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My Girlfriend's a Geek #1
My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1
Taiga is a college student who's always scraping by. All he wants is a part-time job and a cute girlfriend. So when he spies a 'help wanted' sign outside an office and a hot girl inside, he takes the job, no questions asked. And everything goes well, prompting him to steel his courage and ask Yuiko, a full-time employee at the office, out on date. And when she asks him if it's okay that she's a 'fujoshi', or rabid female fan of boys' love, he tells her it's fine out of sheer excitement. But poor Taiga has no idea of how much trouble he's just got himself into!
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2007
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Rize Shinba
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Associated Names:
神叶理世, 神葉里世
Used to be known as 神葉 里世 (same reading, different kanji).
Associated Names:
神叶理世, 神葉里世
Used to be known as 神葉 里世 (same reading, different kanji).
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October 15, 2017
I'd like to consider myself open minded when I come into a book and I tried hanging in there with this one even after the first few pages didn't hook me. It did not get better.
Taiga is immature to begin with but Yuiko is supposed to be older, wiser, and more responsible and she blows him out of the water in immaturity. The book tries to portray her as "silly" and "geeky" but that is not what I got out of it.
The translations were really choppy. The pacing was all over the place. The plot promotes changing who you are (Taiga) to accommodate who you want to be with (Yuiko). I was really not impressed. I love manga and this is actually the first I've ever disliked.
Taiga is immature to begin with but Yuiko is supposed to be older, wiser, and more responsible and she blows him out of the water in immaturity. The book tries to portray her as "silly" and "geeky" but that is not what I got out of it.
The translations were really choppy. The pacing was all over the place. The plot promotes changing who you are (Taiga) to accommodate who you want to be with (Yuiko). I was really not impressed. I love manga and this is actually the first I've ever disliked.
January 9, 2012
Why did the translators feel the need to title this "geek" I'll never know! The girl isn't geeky, she's just your stereotyped yaoi weeboo, the bad kind!
If there was ever a character with no likeability, drowned in her own yaoi fangirl delusions and deserved a punch in the face - THIS 'rotten girl' is her. She doesn't even pretend to give a fuck about the guy beyond "z0mg!! lemme use you for my new shouta fantasy!!"
If there was ever a character with no likeability, drowned in her own yaoi fangirl delusions and deserved a punch in the face - THIS 'rotten girl' is her. She doesn't even pretend to give a fuck about the guy beyond "z0mg!! lemme use you for my new shouta fantasy!!"
February 2, 2011
This is an exceedingly accurate portrait of a modern-day fujoshi and her loves... which, at least marginally, now include the manga's clueless protagonist, Taiga.
Taiga is a completely regular boy--college student majoring in Lit, busy with homework, working a menial part-time job to scrape together a living, hanging out or studying with his best friend Kouji once in a while--until the day he sees Yuiko. A beautiful twenty-something admin assistant at a small business (a logistics company, it looks like?), Yuiko is oblivious to Taiga's crush on her until he works up the guts to confess his love. Even then, her reaction isn't quite the starry-eyed gush of happiness he was hoping for, though she accepts his love readily enough. But she accepts with an odd warning--"I'm a fujoshi," she tells him, and unfamiliar with the otaku term, Taiga misunderstands it to mean "fujoshi" as in "a lady," and laughs off her trepidition, even when she tries to explain that it means she's a certain type of female manga otaku.
Eager to win her heart, he insists that he also likes manga (though on a casual, average-Japanese-person-level, not an otaku-level) and says he doesn't mind if she has hobbies. Little does Taiga know that being a fujoshi is not a mere hobby--it's a LIFESTYLE, and Yuiko--honest to a fault--soon has him embroiled right into the thick of her fujoshi world. Soon, Taiga can't look at two boys sitting companionably together without recalling Yuiko's BL doujinshis and even unwittingly makes himself and his friend Kouji into fodder for a fujoshi fantasy when Yuiko sees the two of them sharing food.
