Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji

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Let's go about this review through the different categories.

Story: The story started out promising (I enjoy these types of cliche shoujo plots) but it turned out to be quite disappointing when the story and the characters turned out to be pretty one dimensional, without depth. It was getting better by about halfway through the series (the part where the childhood friend comes in) because it was getting interesting, but after that it was a bit of a let down. I kept waiting for something more to happen, something more meaningful, but was not given it.

Art: I enjoyed the art, it's definitely the type of style I look for when picking out a manga to read. I also really appreciated the fact that the hair lengths changed to signify the years going by– although this is only true for the female lead (Erika), it's still appreciated.

Character: Okay, here's where I have mixed feelings, and it had to do with the male lead.
I don't mind a controlling male lead (depending on the type of control, of course) but I had a problem with Kyouya. FIRST, the way he was portrayed in the beginning, aka the first few chapters, was so different from after those few chapters. He ended up being more recluse than what was originally implicated. SECOND, he was controlling and he was MEAN. He sincerely never gave Erika any inclination of how he felt about her and didn't show it enough. He was emotionally abusive and Erika was a very weak female lead. Avoiding spoilers here; when choosing universities, thank god for San-chan because if it had continued in that way that would have just truly thrown me off and I would've regretted reading so far with just a few chapters away from finishing.

I did finish this manga. Disappointed in the male lead and also not satisfied with the ending. But it is what it is. Great art, decent story, poor leads, and unsatisfactory ending.

The manga starts with a very clear topic. A girl who lies -to be liked by some new friends in her clasroom- about having a boyfriend. Of course, she wants to be popular. She then, becomes the 'dog' of a very atractive guy, begging him to act like his boyfriend.
At the beggining is funny and interesting. You want to see how the relationship between them becomes better, or evolves, or something.

Normally the guy would turn be authoritarian, but, i don't know, sweet too? You can be authoritarian and sexy, but also caring... he's not. He just doesn't care.

But then, when the male prota could start to be a decent human being, when stuff could start to become romantic and nice... it becomes very very hateful. It becomes WORST in his treat! and hurts the female protagonist, he makes her feel insecure, he treats her bad, he calls her names, he domains her and give a total fuck about what she wants, and makes her feel guilty about bothering him. You can see her cry a lot! And you feel pity for her but very deeply is very sad because you know that's the story of a lot of people! People who are in love and don't know how to handle or how to scape from abuse!

It bothers me so much that they don't show the relationship like it is: abuse. And the fact that is presented like something cool just because she has a couple and she loves him. That's it. Because there's no love story, just a story about a girl who loves the guy who makes her cry.

And wow. Is he a hero for not punching her or for not cheating? That's almost what he's good about, being loyal. Ok. That's the only good thing about him. Oh, and that he's hot.

I didn't wanted to finish it. Maybe at the end the guy realizes he loves Erika and don't treat her like shit anymore, but if after 30 episodes the relationship is abuse and it doesn't look like anything else... I'm sorry. I think is not worth reading 30 episodes more to find out how abuse can be justified.

I like this manga. End of story.

For everyone who is complaining about this manga is needs to chill the fuck out.. this manga is more realistic than most shoujo manga
and if you don't like it go back to the kiddy, fantasy, play house mangas that you like reading..

Granted this manga does have some typical romance clichés the manga does well in portraying real life situations beyond - cheating, stealing peoples gf/bf, and relationship insecurities.

It shows stuff like...the struggles a couple goes through at the end of high school during the time they need to chose what they want for there lives, and the feeling of loving a person so much that you don't want them to leave but you don't want to hold them back either, dealing with each others pasts, parents/siblings not liking your bf/gf, or that guys aren't perfect and they sometimes treat girls like shit but girls are so stupidly in love she doesn't care even if it hurts her, lying to your friends because you want them to think your cool, or guys having trouble expressing there feeling...and you no what else - finally having a main male character not giving into the temptations of cheating...

Long story short if you can get past the ditsy clichés of the first few chapters this manga gets very good and you will become attached to the characters and grow to like and understand them all.

Don't let peoples ridiculous views, keep you from checking this manga out. Because its really enjoyable and you might just like it.

p.s. - the comedy is pretty on point to haha

The protagonist. Oh the protagonist. Erika, can she recognize a hopeless jerk when she sees one? Can she recognize when a person cannot return love and is only going to hurt her? Especially a person as cold as him with sadistic inclinations?

