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“Blogger Shio befriends online idol Miya, who turns out to be a kind adult man, leading to confusing intimacy.”
Merry Checker
メリーチェッカ
7.61
5,589 readers · 36 favorites
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Synopsis
Blogger Shio befriends online idol Miya, who turns out to be a kind adult man, leading to confusing intimacy.
Mitsuya Kishimoto's bespectacled colleague Shiomi "Shio" Aoyama—popular through his website as Shiomi—frequently participates in IRL catch-ups among bloggers. In one such meeting, Shio gets the opportunity to meet the current idol of the internet world, Miya, who is supposedly a high school girl behind a humorous picture blog. However, much to his surprise, Miya turns out to be neither a teenager nor a girl, but Mutsumi Yamaoka, an adult man of a rather large build who makes kindness abound in any situation with his warm and fuzzy aura. What begins as a simple friendship soon begins to confuse Shio, as the two of them spend more time together—and sometimes wake up in the same bed.
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Derived from 2 sampled reviews
9.0
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 8
σ 1.00
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Strong agreement
σ 1.00 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Jul 2015 → May 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I can't believe Merry Checker doesn't have an MAL review yet. Or an OVA. Let me start with the story. An office-worker who also writes a fairly successful blog meets a fellow blogger at an IRL...”
- 8 “"Does everyone hold onto this kind of fears and anxieties, and face them along with someone else?" I realized how good this manga was after re-reading for the second time. In summary, this manga...”
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Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Published May 2009 – Nov 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M10405 catalog