Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai

Dreams also known as our wished goals

It tend to make us happy once we have reached it

But the question is


Will we accomplish it ? Or Give up on it ?


After reading a lot of chapters in this manga, I can finally say that this is one of the underrated manga's I have read so far. Even though it has cliche harem party, what matters here is the journey on your way towards a person's dream.

Yuiga Nariyuki, a high school boy who's aim is to get the VIP recommendation from the school he's studying right now. One day he is called by the principal and he was told to tutor two geniuses of their school.
Here we introduce the two students, first we have Furuhashi Fumino who is a master of Literature but has a dream of studying sciece and here we have Ogata Rizu who is a genius when it comes to math but she aims for literature as her dream. Well it turns out they are both weak at the subjects they want to learn.

As the story progresses, one by one a new character is introduced and guess what ?


They all have goals and dreams... like we all do.
As Yuiga progresses, you will find out on what they have wanted to do in their life.

This is what makes the story going.....

The journey in achieving their dreams.

Personal notes:

I didn't expect this cliche manga turn out to be one of my favourites.
It talks about dreams which highly interests me as I myself have a dream like Giorno Giovanna.

This manga is indeed a harem type and it did expand the views of every person in the story (except the sister, poor sister)

I was so ready, so, so ready, to give this a 3/10, say it was just another High School Harem Ecchi Manga that had 95% of its humor and plot be through simple misunderstandings and could not go a single chapter without somebody being in their underwear or found in what looked like a compromising position.

But the simple fact is, it's a lot more than that. A lot more.

The drawings are expressive, the humor pops out of the pages and works every time, the stories and arcs each and every character go through are wonderful and at times heartbreaking, and main plot serves as a perfect catalyst for every situation the manga wants to show off and as a great representation for each of the main character's feelings.

It's hilarious, inspiring, ridiculous, and yet realistic. The main character is as dense as any harem manga protagonist (so, you know, supermassive black hole levels), but always does his best, every day, to improve the lives of those around him. Sometimes, well, actually quite often, he doesn't succeed. I really like that. He has a lot of the qualities of a Gary Stu, but also many flaws and personal issues he has to work through. A number of small arcs are focused on him having to surpass some emotional roadblock, and each time it's done very well.

The three main girls of the harem are actually maybe the best characters I've ever seen in a manga of this type. Their personalities are eccentric, yet relatable, their goals are strange, but interesting, and their personal lives are unique, and still believable. What I like most about them is their friendship with one another; a harem manga this may be, but if they ever have to pick between their friends and a relationship with the protagonist, it's always, always their friends. They're all different people, but they're all genuinely good people. They support and love each other, and will be more than willing to sit down and talk through any sort of emotional problem, or even publicly embarrass themselves for the sake of their friends. They make every chapter come alive, and each one's unique relationship with the protagonist feeds perfectly into the meat and the flow of the story.

The other two harem members are separated from the others through story means. Whenever a chapter focuses on one of them, it's almost always JUST them, or them and the protagonist. They themselves are just as unique and wonderfully strange as anybody else, but each hold their own understanding of the world and love. Their personalities are always on display, and are never boring.

Maybe one of the best ways to describe why these girls are so different from many other harem manga would be through Kominami, one of the members that is somewhat separated from the rest. Kominami is introduced to both the protagonist and us dozens of chapters after the beginning, and immediately sets up a unique relationship with the main character, setting a precedent that he's lower on the food chain than she is (which she proves by easily working her way through schooling problems the main character had extreme trouble with) and, while not denouncing his existence as a worm or anything like that, showcases a difference in their ranking in life. This is shortly afterwards challenged when he learns that she works in a maid cafe in order to raise money to get through college. But, instead of flaunting it over her, or her becoming deeply embarrassed or owing him in any regard, she instead decides to reveal to him her other main weakness: that she's failing at science, but wants to become a doctor. Being good at science, he helps her out for a number of hours. The arc ends not with the shoe on the other foot, or with her joining the rest of his harem as just another pretty face, but with the two gaining a mutual respect for each other and their own problems in life.

Over the course of dozens of further chapters and many further small arcs, the two become good friends, find themselves in a number of ridiculous situations, will hang out together to study or to just take some breathing room from the rest of their lives, and accidentally convince Kominami's dad that they're engaged. Throughout all of this, they grow closer and gain further understanding and respect for each other. They even confide their fears and secrets to the other, and often trade friendly jabs (with Kominami always getting the upper hand in such arguments). Throughout NONE of this is any real romantic implication shown. For the first hundred chapters of the manga, the two simply grow closer as friends, and showcase a unique and happy relationship that neither really has with anyone else. Until a much later chapter, where the main character finds out more about Kominami's family, the reason behind her dreams, and what being a doctor actually means for her. It's a surprisingly emotional arc that ends with her crying in his arms...and she realizes that somehow, somewhere along the line, she fell in love with him.