Nope. Or maybe she does, but she relentlessly stays with him anyway. Even when she really does know better.

Basically the whole manga up until chapter 13, which is the point I've stopped reading at, is just him treating her like dirt, and a dog(literally) and her continuing to run back to him, putting up with all his abuse, holding onto a hope that he will love her back some day.

And throughout the manga the side characters are just encouraging this relationship. Her friend San repeatedly telling her she's a masochist, Kyouya's friend trying so hard to get them together, the potential good boyfriend with a passive personality giving his blessing, and they all know how he treats her!

Good grapes this manga is messed up. It's that same mentality as that darned 50 shades trilogy. 'Oh, if I'm kind enough, If I'm patient enough, if I'm submissive enough, he'll love me!'

Love doesn't work that way, and neither does that type of relationship. For one thing, if Kyouya is so interested in the D/s lifestyle and treating his partner like a dog, he should find an informed and consenting partner that is actually into that stuff! Erika is only going along with it in her desperation to be loved.

and when they finally got back together, the manga wasn't convincing at all that he actually liked her back. Considering that he puts a charming face on around everyone else, is manipulative, and shows his true colors towards her, he honestly feels like a sociopath, but Oh, this is a shoujo manga! After everything hes done to her, he is surely going to change in the end! Right? Because people never break up for long in shoujo manga. They never get their senses together and move onto another, healthier life. They just stay, and keep working at it, like this girl here, until the guy magically turns around by the power of faith, hope, and pixie dust, and sometimes he doesn't even do that.

Don't read this manga, unless you want source material on how to write an abusive relationship. It certainly isn't a good for anything else.

SHORT REVIEW:
A fun shoujo manga about a Sadist prince and Masochist wolf-girl. The story doesn't drag out and it hits all the minor cliches in an interesting way. A prime example of romantic storytelling. If you are looking for a game-changer manga, this is not really it; If you are looking for a great example of shoujo manga that is an enjoyable read, this will scratch that itch.
LONG REVIEW:
Sadio-masochism plays a major role in the relationship between the two main protagonists and those who hate the idea of S&M play will likely hate this manga. They will complain that the ML doesn't evolve enough through the manga but that is his actual personality. I think that is a childish opinion to assume he would magically change after falling in love because the whole point was that Erika gets to the "real" side of him. I kind of hate that in a genre filled to the brim with female Tsunderes and Kuuderes, Kyouya(ML) gets so much grief.
I myself am a Sadist who hates traditionally "cute" relationship things with very little exception and enjoys the pain of others (schadenfreude). People generally have S or M characteristics but since this is fiction they are played up to a high degree. The ML or FL doesn't need to change, they are naturally that way and this is the story of their relationship. Both of them do soften and harden up respectively by the end.
Let me clarify and state there is NO BDSM, just the emotional side of it.
The side characters' stories are solid and they get just enough time to establish their plots without it feeling like too much filler. I thought all the major characters were likable and hateable at different points meaning they were probably good characters. I thought the art was good but more than that the artist knew what to draw to make the scenes come to life.
Objectively this is 8/10 but my personal score would be 10/10, I can't see fans of romance hating this story.

It was like a fever dream when I first read and watched Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji back in 2015 or so. It was at that time that I was in a phase of reading and watching shoujo anime, mainly Nana and Itazura na Kiss. All three of them hold a special place in my heart. But after finally catching up the last chapters that weren’t available to me back in 2015 for Wolf Girl and Black Prince, it really makes me wonder what was so charming to it. It probably was due to the “freshness” that I was exposed to. I was never a huge fan of romance/Shoujo, so these few series that I read and watched ended up being my first exposure to the genre, and I think this novelty of discovering something new made me hooked onto each of these series; Looking back, especially at Wolf Girl and Black Prince, and reading these last few chapters, those were rose colored days. The conclusion was just what I expected: come on, it’s a shoujo romance manga. It wasn’t anything unique, but it served as a closure to a series I had come to like.

