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“Kayano falls for her bully Takeru after their parents announce marriage, creating forbidden sibling love.”
The Devil Does Exist
悪魔で候
7.83
1,353 rank · 14,501 readers · 360 favorites
Shoujo
School
Comedy
Drama
Romance
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Synopsis
Kayano falls for her bully Takeru after their parents announce marriage, creating forbidden sibling love.
High school is hard for Kayano. When she tries to confess her love to the kind but distant Yuichi, the school bully Takeru makes her life hell. But things get worse when Kayano's mother gets engaged to Takeru's father, the school principal! Soon enough, instead of be in love with Yuichi, she falls in her love with her future brother, Takeru. What will she do about this forbidden love? Included one-shot: Volume 11: Flying Rabbit
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Derived from 12 sampled reviews
8.8
/10
What 12 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 1.01
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 1.01 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.75
Running avg · Jan 2008 → Aug 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I loved this manga. Actually it's my favourite, no doubt. A serious plot but with funny moments; beautifull draws and characters; intelligent girls; real situations, a good love history between a...”
- 9 “For starters, I actually think that this scenario is very likely to happen in real life, but this author has such an original way of telling it, I recommend this Manga for those of you who like...”
- 8 “I truly enjoyed this manga. It sucked me in right from the start. When I read the summary my first thought was "Oh great. This will just be another boring forbidden love story." but man was I...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 25%
Long · 8%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 42 × 11 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 36m approx
- Published Jan 1998 – Dec 2002
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0715 catalog