Still, Taiga proves that his love is true and weathers the good and bad (and crazy), trying to learn more about his girlfriend and her fujoshi subculture so that they can become closer. This is a very cute and comedy-filled volume with lovely, shoujo-style artwork--highly recommended to fujoshi, who will delight at the self-recognition, and anyone trying to date or understand a fujoshi. ;-)
Taiga is a completely regular boy--college student majoring in Lit, busy with homework, working a menial part-time job to scrape together a living, hanging out or studying with his best friend Kouji once in a while--until the day he sees Yuiko. A beautiful twenty-something admin assistant at a small business (a logistics company, it looks like?), Yuiko is oblivious to Taiga's crush on her until he works up the guts to confess his love. Even then, her reaction isn't quite the starry-eyed gush of happiness he was hoping for, though she accepts his love readily enough. But she accepts with an odd warning--"I'm a fujoshi," she tells him, and unfamiliar with the otaku term, Taiga misunderstands it to mean "fujoshi" as in "a lady," and laughs off her trepidition, even when she tries to explain that it means she's a certain type of female manga otaku.
Eager to win her heart, he insists that he also likes manga (though on a casual, average-Japanese-person-level, not an otaku-level) and says he doesn't mind if she has hobbies. Little does Taiga know that being a fujoshi is not a mere hobby--it's a LIFESTYLE, and Yuiko--honest to a fault--soon has him embroiled right into the thick of her fujoshi world. Soon, Taiga can't look at two boys sitting companionably together without recalling Yuiko's BL doujinshis and even unwittingly makes himself and his friend Kouji into fodder for a fujoshi fantasy when Yuiko sees the two of them sharing food.
Still, Taiga proves that his love is true and weathers the good and bad (and crazy), trying to learn more about his girlfriend and her fujoshi subculture so that they can become closer. This is a very cute and comedy-filled volume with lovely, shoujo-style artwork--highly recommended to fujoshi, who will delight at the self-recognition, and anyone trying to date or understand a fujoshi. ;-)
June 22, 2010
Meh. Not nearly as fun a read as I thought it would be...and not what I expected from the definition of "geek" either. Taigu is a college student who takes a part-time job to be near a girl he has an immediate crush on, Yuiko. After a few hiccups, Taigu confesses to Yuiko who in turn tells Taigu that he needs to be okay with the fact that she's a "fujoshi" if he wants to date her. There are different definitions of "fujoshi" - in a general sense, a super fan of manga/anime who often likes to imagine new plots/character interactions for favorite characters, etc. In Yuiko's case, she's a big fan of yaoi (boy's love) and likes to imagine male characters from a popular sports manga in all sorts of imaginary romantic situations. That in itself is fine, but she continually tries to force Taiga into situations that mirror her fantasies in real-life. Makes for a story where the attraction/relationship between Taiga and Yuiko seems really false - simply a vehicle for Yuiko to observe a "living doll" in various situations. I just couldn't see why Taiga wanted to maintain the relationship, so this manga was no fun for me to read. I'll leave this series at volume one...
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 26, 2020
Taiga is a broke college student who really wants a "cool" part-time job, meaning something that pays well, is easy and close to college, and would involve working with cute female coworkers. When he spots a cute employee through the window of an apparel store advertising for a warehouse loading and unloading position, he jumps at the chance. He easily gets the job...and then spends the next few weeks struggling to even find moments to talk to Yuiko, the cute employee he spotted. When he does manage to talk to her, he can't always keep the conversation going, and he's worried that the summer is going to end before he has a chance to ask her out on a date.
Taiga does manage to get his chance, but his interactions with Yuiko are a bit odd. Why does she get so excited when she sees him in glasses? Why does it sometimes seem like they're talking about completely different things when they talk about manga? Before they started dating, Yuiko told him that she's a fujoshi, but what does that even mean?
I think I bought this, as well as the second volume, because I knew this series was going to be short (5 volumes total) and therefore less daunting. But that wasn't really a good excuse. I already knew what this series was based on - a popular blog in which Pentabu wrote about his relationship with his fujoshi girlfriend, which he later published in book form. I reviewed volume 1 of the book about 7 years ago and was very conflicted about it, so I probably should have passed the manga by. If I was going to read it, I should have used interlibrary loan. But I didn't, so now I have two volumes in my collection to read and review.
