Koibito Swap

[MangaDex]

 

[danklamp]

I like the artist's stuff but...

 

[BlackElite]

Well... At least they aren't in marriage or something... But still...

 

[Coldlight]

It's a revenge romcom that seems like a high school version of this.

 

[kn4ll]

I was going to say the exact same thing as Coldlight. Basically a blueprint story in high school setting.
I bet it will just be misunderstanding shenanigans like usual.

 

[Coldlight]

I bet it will just be misunderstanding shenanigans like usual.

I skimmed through the free pages of the raws of Ch. 2-5 on cmoa. (Click the button that says 無料立読み)

Spoiler

Well, it's not a misunderstanding. Just like in that manga I linked previously, there's real cheating going on. At one point Yuusuke and Kotone (the other dude's gf) tail Kayo (his childhood friend & gf), only to see her meet up and kiss the other dude. Their desire for revenge is justified.

It's not really dark or depressing though, the romcom part still seems accurate even with that kind of start. I guess the expected direction here is for the male lead to get together with the other dude's gf (who I now consider the real female lead), just like the title says. I'd be surprised if it doesn't go that way.

Random stuff: apparently his aunt looks like a loli and this is actually a tag (叔母ロリ) on the source WN lol

 

[slyss]

-Deleted because too spoilery and I misunderstood-

 

[Coldlight]

I mean...

Sure, but that's the WN. I was commenting on what little I've seen from this manga adaptation so far. WN sources usually are edgier than manga adaptations which very often get toned down. Personally, I'm not expecting this to be a 1:1 adaptation; some changes are inevitable, since publisher editors are now involved and they're often behind changes to the story in adaptations.

 

[slyss]

Sure, but that's the WN. I was commenting on what little I've seen from this manga adaptation so far. WN sources usually are edgier than manga adaptations which very often get toned down. Personally, I'm not expecting this to be a 1:1 adaptation; some changes are inevitable, since publisher editors are now involved and they're often behind changes to the story in adaptations.

Oh, gotcha, I misunderstood you because I thought you were talking about the raw of the novels, as I only saw the link at the end.

Still, I'm with you on that, especially because It's not like the WN has some peak writing kek, even if it does enjoy good reviews, as it has decent portrayed grief at times, and it's like you said, a light read in general (Outside the cheating GF's payback) so I'm sure stuff will be moved around, as adapting from a WN directly especially (as it hasn't gone through the WN>LN filter neither) will always entail changes, so we will have to see how they handle this manga.

 

[Aztecreader]

It's a revenge romcom that seems like a high school version of this.

It most likely is...and at the same time...another manga about cheating. Nothing revenge Rom com about it. Just cheaters cheating cause they want to instead of breaking up

 

[Oobaka-san]

Is this really "ongoing"? The second volume's last chapter ends with "oshimai", literally "the end".

Anyway, pretty standard, with one difference from others I've seen that the girl did actually come and apologize. Though this was after things got pretty bad...

Spoiler: how bad

Her partner actually did it without protection once, and she reluctantly accepted since it was a "safe day", but she's still worried she might have gotten pregnant. Sure enough, the next chapter has her parents and Yuusuke's call a meeting to chew him out over her pregnancy, right up until he reveals that he'd recorded her previous confession and apology, including the part about who she'd slept with without protection.

All I'm saying is in other stories like this that I've seen, the girl is clearly shown to see the boy as only an accessory, one that she only takes interest in when she thinks he looks cool and will increase her praise and popularity, and when she's confronted about it she only cares about her own reputation and tries to put the blame on her now ex-boyfriend. In this one, it does sound like she did care about him, maybe even loved him, but she took too long to really recognize this and went much further than she should have in the process.

But all that said, it makes me think of one story I'd kind of like to see. Similar to how I want to see stories that start with NTR and have the guy fight to get his girl back, I would love to see a story where a girl fully cheated on a boy, no extenuating circumstances just plain infidelity, but comes to regret it and realize how much her now-former boyfriend means to her, and from there show her efforts to change and improve herself and really prove to him that she really won't ever do such a thing again. It'd be a long and hard journey, even for the author to try and find a way to create enough evidence that the girl really is paying for her actions and might be able to try again. But it'd be interesting to see it tried. One thing's for sure, it'd have to start with the girl admitting not just to the boy, but to the world what happened, who with, and more than enough details to ensure that she'd receive all the shaming and degradation she deserves.

 

[Oobaka-san]

-Deleted because too spoilery and I misunderstood-

Given what I wrote above about the contents now that they've ended, how does that compare to the WN? If you're worried it'll be misunderstood or give too many spoilers feel free to message instead. I'm honestly curious how the characters are set up in the novel compared to the manga.

 

[Figger]

Where can we read this in english?

Edit: Damn. This was a pain using google translate to read but I finished till ch.7. That was interesting. I wonder if he'll stay strong.
Anyway, is there a manga like this and Jinsei Gyakuten where the ex deeply regret it?

 

[TatisPatisimo]

Is this really "ongoing"? The second volume's last chapter ends with "oshimai", literally "the end".

Anyway, pretty standard, with one difference from others I've seen that the girl did actually come and apologize. Though this was after things got pretty bad...

Spoiler: how bad

Her partner actually did it without protection once, and she reluctantly accepted since it was a "safe day", but she's still worried she might have gotten pregnant. Sure enough, the next chapter has her parents and Yuusuke's call a meeting to chew him out over her pregnancy, right up until he reveals that he'd recorded her previous confession and apology, including the part about who she'd slept with without protection.