Now, I don’t particularly think that judging this manga for the concluding chapters is very fair, when the bulk of the story and charm is from the beginning chapters. I can’t help but look back on the series with some nostalgia. There have been a lot more different romance shows and shoujo that I have read and watched, but none of it comes close to the feelings that I had when reading this particular series. Something about it makes it a lot more special than other series. It doesn’t have a super unique plot and characters, but it has it’s polish that few shoujo have. I think it could have been just the fact that the execution of events seemed a lot more natural than any other series I read, and as a result, I felt more invested in the characters. Being exposed to the female lead’s feelings and how the story panned out made me want to cheer her on. I was hoping she would get what she wanted, after all the setbacks that she went through, and that was something that I hadn’t experienced in other shoujo works before. There’s some unnecessary drama, but that’s all part of the shoujo experience in the first place. It’s a classic romance formula done well.

It makes me really sad to see so many people trashing this manga because of somewhat off-putting start. It is true that the first arc of the series is one of the weakest as hey, who would like a MC girl falling head over heels to a sadistic douchey MC? They're so many other guy out there that are much much better and perfect for the main girl right??? right???.... Wrong! I dare to say that Kyouya is the perfect lead guy for Erika. Fight me.

While this manga pretty much shows a typical shoujo setups/cliche, the overall structure of the story is pretty good & enjoyable. Some of the good elements that make this outstanding include, good character development, right pacing and compelling conflict.

Character wise, the author miraculously was able to develop it so well. Just try to compare chapter 1 vs chapter 58 and you'll see for yourself. On the other hand, conflicts aren't really used as a cliche plot device (except for the 1st arc) and instead pushes the two MC to mature and look beyond surface-level relationship.

Can I also say that this has one of the most satisfying ending ever?

Overall, this manga is one of those which you will hate or love. There's no in between. And I belong to the latter part.

Doki Doki rate: 8.5/10

I can't believe I actually ENJOYED this manga the first time I read it.

Story: 1/10
What kind of girl would accept such a condition to such a lame situation?!

Art: 6/10
Not so dreadul taht would make your eyes bleed but not flawless either. It was fine and the boys look good.

Character:1/10
First of all, the main "couple" is awful. The guy (Sata) treats the girl (Erika) as less than a human being. And she accepts it, because:

1) She's so desperate to have friends and a social life at highschool that she created an alter ego with a perfect love life (what she says about herself goes way beyond just lying) and she has to endure the guy bullying her in order to keep her lies safe.

2) The girl FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE GUY despite all the horrible things he says to her in a daily basis, 'cause for her this is "true love".

The times when a better guy confessed to her (I wonder why 'cause seriously, a toast has more personality and determination than this girl) she would say no to them because she loves the main guy. The worst case of this scenario happened around chapter 43 or 44 (I don't remember, I don't really care either way) *SPOILERS* when her middle school friend told this girl that he always loved her nad told her to dump the main guy and be happy with him. He even tells her off and slaps her to wake her up (the slap part was scary by how the mangaka drawed it, and he wasn't that good pf a guy cuz he remained kinda obsessed with her), and this PIECE OF ROCK tells him that "*inserts main guy's name* is my everything, he's almost the only thing I can think of and if you take him out of my life I'll feel empty". LIKE, SERIOUSLY?!

And main guy, OMFG. He was a very bad, bad character, with no development at all through the entire series, and he was a bully and psichologically abusive towards the girl. He's a manipulative, selfish and unsensitive person, and besides his looks (ya he's kinda good-looking) I can't figure out why the girls at school worship him. And what's the author's reason for the boy being such an asshole? *SPOILERS* His parents divorced when he was little. That's it.

And as for the supporting cast... Well, they were... There.
-The girl's best friend: tried to warn main girl about main guy, but failed and gave up on doing so cuz SHE GOT TIRED OF IT. She kinda dissapears at some point so uh huh.
-Main girl's school friends: They just talked about their boyfriends and that's that.
-Girl's rivals: too annoying and just exist for plot reasons.
-Main guy's only friend: Felt sorry for him. He's stupid enough to "help" main girl make the guy fall in love with her instead of warning her about his friend' awful personality.
-Guy's rivals: also annoying and were there just for plot and filler reasons.

Enjoyment: 1/10
I hated it and I refuse to read it again.
This wouldn't be such a terrible shoujo manga if the autor pictured it as what it is (an abusive relationship) instead of painting it as a cute and quirky highschool romance.

Overall: 1/10
When I read it complete for the second time (the first time I just read some chapters I thought were cute), I realized the mistake I made for giving Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji a chance.