And yet, somehow, Kominami is still my least favorite of the five. Because she's amazing. But the rest are even more so.

What's also fantastic is that each and every main character has incredible chemistry with every other main character. We can spend an entire chapter with just a single character, and we leave totally satisfied. We can spend an entire chapter with just a single character and the main one, going through a humorous situation or going through a touching moment, and we leave totally satisfied. We can spend an entire chapter with just a single character and any other main character just hanging out as friends, and we leave totally satisfied. Some of my favorite chapters didn't involve the main character at all, or only involved him to a minor extent. Everyone has specific ways they interact with every other specific main character, and each and every one of these routes is explored and grows over the course of the manga. This gives you so much time in only 130 chapters to grow to know and love everyone involved, no matter where they are or what they're doing.

Also, this manga has an extremely unique and extremely welcome characteristic: multiple endings. Like a visual novel, after Chapter 130, you can choose which path to take for the character you most want to end up with the main character, following it down to one of five endings. We've gone through two so far, and I was shocked at how well-written and perfectly handled both were. Both are extremely true to every character involved, and are quick to show you the only real difference in each timeline is that the main character and that specific girl love each other just a little bit more than they did originally, and how that changes everything. The arcs are solid, the plotline excellent, the humor great, and the confessions amazing in both endings. I was rooting for someone else entirely, and yet I did actually come to tears out of happiness at the endings for the two characters so far.

We're in the middle of the third route now (my personal champion, Fumino) and I can't wait to see how it ends. It, and the rest of the routes to come.

How did this happen?

I don't know.

But I'll never regret reading this.

Literally Nisekoi version 2.0

I've learned to take this a lot more casually after going through 200+ chapters of Nisekoi. Seriously, absolutely anything you may have liked or disliked about Nisekoi is the same here, just with different characters. That said, I've been enjoying this a bit more if nothing else because I'm taking it much lighter than I did Nisekoi. If you know there will be absolutely no progression for at least another 100 or so chapters and don't have any expectations about the actual story, then you can enjoy this. Take it lightly, don't expect any ship moments to amount to anything any time soon, and just enjoy the funny reactions and cute girls.

Im not going to tell you that the story for this manga is amazing. The overall progression of relationships takes a backseat to a lot of chapters where nothing really happens and its just the characters interacting with each other. Ironically thought this is where the manga shines. Each of the heroines have their own unique charm. I've never really read a harem where I wanted every character to have a happy ending until this one. Overall it has a lackluster story, but the characters are well written, loveable, the manga has great art and humor and I enjoyed reading it thoroughly.

Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai is an enjoyable manga despite being very cliche in the world of romcom. There's an unwritten balance within the characters that shines in a fun way and that is unique.

For the start, to be honest, i feel the story is poorly written, without almost any significant progress starting from chapter 5-7 onwards. Add to that, harem and ecchi (yes, this manga has ecchi genre actually, rather a light one) are two genres that im not a fan of. Then how can i enjoy this manga?

The answer to that question is the characterization. In my opinion, characterization is the strongest point that this manga has.
Speaking about characterization, those characters themselves are usual and some will find them cliche (tsundere, airhead, sports girl etc), but there's a balance within them. In this manga, we can't really say who will the male MC end up with. Even the popularity pool that took place before ch 61 was surprising. If the mangaka wrote this phenomenon as "the hardest race between heroines", then yeah, that describes the balance that i speak really well.

This manga consistently keeping each of its heroine in their own track, then developing it in a somehow relatable manner. One just being a friend to the MC, one fell in love with the MC without realizing it, one also fell in love but she aware of it, etc - all of them have their own track, and from this track the story make its progress. I guess this is the source of that balance. Then adds some light comedies and this manga become interesting piece of art.

Hi guys,

I'm back to review about this Manga, that name We Never Learn. I start read at

Manganelo and then read at other website at read it at Mangaplus apps. The

story about Nariyuki and helps their friends to learn and study. Every girls in this

manga have their interest or crush to Nariyuki but they never confessed to him.

This manga is enjoyable and I hope the arc of every girl in this manga will

adapted in anime because every character have their own storyline.

I like the character of Mafuyu Sensei. The last route or last arc is so

amazing. I recommended it !!!

