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Zettai Kareshi
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Design - 8.5 |
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Story - 7.0 |
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Character - 6.5 |
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Value - 5.8 |
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Enjoyment - 7.5 |
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Average - 7.0 |
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8.2 |
| Design |
9 |
| Story |
7 |
| Character |
8 |
| Value |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
10 |
| Girl is lonely, girl gets model, girl likes model, model loves girl, girl is torn between childhood friend and man of her dreams. DECISION?!
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| Absolute Boyfriend/Zettai Kareshi is Yuu Watase's latest released manga. I was really excited to read this in the beginning, but as the story went on, my happiness with the story decreased...
Design: 10/10: Yuu Watase has really progressed in her drawing styles. This is probably the first manga that didn't have characters that looked completely like ones from the past. Her artwork is always satisfying.
Story: 8/10: The storyline had a lot of potential(It's less like Chobits than it seems). Riiko wishes for a boyfriend and basically gets one! In a machine named Night. Throughout the series, she must pay off her debt by having Night learn about women. Once again, potential. Sadly, as the story progresses, it just becomes very predictable. The love triangle, the arguments, and awkward moments.
Character 7/10: This is where things became a little like the past. The female lead(Riiko) is supposed to be average, a bit gluttonous, and desperate a boyfriend. Though at the beginning, Riiko seemed likeable and easy to relate to, I began disliking her. She played between two characters for such a long time, and her indecision got tiring. She lashes out a lot more and I was really left unsure about her. Night was a character I really liked. He's the perfect boyfriend, but his flaws constantly show when he tries to act like it(often breaking glass and beating people when he can't give his cover away). The inner problems we see Night deal with make him seem very human and help his character grow before our eyes. Soshi, Riiko's childhood friend, is okay. He's a very familiar character. Old friend, can't tell Riiko he likes her, acts rude and jealous. Though he is very mature and does have his humerous moments. His character does bring a lot of tension and makes Riiko's decision harder, but it's hard not to respect him. I think my favorite character was the man who sold Night to Riiko, Gaku Namikiri. He brings most of the better humor into the series and offers conflict even though he's a great guy. He's a two sided character, very goofy, but serious when it comes to his job.(Also, the clothing design is very cool, and Gaku, as well as his boss and the men of Kronos Heaven have very complex and unique costumes that anyone would enjoy!)
Value 7/10: The covers are very colorful and lovely as usual, but I don't know how much of it is worth reading again. There are parts in it that bring you to emotions, but others that just turn you away from the characters.
Enjoyment 8/10: Though I've ranted, I still did enjoy a good majority of the manga. Character clothing is new and well done, and a few of the characters definetly should be noted as great bringers of drama and humor. Unfortunately, the predictable scenes and situations(happened exactly the same, but in different places) really bring down the potential. Fans of Watase would enjoy it, as would people who enjoy humor and romance, but for people looking for something new and emotion provoking, I'm not so sure.
I think what really tore me away from this series was the ending. It's rushed and seems to ruin what the rest of the books built up to. Watase loves to put some tragic twist in with the happy ending.
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7.8 |
| Design |
8 |
| Story |
9 |
| Character |
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| Value |
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| Like all of Yuu Watase's works, this manga was clean and artistic throughout, with a general dosage of humor. The manga had not lacked any sense of drama and action, either, and would be enjoyable to anyone who wants to enjoy a good manga.
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| It's a sad day to see Watase Yuu, creator of such classic manga like Fushigi Yugi and Imadoki!, write oddball dreck like this.
Riiko is your typical teenage girl (TM), who lives alone with no parents (TM), gets delivered to her a boy robot who is oh-so-hot and becomes her boyfriend. She names him Night, since he's part of the Nightly Lover series of robots (which are designed to have SEX with women). Of course, Riiko having a hot boyfriend doesn't go so well with the other female students, especially her "best friend" Miika, who gets great pleasure from stealing guys from other girls.
If it sounds lame, it is. Riiko is completely unlikable; she's violent, selfish, dense, and doesn't seem to know when to quit when she wants something. Night is like a doting harem girl from a harem series, only he's male, so the joke is that it's funny to see a guy glump the girl, instead of the other way around. Well, it KIND of is, but when the funniest, most likable character in a manga is a robot, something's wrong.
You also have Miika, who no doubt was "inspired" by a similar character from Random Walk, who fell in love with every boy she saw, even those with girlfriends already, and she forced them to break up with so-and-so girl so she could get together with so-and-so guy. It never lasts long, and she's soon chasing another guy and asking him to hook up with her, dumping his girlfriend in the process. And that's supposed to be the protagonist of that manga!
The only good characters are Gaku, a weird salesman who gave Riiko Night in the first place (and also pops out in the weirdest places) and Soshi, Riiko's childhood friend, who likes Riiko despite her treating him like dirt, such as forcing him to do her homework (it's even mentioned in the manga at one chapter that she was a mean bully to him!).
The art is great...if you like Tamahome's character design with re-colored hair. At least the scenery and the female characters are easy enough to tell apart.
Oh, and one last thing; there IS sex in the manga. The cover of the first volume alone should tell you what you're getting into. It's not explicit, but it's still mentioned (and in one chapter in volume 3, practically shown). And if you don't mind yet another sex comedy with robots thrown in, that's good for you. Anyone not looking for a Chobits ripoff with sex thrown in can go read Watase Yuu's infinitely superior Imadoki! and Alice 19th instead.
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