I am amazed that this series has such a high average (currently ~7.8), considering it is one of the worst shoujo manga I have read. But, if you're like me, you'll read the series to the end because you're running out of lengthy shoujo and you keep hoping that it will improve.

It does improve a little...somewhere in the 30's. Up to that point I was astonished that a series could so blatantly promote blind, unwarranted devotion from a naive girl towards an abusive, sadistic guy. I read some of the fan's comments throughout the later chapters, and I was surprised to read that they perceived Kyouya (male lead, sadist) to be really improving. It's true, he softens up considerably in the last quarter of the series, but what a let down! Because he is so cold and reserved the whole series, the reader has to cling to every morsel of a compliment or expression of happiness that he dares to let drop. Maybe that is exciting for some people, but for me I couldn't help thinking like so many of Erika's (female lead) friends, "What are you doing?! Get out of there! He doesn't deserve you!"

As I mentioned, fans of the series will argue that Kyouya was not as undeserving as he seems on a surface level, and they will also defend his rotten attitude by attributing it to his "rough childhood" stemming from his parents divorce. The heck?! Okay, that kind of reaction is supportable only from the standpoint of "he's not quite so despicable now. May he continue to improve." But from the perspective of being the primary love interest...absolutely unacceptable! It is exactly this kind of twisted mindset that causes girls to stay in abusive relationships. The more accurate end to the series would be Erika crying her eyes out saying that she's made the biggest mistake of her life by holding on to such a careless man. While the manga tries to spin it as Erika being selfish and impulsive, Kyouya is actually, brazenly, the more selfish and impulsive character. He's mad? Tell her to get lost. He's regretting it? Go grab her by the arm and tell her she belongs to him.

It's disgusting. Even when I consider the improvement towards the end, I still cannot recommend this series based on the type of relationship it promotes. You are worth more!

A lot of people were saying to read it until the end. Well I did. My sister also did. She has been telling me that she didn’t like this manga but I still continued to read, hoping that I’ll get to enjoy it later. There were little things that ticked me off but I let it pass. What really got me was when Kyouya was treating the dog better than his girlfriend. I don’t care about his issues and I may never understand it my whole life but that is no way to treat a girl, most especially a girl you love. No girl should think that it’s okay to be treated like this. Erika is lucky that Kyouya improved but that’s not mostly the case in real life.

Yes, this story does start like many other shoujo manga. Girl and boy make an agreement, boy teases girl, they end up falling in love. BUT! Give this manga a chance before you decide to give up on it.

Unlike many similar stories, this manga actually follows the relationship of the two main characters AFTER they get together. It shows them develop as a couple and learn things about each other.

As far as characters go, they actually DO develop. The main male character starts out as your typical nice-on-the-outside-but-a-devil-on-the-inside guy but he opens up as the story goes on in a way that is very refreshing and falls in line with his character. He shows his affection by his actions towards Erika.

One of the things I loved the most about this story is that it actually addresses the concept of sex in a relationship, something you will not see in the vast majority of shoujo manga. The writer treats this issue with a lot of sensitivity and it is not a forced plot point at all. It is a natural part of relationships and it was really cool to see how it affects the characters and their progress as a couple.

As someone who painfully followed the monthly release of this manga, I at least can say it was worth it. Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji might leave a bitter taste in your mouth for the first quarter of the story, but it's still too early for judgment. After all, it all comes down to the details, isn't it?


I believe you already know the gist of the story (since you read the synopsis) and yes, it dumbly started that way. One of the typical dumb shoujo starter kick-offs. You will start to hate the guy to the very last bone and you will also start to kill yourself out of frustration out of the girl's stupidity. Oh well, it started like that. Unappealing plot. Stupid characters. Almost everything in this manga will start to annoy you like hell. It sure rubbed off to me in the wrong way.

But who cares? It's not like it's the first time for a shoujo manga. I bet there are still worse than this.

And yet it seems like mangaka-sensei has a lot in store. He/She turned the story to something interesting. Some sense was finally injected in the plot, and it was later revealed why Kyouya-kun had that jerky personality. There are no major plot twist or what, just pure character-based development. Slowly, as they continued struggling in their high school years, they met obstacles as a couple and as an individual. They later made crucial decisions about the future--- basically, they learned to grow up. Mangaka-sensei put his/her best in portraying the teenagers these days, from the immaturity and childishness they possess, to the struggles they go through in order to be a better person. What I like about this is not about the romance itself, it's the reality the mangaka is trying to speak. There are people who is like Kyouya-kun in the society. And so, Erika-chan. But again, that doesn't mean they can't change all throughout the course of their lives.

