からかい上手の高木さん 1

Fairly good but repetitive

I have mixed feelings about this series.

The language is fairly approachable most of the time but then Nishikata will have a long inner monologue where he lays out his plans for how he's going to foil Takagi this time and I often found those hard to understand with a lot of exotic vocabulary, as well as monologues during a competition where he would weigh his options, and other monologues. Basically, when the characters are speaking to each other, it's understandable, but when Nishikata is ta

Entertainment:

Uhh, well, i did not enjoy this one at all. For some reason i still read all the 18 volumes currently out, but i was not able to find this interesting in any way. The story does not progress at all, well, there is none, save for the few, actually interesting moments where it at least felt like something happens. I personally am not a fan at all of this "extremely oblivious boy" trope and i would have enjoyed an actual equal "teasing" much more i think? Also a lot of games they pl

I liked it and think it's a good beginner manga. I won't say I was particularly entertained, but it's cute! Essentially the entire book is 髙木さん playing pranks on the hapless 西片さん, who is quite befuddled at how to get back at her. It's fun for the first few chapters, but I did think it got a little tired by the end - of course, they both like each other so there is a small romantic arc too (totally benign, don't worry). I'd probably recommend it if you don't mind rom-coms.

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