There's something about Author and Artist Taishi Tsutsui that just naturally draws me to his manga. I have kinda dropped off of reading Manga for a while but the Art style and the Premise just got to me. This is the Third manga of his that i red: I finished Fukashigi Philia, and still i'm still getting through Esprit.
Right off the bat the manga kinda gets a hold of you with the plot were as 2 girls that are considered geniuses in 2 specific classes want to actually Major in there worst classes, and when i say worst i mean comically bad test scores.
The art is fantastic the girls are very well designed and with only slight drops in quality when it comes to outside character for obvious reasons.
Now the biggest drawback is the development of the Characters, mainly the original 3 girls and the MC. But up until around Chapter 30 or so I probably would of scored this a 8 or 9 but the story is progressing for girl I don't exactly care for but....what are ya gonna do i have tastes.
I'm still Enjoying the manga thoroughly despite my griping. Im still holding out hope for my specific Coupling here.
I'm hoping the manga doesn't go to long on me cause if i get my wish this will have a place as one of the few series i actually buy to keep.

I watched the anime before getting into the manga. The anime was good, and the Anime original ending was ok, but then I read the manga.

I loved this manga from start to finish! All routes were great. Well. Thumbelina Super computer route was weird but it was alright. Great, Great, Great read!

Nariyuki was a standard romcom protag, but the girls really did well to make the series shine. The childhood bestfriend, the smart shortstack, the reserved rich girl, the upper classman and the teacher. Can't get a better set of tropes to make the series what it was!

Can't wait for another story by the author.

My first review on MAL, but since the author took the choice of having every harem candidate have their own route/ending with the MC I've decided to write one (mainly because mine wasn't the final winner).

Story: MC is hardworking but poor, so he needs to coach/teach two geniuses who do not want to study in the domain they're good at to obtain a scholarship, over time he eventually helps two others academically, a childhood friend and a senpai/alumni while also aiding his teacher with random chores. MC's point of view is that anyone can achieve anything with hard work, a point of view which he inherits from his father and that opposes his teacher's. The MC is also trying to figure what to do once he graduates throughout the series.

Basically a 5-toubun no Hanayome kind of story (this manga started airing before), except some female characters do not dislike the MC for being the teacher, with the main focus being the comedy using a lot of misunderstandings and cliche sticky situations which I do not really mind (obviously including romance with blushing and other stuff), reminds of To love Ru or Gintama which are both my favorites.

Art (9/10): Characters are pretty not much to say. Sometimes in the form of mini-heads, pretty cute/funny. Then again I'm not an art major or specialist.

Character (8/10): In between the funny parts we have small arcs (3-chaps), looking at the background of each character and helping with their problems/insecurities, some are less developed than others but normally at least one picks the interest of the reader. MC as usual in JP harems is dense which causes most misunderstandings.

Enjoyment (10/10): finished in a day, if you're looking for fun and some romance in between have a go, like I stated before there are many alternative routes for every character so you are most likely not disappointed in the end.

Overall (9/10): Great comedy, harem and romance.

Personal order of female characters:
Kirisu-sensei>fumino>sawako's mom (lol)>rest

I love romcoms, which is a nice way of saying: "I really love ecchi harems". Now, I don't need the ecchi, but I do like good ecchi. And I could go on and on about what, in my opinion, makes a good ecchi; and I will later.
90s and 00s ecchi harems are a big part of the reason why I am a manga reader. A lot of my first reads were part of that genre, Love Hina was one of my very first manga and since then I tried to consume the most I could of it. That's why I came across Nisekoi and I loved it, so I'm going to talk a little bit about it.
"Oh, but this is a We Never Learn review!" I hear you say, look don't downvote this, I swear I will talk about We Never Learn soon, I promise I'll write more than enough about it. Okay?
Okay, Nisekoi. I loved it, the characters, the comedy, the way that Naoshi Komi does visual comedy is just perfect. And Raku and Onodera, man, it hits me in the heart. And sure, the pacing is the most outrageous thing to ever exist, so I understand if you don't like Nisekoi, but rest does save it for me. Now if you do like Nisekoi there is another manga from mangaka Taishi Tsutsui that I recommend reading, it's... No, it's not We Never Learn. Look, we'll get into that soon, but first! Magical Patissier Kosaki-chan! A Nisekoi spin-off about Onodera being a Mahou Shoujo. It's a good read, but curiously, Nisekoi doesn't have any ecchi in it, but Tsutsui looked at it and said "No, we need boobs", so we get to see everyone naked in Kosaki-Chan. That's not why I'm rec'ing it, I just think it's pretty funny, but if you read Nisekoi and wanted nudity... well, there IS a solution. However, it's funny that Tsutsui wanted to write Nisekoi with ecchi, because as soon as he got a serialization in Jump, that's very much what he wrote. Yes, I'm talking about...
WE NEVER LEARN.
So let's get on it.