I think I was hoping that the story would work better in manga form. Unfortunately, so far it doesn't. Taiga and Yuiko both came across as shallow. Taiga literally chose what job to apply for based on his instant attraction to a random stranger, and Yuiko's interest in Taiga seemed to be at least partly based on the fantasy scenarios she mentally put him in (going ga-ga for him the instant he puts on glasses, the whole Sebas and Uke-Sebas thing). Taiga was repeatedly baffled or horrified by Yuiko's fujoshi fantasies, and I couldn't understand why the two of them continued to date each other. They didn't really have anything in common, beyond the one manga series they enjoyed for completely different reasons.
It's getting to the point where I wince whenever I read a manga or watch an anime where a main or prominent female character is called a fujoshi. There will almost always be a scene where the character observes two real human beings (sexuality sometimes known and sometimes not, but honestly it doesn't matter either way) in her vicinity and fantasizes that they're in love with each other. It's one thing to fantasize about fictional characters in whatever relationships you'd like, but doing that with real people, particularly when you're aware that it would make those people uncomfortable, just seems gross to me. And of course Yuiko did it in this volume with Taiga and his friend Kouji, much to Taiga's horror when he found out. (Again, why are Taiga and Yuiko still dating?)
The one thing in the story that I really liked, although it was very brief, was the explicit recognition that that the fictional character types people find attractive may have nothing in common with what they find attractive in real life. That came up during Yuiko and Taiga's discussion of Yuiko's current favorite fictional character.
If I didn't already have volume 2 in my collection, I'd probably be stopping here. The characters really don't work for me. As for the artwork, it was decent enough, if not particularly memorable. I can think of several shojo series it reminds me of.
Extras:
Two full-color pages, an afterword essay by Pentabu, a page of translation notes, and an excerpt from the first volume of the books this manga is based on. There are also a few pages with further details about the manga Yuiko and Taiga keep talking about, as well as a "fujoshi glossary" explaining terms such as "seme," "uke," "gap," etc. Some of the words were ones I hadn't realized had fujoshi meanings ("concubine," "queen," etc.).
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
Taiga does manage to get his chance, but his interactions with Yuiko are a bit odd. Why does she get so excited when she sees him in glasses? Why does it sometimes seem like they're talking about completely different things when they talk about manga? Before they started dating, Yuiko told him that she's a fujoshi, but what does that even mean?
I think I bought this, as well as the second volume, because I knew this series was going to be short (5 volumes total) and therefore less daunting. But that wasn't really a good excuse. I already knew what this series was based on - a popular blog in which Pentabu wrote about his relationship with his fujoshi girlfriend, which he later published in book form. I reviewed volume 1 of the book about 7 years ago and was very conflicted about it, so I probably should have passed the manga by. If I was going to read it, I should have used interlibrary loan. But I didn't, so now I have two volumes in my collection to read and review.
I think I was hoping that the story would work better in manga form. Unfortunately, so far it doesn't. Taiga and Yuiko both came across as shallow. Taiga literally chose what job to apply for based on his instant attraction to a random stranger, and Yuiko's interest in Taiga seemed to be at least partly based on the fantasy scenarios she mentally put him in (going ga-ga for him the instant he puts on glasses, the whole Sebas and Uke-Sebas thing). Taiga was repeatedly baffled or horrified by Yuiko's fujoshi fantasies, and I couldn't understand why the two of them continued to date each other. They didn't really have anything in common, beyond the one manga series they enjoyed for completely different reasons.
It's getting to the point where I wince whenever I read a manga or watch an anime where a main or prominent female character is called a fujoshi. There will almost always be a scene where the character observes two real human beings (sexuality sometimes known and sometimes not, but honestly it doesn't matter either way) in her vicinity and fantasizes that they're in love with each other. It's one thing to fantasize about fictional characters in whatever relationships you'd like, but doing that with real people, particularly when you're aware that it would make those people uncomfortable, just seems gross to me. And of course Yuiko did it in this volume with Taiga and his friend Kouji, much to Taiga's horror when he found out. (Again, why are Taiga and Yuiko still dating?)
