Yankee JK no Ijou na Aijou

[zeltrax]

Fuck this manga avoid!

So glad i gave up after chapter 36 guys review is spot on. I dont mind ntr as long as the protagonist isnt the one cucked.

 

[akenoisbae]

While objectively this author really messes up with the script, character development, and pacing, he does really new and clever things in this manga that I'm afraid may be copied in the future.

First, let me say that after reading this entirely (+raws) to the actual ending, I can tell you right now, this is not a romcom. this is not a romance. This was not haphazardly written. This was a preplanned intentional emotional NTR targeting the immersed romantic reader, so very cleverly disguised, that most readers are in denial that they just got ntr'ed.

most ntr's do very badly in sales. because ntr's are simply the opposite of romantic, and most people look to romcoms for romance (blooming and maturity of genuine love between main characters in spite of obstacles). The minute readers see ntr, you easily lose 90% of your reader base. They dont bother reading to the end. NTR is simply not satisfying entertainment.

So, as an author, how do you keep the veiwer reading every page to the end of your ntr? Simple. you lie to them. You promise them that inexplicably, everything will end in a romantically positive way for the main characters, just the way they like it.

For the record, ch 36 was not the end of the manga, Neither was it an alternate reality. Technically, ot never happened. The wedding between the MC and YJK only happened in the MC's mind (confirmed at the very end). The characters never come back together. The MC is cucked verbally, emotionally, and sexually and all the while he is visually miserable right to the very end, and cries many times over the loss of YJK including at the YJK's wedding to the new ikemen playboy boyfriend.

the inexplicable timeskip showing their fake imagined wedding was written for a specific reason. As a lie to keep you reading the emotionally horrific ntr to the the very end, holding on to a false hope. Ikemen playboy having ED is another fakeout to keep the romantic reader engaged and hoping the new relationship would fail as long as they couldnt be intimate. Wrong, the ED is just used as an opportunity to rub the ntr in. There was never any intention to bring them back together, because the goal was to keep the romantic reader's eyes on the ntr.

The first 3rd of the manga establishes a romantic connection between the MC and YJK. While the writing is poor and characters are written to be very flawed and annoying, it succeeds in conveying a deep sworn love between the MC and YJK, making a big deal about both giving each other their first times, swearing eternal love and exchanging rings. MC loses his job happily to stay with YJK. With the reader emotionally invested in thr relationship, the authors trap was set. sloppily, but effectively.

Then suddenly, inexplicably and to every reader's confusion, YJK does a complete 100% emotional dissociation from the MC, nullifying and denying all the relationship and emotion that was built up. And then slowly, painfully, we are forced to watch the YJK and the new playboy boyfriend NTR the MC verbally, emotionally, and sexually.

YJK is not the only one who NTRs the MC. The author ups his pathetic behavior and intentionally shows every member of his love interests moving on emotionally from him and getting on with other guys (even going as far as time skips to show their futures). Even the new gyaru girlfriend GJK (who is a sad carbon copy of YJK) joins in constantly reminding him of how inadequate he is and how she doesn't know why she's with him. And in the entire manga, their romance remains very shallow, and it is made clear at the end that he is not over YJK. When MC and GJK are pushed into an unromantic wedding (peer-pressured by YJK and playboy during their own wedding), GJK reminds him that its ok, if it doesn't work out, she can simply divorce, all the while YJK and ikemen playboy have a visual fairy tale wedding MC has to watch.

I'm not a fan of ntr's. I generally stay away from them same as most people. I really thought this was a romance/romcom, but boy howdy did I get got good. This made me feel worse that many other blatant NTRs I have been unfortunate to see. The betrayal was epic and cleverly disguised. I am o ly glad I read this because I learned that this was possible. Otherwisethis was a potentially flawed but satisfying romance turned into shit.

In conclusion, this is an emotional NTR. If you decide to stop at ch 36, you would be wise, though the chapter is a confirmed dream and nakes absolutely no sense on its own. The actual very last chapter is called author's decision. He knew what he was doing. There are no alternate paths, no character growth, no reconciliation, no MC genuinely healed, or genuinely getting over YJK, or getting back at YJK. After the fakeout on ch 36, its all NTR, all day, as planned. You were warned.

