Miara's Favorite

It's highly probable that my review is going to be met with a lot of disagreements and maybe inflame criticisms, but I'm just going to put it up anyway.

I can understand why the author would try to delve into such an unorthodox plot to appeal to originality, and it would have been a rather enjoyable read if the story was handled more sensibly—however that wasn't the case. The attempted humor was lackluster and in some cases, downright crass and repulsive. I'm not expecting much from one chapter itself, but one would at the very least expect the author to establish some sort of personality unique to the main character. It's quite disappointing then, to see that the main character is basically just a stereotypical fujoshi, with seemingly no distinguishing/personal traits or quirks that sets her apart from the archetype. It's an extremely flat, two-dimensional and lazy way to characterise a character.

When you try to write a manga that so blatantly tries to appeal to a particular group of audience through the main character itself—you don't portray said main character in a way that debases and in some instances, outright offends the target audience. It's perfectly fine to comply a tad bit with the exaggerated stereotypical traits of yaoi fangirls, but at the end of the day, are all fujoshis supposed to be terribly lacking in social tact, sex-starved, and vulgar? No. And yet that's the only image I've managed to glean from the main character. It's a harmful and irresponsible portrayal of not just the fictional character involved, but also people who choose associate with the 'fujoshi' term.

For the amount of emphasis being put into constructing Misa as a fujoshi through and through, I would expect her to at least recognise those very interesting 'fuzzy fruit' as her newfound balls. I can see the slapstick humor in it, but it's only going to get increasingly tedious to read if that continues on for the next few chapters as the cheap humor would eventually wane off. The cookie-cutter personality of Misa doesn't make her relatable—yes, it sums up the general behaviour of fujoshis quite simply—but it's precisely because it's so simplistic and elementary, that it makes her too superficial a character for any sort of relatability to be felt. Being unrealistic is one thing, but being unrelatable is another, and this manga underperformed in the latter.

I'm only being so critical because it's clear that this manga isn't a PWP work (which I would have no reservations in giving a much higher rating if that was the case), but an actual attempt at trying to create some sort of storyline centering around such an ill-thoughtout premise, and that's what makes it downright sloppy and quite frankly, tasteless. It's a shame because the basic foundations of this work actually has potential to be a solid story, but the execution left more to be desired.