Some of you may argue that Quintessential Quintuplets is a more apt comparison, since We Never Learn tells us the story of Nariyuki, a very poor boy who is given a chance to enter a big university, all he needs is to tutor two beautiful girls, with others joining later on. And yes, it's very similar in plot to Quintuplets, who was released just a couple months after We Never Learn started, but both are handled completely differently.
We Never Learn is more of an episodic manga, with each chapter having Nariyuki with one, or more, of the girls in funny situations or misunderstanding, with a lot of visual/reactionary comedy, very similar to Nisekoi. Of course, a lot of that comedy comes from ecchi situations this time around, except it's more the girls that end realizing just how riské the situation is, and it's our main character that ends up being oblivious to a lot of what's happening. This helps give We Never Learn a more wholesome and innocent feel than most ecchi manga. Which, yeah, is exactly the ecchi I like.
Rather than just have girls be naked due to situations just because you want to show them naked, We Never Learn's ecchi is made for the comedic effect and more often than not, ends up advancing the plot of that particular chapter. Although it does have ecchi in pretty much every chapter, I also would argue that it never exaggerates, contrary to... Magical Patissier Kosaki-chan! And I guess that makes sense, as this is a full on Weekly Shounen Jump series.. but then Ayakashi Triangle also exists.

The strongest point of the manga, however, is the characters. As tends to be the case in both manga that I like, and good romcoms. Ecchi harems generally work only if they have a good cast of female characters, and while WNL does include the ever annoying little sister who wants to marry his brother, she is just a minor part of the cast, and the real female leads are great. At first we have only Fumino and Ogata, who perfectly balances each other in terms of personality, strong points and breast size, Fumino being the best student in liberal arts, but horrible at math, and Ogata, which is a genius at math and horrible at liberal arts, which wouldn't be a problem if both didn't want to follow courses in their respective weaknesses. That's the gist of the first couple chapters, but soon Nariyuki's childhood friend, Uruka, appears, which is a sports freak, but needs better grades all around, and finally Asumi, a part-timer worker who is in the same cram school class as Nariyuki. Finally, the last main female character doesn't really study, in fact Kirisu is the teacher. Each chapter generally follows Nariyuki and of these five as we learn more about them through funny shenanigans. Each of them has their own personalities which fits greatly with their goals and respective strong and weak points, and their character designs.
I do think that the artstyle of the characters in general is good from chapter 1, but to me it does only get better and better, because it slowly morphs into a rounder, cuter, nicer version of the original designs, so much so that I kinda don't like looking at early WNL now. The biggest difference is probably seen in Nariyuki. I do think the later artstyle fit the manga style more, as it does help with that innocence feel that I mentioned earlier. Also the mangaka took notes from Nisekoi's Naoshi Komi, because the visual comedy and the character reaction are fantastic. I especially love Rizu's Grump face.


But while harem manga may give you the feeling that it's all about the girls, a good main character can do wonders for the manga, and that's where Nariyuki comes in. At first glance Nariyuki may not look that different from the normal main harem characters, and I'd even argue that he is NOT that different, but he's one of the more well executed.
Nariyuki is tasked to help these characters and that's what he does. Pretty much everything he does he does it for the female characters, constantly helping them in daily activities and in fighting for their dreams, and it feels genuine. One of the hardest things in harems is to make a believable reason for every single female character to like a guy who, generally speaking, tends to be a massive loser. It helps a lot that Nariyuki isn't a loser, and his obliviousness, to a point, for anything perverted helps as well. I have no problems in understanding how every single one of the girls ended up liking him or admiring him. Because I did too. By virtue of being the main character he has the slowest character development of the cast, but he still has it in the end, which makes me have no problem in declaring him one of the best main characters in the genre.

However, probably the biggest problem in the manga is the early middle part. The manga very rarely develops past the slice-of-life comedy situations with ecchi flavour. I wouldn't say that this manga has pacing problems, I think the story evolves at a nice pace, but it can get tiresome for some, specially for people who have a low tolerance for ecchiness. But if you manage to keep up till the second half I would say that you'd be rewarded. Not to say that the manga evolves and changes much, it very much stays true to its genre, but it does start to explore more the goals of the main cast, and that's when this manga turned from "fun ecchi harem" to "one of the best in the genre". By this point we are already familiar with what each female character wants, but we start to explore more about why they want it and how far they are willing to go for it.
It helps a lot at developing the female characters and making them even better. Because they are not just generic personalities like yandere, tsundere, and they are not just there to be ecchi victims and have the audience declare who is the better "waifu". No, they are deep and have reasons and goals and more things to them than just romance and sex appeal. I think that is a good example of a shounen manga handling female characters right, and from an ecchi manga nonetheless. And it doesn't take much, all it does is give them something they are working for for themselves and not just for the boy.
The core message of the manga is to study, if you couldn't tell from the title. To work hard for our dreams, and sure, the message is present in a lot of battle shounens, but personally I relate more to a girl who's struggling with math, but really needs it for the degree she wants, than a pirate using his rubber powers to punch marines in order to reach an hidden island. And I tell you "needing to study for your goals" is a good lesson to have. It's not too different from what your parents and teachers may tell you, the difference is that We Never Learn never feels preachy about it. It just has people doing their best and it makes us want to do it too.