Not going to read this trash to confirm but if true that's fucking crazy that an author would do that. Like how bitter do you have to be to try and hurt your audience that much?

 

[magnustheli]

The ending just seals the deal as a NTR, so the gyaru and the playboy get married, they have a whole ceremony and the MC cries yet again over her, at the kiss scene he is the only one drawn in the background lol.

so after that the fmc throws the bouquet and her carbon copy (the other gyaru) catches it, the cuck MC is still sad or w/e. Turns out the chapter 38 or 37 with the 5 year skip and them being married was all in his head xd

so gyaru 1 and 2 exchange their outfits and gyaru 2 comes out wearing the same wedding dress (this is still all during the wedding) and kisses the MC, sooo yeah even the cover art of gyaru 2 wearing the wedding dress is bait, they dont even get a fcking proper wedding or any sweet ending whatsoever.

The most annoying part has to be the FMC ngl, she really does forget the MC fast af and he never got over her. the author himself is cuck for sure, even the ending with gyaru 2 is like, meh they still togethr but for how long

 

[67User67]

surprising maturity in its depiction of relationships
shoe-in rebound minor

8/10

Uh huh

 

[K1NGS3DDYx89]

This manga right here tells people you can never turn a hoe into a housewife. The reason why they ended like that because you know damn well the reviews were so bad. I'm so happy that everyone spamming one star. To the one who gave this anime or manga a 10-star you have your fucking brain broken. Go out there and find a hole like that and try to think that you going to be getting the same results. A fucking slut sleeping around with a fucking damn nerdy dude they break up and she messes with another boy and they get married! Holy fuck you guys love this shit. I hope this series get reviewed down to a one and to start and I hope the creators of this company get shut the fuck down. Just like every one of these nasty ass companies. Stay the fuck away from this manga It does not teach you anything and if people do love this shit you are a sick bastard and I guarantee you who we know who you are.

 

[dowiet]

The MC is such a piece of shit protected by the power of plot armor. It's insane how awful this is.

 

[NightmareOkami]

Is it me or has squiggles gotten worse at translating

 

[Eiko1302]

I've been reading this back when it only have around 10 chapters and now im happy that everyone unite and shitting on this one ❤. Well deserve for a piece of shit

 

[Septazia]

While objectively this author really messes up with the script, character development, and pacing, he does really new and clever things in this manga that I'm afraid may be copied in the future.

First, let me say that after reading this entirely (+raws) to the actual ending, I can tell you right now, this is not a romcom. this is not a romance. This was not haphazardly written. This was a preplanned intentional emotional NTR targeting the immersed romantic reader, so very cleverly disguised, that most readers are in denial that they just got ntr'ed.

most ntr's do very badly in sales. because ntr's are simply the opposite of romantic, and most people look to romcoms for romance (blooming and maturity of genuine love between main characters in spite of obstacles). The minute readers see ntr, you easily lose 90% of your reader base. They dont bother reading to the end. NTR is simply not satisfying entertainment.

So, as an author, how do you keep the veiwer reading every page to the end of your ntr? Simple. you lie to them. You promise them that inexplicably, everything will end in a romantically positive way for the main characters, just the way they like it.

For the record, ch 36 was not the end of the manga, Neither was it an alternate reality. Technically, ot never happened. The wedding between the MC and YJK only happened in the MC's mind (confirmed at the very end). The characters never come back together. The MC is cucked verbally, emotionally, and sexually and all the while he is visually miserable right to the very end, and cries many times over the loss of YJK including at the YJK's wedding to the new ikemen playboy boyfriend.

the inexplicable timeskip showing their fake imagined wedding was written for a specific reason. As a lie to keep you reading the emotionally horrific ntr to the the very end, holding on to a false hope. Ikemen playboy having ED is another fakeout to keep the romantic reader engaged and hoping the new relationship would fail as long as they couldnt be intimate. Wrong, the ED is just used as an opportunity to rub the ntr in. There was never any intention to bring them back together, because the goal was to keep the romantic reader's eyes on the ntr.