The one thing in the story that I really liked, although it was very brief, was the explicit recognition that that the fictional character types people find attractive may have nothing in common with what they find attractive in real life. That came up during Yuiko and Taiga's discussion of Yuiko's current favorite fictional character.
If I didn't already have volume 2 in my collection, I'd probably be stopping here. The characters really don't work for me. As for the artwork, it was decent enough, if not particularly memorable. I can think of several shojo series it reminds me of.
Extras:
Two full-color pages, an afterword essay by Pentabu, a page of translation notes, and an excerpt from the first volume of the books this manga is based on. There are also a few pages with further details about the manga Yuiko and Taiga keep talking about, as well as a "fujoshi glossary" explaining terms such as "seme," "uke," "gap," etc. Some of the words were ones I hadn't realized had fujoshi meanings ("concubine," "queen," etc.).
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
August 15, 2019
The title nearly decieved me, making me think it was gonna be a popular boy meets/gets entangled with a nerdy "geek" girl-in which most cases are caused by a dare. But that wasn't the case at all. We have this hilarious boy wanting a summer job, crushing on this slightly older girl at work, dating this older girl, and trying to process how much a MASSIVE FANGIRL she is.
And it was so good. I thought it was really funny.
And it was so good. I thought it was really funny.
October 30, 2014
Huh.... well, I have quite a bit to say about the first volume in this short series.
First, the overview - so this is a manga adaption apparently of some guy's popular blog. It's about Taiga (who represents Pentabu) and his coworker turned girlfriend Yuiko. After Taiga tells Yuiko he likes her, she tells him she's an otaku...no, much worse, a fujoshi (a girl who digs boy with boy relationships and often takes male characters in mangas and ships them). Taiga isn't really sure what that means but he tells her he doesn't care, he likes her so much for her it doesn't matter.
But then, unfortunately, it apparently starts to matter.
At the end of the first volume, there is an excerpt from Pentabu's popular blog (which, by the way, was combined into two books first before it was adapted into a manga). And all Pentabu can seem to do is complain about his girlfriend - about all the weird, embarrassing things she does/says (which, quite honestly, I didn't find weird OR embarrassing in any way) and how awful it is and someone please save him. So.. why the hell are you still dating her!!!!??
Okay, let's put that aside for a moment. I enjoyed the manga in the beginning. It wasn't great but it wasn't horrible. I even thought Taiga was adorable, but getting near the end he became more annoying. I just kept thinking "If you have such a problem with your girlfriend being a fujoshi, then WHY do you keep going out with her!?" And on the other end, if I was Yuiko, I would be like "Well, if you honestly can't handle this, then I'm out." But then on the other hand, Yuiko is equally as annoying because she can't be that dense that she can't tell her fujoshi ways (which is all she can seem to talk about, fyi) are bothering Taiga and when he asks her to stop calling him something or anything related, she just giggles and keeps doing it.
Quite honestly, I want to slap them both up. I really liked Yuiko at first too. She was cute and funny. And her being a fujoshi obviously doesn't bother me... but then when she couldn't talk about anything else, I started to twitch a little. This girl might need to get a life.
So, here is my predicament. I didn't hate the manga so much that I don't want to read the rest, however, if the remaining 4 volumes are going to be anything like the last few chapters of the first volume, I am going to fly into a fit of rage. It really is a no-brainer... break up with that person if it's really so horrible for you!!
But let's get to Rize Shinba's work as the manga artist - the art is cute and relatively basic. I do, however, love all the looks Yuiko was given in the first volume. She had different kinds of hairstyles, different kinds of clothes. I feel you don't see that often with manga characters. So I enjoyed that aspect.
Art is fine. Story is irritating. Let's see how volume 2 pans out.
First, the overview - so this is a manga adaption apparently of some guy's popular blog. It's about Taiga (who represents Pentabu) and his coworker turned girlfriend Yuiko. After Taiga tells Yuiko he likes her, she tells him she's an otaku...no, much worse, a fujoshi (a girl who digs boy with boy relationships and often takes male characters in mangas and ships them). Taiga isn't really sure what that means but he tells her he doesn't care, he likes her so much for her it doesn't matter.
