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Doubt review
Doubt
Apr 06, 2021
Doubt review
“Oh I’m getting an erection. Is it touching your back?”

I laughed I’m sorry but that up there is funny, which is the type of humor you find in Doubt!! You have to appreciate honest truths, even creepy ones.

Having been an ugly duckling for all of her life and tired of people not noticing her in a good way, Ai decides, ‘enough is enough.’ During one summer she turns herself from a nerd into a princess, with a lot of effort, she looks completely different and the new school she’s starting will bring forth her “new and improved” life. Everything is going according to plans and everyone loves her, Ai has her eye on the school’s most popular guy and top player. It turns out that on the inside she is still the inexperience girl she has always been specially when it comes to guys.

The story is simple and typical, so average you see it everywhere you look (tv counts). Girl decides to change herself because people were hatin’ ( I like to try slang every now and then) on her. She changes herself and goes to a new school to start over and people love her there. Immediately getting the attention of the school’s top guys and best friends, So’(that’s his name) and Yuichiro. Good thing she’s pretty now, if not all that stress of getting So' to fall in love with her would make her really scary if she were her plain old self. Lesson is simple in this one, you want something, go get it! Not meaning sex, which is talked about in this manga a lot too. The “it” was more metaphorical for all your wishes and desires (could include sex if you want). A girl's struggle to being accepted and dealing with a promiscuous guy and all his psychotic (non medicated) ex's (yes that's plural, remember that if you start reading this one). And try not to dwell on the message that unless you're pretty or beautiful your life won't amount to much and no one will love you because then you'll really dislike it.

This is the part we thank all those side characters for lifting the dead carcass that some manga have potential of being and giving it LOL moments to deviate from the fact that the lead characters are not lead material at first and for a while later. Mouthful there.

“ A cat fight is about to commence… a rivalry so intense that it’s heat will scorch the Earth!” (very anticlimactic, I mean dramatic)

To start of you have, Ai, who is a bucket of crazy. If crazy were to take human form it would lie on her shoulders and give her directions. Everywhere.
She wanted what she didn’t have when she was plain, now when she’s pretty, she’s still herself and a little bit like the other girls she disliked. Her development in this story was that she cared enough about wanting to change her life that she changed her outer self in order to achieve it, to become stronger (to get laid). I’d say she got confidence but it was more of self assurance that she grew into. I grew to like her more towards the end due to standing up for herself and not letting someone under the pretext of love take advantage of her.

Mina is Ai’s best and only friend in this manga. And if Ai has the crazy, Mina feeds the weird. She’s in love with Yuichiro, as it happens he loves Ai, which is obvious to everyone but Ai. Instead of hating her friend for that, it is represented in a comical way that is almost (and yet completely) unrealistic. She is a rare breed that one. Mina is herself and is just there for the purpose of providing advice (not good one most of the times) and comical occurrences which extend the plot and manga length.

Yuichiro and So, the unlikely pair that are as different as night and day and yet as alike as water and ice. Always curious why the do that in manga. Make two guys who are almost identical, different in personality and make them both like the heroine. I think it’s just to see which one she picks. Trying out the “good guys finish last.” saying.

Yuichiro is the serious and smarter version of whore-ish So‘, who has girls eating out of his hands and from his character you assume that he lost his virginity in middle school to his teacher. Yeah that guy. Yuichiro is the friend we all want to have and sometimes take for granted until he isn’t there anymore. His character is consistent and never changing in his side role. Which is a shame because he has spunk when it counts and I was rooting for him.

So’ is player and the love interest of Ai. He comes of as blasé in his attitude but you can tell that there’s more to him, hopefully. Thank you for that if not he would have been a doozy, albeit a good looking one. His character develops more as the story progresses and we learn more about him, more than any other character and we realize that no there wasn't more to him and he's kind of an a-hole.

What bothered me to the point of dropping it (I couldn’t do it though, I “already drank the poison, might as well lick the plate…”) was that we know nothing about Ai other than she was an ugly duckling before her transformation and she's superficial enough to know that superficity matters.

The story dwells all this time trying to develop a relationship we already know how it’ll end but doesn’t give the side characters which have a better personality any development. It is all about Ai and So’. All the time. Even things that happened where left hanging as if the mangaka forgot to resolve them and drops another new character in before resolving the last issue.

Every chapter ends with a narration to make you want to read the next one but it comes of as a cheesy attempt to a cliffhanger because the actual scenes weren’t cliffhanger-ry enough.. That being the case, it’s the same narration that makes the manga interesting throughout the story. It’s like being inside the mind of the mind, I just made it sound cooler than how it is…

The art was nice in the facial at a glance. Then you start noticing little things like a bubble in the eye drawings that make it seems like the characters are either crying or have a loose contact. When the characters were dressed for school or even outer wear the drawing was average. But during summer scenes and with more revealing clothes it was clumsy. The lines were lumpy and not straight and it was just overall awkward. All in all it was average except for some “Pretty” moments that you get used to.

Overall, a nice, entertaining read with weird humor. If I had to explain in better this would be a summer read. Light and fluffy where serious moments get squashed by weird faces/responses and a "bad" message (the being pretty thing). It's a shame too because the characters aren't bad at all and it could have been sort of awesome (Strobe Edge!). I’m still wondering why the title Doubt!!:

Doubt!! Any of them would read their own manga?
Doubt!! In the name of love…?
Doubt!! You’d ever scream the word doubt unless it’s a title of a manga and the word is followed by not one but two unnecessary exclamation point?

“Life is all or nothing. Take it or lose it. Land safely or fall flat…”
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Ore to Kawazu-san no Isekai Hourouki
Bokunchi no Kaseifu-san
Kimi wa Midara na Boku no Joou
Zettai Renai Program
Zettai Renai Program
Zettai Renai Program
Zettai Renai Program review
Zettai Renai Program
Apr 05, 2021
Zettai Renai Program review
The first thought I had when reading this manga was that it was not an original idea; it's eerily similar to Chobits and only differs in the gender of the main characters and that this world isn't one in which androids are common. Nevertheless, I found the story cute and maybe a little bit fluffy. Though it was a short read, it was quick because it was enjoyable. I laughed multiple times while reading this.

What I disliked were a few shoujo cliches that were tossed in there to make some conflicts. They were short-lived and not as important as they seemed at first.

Another thing was that the ending made no sense. It didn't ruin the manga for me, however.

This here is your typical shoujo art, pretty and pleasant. What stood out to me were the little bits of chibi art within the story here and there which I really liked.

Mariko didn't stand out to me by any means though she was the main character. She seemed like a typical school girl and made mistakes, corrected them, and wasn't the prettiest girl. Although a perfect protagonist is annoying, a very ordinary one is a little boring.

The android Kouta was a cute and innocent guy who cared a lot for his master, Mariko. He actually was more interesting to me than Mariko, but maybe that was because he was an android.

The other characters were around for some plot material but didn't stick around for very long to make an impression or obviously weren't very important.

I had a pleasant experience reading this manga. It was short and fresh shoujo. While it isn't an amazing work, I enjoyed its few chapters and thought the idea was very nice. I do wish more about Kouta's past was explained and that the ending were better, but for a short manga it wasn't bad.
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