Akuma to Love Song review

jzmcdaisy21125
Apr 03, 2021
Only read Akuma to Love Song if you like over-the-top melodrama.

On the positive side, it starts off pretty strong by daring to be different. Rather than the typical nice but insecure protagonist, Maria Kawai is so blunt and abrasive she's described as having an "acid tongue." Rather than the usual romance, the first half mostly focuses on Maria's interactions with her class. Of course she ends up making a lot of people mad at her, but eventually she manages to make them understand her in her own way. It gets pretty melodramatic at times, especially with its depiction of their teacher who's beyond terrible to his his students, but it didn't personally bother me.

What killed it for me was the second half, when it changes focus to Maria's various romantic relationships. The melodrama got to be too much for me when there was a plot twist to force Maria and her love interest apart that doesn't actually happen in real life. Everyone treats it so seriously, never really questioning this, but I just found it infuriating because I no longer found the story at all realistic or even plausible. It feels to me very similar to Fushigi Yuugi, where there was some silly melodramatic plot twist to force Miaka and Tamahome apart, except being a fantasy, Fushigi Yuugi had a fantasy world explanation for the silly melodrama. Akuma to Love Song, however, is supposed to take place in the real world. It's also, by the way, a really obvious retcon because actually the thing they're all worried about actually happened before, but absolutely nothing happened as a result.

It also makes it objectively less good because Akuma to Love Song was mostly good in the first place for feeling really different from other shoujo for having a really different type of protagonist. But at this midway point, it mostly becomes the usual love polygon antics, and Maria's character shows less and less, as she's being forced into the role of the shoujo protagonist who's the center of all these love polygons. Such a story wouldn't really work if Maria is allowed to act a hundred percent as she had been, since she's normally so abrasive that it would be really hard for anyone to be in a relationship with her, even if they do understand her. The author might have intended to have a character arc where Maria changes, but if so, it didn't really come off that way to me, as much as just her character was just getting out of character.

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Akuma to Love Song
Akuma to Love Song
Auteur Toumori, Miyoshi
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