No spoilers just a general synopsis
So I personally got saturated with isekai very fast when it started to really boom in the last decade. Its not even that I dislike the premise it just got tired out quickly for me even though I am very repetitive when picking manga I mean Im a sliceoflife fan for crying out loud. And the datingsimisekai types were the ones I found most boring probably because I know a little... too much... about dating sim games.
But this datingsimisekai romance knocked it out of the park for me
The story and the characters are what made it for me. Its so bonkers so extra so dramatic. Our protagonist Mariko is head over heels in love with the bad boy deliquent type on the dating sim she is transported to and an expert in and when she realizes she gets to actually interact with him in a material form she decides to just go all out and tell him everything she feels for him. Which is of course insane levels of half otaku half stalker nonsense. Shes earnest and sweet and INTENSE. But of course that her confession doesnt end there she gets his attention and curiosity and they end caught up in a way that could even affect the games arc developments and possibilities. Her love for him pretty much glitches the format.
But her insanity and intensity dont stop on her first confession it is relentless. She is never embarrassed or disheartened because being able to interact with him is like meeting a god on its own. The way she loves him is unconditional thorough and obsessive not in an yandere way but just plainly and simply sweet. Shes a mob chara who gets to talk to the man of her 2D dreams Of course him being a deliquent type he wants to convince her that hes a bad person a bad man blahblahblah but she already knows him throughandthrough inside out and she loves him all of it all.
It was the aspect of her being so completely devoted to him that got me in love with this manga from the first chapter. I love love and I love hard loves. I love when a flawed twisted character finds someone who accepts them and loves them. I love earnesty and sincerity and I love that yearning that ache of loving someone who one believes to be totally out of reach out their league out of this world. But the story also develops into new characters new ideas inside of the datingsimisekai trope which adds a freshness to it that I miss in the genre. GRANTED I know the art is not the best youve ever seen but it gets the job done to drive the storyline to where it needs to go.
Ive read and reread this manga a bunch of times its definitely one of my top 5 favorites and it always gets my heart racing so I decided to give it some anilove and write a review. If you like obsessive loves yearning romantic comedies grumpy x sunshine vibes give this one a try I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and hmu if you do
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