“Perfect but girlfriend-less Seiya vows to find love in high school, learning about himself along the way.”
Why Can't Seiya Todoin, 16-Year-Old, Get a Girlfriend?
なぜ東堂院聖也16歳は彼女が出来ないのか?
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Synopsis
Perfect but girlfriend-less Seiya vows to find love in high school, learning about himself along the way.
Seiya Toudouin's inability to answer one question has frustrated him to no end: "Why can't I get a girlfriend?" He gets the best grades, is fairly athletic, and, despite his modest opinion, is also rather good-looking. Even so, in all his 16 years of living, he has never once had a girlfriend. Every time he gets close to having one, he is left with bitter memories. Fed up with failures of the past, he sets a goal for himself—to finally get a girlfriend during high school! Yet what comes easily for others soon becomes a strenuous task for Seiya, whose inexperience and social awkwardness only make his struggle greater. Nevertheless, he resolves to soldier on no matter how low the odds, based on his sheer conviction that a girlfriend is what he truly needs. But as he moves forward, the journey itself might give him a greater reflection of himself than any mirror could.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
What 4 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.18 · split reception
6.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 2.0
↓ 0.50
Running avg · Sep 2015 → Sep 2018
- 8 “THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS This manga is very different from most. In a way it’s a reversal of the typical harem, in that instead of having a protagonist that has girls falling in love with him...”
- 2 “I found the story decent, but why did I rate the mango so low? The idiotic and horrible mc. The mc is unable to find a girlfriend, usually because he second-guesses himself most of the time. It is...”
- 6 “This is a story about a guy who falls into holes. He falls into them, climbs out, swears up and down to never fall into another hole again, then willingly dives headfirst into the next hole...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 39 × 8 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 12m approx
- Published May 2011 – Jun 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M21272 catalog