently funny moments than it actually did have (considering the delivery came unclothed!), but most of the comedy had to do with a figure trying to act as human as possible and become the best lover for the main character, Riiko.

This isn't just about falling in love with a robot, though. There is another man in Riiko's life who aims for her attention as well, a childhood friend and next door neighbor named Soushi. So if you were thinking, sigh, this is just some cheesy romance involving a human and a robot, it isn't just that. This love triangle takes up the latter half of the manga and delves into what love is for a high schooler. There's that pressure to be someone worth wanting and the struggle to find someone who could possibly want that mess that's you. That being said, is it easiest to find acceptance and love from a robot that was made to love you?

Aside from the serious romantic moments were the comedic ones that sometimes got me to smile but rarely made me laugh out loud. I found the humor to be a little bit too silly and more suited for younger audiences. A robot acting strange in new surroundings can only be so funny. Perhaps it just wasn't my cup of tea.

I can't say that the characters are any more different from normal shoujo ones. That robot boyfriend is, of course, perfect in every way except that he's human. That flawlessness is typical of many romantic interests in shoujo manga regardless of whether they're human or not. The heroine is a little bit of a headstrong girl confused in the issues of love... what's new? The other romantic interest of course, will do anything to gain the heroine's affections but will respect her own choice. It's all quite predictable, isn't it?

Absolute Boyfriend is more than ten years old, so the art is certainly aged. I'm not such a fan of the heroine and others having such large round faces and small eyes, but it's consistent. I could see how some people could be considered handsome, but their round faces do take their ages down a notch. Otherwise the artwork is pretty all right; it isn't too shabby or hard to look at and is sufficient.

I think this manga would have been more entertaining to me if I were younger, though the brief mentions of sex would have made me uncomfortable. That's what I find a little strange about this manga; there wasn't enough of that particular topic for it to be rated mature (but almost) and the humor was young and light, so it was a little dissonant. However, this manga was a little bit amusing, I'll give it that.

As it's been said before, Zettai Kareshi, or Absolute Boyfriend, is a tale of the main character falling in love with an android. Though it may seem strange, as you continue to read, you grow to love the characters as they are all original and unique in their own way. (I, personally, am in love with Soshi).
Fantastic art (Yuu Watase is the author of Fushigi Yugi and "Ceres") and amazing choice of panels and story layout - though some bits grow very far-fetched - as it includes humorous and beautifully crafted scenes for all to see!
Perfect ending, in my opinion. The story, overall, makes the reader emotional and utterly interested, pleasing the eyes with pleasurable pictures (for girls at least... though you catch a few naked women at times) so it really is almost perfect.
The only downside is that is that I find the character, Night, very... off-putting. That's all.

Girl falling in love with a robot, meh .. this is what you probably think!

but actually this is very VERY good, Riko is this naive girl (sometimes too naive) and Knight is exactly like his his name, is a Knight!

too much love in this manga for my own good, and the ending is .. eeeeeeeh!

It's just too good to be true right? nothing lasts forever!

If you liked Chobits, this is like that only with the male and female roles flip-flopped.

The story, while certainly not original, is still captivating with a few small unique aspects that make it stand out from other stories like it. You really feel emotions for the characters, especially Night. I found myself constantly squealing over his charming and naive personality. And of course, it's authored by the wonderful Yuu Watase. You can't go wrong!

Bascially, this is the male version of the movie Her. It was long for me to read and a bit odd, especially because I was in middle school. But when you read the first chapter, the curiosity of what comes next might poke at you a little bit, so you might want to consider watching this if you're into those type of anime that are cute, but sort of make you think a bit about the "what if's" of life.

Well this is my fav manga so my review might not be to helpful cause I'm just going to say it is great . The character designs are good and yuu watase might not have come up with a completly original idea but she has made it her own . Riiko is a food leading lady shy and a bit annoying at times but it is night who makes the book so special he is a brilliant leading man goofy,handsome,charming and protective of his woman . It also makes me laugh how quick he gets his clothes off LOL in all I love this book and recomend it to any one who likes a good soopy love story

I quickly fell in love with this manga, so much that I sat in my room and read the entire series straight through the same night I started.
I was a Soushi fan, but I loved Night too.
The characters were developed really well, the story was good, and the art was amazing.
I found very few flaws as I read through it and I enjoyed it so much.
It was a good welcoming back into the manga world.
I would definitely recommend this to everyone, because I absolutely loved it!

I'm a huge Yuu Watase fan, but her latest story didn't capture my attention as some of her other works. Her art as always is gorgeous and I could totally relate to Reiko, moreso than any of her other heroines. But after the first two volumes, the story got kinda...old. It just started to drag on. I guess because I always like the guy the heroine doesn't choose (except in FY and A19), but I've enjoyed her other series despite my disappointment ; D. For a fun and cute summer read, I would definetly recommend and anyone who is a Watase fan will enjoy, but it's not one of her better works.

I found this to an incredibly cute story, amazing characters, and some not so original character profiles. However this proved to be a page-turner and has the ability to make girls flash a slight smile as they're reading it.

However the ending was completely unsatisfying.