Magical Pâtissière Kosaki-chan!! · review
tl;dr: A hilarious spin off of Nisekoi that has fun playing around with magical girl tropes and such. This manga is a magical girl spin off of Nisekoi that’s based on the short mini-chapters found at the end of some of the volumes of Nisekoi. It’s essentially a parallel world where everyone gets involved with magic girls one way or another. It’s satirical in a sense in that it plays with a lot of the tropes. It’s pretty funny and is constantly adding new things at a fast enough pace that it never feels like it’s getting repetitive or dull, though with it being only fourvolumes I suppose that was nowhere near as difficult to accomplish as with the main series. It does have a serious plot which ultimately culminates in the standard magical girl messages, such as the value of courage and friendship. This plot is pretty generic though, and not something I think is all that good on it’s own.
The real draw of this manga is in how it uses the cast from Nisekoi is new ways. It does a really good job of taking all the elements from Nisekoi such as personalities, relationships, etc. and have them fit into the typical magical girl storyline. Characters are somewhat different from the main series, but for the most part I think they’re translated pretty well such that a fan of a character in Nisekoi would enjoy seeing them in a new light in this manga. The protagonist this time around is also clearly Onodera, so fans of her are especially likely to enjoy the increased focus on her. The one characters that’s changed to a bizarre degree is Ichijou, who’s pretty much a completely different character with the same name, but I suppose it was necessary as Nisekoi Ichijou wouldn’t really fit the male lead role in a magical girl story well at all.
The art of this manga I also found more interesting than in Nisekoi. The quality is about the same and the art style is also very similar, but it’s more fantastical so it’s able to do a lot more in terms of more interesting designs and such, especially with outfits. There’s also a pretty big emphasis on fanservice, which considering there was essentially none in Nisekoi results in having a very different feel.