Akuma de Fukei! - Ch. 27 - Devils and Training

[Friendly-Sentence710]

First of all, while both series are owned by the same publisher, both are in different magazines. Rent-a-GF is Weekly Shonen Magazine, this is Weekly Young Magazine. The former is shonen while the latter is seinen, and they both have their own criteria for what series succeed and which don’t.

I think this series just hasn’t hit Young Mag’s particular sales threshold. It may sell okay, but not the numbers they expected. This can cause even the best manga out there to be cancelled - unfortunately, manga publishing is still very much a violent state of affairs.

In seriousness, its a cute comfy manga with some top-tier fan service, but it really never found its footing. The premise of her being a police officer (unofficial, self appointed) never went anywhere and Eclair's reasons for sticking around were poorly set, so there's really no tension or stakes - yes this because she's shallow and petty, but that same logic means there's nothing stopping her from just as quickly changing her mind and doing something else.

Not that there's anything wrong with having a manga more than a silly-cozy Slice-of-ecchi-life, but it also makes it very replacable, which I'm guessing played as much of a part as sales.

I'm assuming having a literal Devil(girl) as a police officer may have causes some editorial concerns real or imagined.

Its still criminal this gets the axe but RAG keeps cucking along.

If the manga fandom wants to stop Rent-a-Girlfriend, they need to collectively not give a shit about it. Don’t read it, don’t watch it, don’t buy it - even as a joke. And if you meet someone who unironically likes Rent-a-Girlfriend, then tell them to do the same.

Way a head of you bro.

 

[rabidfish]

The cast of girls just isn't as solid as the author's last work. That's very important as well. A solid FMC just isn't enough in a romcom.

 

[Andasen]

That would have rizzed me up, I can't lie

 

[Doctor_Malsyn]

RGG has taught me to never trust a crane game.


Well, this one didn't last long.

It's frankly surprising considering the length of his previous series. What did that one get right that this one didn't?

 

[ReptahV]

A shame that chapter 34 will be the last.

 

[YamiryuuZero]

She really has a talent for everything she does in this chapter, she was not taught to make that lewd face, she pulled that on her own. XD