“Antisocial otaku Hikari bonds with rebellious Iroha, who defends him from bullies, potentially becoming his first real girlfriend.”
Real Girl
3D彼女〈リアルガール〉
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Synopsis
Antisocial otaku Hikari bonds with rebellious Iroha, who defends him from bullies, potentially becoming his first real girlfriend.
Tsutsui Hikari is an otaku, and he mostly avoids social life. Hikari has only one friend at school, who is also a social misfit, and he is mocked brutally by most of his classmates for being creepy and weird. One day, he ends up having to clean the school pool with Igarashi Iroha, who appears to be pretty much everything he hates in real-life girls. She skips school, has a blunt manner, doesn't have female friends, and seems the sort to be promiscuous. However, she is friendly to Hikari, and even stands up to the people who make fun of him. Hikari's bitterness and trust issues lead him to say pretty harsh things to Iroha, but she never dismisses him as creepy. After a while, it starts to look like Iroha may become his first real-life, 3D girlfriend! Will he be able to handle it? (Source: MangaHelpers)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.20 · split reception
5.2 pts
Recommenders 8.7 · others 3.5
↓ 0.78
Running avg · Sep 2015 → Jul 2023
- 8 “Just finished reading this, so I decided to write a review. Not going to lie, the story is pretty much cliche. A gloomy otaku falling in love with a hot popular girl. It's like horimiya again but...”
- 9 “So we have 3D Kanojo-Real Girl . What seems to be another typical shoujo manga (which it kinda is) does indeed do some things a lot better than others. The story is character based and revolves...”
- 8 “I wonder why there are no reviews for such a good manga as 3d Kanojo. I am actually not really good at writing reviews, but this manga deserves one, even if it is a short one. The story starts by...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 48 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 6h 24m approx
- Published Jul 2011 – May 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M21816 catalog