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“Scary-looking loner becomes fake boyfriend, attracting harem despite claiming he's just a sidekick.”
There's No Way A Side Character Like Me Could Be Popular, Right?
友人キャラの俺がモテまくるわけないだろ?
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Synopsis
Scary-looking loner becomes fake boyfriend, attracting harem despite claiming he's just a sidekick.
I'm Yuuji Tomoki, a normal second-year student in high school. Perfectly normal, if not for the fact that everyone avoids me like the plague because I look like I'm out for blood. The only exception is the typical novel protagonist chad Haruma Ike. But one day, his sister Touka confessed to me! This chick just met me yesterday, what's she going on about?! In any case, I decided to be her fake boyfriend on account of my friendship with Haruma. But now even Haruma's idol-tier childhood friend and a smoking hot teacher is getting involved with me?! Hold up, this ain't a romcom wet dream! I mean, there's no way a sidekick like me could be popular, right? (Source: Overlap, translated)
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Score distribution
median 7
mode 5
σ 1.63
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σ 1.63 · some divergence
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↓ 2.00
Running avg · Nov 2020 → May 2022
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Saw this Novel on the first page so i thought why not give it a try. As expected it was pretty cliche a lot of predictable stuff happening. Story wise for me it was pretty good we do have first...”
- 9 “I was interested in this light novel after reading the plot. The genre of this light novel is high school romance. I am quite a newbie in light novels and I found it really enjoyable. Story-9/10...”
- 5 “By far the most painfully predictable, cliche and average romcom I have ever witnessed. For a newcomer to romcoms this may be enjoyable, but others will probably be able to predict everything that...”
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Jul 2019 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M51859 catalog