Higashi no Kurume to Tonari no Meguru review

sweeny11
Apr 07, 2021
This manga is a ridiculously standard romcom. Every single event that happens is pretty by the book and something that if you have any familiarity with the genre you’ve probably already seen quite a few times. Now that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but another issue is that while it has its moment, for the most part the implementation is only average. The general path the story takes is pretty decent, as are the general concepts behind each of the characters. However, the way the story is paced feels like it has random pacing and is quite haphazard, with things happening pretty randomly without there being any flow of events to draw the reader in, and things coming and going way too quickly and easily. The characters too all felt sort of off. The concepts are great, but they feel very underdeveloped. For example, the story of the heroine Meguru, gets resolved with some very evident character development, but it seems to be resolved pretty arbitrarily, and it never feels like there’s a solid enough explanation for why she was like that in the first place, nor is there really enough demonstration of her growth as a character. The same seems to apply to the other characters such as Tsubasa or Kururi, where they have development, but it comes such that their stories don’t really seem to be going anywhere at all but suddenly they’ve reached their conclusion. Hence to some degree, everyone’s story feels unfinished or incomplete. Ultimately, the only characters that don’t feel awkward and feel fully properly done are the joke characters with little roles, though on that note these characters, Afro and the Grannies, are pretty awesome. It’s important to note though, that in the case of Kousuke and Meguru this feeling of incompleteness is greatly mitigated by the ending, where even though it still feels like some things are missing from the body of the story, the ending itself gives a tremendously strong feeling of completeness and is a tremendously satisfying way of ending romance mangas that I wish we saw more often. The comedy was decent. The art is also decent enough and cute.

A pretty generic romcom with a mostly average implementation with some highlights.

7/10
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