少女漫画主人公×ライバルさん 1

interesting premise but not that good

The premise is going to be very attractive to some people that are familiar with 少女 or 百合 manga. You have the typical shoujo-manga protagonist with a crush on a boy and her "love-rival" who is mean to her and tries to keep her from gettin close to the boy. But, twist, the rival actually has a huge crush on the protagonist.

The first part (I think most of the first volume) consists of variations of the same gag. Rival comes on strong on protagonist, protagonist misunderstands and thinks rival is in love with the boy. The later parts tries to have more of a plot. At the end the two girls get together.

There are a couple of problems with this manga:

• this is supposed to be a shoujo manga parody. But the drawing style doesn't look at all like a typical shoujo manga and more like a moe shounen-manga
• The protagonist is unbelievably dense. Like, the rival-character literally confesses her love to her and she still doesn't get it at all. The premise requires her to misunderstand the situation, but it's very forced.
• The rival-grils behaviour isn't at all natural either. The premise requires her behaviour to be easily misunderstood as bullying, bit it's very forced.

If the premise is interesting to you, you can certainly read this and get a chuckle out of it. But you should approach this with low expectations.

language It's a gog manga with full furigana set in high school.