The first 3rd of the manga establishes a romantic connection between the MC and YJK. While the writing is poor and characters are written to be very flawed and annoying, it succeeds in conveying a deep sworn love between the MC and YJK, making a big deal about both giving each other their first times, swearing eternal love and exchanging rings. MC loses his job happily to stay with YJK. With the reader emotionally invested in thr relationship, the authors trap was set. sloppily, but effectively.

Then suddenly, inexplicably and to every reader's confusion, YJK does a complete 100% emotional dissociation from the MC, nullifying and denying all the relationship and emotion that was built up. And then slowly, painfully, we are forced to watch the YJK and the new playboy boyfriend NTR the MC verbally, emotionally, and sexually.

YJK is not the only one who NTRs the MC. The author ups his pathetic behavior and intentionally shows every member of his love interests moving on emotionally from him and getting on with other guys (even going as far as time skips to show their futures). Even the new gyaru girlfriend GJK (who is a sad carbon copy of YJK) joins in constantly reminding him of how inadequate he is and how she doesn't know why she's with him. And in the entire manga, their romance remains very shallow, and it is made clear at the end that he is not over YJK. When MC and GJK are pushed into an unromantic wedding (peer-pressured by YJK and playboy during their own wedding), GJK reminds him that its ok, if it doesn't work out, she can simply divorce, all the while YJK and ikemen playboy have a visual fairy tale wedding MC has to watch.

I'm not a fan of ntr's. I generally stay away from them same as most people. I really thought this was a romance/romcom, but boy howdy did I get got good. This made me feel worse that many other blatant NTRs I have been unfortunate to see. The betrayal was epic and cleverly disguised. I am o ly glad I read this because I learned that this was possible. Otherwisethis was a potentially flawed but satisfying romance turned into shit.

In conclusion, this is an emotional NTR. If you decide to stop at ch 36, you would be wise, though the chapter is a confirmed dream and nakes absolutely no sense on its own. The actual very last chapter is called author's decision. He knew what he was doing. There are no alternate paths, no character growth, no reconciliation, no MC genuinely healed, or genuinely getting over YJK, or getting back at YJK. After the fakeout on ch 36, its all NTR, all day, as planned. You were warned.

Now that I am 1 chapters from the ending, but having read 81 in particular, I see it.......this is worse than I imagined, I thought it was just an alternative route, the way it all stacks together, is downright evil.

 

[Padrepi0]

While objectively this author really messes up with the script, character development, and pacing, he does really new and clever things in this manga that I'm afraid may be copied in the future.

First, let me say that after reading this entirely (+raws) to the actual ending, I can tell you right now, this is not a romcom. this is not a romance. This was not haphazardly written. This was a preplanned intentional emotional NTR targeting the immersed romantic reader, so very cleverly disguised, that most readers are in denial that they just got ntr'ed.

most ntr's do very badly in sales. because ntr's are simply the opposite of romantic, and most people look to romcoms for romance (blooming and maturity of genuine love between main characters in spite of obstacles). The minute readers see ntr, you easily lose 90% of your reader base. They dont bother reading to the end. NTR is simply not satisfying entertainment.

So, as an author, how do you keep the veiwer reading every page to the end of your ntr? Simple. you lie to them. You promise them that inexplicably, everything will end in a romantically positive way for the main characters, just the way they like it.

For the record, ch 36 was not the end of the manga, Neither was it an alternate reality. Technically, ot never happened. The wedding between the MC and YJK only happened in the MC's mind (confirmed at the very end). The characters never come back together. The MC is cucked verbally, emotionally, and sexually and all the while he is visually miserable right to the very end, and cries many times over the loss of YJK including at the YJK's wedding to the new ikemen playboy boyfriend.

the inexplicable timeskip showing their fake imagined wedding was written for a specific reason. As a lie to keep you reading the emotionally horrific ntr to the the very end, holding on to a false hope. Ikemen playboy having ED is another fakeout to keep the romantic reader engaged and hoping the new relationship would fail as long as they couldnt be intimate. Wrong, the ED is just used as an opportunity to rub the ntr in. There was never any intention to bring them back together, because the goal was to keep the romantic reader's eyes on the ntr.