And so I gave it 8/10, for the very good job mangaka-sensei did. It has a rather pleasant and satisfying ending as well. It entertained me quite well, though I admit there are a lot of parts which still pisses me off (like Kyouya-kun's attitude).

So to speak, give it a chance. It's worth the frustrations and annoyance. It's worth until the end. I'm not promising you a great story or what. I'm just telling you how real this manga can get.

Ciao.

The story is so painful for like 30 chapters.
The beggining is so awful that I just kept reading because I was hopeful that Erika and Kyouya's story would change somehow. It did, but not as much as I expected to become a good manga.
Maybe I'm overanalysing but Kyouya's character is so abusive and Erika is so insecure that makes me want to die.
He freakin thinks that love demonstration to Erika is a favor that he's doing for her. Like WTF? AND SHE ACCEPT IT?
I dont know I think the ending got a little better but not enough.
It feels like her childhood friend had everything to be a better character than Kyouya and they made him an aggressor to make him bad XD besides that, I soooooo wish that Erika bumped Kyouya and stay with Terapon.
It could be better, Kyouya is an asshole. If I was erika I could be in love with him in my teens BUT i WOULD be SO OVER him in like, one year. Erika's is insecure since forever, I hate her too, she got developed in a wrong, so wrong way that she's like... a needy machine with no self care or self love.
The ending was okay, I LOVE TAKERU SO MUCH, I LOVE SAN-CHAN SO MUCH they were so fine.
Oh, and that two boring Erika's friends. I hate them so much. I wish they had a bad endind, but like everything is this manga and their amazingly forgiving main character soul (erika) everything was okay. Oh... this is terrible. Those girls were capable to be worse than Kyouya. BUT IN THE END EVERYTHING IS OKAY RIGHT LIKE ERIKA'S SAD FUTURE MASKED AS A LOVE STORY.
Anyways, Terapon could kill Kyouya and Erika, stay with San-chan and Takeru fall in love with that another guy I forgot his name. I would be plased.

When I read the FIRST chapter of the series, I was laughing when I saw Kyouya's sadistic side. I told myself that we were probably up for a funny series and a promising start. However, I stopped laughing since then. After the first chapter we can see how problematic Kyouya is at treating Erika and how problematic Erika is for ACTUALLY liking to be treated that way. After a while I almost thought about dropping the series if I don't see any sense of character development or whatnot from them. Around that time I am pleased to say that the reason why I managed to read up to the end was seeing Kyouya gradually start to change for the better because of Erika. For me, that was the main good point about reading the series (Well, aside from that bad scene where he threatened to break up with Erika if she went to Kyoto).

Aside from that, I really found the series to be quite.... meh. Honestly the other arcs like Rena was kinda unnecessary for me, and I felt like most of the chapters' events were quite repetitive and were just a bunch of fillers.

Overall, it's the type of series you should read only if you have time to spare.

P.S. This review can be found in goodreads and is NO WAY plagiarized by me.

