Mimi's manga / #dropped(20)

Update: Dropping the series as a whole but I did read all of this 2 vol combo. I also don't know the date I read this other than it being 2016 but I wrote as little of what I could remember down for it in 2023. So this is old but I don't really want to update it because I don't want to reread this shit book. Maybe it's because I'm 20, maybe it's because I'm not 15 years old anymore, maybe I'm not much more aware of how horrible everything in this book is, but the way how this relationship started bothered me to hell and back. The fact that Nemu just took the harassment (then rape) that Maya was forcing on him just angered me so much. Only the last 7 was actually something good. But throughout the book I was very disgusted by the "rape and blackmail is ok because they love you" narrative this game me.

Update: Looking back, I still don't know if I actually want to drop this series. I finished this vol but thought about dropping the series because I didn't like it... but apparently it's still on my mind and I'm thinking about reading vol 2 so idk. - Another book that took me WAY too long to finish. Started reading this in August and didn't finish it til right now (December). It was so boring, there were these weird jump cuts(?) that had me thinking I might have skipped a page or something so it felt confusing at times, and to top that off with some less than stellar translation. I do feel like, if the translation was better, this would be a 3.5 for me. Yeah this was boring, but there were times I would've found this "boring but sweet" here and there. Besides the typos, the way they spoke felt so robotic. Not in a stiff robot way but in a "real people don't talk like this" robotic kind of way and that had a hand in why it took me forever to finish this. I'm not actually sure if I want to continue to the 2nd vol because of that main reason. And then there's chapter 7 which had a character who was defiantly 18 and the other person defiantly over 20 and I was defiantly not here for that so I skipped it.

Right off the bat there was a use of the f-slur and I'm really not ok with that. Bad translation or not. The art style wasn't really to my liking, but I can deal with that. Using the f-slur was a HUGE no for me.

2.25 || I couldn’t. I straight couldn’t do this. This is probably a really cute story, Tajima and Koga (Kouga? I’ve seen both) are probably super cute together. In fact, I don’t think the story itself is bad, so I don’t want to give it such a low rating. However, my enjoyment was severely severed by Koga having a crush on his step-brother and I tried so hard to overlook it because that’s not the couple we’re following, it isn’t about them. But I know how this goes. We’re going to keep bringing up how Koga’s feelings. Even if it becomes less and less of a thing, it’s going to be talked about throughout the book, it’s going to be a conflict or a topic of discussion as he and Tajima become closer, it’s going to make me scream and throw up if I have to keep reading that. Though I wasn’t that invested in them and I thought the first chapter was kind of boring, I was a tiny bit interested in where this would go after chapter two... and then chapter three started and I just couldn’t do it.

Dropped - 02/22/25 || 1.5

Started - 12/21/25 || Paused - 12/26/25 || Dropped - 03/15/25 || I didn't want to drop nor put this on hold especially since there's another sorry in here, but this book put me in a reading slump that's starting to piss me off. I don't like Minami, I don't care about the story, don't care about the couple, and really can't stand the art style. All of this doesn't make me want to continue, but I just dropped the manga before last and I don't want to do that again so soon. The gang stuff is whatever. I didn't care for it but I also didn't really mind it, it wasn't the main part of the book so I can deal. What really made this difficult for me (besides the art) was just Minami himself. He's moving way too fast for Sakurada who's obviously trying to become more comfortable with being with a guy. Hell, in a relationship in general, to be honest. But it doesn't read like Minami's is considering that most of the time. It's kind of annoying and disgusting, really not making me like Minami at all. I also thought that their first couple's conflict was just fucking stupid. I don't know, even though this is going on hold, I may just end up dropping it. This worries me because I have a couple more manga from this author on my TBR that I'm now not eager to get to. Edit 03/16 - I'm not coming back to this.

Started (?) - 08/25/22 || Paused - ? || Dropped - 03/16/25

Started - 04/25/18 || Paused (?) - 04/25/18 || Dropped - 03/16/25

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