But then, unfortunately, it apparently starts to matter.
At the end of the first volume, there is an excerpt from Pentabu's popular blog (which, by the way, was combined into two books first before it was adapted into a manga). And all Pentabu can seem to do is complain about his girlfriend - about all the weird, embarrassing things she does/says (which, quite honestly, I didn't find weird OR embarrassing in any way) and how awful it is and someone please save him. So.. why the hell are you still dating her!!!!??
Okay, let's put that aside for a moment. I enjoyed the manga in the beginning. It wasn't great but it wasn't horrible. I even thought Taiga was adorable, but getting near the end he became more annoying. I just kept thinking "If you have such a problem with your girlfriend being a fujoshi, then WHY do you keep going out with her!?" And on the other end, if I was Yuiko, I would be like "Well, if you honestly can't handle this, then I'm out." But then on the other hand, Yuiko is equally as annoying because she can't be that dense that she can't tell her fujoshi ways (which is all she can seem to talk about, fyi) are bothering Taiga and when he asks her to stop calling him something or anything related, she just giggles and keeps doing it.
Quite honestly, I want to slap them both up. I really liked Yuiko at first too. She was cute and funny. And her being a fujoshi obviously doesn't bother me... but then when she couldn't talk about anything else, I started to twitch a little. This girl might need to get a life.
So, here is my predicament. I didn't hate the manga so much that I don't want to read the rest, however, if the remaining 4 volumes are going to be anything like the last few chapters of the first volume, I am going to fly into a fit of rage. It really is a no-brainer... break up with that person if it's really so horrible for you!!
But let's get to Rize Shinba's work as the manga artist - the art is cute and relatively basic. I do, however, love all the looks Yuiko was given in the first volume. She had different kinds of hairstyles, different kinds of clothes. I feel you don't see that often with manga characters. So I enjoyed that aspect.
Art is fine. Story is irritating. Let's see how volume 2 pans out.
October 13, 2020
This is giving me some LiveJournal flashbacks. The copyright date is 2007 so the references to VCRs and Taiga not getting her terminology (fujoshi, moe, _×_ etc) makes sense. It is all very cute and clearly the spiritual precursor to Kiss Him, Not Me.
November 9, 2012
It might be that I'm tired and it's almost two in the morning, but I hated this. So much in fact that it could not wait until the morning to write what I thought. I couldn't even finish it.
I found Yuiko annoying from the get-go, and Taiga to be a shojo moron. A girl walks across the street with a pretty face and he's smitten stupid. He's practically obsessed, which is ironic because she's obsessed too, just not in a real relationship way.
Thank God for libraries because I don't think I could have talked my way into getting a refund for whatever this is. I think the conversation would have gone like this:
Me: Hello, I need to return this.
Clerk: Why? Is there something wrong with it?
me: Why yes there is. I wasn't planning on reading a story about multiple personality disorder in a girl that goes from average personal to tvo in the blink of an eye.
Clerk: -.-
April 10, 2011
This series doesn't represent fujoshi in a good light whatsoever. The main character easily accepts the guy's request to date and then goes on to just use him as a sounding board for her thoughts and her fantasies but not in any capacity as a couple. She doesn't think of him at all, nor does she seem to care about him in any way as her boyfriend.
All this story seems to say is that fujoshi are weird women who can't have normal relationships and don't care about straight men. I didn't enjoy it at all and was very disappointed with it. By the end of the manga I felt really bad for the poor guy and hope he sees that he deserves better but since this is a shoujo title, he's most likely screwed.
Rating: PG
Originality: C
Plot line: D
Artwork: B
All this story seems to say is that fujoshi are weird women who can't have normal relationships and don't care about straight men. I didn't enjoy it at all and was very disappointed with it. By the end of the manga I felt really bad for the poor guy and hope he sees that he deserves better but since this is a shoujo title, he's most likely screwed.