Finally I wanted to talk a little bit about the ending, I will try to not spoil anything major, but if you rather go in blind, then you can skip this part.


I have one problem with the ending, and it's the fact that it has multiple ones. The truth is that over the course of the manga, while the romance between the girls to Nariyuki was well developed, the feelings of Nariyuki for the girls kinda wasn't. You reach the final part without really any idea of who the final girl may be, or if there will be one.
Of course, then the mangaka pulls multiple routes and has Nariyuki end up with all of them, each on their own little arc.
The first route isn't too bad, it connects with the main story perfectly. And I'd say that actually, for most of the routes, it did a good job at developing Nariyuki's romance between the characters in 9 chapters. The third route does it better because I think it was the one with more roots on the main story, and the fourth route is my overall favourite as I think tells the better story. The second one... is bad. It really doesn't develop the romance at all and just spends 9 chapters following what feels like a side story.

But what I enjoy the most out of the routes is their variety. It would be easier to just pull an Endless 8 style arc and just have every route being slight variations of the others, but each route takes place in a different time, different location, developing different characters and different things that had been left unsolved in the main story. It makes each story feel interesting even if it's not your favourite girl's route. The final chapter actually does a good job at connecting everything, which I wouldn't think possible, but it's great to be proven wrong. Yet, it still feels a bit of a cop-out, while I don't hate the ending as is, I'd very much appreciate a real decision from Tsutsui's part.


But alas, We Never Learn has a few moments in it's run that could use some perfecting, but I do think it's overall pretty great. It's called very often a Nisekoi spiritual successor and the influence is very visible, but I do think Tsutsui took notes of some of Nisekoi's flaws and didn't make the same mistakes.
The result is a great romcom, and a great harem ecchi. I think it's one that can be enjoyed by people who aren't fans of the genre, and specially if someone wants to read an harem with good female characters there is nothing wrong in going with We Never Learn.

English

There are few who point out how Bokuben is destined to be part of a list of historical works, not because of its narrative quality or even because of innovation, but because it reminds us of an old technique but ignored for thematic reasons, rather than here they were not considered, In other words, the opportunity was given and they took advantage of it, for their fortune and ours.

Because it is undeniable, Bokuben will be remembered for his end, or better, endings. Taishi's choice of "decide the ending you want" could seem audacious at first (there were few who called him a coward), plus the passage of time and its analysis, prove him right. It was the best result he could have achieved, one that I particularly enjoy and will remember.

It was the soft efforts of the structure and how its main idea was designed, which unexpectedly gave it the extra it needed to function as a whole. Let's start from the fact that, beyond the characterization of each girl, the theme is global "Effort", from there different aspects emerge: living youth, perseverance after the future or simply recognizing who you are and what you want to improve, without forgetting that now yes, the individual efforts of each girl dictate a different tone to that dramatic handling.

Thus, the story of Uruka is the demonstration of how we have to live without regrets, Ogata is how we can change what we dislike about ourselves, Fumino shows that we must be honest with our feelings, Asumi about how we should not demerit the future, and Mafuyu, how never is too late to pursue our dreams.

Each of the girls is defined at basic levels, that is, none presents an excessively complex behavior, although it is true that there may be a few dimensions (mostly all belong to the teacher), the others merely have the conflict that has caused them. Been appointed, and over time, it is shown that they did not need anything else.

This is due to the fact that the events do not deserve any award or recognition for complexity, adhering to the worn-out formula of accidents and self-conclusive encounters, which may or may not be perverted, of typical involuntary friction or impossible falls. Fortunately, Taishi has a perfect pacing, reads fast, and as such doesn't give much thought to how accurate they can be. Of course, there is one or another plot built but neither does any leave a powerful memory (the only exceptions would be the Fumino revelation and Sensei's past).

