“Arrogant Saitou's spoon-bending "superpower" flops, but he joins a quirky super-powered club at high school.”
Saitou-kun wa Esper Rashii
サイトーくんは超能力者(エスパー)らしい
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Synopsis
Arrogant Saitou's spoon-bending "superpower" flops, but he joins a quirky super-powered club at high school.
Saitou, a rather arrogant kid, announces his super power to his class on the first day of high school. He imagines that it will make all the girls swoon, and he'll be crazily popular. Unfortunately, his ability to bend a spoon looks more like a cheap trick than a super power, and everyone laughs in his face. Soon he learns that he is not the only kid with superpowers at the school, and there is even a Super Powers Research Club. He soon finds himself dragged into the society of a friendly invincible girl, a violent telekinetic girl, and a mind-reader. Rather than being swooned over, Saitou appears to have the least impressive ability of the group! Is there any way for him to get the happy high school life he was hoping for? (Source: MangaHelpers)
What people say
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 readers settled on.
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σ 1.25 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 0.33
Running avg · Mar 2015 → Aug 2021
- 9 “I feel it would be unfair to write something about this without recognizing it got axed/terminated before it could reach its "full potential". You should know it ends early and abruptly in what I...”
- 7 “I'll type something quick since i just ended reading this and i need to talk about it, thank you in advance for taking the time to read it. Story: The setting is simple, our MC is an ESPer, and as...”
- 6 “Souichiro Saioto, a high-school freshman, is driven by a belief that he is unique. This stems from a supposed ability to bend spoons. And yet, his demonstration of his ESP, during his class...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 27 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 36m approx
- Published Feb 2011 – Sep 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M16253 catalog