Rating: PG
Originality: C
Plot line: D
Artwork: B
September 9, 2010
Truly awful manga. The only good thing about it is the artwork.
The characters lack personality... the girl is fan service to Yaoi fangirls who dream of having such a daft, idiotic boyfriend.
Absolutely disliked it.
The characters lack personality... the girl is fan service to Yaoi fangirls who dream of having such a daft, idiotic boyfriend.
Absolutely disliked it.
December 21, 2019
The manga (My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1) by Pentabu, tells a story about a boy name Taiga that's a college student that falls in love with an older girl that has a full part-time job and is pretty. Taiga takes the job that she was in because she was a manager of it. As weeks pass by Taiga had the courage to ask Yuiko on a date and it was a success for him. As he is dating her he will have to go through things just to be with her since he's still in college and she is a full part-time worker. The author Pentabu reveals some important insight about love and how love bonds work since it was weird for Taiga because of his age and Yuiko acts like she is flirting with other guys from the way she talks in Taiga opinion. In my personal opinion, this book has to be okay for me since the plot starts weirds it gets even weirder from how the relationship started. I feel the author was hoping to make a funny relationship love story since they dated a little too early. I think this book is good because it's a funny cute love story if you're just getting into romance manga.
November 24, 2020
Hmmmmmmmmmmm guys this art style is so adorable the premise was interesting. However, the leading girl halfway through this manga was so rough and so mean to the leading guy and doesn't explain anything about what she likes about Boy's Love and Yaoi. Luckily, there was a glossary in this manga for any of those terms that the reader may not know (but that doesn't help the leading guy). Anyhow, everything else was fine except for that. Because of these points, I have to give this a 3 out of 5 stars
October 12, 2019
I am re-reading this series. I think the art isn't exactly my favorite, but I don't hate it. I think the length if fingers kindof throws me off a little. I prefer the back cover to the front cover art. I love the otaku girl type of story. It appeals to me as a fangirl myself. I do feel like this series is moving super fast though. I wish it would slow down just a bit. I like it alot so far and plan on continuing!
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March 18, 2020I wanted to try Manga again because I felt like we got off on the wrong foot when I originally tested this genre out at a very much younger age. And this was NOT it! I was bored and it wasn't that it was mushy (because I HATE overly mushy) but because of this stupid "love at first sight" bullshit, and I'm talking full on"she's all I think about" "how will I go on without her" type of crap. I just wasn't feeling it at all.
December 21, 2017
Funny, well drawn, interesting story line and overall really enjoyable.
And then there is the sli~ightly relatable topic of being obsessed with fanfiction and characters that aren't real, but I never was a real Fujoshi and I've never been obsessed with yaoi... (currently I'm not obsessed with anything).
And then there is the sli~ightly relatable topic of being obsessed with fanfiction and characters that aren't real, but I never was a real Fujoshi and I've never been obsessed with yaoi... (currently I'm not obsessed with anything).
May 11, 2020
My review covers volumes 1 through 4.
Like the protagonist of the story, I was in for a surprise when I started reading the manga. Geek has a meaning to me that does not incorporate liking B.L. There are moments where the story is enjoyable, but also many where it is annoying. Some people will enjoy this; others, like me, not so much.
Like the protagonist of the story, I was in for a surprise when I started reading the manga. Geek has a meaning to me that does not incorporate liking B.L. There are moments where the story is enjoyable, but also many where it is annoying. Some people will enjoy this; others, like me, not so much.
November 25, 2017
It just wasn’t my taste. The story line was consistent and the art work was decent, but the main story lacked the ability to make me want to keep reading. I did finish the series out of pure curiosity and the fact that I hate not knowing how things end. But it’s not on my read again list.
April 11, 2023
3.5/5
on god this might be the funniest thing i've ever read. could not stop laughing. whatever i expected was not this. still dying. this was a great break from the death and dying and depression of the way of kings
on god this might be the funniest thing i've ever read. could not stop laughing. whatever i expected was not this. still dying. this was a great break from the death and dying and depression of the way of kings
May 12, 2018
Ugh I don't know about this book - I didn't like it at all it was confusing even though there are definitions, etc. at the back - it just .. I want another Bunny Drop and this definitely was not it
October 24, 2018
So cute! I love how naive he is. Can't wait to see what happens next.