Again, it matters little. Each girl is great just as she is, certainly there is one or another whose appeal may not have been complete (Uruka, I'm seeing you), plus none is left over or feels added to a shoehorn, thank goodness, the author kept things relatively simple (even if I wanted another sister story). They do not sabotage each other, and despite the fact that most of the fanatics belonged to Mafuyu's religion, it cannot be said that the competition was disproportionate.

The protagonist himself does not have so much decision-making capacity, which he compensates with some innocent charm (there were few who called him the authentic best girl and they are not lacking in reasons). To highlight how each girl has hers own secondary characters, who help to formalize these narrative microuniverses.

Finally, we reached the grand finale, where the flaws became virtues, the poor definition of Nariyuki made it easy for him to be interchangeable between stories, making each of them credible. Likewise, no thematic teaching was sacrificed or upset, because all are guided under the impulse over effort, and independently the last lessons are given that only each person was able to demonstrate. The reader may prefer one or another route, personally my favorites are according to order of publication (lowest to highest) plus all of them received the space they deserved.

Once I read whoever mentioned how it would have worked as a visual novel, and I have to agree with him, each route reveals a little more than the previous one and jumps in time, the image becomes even more robust and as an experience it finishes being completed. It is impossible for me to hate Bokuben, the general satisfaction cannot be taken from me.

On an artistic level, Taishi knew how to provide what was due, all the character designs fit perfectly and are pleasant, the detail on the pages is just right, and when they should shine his best anatomical abilities shows his talent. As he mentioned, the rhythm is managed through a few vignettes, being mostly funny reactions, achieving a few memes in the process. I can't dismiss the review without inviting you to see his YouTube channel, where he draws illustrations of the series, they are relaxing and if you are an artist you will learn a couple of things, and Sensei's ass should also be mentioned, one of the 8 wonders of the world modern.

Masterpiece? Far from it, it is simple in its execution and basic in its forms, but it is the basic guideline that gives it its identity, which makes it unique. The work never took itself seriously, not in vain, we have time travel or ghosts, the invitation is not to think it through, but rather to enjoy where it takes us, to face the most valid basic message that is explain to us.

To make an effort, because youth is unrepeatable.

PDTA: Mafuyu Kurisu Best Girl

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No son pocos quienes señalan el cómo Bokuben está destinado a ser parte una lista de obras históricas, no por su calidad narrativa o siquiera por la innovación, sino por recordarnos una técnica vieja pero ignorada por razones temáticas, más que aquí no entraban a consideración, en otras palabras, se dio la oportunidad y la aprovecharon, para su fortuna y la nuestra.

Porque es innegable, se recordará Bokuben por su final, o mejor, finales. La elección de Taishi de “decide tú el final que quieras” podía parecer audaz al comienzo (no fueron pocos quienes lo llamaron cobarde) más el paso del tiempo y el análisis del mismo, le dan la razón. Fue el mejor resultado que podía haber logrado, uno que particularmente disfrute y recordaré.

Fueron los blandengues esfuerzos de la estructura y el cómo fue diseñado su idea principal, lo que inesperadamente le dio el plus que necesitaba para funcionar como un todo. Comencemos desde que, más allá de la caracterización de cada chica, el tema es global “Esfuerzo”, de ahí se desprenden diferentes vertientes: vivir la juventud, la perseverancia tras el futuro o sencillamente reconocer quién eres y que quieres mejorar, sin olvidarnos que ahora sí, los esfuerzos individuales de cada chica dictan un tono diferente a ese manejo dramático.

Así pues, la historia de Uruka es la demostración sobre como hay que vivir sin arrepentimientos, Ogata es como podemos cambiar aquello que nos desagrada de nosotros mismos, Fumino demuestra que hay que ser sincero con nuestros sentimientos, Asumi el cómo no hay que desmeritar el futuro, y Mafuyu el que nunca es demasiado tarde para perseguir nuestros sueños.

Cada una de las chicas está definida a niveles básicos, es decir, ninguna presenta un comportamiento excesivamente complejo, bien es cierto que puede haber unas cuántas dimensiones (mayormente todas le pertenecen a la profesora), las demás meramente cuentan con el conflicto que les ha sido designados, y con el tiempo, se demuestra que no necesitaban de nada más.

Esto debido a que los sucesos no merecen ningún premio o reconocimiento a la complejidad, ciñéndose a la desgastada formula de accidentes y encontronazos auto conclusivos, que pueden ser o no pervertidos, de típico roce involuntario o caídas imposibles. Afortunadamente, Taishi maneja perfectamente el ritmo, se lee rápido y como tal, no se piensa demasiado acerca de lo certero que pueden llegar a ser. Eso sí, hay una que otra trama construida más tampoco ninguna deja un poderoso recuerdo (las únicas excepciones serían la revelación Fumino y el pasado de la Sensei).

