Kuroha to Nijisuke

D4RKS3NS3I Oct 15, 2019

9

Hey, welcome to this humble review! So, I just read this manga. It's 9 a.m., I'm so sick that I'm almost dead and I'm finishing up the last chapter of Dead Mount Death Play, of the same author of this manga. I finish up the last chapter and I look at recommended for Dead Mount Death Play. And this manga, Kuroha to Nijisuke, pops up. The cover looks good, so I decided to look into it. It's only a few chapters long, which is great, because that means it will be a quick read. And I start reading it. I had good luck. STORY The story is about a girl that randomly, has good luck. Like, REALLY GOOD LUCK. Hell, she plays Russian Roulette and then shoots herself 6 times (because the gun had a chamber of 6 bullets) and she, guess what? survived. DAMN LUCKY GIRL. Oh, and did I forget to mention that the girl is a cutie, perfect to be my waifu? Anyways, having good luck doesn't mean she is actually lucky. Quite confusing, right? Let me explain myself. For example, her family won the lottery due to her good luck, but then, her relatives killed her parents because they were jealous of their good luck. Kinda fucked up, I know. Now, she is under the care of a mafia boss (that to me, he just looks like a damn pedophile) that uses her for her good luck. And then, the girl just tries to escape the guy. And meets this other guy. This "other" guy is a dude with such bad luck that the bill that you still gotta to pay after 10 months will look like nothing. So, to the main point. This guy meets the girl and they both fall in love and bullshit romance (that is actually sweet), etc... And both again try to flee the mafia boss. And that's pretty much it. In the end, there's an extra chapter that makes everything super sweet, because SPOILER AHEAD, BUT IT ISN'T REALLY THAT MUCH IMPORTANT SINCE IT'S JUST AN EXTRA BUT MAKES EVERYTHING MUCH MORE SWEET both of them are literally, like, LITERALLY their other half. I mean, the boy should have been reincarnated into the girl, but he didn't so... THEY ARE TOGETHER, COMPLETE! SWEET! ART The art was pretty good. Not my style though. Still, it was good. IT IS GOOD, OKAY!  I don't have much to say besides that. CHARACTERS Yoitsuji Kuroha: She is the girl. Good luck, a damn cutie (totally not my waifu, of course, yeah, sure) and in love with the guy. She blames her for her good luck, since her good luck only affects her, and brings misfortune to others. Murokawa Nijisuke: The guy. Bad luck, strong as hell and in love with the girl. He doesn't believe in luck (though he has been hit by Truck-san many times) and he is an idiot lol. There are other minor characters, like the mafia boss, that is a bastard. So that would be it. Thanks for reading until this point, I guess? Comment down below To Be or Not To Be if you have read until here! And maybe drop a like. Maybe? Anyways,BYE!

Curiousmadra Jul 27, 2021

8.8

So “ Kuroha to Nijisuke” is the first 3.5 chapter manga of this series and lemme tell ya folks, it is really really good. It’s about a girl Kuroha who is supposed to be blessed with luck and is pretty much being used by the Yakuza, especially with playing Russian roulette. She falls out of the window as she wasn’t able to take being used anymore and she meets hot tempered edgy boi himself Nijisuke. The art was really captivating like the faces were really drawn well with seeing the characters expressions in detail and the personalities of each character was spot on. It’s definitely those typical types of romance stories where “boy meets girl” but honestly, it really has a rare charm that would get me interested to read more of the series. Now I shall move to its sequel “ Kuroha to Nijisuke: Kuroki Majo no Divertimento”!

nathandouglasdavis May 25, 2022

3

The binary put forward is coincidence vs. responsibility or luck vs. effort. So in that sense, I suppose it's different from the binary of systemic failures vs. personal responsibility which I feel like I've seen put forward all too often by anti-activists who just want to maintain the status quo, but at the same time, the language used is still close enough to the language of those types of people that it makes the reading experience a bit less enjoyable for me. It's got that whole pulling yourself up by your bootstraps idea. That victim-blaming idea. That idea of when you have problems, you should just put in extra effort and work harder. That survival of the fittest, social Darwinism, might makes right, life is a competition type of idea. And not to harp on this point too much (though it honestly was a very central component of the manga), but isn't it pretty fucked up that Nijisuke's first reaction to hearing about Kuroha's loved ones dying is to accuse Kuroha of not putting in enough effort to try to save their lives? Like, dude, what the fuck? It should also be mentioned that Hokuto claims that Nijisuke "overcame all of those incidents with [feir] own strength" in chapter 2, but then in chapter 3 turns around and says that Nijisuke "had already developed a strong resistance toward death" and that it was in fact this stong resistance which is what led to Nijisuke overcoming all of the near-death incidents (and it feels off to say that someone being resistant to something stems from that person's "own strength," but maybe that's just me). The twist at the end of the story is pretty neat. And I suppose I'm interested enough in this relationship to see where it'll go and how the author intends to bring the story to a close.