January 13, 2021
Cute premise that went a little darker than I initially imagined. Not sure if I'll continue with the series. Definitely not appropriate for my tween I read manga with.
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June 16, 2022i didnt really like it
November 18, 2023
Off to an okay start a little worried about the themes 😂
July 31, 2022
Possible spoilers but I'm not sure, so, warning I guess:
Its honestly pretty funny and the art is really cute. I also throughly enjoy the pace which makes this next thing I'm about to say crush my heart:
I can't read vol 2 with a good conscious... the fetisatizon of young kids and gay people (specifically males) really troubles me. The main girl, Yuiko, ships (romantically) two 13-15 year old boys based off a manga about sports. She also forces her (straight, and unwilling) boyfriend to partake in her fetishes by writing a book about the young "couple".
It makes me really uncomfortable to read, and that makes me sad because I like everything else about this manga.
:/
Its honestly pretty funny and the art is really cute. I also throughly enjoy the pace which makes this next thing I'm about to say crush my heart:
I can't read vol 2 with a good conscious... the fetisatizon of young kids and gay people (specifically males) really troubles me. The main girl, Yuiko, ships (romantically) two 13-15 year old boys based off a manga about sports. She also forces her (straight, and unwilling) boyfriend to partake in her fetishes by writing a book about the young "couple".
It makes me really uncomfortable to read, and that makes me sad because I like everything else about this manga.
:/
October 6, 2014
Taiga Mutou is your average run-of-the-mill college student. He studies, he hangs out with his best friend, and his wallet is empty. When he begins to keep an eye out for a job, right away he spots the dazzling and older Yuiko Ameya, an employee at a warehouse. Completely fallen over her beauty, Taiga is in luck when he applies for a part-time job at the warehouse and gets it! But, alas, at first things seem bleak. Something is always getting in the way of Taiga and his crush making contact, until one fateful night, as some may say! Slowly, Taiga will become closer to Yuiko Ameya-senpai... But will he still like her as much when he finds out the mature and dazzling Yuiko is secretly a fujoshi?!
The fact that this manga is closely based off of a true story (that is most likely still going on even now) greatly interested me. Knowing the way of manga, of course things would be blown out of proportions, but... It really wasn't! I honestly believe that almost everything in this manga actually most likely did really happen. (Poor Pentabu. At least he's happy with his girlfriend, huh?) Some may call this devotion and, uh, whatever you call Yuiko-san's actions, to be true love, but I disagree. Sure, it's sweet and all, but... I don't know. It's more like puppy love, perhaps? Although it is pretty funny to watch! But... a little less funny to read about. This should have just been a live-action movie or something. Sorry. Although, the fact that the true story about a fujoshi otaku is in manga format is ironic in itself, so maybe that's why they chose to do this. LOL. Or it was the cheapest/easiest... Ahh, this will be one of those manga I'll just read in between things like responding to messages or doing... urgh... homework. Unless this actually gets better! Then, I will give it my full attention! I'd say if Taiga's best friend gets more spotlight, it'll catch my interest just a teeny bit more... Hehe.
The fact that this manga is closely based off of a true story (that is most likely still going on even now) greatly interested me. Knowing the way of manga, of course things would be blown out of proportions, but... It really wasn't! I honestly believe that almost everything in this manga actually most likely did really happen. (Poor Pentabu. At least he's happy with his girlfriend, huh?) Some may call this devotion and, uh, whatever you call Yuiko-san's actions, to be true love, but I disagree. Sure, it's sweet and all, but... I don't know. It's more like puppy love, perhaps? Although it is pretty funny to watch! But... a little less funny to read about. This should have just been a live-action movie or something. Sorry. Although, the fact that the true story about a fujoshi otaku is in manga format is ironic in itself, so maybe that's why they chose to do this. LOL. Or it was the cheapest/easiest... Ahh, this will be one of those manga I'll just read in between things like responding to messages or doing... urgh... homework. Unless this actually gets better! Then, I will give it my full attention! I'd say if Taiga's best friend gets more spotlight, it'll catch my interest just a teeny bit more... Hehe.
