Kanojo o Ubatta Ikemen Bishoujo ga Naze ka Ore Made Nerattekuru - Ch. 1

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Coming from someone who tried reading the web novel, I call this story a pile of steaming sh*te.

With everything I could forgive; passive simp MC, subpar romcom plot, and clear clickbait introduction to the story, what I couldn't forgive was how the mess it started in was resolved.

It was near comical. After one month of trial dating, the girl confessed to the MC a 2nd time. The MC refused. Why? Because he still was an apologetic simp not being able to get over his ex, no matter how horribly she dumped him.
On the 1st confession, he refused mostly because he believed this entire confession was just a plot or prank. But now after trial dating, the new girl earned his trust.
What happens the next scene? His ex appears and they reveal they tricked him. All to see if the MC was "loyal" or a guy that jumps at the next best opportunity after breaking up (dare a guy being allowed to lick his wounds after such a betrayal).
The sheer audacity... The MC wasn't betrayed once, but twice now. All to test his loyalty to someone who clearly doesn't earn it.
But do you think the MC learned anything from this? Ha, of course not! He is just a wiping rag who immediately forgives everything the girls did.

So here I am, now disliking every single character in the story. All for a convoluted attempt to create the setup to a harem. A harem with nobody to cheer for.
 
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I know a lot of WNs are getting adapted lately, but this was not one i expected. The source material is kinda jumbled at this point, and it's kinda messed up regardless (though the revisions are making it less awful in bits and pieces), so it's hard to know what to expect beyond the bare plot bones.

It's not nearly as much fun as Konbini, I'll tell y'all that much.
 
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So an actual love triangle - A loves B, B loves C, C loves A. Don't see that very often.
More like A loves B, B also loves (and is hella horny for) A, C loves A too, both B and C know the other's feelings and want to respect them somehow, so they come up with...(gestures vaguely) this...

There's an actual triangle (with an extra permutation and some side angles) over in My Crush's Crush, though.
 
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That whole month trial dating bet could be how she got your gf.

I would love/enjoy this series if the author does the unthinkable and have MC not catch feelings for her but gets increasingly angry with her. (Even though I know that won’t happen)
 
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For me the only interesting part will be how the relationship develops with the cheating girlfriend, will we have one of the few throuples in romcoms?
 
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Coming from someone who tried reading the web novel, I call this story a pile of steaming sh*te.

With everything I could forgive; passive simp MC, subpar romcom plot, and clear clickbait introduction to the story, what I couldn't forgive was how the mess it started in was resolved.

It was near comical. After one month of trial dating, the girl confessed to the MC a 2nd time. The MC refused. Why? Because he still was an apologetic simp not being able to get over his ex, no matter how horribly she dumped him.
On the 1st confession, he refused mostly because he believed this entire confession was just a plot or prank. But now after trial dating, the new girl earned his trust.
What happens the next scene? His ex appears and they reveal they tricked him. All to see if the MC was "loyal" or a guy that jumps at the next best opportunity after breaking up (dare a guy being allowed to lick his wounds after such a betrayal).
The sheer audacity... The MC wasn't betrayed once, but twice now. All to test his loyalty to someone who clearly doesn't earn it.
But do you think the MC learned anything from this? Ha, of course not! He is just a wiping rag who immediately forgives everything the girls did.

So here I am, now disliking every single character in the story. All for a convoluted attempt to create the setup to a harem. A harem with nobody to cheer for.
wow lmao so
everyone is a pos in this. if i were MC i'd have multiple trust issues at this point
. Thank you for saving me from later rage though
 
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Yeah, so she SUCK at communicating. Spent so many pages when she could just say "Your ex approached me first and talked shit behind your back. I think you deserve someone who loves and cares about you. Like me. I like you. You are my first love. I have loved you ever since 5th grade, please go out with me!"

Just change the wording a bit plus add the MC interjecting his opinion for flavour, then tada~ more pages for even more show of character! Like, damn! The way she's talking in this chapter make it seems like she's a manipulator or some shit. Not good first impression you'd like to give to your crush. Seriously.

Edit: Now that I know of the spoiler... Poor MC man... Just be gay with the best friend character at this point. At least he appreciates you and likes being with you man... I hope a new girl pops out (she's always been there in the background) and take the MC away from these bitches.
 
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From Novel Updates, provided by YourMorninCu:

Mizushima:

Her first impression was incredibly strong, she essentially solidified herself as public enemy #1 right out of the gate. As the story progresses, you can see that the author is trying to get you to like her more, but her initial actions kind of overshadow anything else she does (at least for me). I mean, she "stole" MC's girlfriend, and then outta nowhere states that he was the main target all along, and she did so in the most arrogant manner possible.

What we come to learn later on is that the whole "steal your girlfriend" thing was actually a game/bet between Mizushima and Ena (they're childhood friends). If Mizushima could steal MC within a month it's her win, if not, Ena's win. Now the whole underlying reason for the bet is s*upid (but more on that when we talk about Ena), but it was proposed because Mizushima also knew the MC when he was younger (shocking). He had saved her from a drunk man who got hit in the head with a ball while she and her friends were playing. Everyone left her with the adult and MC happened to pass by and save her.

