Hijiri-kun wa Kiyoku Ikitai · review
6.0/10 Point and blank, you shouldn’t read this if you don’t have an S&M fetish. Since the plot is so heavily revolved around the introspections and understandings of kinks and fetishes, it’s not that enjoyable for a bystander who has absolutely no interest in all of the belittlement play that each chapter takes — aka me. I’m going to briefly touch on the plot, since it’s just about what you’d expect from most cliche harem romcoms with the twist of being muddled with kinks in each character/plot event. The humor of this manga basically stems from a running gag: this manga is eerily similar to the gagof “Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo” where the bench always appeared during a big reveal, but instead, the kinks of characters replaced the bench. In other words, no character is normal in this manga.
As such, most of the hopes for actual character development get subsided by the impulses of the author to add metric tons of kinky play into the plot, diminishing much of the heartfelt moments for decent to bad humor.
Maybe it’s because I’m not a masochist or sadist, but this manga’s humor didn’t fit right with me, and the most enjoyable part of this manga came from the art, not the story itself.
You guys know this is just my opinion, right?
Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”