Boku Girl review

Chinomi-san7
Apr 04, 2021
A sound premise and well done for the early chapters. But becomes swamped with needless angst and melodrama once you start to reach a certain point. Most of which is based around the two main characters who quite obviously like eachother romantically, have made it basically 100% undeniable to eachother through body language and their actions, but refuse to say anything about it.

It becomes so riddle with fallacies and senseless drama that in the later chapters the author took the cheapest and dirtiest possible route to making EVEN MORE NEEDLESS DRAMA... By having Average McCoolguy forcefully inserted so he can flirt and try to get with the gender-swapped protagonist which turns this Manga into a complete Trainwreck of confusion on the characters behalf.

Story 4/10: It starts out with a solid premise, annoying but mostly funny gags, interesting side stories for some minor characters that have meaningful impact, and smooth flow with continuity.

I suppose the only notable thing is that it focuses more on important instances that happened in their daily lives, instead of just choosing to follow them everyday or randomly follow them an entire day because this one thing happens at some point.

Then it turns into the aforementioned melodrama overdose with stupid and predictable gags in contrary to the early-on relative comedy and fluidity. The characters were believable early on, they started to realize their feelings at some point, then derailed themselves with complete flips in personality and story tone.

Art 7/10: Good, to the point, and better than some other questionable quality mangas out there.

Characters 5/10: Started out well-rounded and believable. Turned into a complete mess when they reached the apex of their character development, of which it went from it's height to a straightforward 90 degree fall.

Mizuki - Protagonist that gets gender swapped. Has feelings for Takeru, but won't admit it because her friend Yumeko has a crush on Takeru and is aiding her advances. Had feelings for Yumeko as well, which leads to the two of them realizing how they properly feel about one-another.

Takeru - Second protagonist which the series frequently follows to understand him and his point of view. Likes Mizuki and has made it blatantly obvious(no spoilers), but they both refuse to see each other romantically despite well-knowing how they feel... Has no feelings towards Yumeko whatsoever.

Yumeko - Typical good at everything and has large breasts female who has feelings for Takeru and confusing friend feelings towards Mizuki.

Loki - Supposed to be a son of Odin and younger brother of Thor, but they decided to portay this god as a Generic Blond Loli a la Shinobu from Bakemonogatari.

One has to wonder how the Norse gods haven't noticed Loki missing, local gods haven't noticed Loki in their influential area, have no idea what he's doing, and haven't done anything to rectify these problems. Also why is there a Norse God sociopathically tormenting random Japanese highschool students?

Yamada - Legitimately scary, albeit funny comic relief. Has a good sidestory and reasonable influence on the story for being just a side character. It might as well follow him, or hell make a spin-off comic, and it would be an 8/10 comedy series.

Asou - Average McCoolguy that has upstanding morals, is good at everything, and of course was forced into the story so he can flirt with Mizuki. He also hates to lie which leads to unfunny. Loki of course capitalizes on this and becomes recklessly unfunny and predictable as it sets up what Loki is going to do literally pages or entire chapters ahead of time.

Every character except Asou has good potential for a good story. Once Asou came into play it just derailed every other character except Yamada, of which took a sad backseat.

Enjoyment 5/10: It would be rated lower if it were not for the early-mid chapters being actually enjoyable and well paced. Easily an 8/10. A 5/10 is being generous as it is.

Overall 5/10: Until the full story is done and released, aka undetermined, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone at all. Wait a few years to see if it's done by then or discontinued, the release schedule is awkward and slow like that. Provided it finishes you can probably wade through the needless drama with balls of steel to get to the happy ending that is pretty easy to see from the very beginning onward.

If this gets discontinued it won't be that much of a loss either way since the story has introduced the "We're out of ideas" plot device and it doesn't know how to go onward without reaching the end too suddenly.

TL;DR - Do not recommend until it is completely finished so the end is actually in sight, rather than wading through trash and being stuck at where the author stopped. Would not recommend at all if it gets cancelled as it will just leave you standing there in bad plot devices and character derailment incapable of moving forward.
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Boku Girl
Boku Girl
Auteur Sugito, Akira
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