Iikagen Kizuke - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[theartistofsoulbell]

romcoms are best done in oneshots ig, doesn't drag and leaves readers wanting more

 

[dcm1302]

FINALLY!!!!!
THANK YOU FOR THE TRANSLATION

 

[MagnaDrake]

oh my god he's back

 

[kurobaraito]

Years passed but Komi still manage to ragebait me. As expected of the master himself.

 

[goldencircle]

looking forward to the serialization.

 

[NutzYaboku77]

I can't say I'm excited. The least character development to get in a rom-com is always the protagonist. Every single time it's the same ol' dense but overly kind and stupid MC pulling chicks left and right. Don't we have enough of those? I'm not asking them to sort things out chapter 1 but making them that level of dense is criminal. All I'm asking for is a bit of self-awareness.

 

[semont]

Praying this Heisei slop doesn't get serialized. If it does, get ready for 300 chapters of dragged out bait and 5 other girls who exist just to get rejected in the last few chapters.

 

[RakshaJaeger]

Only one chapter and already better than the rented chorizo
But yeah for once i won’t ask for a serialization, if this story gets dragged on mc will just look extremely stupid and several side heroines will appear… not necessary imo.
Thanks for the translation

 

[Flame-2-Haze]

romcoms are best done in oneshots ig, doesn't drag and leaves readers wanting more

But then, how will we know how they get together in the end?

EDIT: I somehow managed to miss the fact that this mangaka did the 'Nisekoi' manga. It's one of the biggest manga of 2010s.

 

[olivetho]

Praying this Heisei slop doesn't get serialized. If it does, get ready for 300 chapters of dragged out bait and 5 other girls who exist just to get rejected in the last few chapters.

ngl man, we've been getting so many reiwa stuff recently that ends after a couple dozen chapters that I'm actually starting to miss the old, simple, and  lengthy romcoms of the heisei era - and i don't just mean it in the "feeling nostalgic for something because you forgot what made you hate it in the first place" kind of way.

Spoiler: warning: long

say what you will about them, but if the rest of the writing was done well and/or there were other hooks that were compelling enough for new people to keep getting into the story, then the fact that they lasted for hundreds of chapters rather than dozens would allow the community around them to simply keep growing into the massive juggernauts that we simply don't really see anymore today.

series nowadays end too quickly (as in maybe 2-3-ish years at most) for enough of a community to build around them that each chapter that drops is an event in itself, that scan groups would actively fight over if the current one dropped it or disbanded, that when the series ends it feels like a chapter of your life has ended, that people meme and talk about them for years to come, that you can reference them in any unrelated series' comment section and know that a decent chunk of people will know the reference.

nowadays it just feels like the romcom community is fractured across so many series (partly due to digital publishing lowering the barrier to entry, i guess; by removing the need for series to compete for limited physical space in a printed magazine) that the community per series is much smaller than before, and add to that the fact that series end much sooner (when was the last time you saw a full ~20 or more pages per chapter romcom series go over 120 chapters, much less 150 or 200? hell, most of them can barely even make it to 70, if even that) and even the good series that would've had the potential to build a massive community around themselves just end up concluding before that can happen (and sometimes, it feels like, even before they manage to build up just the community they would've had had it simply been "the old days").

so tl;dr: i guess what i really miss is just the sense of community those series cultivated.
you just don't get stuff like 5toubun anymore, that were so popular and made people so passionate about them that mikudex is a thing on md to this day; or kaguya, that was so big that guya.moe was created just for it, which then eventually spawned cubari.moe.