Nuevamente, poco importa. Cada chica es genial tal como es, ciertamente hay una que otra cuyo atractivo puede no haber sido completo (Uruka te estoy viendo), más ninguna sobra o se siente agregada a calzador, menos mal, el autor mantuvo las cosas relativamente simples (eso sí, quería otra historia de la hermana). No se sabotean entre ellas, y pese a que la mayoría de los fanáticos pertenecían a la religión de Mafuyu, no puede decirse que fuera desproporcionada la competencia.

El protagonista en sí mismo tampoco tiene tanta capacidad de decisión, que ve compensando con algo de encanto inocente (no fueron pocos quienes le llamaban la auténtica best girl y razones no les faltan). A destacar como cada chica tiene sus propios personajes secundarios, que ayudan a formalizar esos microuniversos narrativas.

Finalmente, llegamos al gran final, donde las fallas se convirtieron en virtudes, la poca definición de Nariyuki facilito el que fuera intercambiable entre historias, logrando que cada una de ellas fuera creíble. Así mismo ninguna enseñanza temática fue sacrificada o contrariada, porque todas se guían bajo el impulso sobre el esfuerzo, ya independientemente se dan las últimas lecciones que sólo cada quién era capaz de demostrar. Él lector puede preferir una que otra ruta, personalmente mis favoritas van acorde a orden de publicación (menor a mayor) más todas recibieron el espacio que se merecían.

Una vez leía a quien mencionaba como hubiera funcionado de novela visual, y he de darle la razón, cada ruta revela un poco más que al anterior y salta en el tiempo, la imagen se vuelve todavía más robusta y como experiencia termina de completarse. Me es imposible odiar a Bokuben, la satisfacción general no me la podrán quitar.

A nivel artístico Taishi supo brindar lo que se debía, todos los diseños de personaje calzan perfectamente y son agradables, el detalle de las páginas es lo justo, y cuándo debían relucir sus mejores capacidades anatómicas demuestra su talento. Como mencione, el ritmo lo maneja a través de pocas viñetas, siendo mayormente divertidas reacciones, logrando uno que otro meme en el proceso. No puedo despedir la reseña sin invitarlos a ver su canal de Youtube, donde dibuja ilustraciones de la serie, son relajantes y si eres artista aprenderás un par de cosas, y también debe mencionarse el culo de la Sensei, una de las 8 maravillas del mundo moderno.

¿Obra maestra? Ni mucho menos, es simple en su ejecución y básica en sus formas, más es el lineamiento tan básico el que le da identidad, lo que la vuelve única. La obra nunca se tomo en serio a sí misma, no en vano, tenemos viajes en el tiempo o fantasmas, la invitación no es pensarlo concienzudamente, sino el disfrutar por donde nos lleva, de enfrentar el mensaje básico más válido que nos explican.

De esforzarse, porque la juventud, es irrepetible.

PDTA: Mafuyu Kurisu Best Girl

I am a generally easy person to please. I started this series with almost no expectations and generally like most rom-com high school stories. But when I continued to read this manga after keeping up with the anime that is currently airing, I couldn't stop myself from finishing all the released chapters. Yes, it is an overplayed stereotypical high school rom-com, but there is something about the story and characters that hit home for me. In the later arcs, you really get a chance to learn about everyone ( ill try not to spoil) and seeing how everyone grows gives the series a different enjoyment level as a reader. It is a character-driven story and it does a good job of developing these relationships, whether it is romantic, friendly, etc. This is my first review and I do not know how to address what I feel about the series in words but just know if you do end up giving it a read you're in for a pleasant surprise because for me it was a fresh take on the genre. if your reading this far lol feel free to comment or something I'm always to discuss ships and stuff :) part of the fun of reading rom-com's imo ty


UPDATE: I was pleasantly surprised with this series good series overall and fully worth the read if you are into rom-com manga 10/10 experience if you ask me.

Hello everyone,this is going to be my very first review,and I'm happy that Bokuben will be my start.
Ok first my analytical review:

Firstly is the story:I'd give the story a 9/10,even though some people or fans might say that bokuben had a plot that was oddly similar to most school harem mangas and animes.But in my viewpoint,it wasn't as cliched as how you'd expect it to be.There were parts where I just couldn't predict what Yuiga would do,or say at a specific scenario.I don' t want to make my review too long so long story short I think that choosing to make arcs for each route was the best option.

8/10 for the art style,I didn't find anything different or unique that separates them from other mangas.But on each end route of each arc,the vivid and sparkle of the heroines blows them off to a good direction.