March 7, 2021
This was a cute manga. Being a nerd myself, I get being obsessed with a single series. Both main characters are adorable. Will definitely read the next volumes when I have a chance.
October 22, 2012
I thought this was a cute manga.
The main character (Taiga Mutou) has a thing for older woman, and falls in love with Yuiko at first sight. He gets a summer job at the company she works for in the hope of being able to get to know her.
Unfortunately for him, he has no idea what he's getting himself in for... :)
He is quickly caught off guard by his initiation into Yuikos' life and interests, learning more than he likely ever would have wanted to.
It's very light, and fun and I really enjoyed it. I'll definitely check out the rest of the series. It's more of a positive viewpoint of the topic, which is nice.
Bad points: The (to me) incomplete glossary. One term she uses, 'moe', is never clearly defined - I have a vague grasp of what it means, but I'll probably have to brave the internet to get a better understanding. Also, the Sebastian/Sebas references are confusing. Are they references to Black Butler? Is Sebastian a popular name for butlers in manga? I have no idea.
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May or may not be a real story? Pentabu, who the story is credited to has a blog where he apparently had the story originally written out. However, I don't read Japanese, so I can't exactly investigate it - google translate for one does a REALLY bad job... Could be a fictionalized story from the characters' p.o.v., or real.
The main character (Taiga Mutou) has a thing for older woman, and falls in love with Yuiko at first sight. He gets a summer job at the company she works for in the hope of being able to get to know her.
Unfortunately for him, he has no idea what he's getting himself in for... :)
He is quickly caught off guard by his initiation into Yuikos' life and interests, learning more than he likely ever would have wanted to.
It's very light, and fun and I really enjoyed it. I'll definitely check out the rest of the series. It's more of a positive viewpoint of the topic, which is nice.
Bad points: The (to me) incomplete glossary. One term she uses, 'moe', is never clearly defined - I have a vague grasp of what it means, but I'll probably have to brave the internet to get a better understanding. Also, the Sebastian/Sebas references are confusing. Are they references to Black Butler? Is Sebastian a popular name for butlers in manga? I have no idea.
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May or may not be a real story? Pentabu, who the story is credited to has a blog where he apparently had the story originally written out. However, I don't read Japanese, so I can't exactly investigate it - google translate for one does a REALLY bad job... Could be a fictionalized story from the characters' p.o.v., or real.
December 24, 2016
I laughed several times.
February 28, 2014
I liked the general idea behind this series. While I'm not personally a yaoi fan, I've known several girls who are...extremely. And I've wondered how a boyfriend, fiance, or husband would deal/feel about that obsession.
Taiga is a typical guy who develops a crush on a coworker. That aspect of the story reminded a little of "Jim and Pam" from The Office. As Taiga begins to date his crush, he learns that she is a Fujoshi, aka a girl obsessed with male male manga relationships. It makes their relationship complicated and awkward as they continue to date regardless of that fact. I enjoyed the first volume. The situational comedy might get old after a while. It'll boil down to Taiga dealing with it, breaking up, or the crush growing out of her obsession for a real, lasting relationship.
The series is slightly mis-titled, it would probably be more accurate to call it "My Girlfriend is a Fangirl" or "My Girlfriend is a Fujoshi". Overall, funny, worth a read for manga fans.
Taiga is a typical guy who develops a crush on a coworker. That aspect of the story reminded a little of "Jim and Pam" from The Office. As Taiga begins to date his crush, he learns that she is a Fujoshi, aka a girl obsessed with male male manga relationships. It makes their relationship complicated and awkward as they continue to date regardless of that fact. I enjoyed the first volume. The situational comedy might get old after a while. It'll boil down to Taiga dealing with it, breaking up, or the crush growing out of her obsession for a real, lasting relationship.
The series is slightly mis-titled, it would probably be more accurate to call it "My Girlfriend is a Fangirl" or "My Girlfriend is a Fujoshi". Overall, funny, worth a read for manga fans.
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