Kigurumi-kun

Cupidsbow22 Mar 9, 2021

7

The couple was cute but the story wasn't interesting like I expected 

Ponyo18 Jul 31, 2020

6

Bland but cute at the same time. And there is no synopsis yet so I'll try my best to explain. Story: Every Wednesday, there's a man in an animal costume who hands out balloons to kids in the park. The man also hands a balloon to a university student, Shimaki Yuudai, who is on his way to his part-time job. Shimaki, while feeling inconvenienced, was unable to refuse. One day, however, he finds the words "I like you" written on a piece of paper attached to the balloon. Art: Mediocre.  Characters: I didn't like the seme, he was super frustrating and Shimaki was too slow on the uptake. Overall: 3/5 stars

nathandouglasdavis Dec 19, 2021

3

Many of these single-volume yaoi manga I've read seem to follow a very similar story arc--building up to the sex scene in the final chapter. I realize that for the avid readers of this genre, the sex scene is probably 50% of the reason for reading the series at all, but it still feels like a lazy way to create a climax. This series also has an emotional climax where Hayama's anxiety is assuaged, but those scenes honestly just made me annoyed by Hayama as a character even more. Fe's emotionally needy and hyper-dependent on Shima-kun (a.k.a. Maggie) for all of feir self-worth. Though at least Hayama had a personality. In contrast, Shima-kun felt very bland. The drama with Kinoshita was written poorly. The author wanted to create a plot twist type of moment, but ended up forcing Kinoshita to act in a very weird way in order to do so. The artwork is pretty bad, in my opinion. The animal faces aren't cute. The human faces are also not cute, but I don't find that as offensive as the animal faces not being cute. Also, I find it weird how the artist continues to draw Hayama with a dog head for the chibi icons and for some "cute" emoting even after Hayama has stopped wearing the costume. Oh, speaking of which, I also thought it was weird that the central hook of the story and what set it apart from other stories (the animal costume) was just straight up dropped halfway through. I realize that the costume was a defense mechanism because Hayama didn't initially feel comfortable interacting with Shima-kun without it, so it makes sense that it would be dropped eventually. But the rabbit/dog face was kinda this manga's whole shtick, so it still felt weird. Like, Kamibukuro-kun wa Koishiteru did it right and maintained the paperbag thing up until right before the end and had the final climaxes involve the discarding of the paperbag.