Boku ga Koisuru Cosmic Star

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[Redjack]

Well this is... painfully cliche. This has the exact same story beats and tone as so many early 2000 series, right down to the non-committal relationship teasing that is pervasive to every chapter. Rather than be a superhero manga, like the first chapter implies, it's a rom-com masquerading as one to inflate the drama. It's like watching Spider-man, but only the parts where he fails to get together with Gwen Stacy. And the spider that bit him sticks around, just to keep biting him.

Like seriously, how contrived is it that the crown that gives them their powers prevents identity leaks by ELECTROCUTING them when the MC is willfully trying to prove his identity. It just goes to show that the author couldn't come up with an actual, organic reason for the MC not to reveal it to his (supposed) love interest, all in the name of artificially creating drama.

5/10 - I've seen this all before 15+ years ago, done better back then, and moved past it.

 

[AlvoradaGD]

it's as the previous person described, but I see in a totally different light. Being a cliche is not by any means bad, if you execute it well enough.

 

[colorlesseatstomboys]

While I'd happily give it a 7, the interactions between the MC and Haida and MC and Cosmic frustrate me to no end. It's like talking to a wall. Both refuse to understand anything.
It's like talking to a stupid bot, like chatgpt, when you tell it to not include certain things in future responses but it forgets that just after 1 query.

 

[VanVassille]

dud... got lazy to read more when he didn't reveal who he was. I'm not reading generic shit like this again man, its gonna be the same old formula where mc beats around the bush more often because he has decided not to reveal his identity, goes on for decades of chapters, then mc falls in love with drill hair and at a some point, black hair discovers his identity, all the same shit. I don't wanna assume too much but my intuition after reading so much shit tells me so and id rather not read anymore of this unless it redeems itself some way some how.

 

[VanVassille]

it's as the previous person described, but I see in a totally different light. Being a cliche is not by any means bad, if you execute it well enough.

the big question is if lol. and im too lazy to find out myself. if it does go off maybe ill come back lol. but for now im not into crap like this

 

[Kakyoindonut321]

I must've died and gone to heaven
'Cause it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999
Right across from where I'm standing
On the dance floor, she was landing
It was clear that she was from another time
Like some baby Barbarella
With the stars as her umbrella
She asked me if I'd like to magnetise
Do I have to go star-trekkin?
'Cause it's you I should be checkin
So she lazer beamed me
With her cosmic eyes

She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic

I'm scanning all my radars
Well, she said she's from a quasar
Forty thousand million light years away
It's a distant solar system
I tried to phone, but they don't list 'em
So I asked her for her number all the same
She said: Step in my transporter, so I can teleport ya
All around my heavenly body
Oh, this could be a close encounter
I should take care not to flounder
Sends me into hyperspace
When I see her pretty face

She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic

Sends me into hyperspace
When I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace
When I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace
When I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace
When I see her pretty face

She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
Transmitting on my frequency
Yeah, cosmic, oh
Can't you be my cosmic woman?
I need you, I want you
To be my cosmic girl
For the rest of time, ooh

I'm losing my mind
You're my cosmic girl, yeah

 

[AlvoradaGD]

the big question is if lol. and im too lazy to find out myself. if it does go off maybe ill come back lol. but for now im not into crap like this

from what I've read so far, no, you won't need to read. It's not bad, but it's that cliche you mentioned that keeps going and you might enjoy, but there won't be a twist or anything truly surprising, because it has been done over and over by past mangakas.

 

[Felgon]

So far (17 chapters in) so good.

Also, it has certain things that are usually found in early 2000s' mangas, and is rather appealing because of those.

 

[IronicWeeaboo]

two characters with clashing personalities, one of whom is an alien, that merge together to form a hero hmm?
it seems Star Force is still on Heriyama's mind

 

[Nakewameke]

Goddamnit he's called Handstar because he's got the cube hands isn't he.

 

[Luke_chase]

Man I love how the MMC just constantly has heart eyes it’s hilarious

 

[Redjack]

two characters with clashing personalities, one of whom is an alien, that merge together to form a hero hmm?
it seems Star Force is still on Heriyama's mind

It's so much worse than that. As the translator notes and comments on chapter 8 point out, Heriyama was/is a huge publisher of Mega Man Star Force Doujinshi. Most of them feature the character Luna Platz/Shirogane, who is just 1 to 1 cut-and-pasted to create Star in this manga. From the design to the personality, it's just a reskin of a character Heriyama took from another series.

Then we get to how the MC is powered by fusing with another character, which is identical to Mega Man Star Force. If this series doesn't get axed, I highly expect another fusion besides Star to occur just to drive this point home. Probably the pretty boy with either the MC or his supposed love interest. You know, just to inflate the drama more. It won't have any real impact on the plot since this isn't actually a superhero manga.

Honestly, the weirdest thing about this manga is that the MC meets aliens/people from another dimension and just doesn't think about it past the first few pages. There is an entire, hyper advanced civilization out there, and you've been accidentally given one of their most powerful artifacts. Sure you would be curious about this bizarre item that spits out pure engergy and superpowers right? Somehow this not only fails to phase him, but he completely ignores it when trying to be a "hero" without Star around. Maybe if you actually bothered to investigate this low hanging fruit, you would be able to function on your own.

 

[74HC595]

It’s a stupid superhero comedy with goofy characters and an irritating love triangle. I fucking love it.

 

[chanmyse]

So nostalgic, Around 15 years ago this kind of romcom was pretty popular, a mysterious girl, a crush, a childhood friend, then your chaos life, by the end of the manga, usually the mysterious won, or just status quo, a harem.

 

[Haikaka]

Pretty fun rom-com with some fight elements, no novelty but I like it.