I am uncertain whether to give this manga a 6or 7. I decided on 6 because while I really like the ending enough to bump it up a bit, it still didn't make up for everything else. The manga is simply really basic (if anything to make it different, more abusive). It's a combination of typical archetypes and story arcs. It has the overnight hot springs chapter, the "are they cheating on each other?" chapter, the field trip chapter, heck even the area of their field trip is generic: Kyoto/Hokkaido, and other common scenes that you find in other manga. And nothing is done differently. That could slide if it was still a fun cute shoujo, but in addition, the main reason I wanted to give it a 6 was the characters. The whole review will basically be a critical view on the character because most everything else like the art nice but not amazing. For plot, just read the MAL description, it sums it up nicely enough to go in depth about it.
Before I start bashing the characters however. I gotta question the title, to the end I don't understand how she's a wolf girl. I had expected that to mean that she has the personality associated with one. But other than loyalty to Sata, not really. My second guess is that she is like a wolf in sheep's clothing type of person but other than lying about a boyfriend, also not really. My only guess now is that the author was trying to shift the animal to be a wolf, a type of dog, as oppose to straight up title her as a dog which would easily lead to the interpretation that she is a b****.
Shinohara Erika is your typical shounen character girl. She is extremely basic, and has little to none redeeming qualities that makes her any different from the model: an air-headed, gluttonous, happy go lucky with her heads in the clouds. As an added bonus thats not uncommon for the main female lead, she is also comes off as self centered, whiny, and a crybaby. It's questionable why most female leads seems to be this type, as if that's the standard for being a girl to be able of get a guy?? Do manga artists just believe that type to be the ideal woman, since no matter the type of guy is the lead is, that's usually the type the lead girl is??? Not only until the later chapters when the typical (and important) career counseling/college decisions arc came did I finally start to respect and appreciate Erika. I finally was able to connect with her as a character. For once she started acting more serious and mature, and maybe I'm biased because her decision is something along the same category of what I plan on pursuing (no spoilers!), I can really feel and empathize with her passion, and her as a person.
The main male lead Sata is not much better, some of his actions can be... eyebrow-raising. That's not an ok relationship. However you look at it, some of the stuff Sato say are not ok. I get Sato is trying to defend Erika and protect her but the things he say which are supposed to sound cool are actually quite misogynistic and/or patronizing. Think about it, in a real life situation would you really be happy and swoon over a boyfriend who says "[insert your name here] belongs to me. What she wants doesn't matter. Get my approval if you want her." and then later tell you "Don't ever concern yourself with another guy from now on. You only need to look at me" ... I'm sorry what? Excuse me? Going out with someone does not make you your significant's other possession to boss around like that. The stuff Sato say sound like what would be an abusive and manipulative relationship in real life. And again, like with Erika, I was a bit critical of him and only started really accepting him much later in the story. In his case, at the end of the university arc.
Don't get me wrong. I didn't read this manga hating the characters the whole time; there were plenty of sweet moments but that clashes with their words and actions to each other at other times which makes me question if it is really a good relationship.
Sanda, Erika's best friend is quite typical as well, being the cool, understanding, mature best friend that only exist to help progress the story and show the readers that Erika actually have friends (unlike some manga that doesn't really show the lead's friends at all.) Ironically, that typical best friend type is honestly whom I would rather have as the main character. Erika's other two girl friends seems to have been tossed out the window and are only reeled back in when needed to season the story. Nothing special about Kamiya either, a playboy who later sees the beauty of a real relationship after he friends Sata and Erika. And he orchestrates a large portion of their conflicts and misunderstanding.

So, this manga could have been a good one, but as a female, i can't tolerate the behaviour of the male protagonist. He abuse, insult, and psychologically mistreat the female protagonist. I can't understand what the hell was the autor thinking. If the male protagonist would have evolved into a person that is aware of his mistakes and his bad behaviour and then change an treat her properly then it would have been a good manga because people toxic like this guy would have seen that it is possible to change and that it is not good to have that behaviour. Please, would some of you like that guy as a boyfriend? I don't think so, and if you would like that sort of behaviour, you should think it twice because what he does the whole manga is psychologically mistreat.

This series is one of the best that I have ever read. It follows the female protagonist, Erika, from her first day of high school to beyond college. The characters are what truly set this series apart from the rest. They are like a breath of fresh air in a stale world. You will laugh, cry, and cheer them on through every step of their journey.

The female main character, Erika, is amazing. It's impossible to not want to be her friend. She is a genuinely good person whom is just a tad bit impulsive and naive. Sometimes you want to strangle her but ultimately, you just want to defend her. I genuinely envy her determination and positivity. She truly does try her best at all times.

The male main character, Kyouya, is the type of person that you love to hate. At times, he made me shake my head and wonder how this series is classified as romance. I would describe him as bored and disillusioned with life. His personality is the opposite of Erika's. He has a very stoic shell that is tough to crack.

Do not read just the first couple of chapters and then give up. This is one of those series that if you don't read at least the first ten chapters, then you truly can't form a proper opinion. The characters are multifaceted with deep personalities that don't show right away. When given the proper chance, this series will make a genuine lasting impression.

Verdict: Definitely recommend!


First of all, just want to say that this manga feels underrated?

Story:
Not sure if this kind of plot is common in the shoujo world but basically a guy pretends to be a girl's boyfriend, not because he likes her, but because he just wants someone to torment. He is quite popular in school because of his looks but in reality, he is actually a sadist. Yes, basically he likes to inflict pain on others.