The first 3rd of the manga establishes a romantic connection between the MC and YJK. While the writing is poor and characters are written to be very flawed and annoying, it succeeds in conveying a deep sworn love between the MC and YJK, making a big deal about both giving each other their first times, swearing eternal love and exchanging rings. MC loses his job happily to stay with YJK. With the reader emotionally invested in thr relationship, the authors trap was set. sloppily, but effectively.

Then suddenly, inexplicably and to every reader's confusion, YJK does a complete 100% emotional dissociation from the MC, nullifying and denying all the relationship and emotion that was built up. And then slowly, painfully, we are forced to watch the YJK and the new playboy boyfriend NTR the MC verbally, emotionally, and sexually.

YJK is not the only one who NTRs the MC. The author ups his pathetic behavior and intentionally shows every member of his love interests moving on emotionally from him and getting on with other guys (even going as far as time skips to show their futures). Even the new gyaru girlfriend GJK (who is a sad carbon copy of YJK) joins in constantly reminding him of how inadequate he is and how she doesn't know why she's with him. And in the entire manga, their romance remains very shallow, and it is made clear at the end that he is not over YJK. When MC and GJK are pushed into an unromantic wedding (peer-pressured by YJK and playboy during their own wedding), GJK reminds him that its ok, if it doesn't work out, she can simply divorce, all the while YJK and ikemen playboy have a visual fairy tale wedding MC has to watch.

I'm not a fan of ntr's. I generally stay away from them same as most people. I really thought this was a romance/romcom, but boy howdy did I get got good. This made me feel worse that many other blatant NTRs I have been unfortunate to see. The betrayal was epic and cleverly disguised. I am o ly glad I read this because I learned that this was possible. Otherwisethis was a potentially flawed but satisfying romance turned into shit.

In conclusion, this is an emotional NTR. If you decide to stop at ch 36, you would be wise, though the chapter is a confirmed dream and nakes absolutely no sense on its own. The actual very last chapter is called author's decision. He knew what he was doing. There are no alternate paths, no character growth, no reconciliation, no MC genuinely healed, or genuinely getting over YJK, or getting back at YJK. After the fakeout on ch 36, its all NTR, all day, as planned. You were warned.

I stumbled upon this series completely by chance, i'm in no way invested in this story but i had fun reading the reviews and part of this story (it really made me laugh the fact that this story is a complete mess), but of all the reviews, this one in particular impressed me (i literally laughed my ass off looking at some comments of these chapters and some decisions that the author of this manga made).

Motivated by the laughs that you guys, and this author in particular (by realizing this mess) made me do; I got curious and i searched a bit online (in the japanese sites too) in order to understand if this analysis can be considered entirely true or not.

Based on what i found out, yeah you can considered this manga an NTR story, but the original concept was in no way supposed to be an NTR story. The real story got axed after chapter 36 and the last volume can be considered volume 5 (so if you want a story that really makes any sort of sense you should stop there) which was also the last chapter that was supposed to came out originally (the ending was rushed because of the axe and you have a timeskip to the wedding between FMC and MC, and you also have literally the word end in the last panel of that chapter).

So why did this story ended up becoming an ntr story after all that? Well it's because for some reasons the manga got renewed again. This manga got axed in 2019 and came back in 2022 with a new "version" of the story (this manga was literally described as a "reboot" of the original story and chapter 37 is described as the first chapter of this reboot) and even though it was supposed to be a continuation of the original story, it is clear that it doesn't really works as one.

Ok it's a reboot, but even if it so, the next volumes of this manga (6-10) and the whole story literally came out and were supposed to be a continuation of the original story, so why did we get this NTR mess? Well based on what i was able to find, this is majorly due to the fact that the "new heroine", the cheap copy of the original FMC, had a huge fanbase and was far more popular than the original one, so the editor or the author himself tried to modify the story in order to make her end up with the MC.