She fell in love with him from here and kept thinking about him throughout the years. Part of the reason she becomes such a public figure is in hopes of becoming someone worthy of MC and in hopes that he'd find her. However, right before entering an all girl's highschool, she gets a message from Ena (they had kept in touch over the years) with a picture of her new boyfriend (guess who).
Mizushima still covets the MC and still wants to be with him so she tells her parents she's changing schools to be with him and one day Ena complains about her relationship with her boyfriend to her supportive childhood friend.


Ena:

She was pretty much manipulated into the whole game/bet thing by Mizushima, but it doesn't make what she and Mizushima did any less vile. How it went is that after complaining about her relationship, Mizushima saw her chance. She spilled everything about how she met MC in the past and her love for him, and proposed the bet. Ena feeling guilty for stealing her best friend's crush agrees, but forbids her from talking about the past.

Another thing to note is that Ena also agreed because she questioned if the MC really loved her. She grew up in a strict family and didn't get out much. Coupled with the fact that the MC didn't touch her (handholding, kissing, etc) she thought this was a good opportunity to find out (ya know, instead of just talking about it, but whatever).


MC:

Nothing much to say about him despite he's the MC lol. He's pretty much just dragged along by the others. The only thing of note is that he used to be bright and active, and that he once wanted to be a hero so he practiced martial arts (this comes in handy). This is also why he saved Mizushima when everyone else ran away. But what upsets me is how spineless he is, these two literally toyed with his emotions like it was a game and didn't really feel any remorse until around the last 5 chapters. He's like a doormat the entire time and doesn't even put his foot down when his family is in danger (more on this in the next section).


The story itself:

MC goes along with the bet with Mizushima and during this time he is stalked, his family is potentially put in danger, and he is almost stabbed twice. Once while he was protecting Mizushima from a crazed fan (but she ended up shielding him and getting slashed on the forehead) and another time when her other crazed fan (her manager's sister) saw them together posing as a bride and groom for a photoshoot and tried to get rid of him (once again Mizushima took the knife, but this time she actually got stabbed in the side and was hospitalized for about a week). This is what I'm talking about with the author trying to paint her in a better light, but in the last instance of stabbing, MC was trying to take precautions but she basically said "I'll protect you, it's fine." Mind you the reason the stabber knew where they were is because she asked Mizushima out on a date to the aquariam, Mizushima said no, but still took both tickets and used the other one for MC (to which he foreshadowed "you're gonna get stabbed someday"

After Mizushima is released from the hospital we get the confession. It's been a month and she once again confesses to MC, but he turns her down (but not because he doesn't like her or he still sees her as the one who stole his girlfriend), it's because he didn't want to see Ena said because at this point he still thought they were doing this behind her back.

With that said, Ena comes out and everything is revealed. Ena apologizes but before getting back together she reveals Mizushima's (who has already left at this point) and MC's past and gives him the option between the two of them again. He runs after Mizushima and finds her on a beach blowing a whistle he gave her when they were younger (saying whenever she blew this he'd come save her). They have a heart to heart and right before solidifying their relationship Ena shows up regretting her decision to let MC leave to chase Mizushima. They go back and forth, neither wanting to give up on him until someone sees them and calls security.

They resume converstaions the next day after school; the girls start off by apologizing for treating the MC like a toy this whole time and tells him to choose. He can't so they do the next best thing, he can just date both of them. But this doesn't sit well with him so he asks them for more time. The story ends with them joining the same film club MC is a part of and introducing themselves as girlfriend candidates.
Buddy thank you for helping dogging this wreak!

I hope you have a nice day!

And I sure hope that the Adaption does not have the same bad events to try to make the shitty FL look better as it doesn't given who is the ML
 
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I'm not a fan of the high-contrast cleaning. A lot of detail got lost from the raws and the images look like the cheap AI thumbnails used by shitty YouTube manga recap channels.
 
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I'm not a fan of the high-contrast cleaning. A lot of detail got lost from the raws and the images look like the cheap AI thumbnails used by shitty YouTube manga recap channels.

I was gonna say this too.
I don't know what the hell happened, but the quality of the artwork was massacred, probably somewhere between the most untuned waifu2x upscale I've seen in recent memory.
If you click on the link for the official RAW and compare what we have here it's night and day.
The story might be dogshit, but don't do the artist like that.

Release vs RAW
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I was gonna say this too.
I don't know what the hell happened, but the quality of the artwork was massacred, probably somewhere between the most untuned waifu2x upscale I've seen in recent memory.
If you click on the link for the official RAW and compare what we have here it's night and day.
The story might be dogshit, but don't do the artist like that.

Release vs RAW
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Kind of weird, the raws were perfectly fine and didn't really need that massive upscaling and denoising. At most I would've darkened them a little.
 
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I was gonna say this too.
I don't know what the hell happened, but the quality of the artwork was massacred, probably somewhere between the most untuned waifu2x upscale I've seen in recent memory.
If you click on the link for the official RAW and compare what we have here it's night and day.
The story might be dogshit, but don't do the artist like that.

Release vs RAW
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. The story is poor, but that's not a defence for desecrating the art. I honestly thought this was AI generated for the first 10 pages, hadto check comments.
 

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