All I'm saying is in other stories like this that I've seen, the girl is clearly shown to see the boy as only an accessory, one that she only takes interest in when she thinks he looks cool and will increase her praise and popularity, and when she's confronted about it she only cares about her own reputation and tries to put the blame on her now ex-boyfriend. In this one, it does sound like she did care about him, maybe even loved him, but she took too long to really recognize this and went much further than she should have in the process.

But all that said, it makes me think of one story I'd kind of like to see. Similar to how I want to see stories that start with NTR and have the guy fight to get his girl back, I would love to see a story where a girl fully cheated on a boy, no extenuating circumstances just plain infidelity, but comes to regret it and realize how much her now-former boyfriend means to her, and from there show her efforts to change and improve herself and really prove to him that she really won't ever do such a thing again. It'd be a long and hard journey, even for the author to try and find a way to create enough evidence that the girl really is paying for her actions and might be able to try again. But it'd be interesting to see it tried. One thing's for sure, it'd have to start with the girl admitting not just to the boy, but to the world what happened, who with, and more than enough details to ensure that she'd receive all the shaming and degradation she deserves.

So she just wants to make MC as the fall guy then later leave him when basketball scum became stable in life? if she really loves MC she wouldn't had cheated in the first place, right? it would be hard for them since basketball scum needs to work to provide for CF so I guess MC got his revenge.

 

[Oobaka-san]

So she just wants to make MC as the fall guy then later leave him when basketball scum became stable in life? if she really loves MC she wouldn't had cheated in the first place, right? it would be hard for them since basketball scum needs to work to provide for CF so I guess MC got his revenge.

It's a bit more complicated than that.

Spoiler

It feels like the implication is that she's just spoiled. MC is the man she loves more than anything, but they've been together so long and he's supported her through so much that she started to take it for granted that he'd always be there for her and always love her, so even if she fools around it's just a bit of fun and he'll forgive her if she's apologetic enough. It does look like she actually did hate and fear the idea of having another man's child, and since at that point she thought she'd just done something risky she became desperate to fix things and go back to him. So no, it doesn't at all imply that she was just trying to put the blame on the MC until the basketball player got successful. It seems she actually did want to be with the MC. It's just that her spoiled nature isn't something she can break so easily, especially with someone she's taken for granted so long, and when she's dumped she goes straight back to basketball guy (though when MC was watching and came to the door with basket guy's girlfriend and a mutual friend, she desperately insists she was just there to tell him it's over).

In any case, it does look like she didn't just intend to make MC responsible but to actually make him stay with her as she did feel something for him stronger than anyone else. Not sure you can call it "love" but she did feel like she needed him and couldn't feel safe or right with someone else as her foundation or the father of her children. Probably would have continued to have affairs, then come back to him begging forgiveness, but I don't get the impression she would have left him herself. Either way, it was very satisfying to see his parents, his sister, and her parents staring daggers at him for knocking her up and abandoning her, only to see their response on hearing the recording of her full confession. I always love those fast shifts from "I hate this person for this awful thing he did" to "I can't believe I didn't trust him, he did nothing wrong if anything he's the best person in this whole situation!"

 

[Figger]

Oh wait.. Fxck. I just realized that she's already pregnant during the apology. That's why she's desperate to get back with the MC and have sex with him. She's trying to trap him. what a scum. And it seems like the manga skipped the part where she told him that she gave her virginity to Ikeya and the MC was enraged while she was apologizing in fear since she wasn't able to give it to the MC.

 

[Lewd_Beast]

I'm on chapter 46 of the WN, and I am having to drag myself through it, since he is the modern day spineless simp MC, that deserves to be NTR'd and now that he is fake dating the AP's GF, he simply can't accept that it could ever become real.

 

[arianefrk]

I'm on chapter 46 of the WN, and I am having to drag myself through it, since he is the modern day spineless simp MC, that deserves to be NTR'd and now that he is fake dating the AP's GF, he simply can't accept that it could ever become real.

Yo can i have the sauce for the WN? Like the site?

 

[Oobaka-san]

Oh wait.. Fxck. I just realized that she's already pregnant during the apology. That's why she's desperate to get back with the MC and have sex with him. She's trying to trap him. what a scum. And it seems like the manga skipped the part where she told him that she gave her virginity to Ikeya and the MC was enraged while she was apologizing in fear since she wasn't able to give it to the MC.

Maybe. Again, it's a little vague. It makes it sound like 1: she still isn't sure, like it happened very recently and she isn't able to get a reliable test result yet, but still realized that pregnant or not she couldn't stand the idea of being the mother of anyone's child but his and 2: she does care about him, she's just spoiled. Not saying she deserves to have him, but I don't think she's aiming to "trap" him. I mean, far as I know he doesn't really have enough going for him to be worth such a trap. Rather, she wants to have it all. She wants to have a wonderful husband who will be a great father and for all her children to actually be his, but she also wants to spend time with the coolest guys and have them praise, pamper and pleasure her nonstop. You could be right and she could just be trying to save face, but I really get the impression that she's torn between these two desires and desperately trying not to lose the first while not really able to quit the second, and selfish enough to think that apologizing and begging should be enough to get him to forgive her. I even suspect she's in denial, trying to convince even herself that her child is his. Again, it doesn't make her any less a piece of scum, just a slightly different species of scum.

Either way, the manga did not skip over her admitting that she gave her virginity to that guy. It didn't have the MC go crazy or anything, but he was clearly upset when she talked about surrendering her body to the guy back in middle school and him immediately recognizing that timing-wise that means she gave her virginity to him.

 

[mulate]

Damn. That childhood friend is for the streets. Hoe for life...