With the intent of trying to increase the sales and popularity of this manga, they at the same time :
-modified the story to please the fanbase of the other female character, and they did this also to "breathe new life" into the story (this was also due to the fact that the literal ending of the story was already been revealed in chapter 36 because of the axe and because they didn't planned to continue this story after that);
-they exploited the relationship that the FMC and MC had before in order to try to please also the other fanbase and they promoted the manga on the premise that these two characters at some point would eventually get back together (cause, i mean, the fandom already had the finale there, the only question left was how those two would have reached that ending).

So, to conclude, the story was obviously totally altered based mainly on the popularity of the characters (so it wasn't conceived as an NTR one originally) and the original finale was completely nullified and retconned to make things work between the two new couples, and because of all this you guys have what resulted to be a complete NTR mess (though it has to be said that part of the jp fanbase was pleased to see the MC end up with the new heroine).

So if some of you want to read this mess (i suggest you to not even start this story in the first place, but do as you please) and wants to see the MC and FMC together, i suggest you to stop at chapter 36, the chapter that was supposed to be ending of the original story. If you guys instead want to see the MC end up with the bad copy of the FMC (it has to be said though that part of the jp fanbase, composed by the fans of this heroine were happy with this new ending that rectons the old one, and also the old story as a whole) you should continue with the reboot, but you would have to suffer through the NTR mess and the continue bait and switch between the MC and FMC and the whole "will-they-won't-they?" scenario which will never actually happen in this reboot, precisely for the reasons I explained to you before.

 

[Deku_kyun]

I read this until ch36 then I read the comments and alot of F up happens to I'm gonna drop this one too bad I like the art style and its gyaru

 

[joaoflpe]

Sabe, não dá para esperar uma boa história se a protagonista feminina for uma gyaru , porque elas são, em sua maioria, vadias promíscuas. Nossa, às vezes tenho a impressão de que até a Marin, de "My Dress Up Darling", é assim. E qual o problema da protagonista feminina ser virgem? Não é melhor do que uma vadia que abre as pernas para qualquer um? 1/10, lixo.

Marin has several childish/Innocent behaviors, she is definitely a virgin.

 

[temptempyaddayadda]

I stumbled upon this series completely by chance, i'm in no way invested in this story but i had fun reading the reviews and part of this story (it really made me laugh the fact that this story is a complete mess), but of all the reviews, this one in particular impressed me (i literally laughed my ass off looking at some comments of these chapters and some decisions that the author of this manga made).

Motivated by the laughs that you guys, and this author in particular (by realizing this mess) made me do; I got curious and i searched a bit online (in the japanese sites too) in order to understand if this analysis can be considered entirely true or not.

Based on what i found out, yeah you can considered this manga an NTR story, but the original concept was in no way supposed to be an NTR story. The real story got axed after chapter 36 and the last volume can be considered volume 5 (so if you want a story that really makes any sort of sense you should stop there) which was also the last chapter that was supposed to came out originally (the ending was rushed because of the axe and you have a timeskip to the wedding between FMC and MC, and you also have literally the word end in the last panel of that chapter).

So why did this story ended up becoming an ntr story after all that? Well it's because for some reasons the manga got renewed again. This manga got axed in 2019 and came back in 2022 with a new "version" of the story (this manga was literally described as a "reboot" of the original story and chapter 37 is described as the first chapter of this reboot) and even though it was supposed to be a continuation of the original story, it is clear that it doesn't really works as one.

Ok it's a reboot, but even if it so, the next volumes of this manga (6-10) and the whole story literally came out and were supposed to be a continuation of the original story, so why did we get this NTR mess? Well based on what i was able to find, this is majorly due to the fact that the "new heroine", the cheap copy of the original FMC, had a huge fanbase and was far more popular than the original one, so the editor or the author himself tried to modify the story in order to make her end up with the MC.