9/10 for every character on the series,especially for Yuiga.He's a character that I can proudly say that he is one of my favorites of all the mc's I've encountered so far.The heroines of bokuben,I don't have time to explain them one by one so I'll just mention my favorite,which was Fumino.She had the perfect senses to become one of the best and lovable heroines.She had to be the purest character that I have ever met before.She even sacrificed her own love,just to support her friends' love instead,and I found that very admirable but also at the same time felt really unbearable.

10/10 for the time and joy this manga gave me.I've read this at a fast pace,but at the end I made sure to take it slow and read each route,at different times.

So overall I'm dignified to say that overall I could say that this manga was great!And I would definetely recommend this to everyone who is interested to read.
Thanks for taking the time to read my first review.

"We Never Learn" is not a good romance story. It is neither good, nor a romance, nor a story.

tl;dr:

Story: 0. This isn't a story, there is no story. There WAS a story but it lost its legs ages ago.

Art: 4. Same as everyone else's. Nothing special. Just like the Japanese masses like it.

Character: 4. What started off as promising devolved into tropes and cliches rather quickly.

Enjoyment: 2. There were some funny jokes that got to me every once in a while, but "some funny jokes" can't save this trash heap.

Overall: 3. The definition of bland. So scared of being different it erases everything that made it special. What a disappointment.

There are many aspects that one comes to expect from romance stories. At least two complex characters that, by bridging the barriers that separate them, learn to accept each others' feelings and help one another become better people. A romance story is like any other story in that it comprises of a status quo, a conflict, and the most important part: a RESOLUTION.

It is this lack of such an essential piece of storytelling that prevents this cookie-cutter harem trash from being enjoyable at all. Instead, insisting on brutally twisting the legs off an otherwise interesting premise, leaving the story spitting blood as it gingerly limps itself forward, dragging its two gnarled leg-stumps on a circular path, forever going in circles until the day the Shonen Jump gods become tired of planting their seed all over what used to be a promising premise, now a bloodied, beaten, broken shadow of what could have been.

Shitsurei kamimashita. I shouldn't be rambling so much.

"We Never Learn' is yet another "harem manga with a twist" designed to go on for ages without any actual payoff. As it progresses the characters, art, and humor slowly reveal their hidden forms as cookie-cutter anime tropes and cliches, copying situations from the harem manga bucket and tweaking them to fit the premise. At this time the inventive story and characters from ch. 1 have been replaced with a typical harem plot where nothing happens, following the high-school adventures of Harem Protagonist no. 8713 and Girls no. 1, 2(my personal favorite), 3, 4, and 5 as they do literally nothing for however many chapters Master Shonen Jump wants.

This was fun, can't wait to do it again. Writing reviews I mean, not reading this trash.

This romance manga had a lot of potential. The first few volumes were very good and they created and interesting plot with very likable characters. Unfortunately, this manga does what many shounen romances do, forgo the story for the sake of prolonging their run.

The beginning of this manga is mainly there to pull you in (like how most mangas are), which it will do if you enjoy reading romance. I think i stayed hooked for the first 10-20 chapters because it was a genuinely good manga. Slowly though, it started doing what every other shounen romance does; stops focusing on the actual content and romance to just show the MC hanging around with the girls. The plot stops progressing each chapter and instead will probably progress a little every 10-20 chapters. In the meantime, you get to watch the MC go somewhere (practically everywhere he goes) and he just so happens to run into some, if not all, of the FMC's! It's either that, or a FMC will get a personal chapter where it's just her and the MC. And guess what, the author draws a line that they decide to never cross called the "relationship" line.

The author has created many chances and opportunities for the MC to start dating one of the FMC's, but the author destroys each of these chances personally because they rather have more chapters than an actually good romance manga. The worst thing they have done was add two more girls to the mix who are just trash characters. They are literally there just to add more chapters and give the author more opportunities to avoid romance progression. The MC went from being a kind of cool nerd who works really hard to a guy who just gets embarrassed every chapter after hanging out with a girl.

I feel the author read To-love-ru and thought to themselves that this is the perfect way to prolong a series. Too bad they failed to account for the fact that to-love-ru's plot is to get the MC to marry all of the girls; the plot's goal is to get a harem, so they kind of have to show him spending time with all the girls. This plot's goal however isn't the harem, so showing him spending time with every girl for an absurd amount of chapters has no point. At the beginning it's fine, but after doing it for 20+ chapters, it needs to stop. I could go more into it, but i'll leave it at that.

I recommend if anything to just read this manga until you're bored (which will happen pretty quickly) and then just choose your favorite girl to be with the MC and stop reading. Eventually after another 100 chapters when the real decision is made, you can come back to see who he picks, no point in reading anything in between.