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“Monster guardian-in-training Yamada protects Nao's neck from hunters and supernatural threats while earning his license.”
Kanpai!
キミのうなじに乾杯!
6.7
14,944 rank · 1,156 readers · 12 favorites
Seinen
Comedy
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Monster guardian-in-training Yamada protects Nao's neck from hunters and supernatural threats while earning his license.
What with humans killing, exorcising, and otherwise getting rid of them all the time, monsters and demons have become endangered species. Someone has to look out for them, and that's what Yamada Shintarou is training to do- he's going to become a monster guardian. Armed with a two-by-four and a talking rabbit, he goes out to fight the demon hunters, hoping to defeat enough of them to get his monster guardian license. It is while he is doing this that he meets Nao, a normal (if unusually pretty) high school girl, and instantly falls in love... with her neck. Now Yamada has a new mission in life: to protect Nao, and keep anyone- monster, ghost, demon hunter, or otherwise- from getting in the way of his view of her nape. (Source: ANN)
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 6
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.50
Running avg · Apr 2009 → Jan 2012
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Kanpai! is a fun story, about a vampire and his love interest, a part of a girl's neck! XD Seems like an original premise, ey? What I really like about this series, is its crazy humor, which is...”
- 6 “"A Toast to the Nape of Your Neck" was originally a one-shot published in 1997 in the back of Maki Murakami's Gravitation vol. 4 tankoban. It became it's own serialized manga in 2001...and never...”
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Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 12 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 36m approx
- Published Jan 2000 – Jan 2001
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0375 catalog