With the intent of trying to increase the sales and popularity of this manga, they at the same time :
-modified the story to please the fanbase of the other female character, and they did this also to "breathe new life" into the story (this was also due to the fact that the literal ending of the story was already been revealed in chapter 36 because of the axe and because they didn't planned to continue this story after that);
-they exploited the relationship that the FMC and MC had before in order to try to please also the other fanbase and they promoted the manga on the premise that these two characters at some point would eventually get back together (cause, i mean, the fandom already had the finale there, the only question left was how those two would have reached that ending).

So, to conclude, the story was obviously totally altered based mainly on the popularity of the characters (so it wasn't conceived as an NTR one originally) and the original finale was completely nullified and retconned to make things work between the two new couples, and because of all this you guys have what resulted to be a complete NTR mess (though it has to be said that part of the jp fanbase was pleased to see the MC end up with the new heroine).

So if some of you want to read this mess (i suggest you to not even start this story in the first place, but do as you please) and wants to see the MC and FMC together, i suggest you to stop at chapter 36, the chapter that was supposed to be ending of the original story. If you guys instead want to see the MC end up with the bad copy of the FMC (it has to be said though that part of the jp fanbase, composed by the fans of this heroine were happy with this new ending that rectons the old one, and also the old story as a whole) you should continue with the reboot, but you would have to suffer through the NTR mess and the continue bait and switch between the MC and FMC and the whole "will-they-won't-they?" scenario which will never actually happen in this reboot, precisely for the reasons I explained to you before.

Hi. I made an account to thank you for looking into this situation on JP sites.

This manga's original run genuinely made me want to become a better person.
Seeing how it was axed was sad, but seeing how it was twisted around made me more upset over a fictional story than I've been since reading Aku no Hana.

After reading your take on the situation (and huffing quite a bit of copium), I have a tin-hat theory that I want to share with everyone:
Takahashi Kou doesn't like the gyaru-girl's fanbase.

Hear me out.
Take into account (like you said) the manga was originally written to have the push-pull plot of an older guy and a teen trying to make a decent relationship work out, and how the reboot seemed to pivot on the gyaru's fanbase wanting a different ending. But why would he do that when he already has a story to tell?
I would note that the author is both the writer and the illustrator, so I suspect he's more likely to have a singular vision for the story than a team would. Additionally, the one other work that I've found from this author (a manga called Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda!) is a romance or rom-com story featuring a high schooler with an attitude somewhat unintentionally getting into a relationship with an adult and them trying to be realistic about how to make it work out, and even features the dynamic of "oh, we'll have to wait quite a bit before getting married, won't we?"
Now where have I heard that one before? Sounds like Kou likes writing a happy ending after all.

Here's where my tin hat gets biiiig.

If Mr. Takahashi had a story in mind for Yankee JK and intended to see it out, and then did in fact see it out in the truncated time-skip ending seen in chapter 36... and then got a chance to breathe new life into the story 3 years later in 2022, and then the JP fanbase started to push for gyaru girl to be the winner* (and who knows, maybe his publisher or editor too!) and he had an ending already in place...

You know how he makes MC say Yankee's name in his sleep like 2 chapters before the end?** And then gyaru pulls what is almost categorically a psycho overly-attached-girlfriend move at the wedding? And there's just no joy shown in MC's character over these sudden things changing?

My big tin-hat take: Takahashi wasn't happy about the fans/publisher/whoever making it so that the story just had to end with MC and gyaru together, so he intentionally made the most miserable ending possible, painting gyaru in the worst light possible without letting the overall tone of the story stray too far from what readers would expect.

I'm guessing someone who reads JP twitter will step in and say something authoritative and contrary to this conclusion, and that's fine.


*Or not. Slyss in the ch 81 thread: "all I remember is the JP fanbase (bcs it did have online readers, though they weren't buying shit) being utterly confused with the 2nd part, split between "This sure was one of the manga of all time" and "This was a waste of time" (and a happy minority bcs they liked the 2nd FMC)."
**Septazia put it well in the ch 81 thread: "2 Ch from the ending and the author wasted 2 of them in a row on the other girl, as if he was regretting writing this"
Mood.


Thanks to others here for the camaraderie in panning this... thing.
I'll stop huffing the copium and move on to another manga now. (u_u)