Bad Boy Yagami 05

矢神くんは、今日もイジワル [Yagami-kun wa Kyou mo Ijiwaru] #5

by Saki Aikawa

Es ist soweit!!! Shizuku fasst sich ein Herz und gesteht Kaede endlich ihre Liebe. Was sollte sie auch anderes tun, schließlich würde der Gefühlstrampel sonst nie von ihren Gefühlen erfahren! Und so werden die beiden endlich ein Paar – doch es läuft längst nicht so rosig, wie sich das Shizuku erträumt hatte … --- Dieses spezielle E-Book-Format kann auf allen aktuelleren Tablets und Geräten mit Zoomfunktion gelesen werden. Dein Leseprogramm sollte die Darstellung von Fixed-Image-E-Books im EPUB3- oder mobi/KF8-Format unterstützen. Weitere Informationen findest Du auf der Homepage von Egmont Manga. ---

Genres: Manga

165 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 25, 2018

About the author

藍川さき

Reviews

[Bibliothecat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review for complete series



A Note on Aikawa Saki
If you've read one, you've read them all.
If there's an author who I love and read despite my better judgment, it's Aikawa Saki. I absolutely adore her artwork. However, her plots and characters are virtually all the same and filled with cliches. Knowing all that, I still seem to love each and every one of her works.



If there's one thing not on Shizuku's mind, it's boys. Her younger brother seems to jump from one girl to the next, leaving Shizuku with the impression that all good-looking boys are the same. At her new school, the Yagami twins are just the kind of boys she's wary of, and yet the two couldn't be more different.

Aikawa's art has the same-face syndrome - not that I have ever minded that in manga - but it's always quite funny when characters are said to look so similar when, in reality, all characters' faces are identical. It's usually the hair or other little things that set characters apart. So here we have twins, Tamaki and Kaede, who supposedly look so alike that people get them mixed up - Kaede doesn't like this as one of his main character traits is that he hates being compared to his twin. In order to set himself apart, he keeps his hair messy, which stylistically makes him look very different from his twin while characters in the story still go on about how similar they look. Well, it's not exactly an uncommon manga-oddity.

Yagami-kun wa Kyou mo Ijiwaru is a true Aikawa manga in the sense that Shizuku is exactly the same as her other female main characters and that a good boy is pitched against a bad one. That being said, Kaede makes for a rather interesting main character; I found his actions and behavior believable and convincing. He may be a little gruff, but he's a far call from being a so-called bad boy. I loved his character development and I actually think he is by far the nicest and most sincere male character of the lot. Tamaki is nice enough but at times he appears too nice while being rather devious at others.

What I liked about Shizuku is that she had zero interest in Tamaki and therefore making the issue between the twins more about them as individuals rather than just a fight over a girl. I thought the twin dynamics were really well done and I loved how the romance developed. While this is not an overly long series, I wish this manga would have ended around the midpoint. Once things between Kaede and Tamaki are settled, Aikawa introduces her usual interruptions; former friends or ex-partners who come to meddle.

I've always had mixed feelings about these characters, especially when it comes to Aikawa. Most of the time, they just fulfill the purpose of prolonging the story and have close to no character depth other than being disruptive. Yet often enough, I like the way Aikawa writes them - for Yagami-kun wa Kyou mo Ijiwaru, however, that was not the case. I found every single character who was introduced just to intervene to be extremely annoying and unlikeable. They caused way too many misunderstandings that could and should have been easily dealt with. I was also disappointed that Shizuku doesn't get to explain her full side of the story at any point.

This wasn't Aikawa's best manga, but because I really enjoyed Kaede and the romance between him and Shizuku, I did still enjoy this. Not to mention that, as always, I love Aikawa's art.

[Hala]

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