Art:
Typical but beautiful shoujo art. The heroine has short hair (different from the usual long-hair heroines?). The physical characteristics all represent each character individually.

Character:
First of all, both of the main characters seemed too unrealistic. The only realistic ones are probably the side characters but then again, we wouldn't be able to have a good read without this unrealisticness.

Erika is too lovey-dovey even after all of Kyouya's mean comments towards her. To be honest, how can a person be this sadistic to his own girlfriend! (Yes, they became an official couple with real love towards each other later on). But it's nice to have the balance of love and foulness. I guess this is the perfect case where opposites attract?

Enjoyment:
Like I said above, I love the chemistry between Erika and Kyouya because of the balance of foulness and love. Always interested to see their interactions and their reactions to certain events because Kyouya HATES romantic events while Erika LOVES them. Then how are they still together? That's what made me keep going.

Overall: Definitely recommend, but really hope for new translated chapters T_T soon.

Looking forward to see how Kyouya changes by the end of the manga.

(Oh yea, there's going to be an anime adaptation! Amazingggg~~)

So I was reading the other reviews before I started to write this. And well from what I saw, you might have gotten a really bad impression on this manga, huh?
But honestly people shouldn't judge it based on reading just a few chapters. Some of them rated this series even without getting to the part where the protagonists get together. So take my advice and read this. Its worth it a hundred times!
The manga in itself is just a cliché. But who hates cliché? I don't really. In fact I was caught off guard by many of the events even when expecting it. It might not be a page turner but its intriguing. You'll find yourself at awe as to how well the mangaka was able to maintain the story. In most of the cases the protagonists change into something unrecognizable but here the MCs remain same but they change in a way that's good. What I mean to say is Kyouya remains cold as hell but becomes caring somehow. If you can read up to the end please come and thank me. And don't just give up on it halfway because trust me you'll love the ending.
I loved this manga and recommend it with all my might!

You choose a group of friends, and then you suddenly find out that they will start looking down on you, because you're arent like them. Even though you wanted to be.

This story is about a girl Erika Shinohara, who's obsessed by getting her friends to be "jealous" of her. Her best friends have the best boyfriends, and that's really all they're talking about. The only way she can become closer to them is by finding the perfect guy out there.

She tells her friends about her romantic experiences, but the problem is she doesn't even have a boyfriend. In her despereate position, she finds a guy in the street and decides to take a picture of him to show her friends. But her friends suddenly recognized him, he was her school mate named Kyoya Sata. When she found out, she needed to talk to him, and actually he seemed like the perfect nice guy. So she asked him to pretend to be boyfriend. The thing is that his perfect personality was all a part of his act, and he was actually a very cold-hearted person. So he would only agree if she pretended to be his dog.

Story: 8

I've always been very interested in cold-hearted guy characters. But most of those characters are just all the same. They had a bad childhood, they're parents left them, they just have no feelings towards other people. But that changes. But not in this situation. It's not like the other stories. It's a funny story about Erika and Kyoka who both are very stubborn, but in some way they always work their things out. Later on feelings begins to start between the two of them, and the whole plot just gets even more interesting, it's diffenetly not a regular couple we're reading about.

Art: 8

The art is really not anything special, but it's still very beautiful though.

Character : 7

The characters.. Erika is well in the start just the typical light-hearted, funny, desperate girl. But later on she gets more honest with herself. She's not really the shy girl, you mostly see in Shoujo mangas. More like the girl who talks the most, and she becomes more open towards other people, does get naive at times, but that's one of her cute sides.

If we look at Kyoka, he starts of like the jerk type. He never reacts to anything, and only gets mad at Erika when she doesn't agree to something. He's negative, don't care side is the most showing at the start. Kyoka is a honest guy, he says what he wants to say, but only those things he finds necessary to say. There's nothing more disguting to him then Lovey-dovey couples, which keeps him and Erika's relationship very interesting through this manga.

The other characters are all the same. There's always someone to talk the main characters to do things, and support them. There's always those who stands in the way. But they does keep the manga more alive and interesting.

Enjoyment: 7

I would've given it more, if there were some more orignal problems in it. The whole hating lovey-dovey couples keeps the enjoyment on 7, it makes this manga such a comedy. But it's always going to be the same though.

Overall: 7

I do recommend this. It's a good comedy, romance, shoujo manga.