Nisekoi: False Love

EdMoku May 22, 2015

8

[I'm typng down everything below, relying solely on my memory] Nisekoi is a romcom, and a successful one at that. There's Raku Ichijou, our main male protagonist, who just happens to be a girl magnet. Anyhow, that's beside the point. Getting to the actual review now.  The story is interesting. I mean, the author does a good job in terms of making the childhood friend a mystery, and keeps us wondering. This is probably the only original part of it all. The rest of the plot are filled with cliches. Generally speaking, if you wish to read a shoujo manga will all of the usual stuff [ ie. girl being afraid of the dark despite acting tough ; girl hate boy at first sight and vice versa ; forced into a relationship despite not liking one another ; etc]  this is the manga for you. It's pretty boring, to be honest. I mean, the parts that are meant to be funny makes me laugh, but this manga makes it so easy for me to toss it aside, and approach another. The art is good. The miens the characters wear are beautiful. Though there are times when the art is questionable, but it's adorable in the end. I like the art. Period. The side characters are amazing. The main ones, are crap. They're dense, hesitant, secretive, and honestly, the plot would go nowhere had the side characters been absent since the beginning. The main characters, Raku Ichijo, Chitoge Kirisaki, and Onodera Kasaki. They're cute to a certain degree, but are honesty boring. Their reactions could be easily predicted, and that honesty ruins the story. They each have their own individual quirks, and share some qualities, such as the inability to do anything. Maybe I'm exaggerating on that one. But seriously. They can make no contributions to the main plot, had the side characters such as Ruri or Shu were not there.  But that aside, it's still an okay manga. The love story still sucks though.  c:

closetneet Jul 19, 2020

6

Nisekoi is a solidly written story that is only brought down by its overuse of tropes. The premise of a false love between two high schoolers, while not revolutionary, is almost guaranteed to give you a lot of opportunity for writing a great story. The story unfolds in a very predictable but not quite distasteful fashion. Each character has a well written backstory, a semi compelling character arc, and only suffers due to the tropes the author feels he is needed to pull. And while there was a lot of great and interesting characters in the story, it was clear that the three main characters were by far the most shallow and bland characters of the manga. The author also felt the need to have far too many characters, which while all high quality, felt excessive and had no real effect in the plot or manga other than for some uneeded filler. Overall, there was a lot of filler, tropes, and dragged situations in the story which at points made me lose interest. The climax of the story was satisfying, depending on the preferred girl of the reader, and was able to leave a big impression through the art in the last few chapters. Nisekoi is a solid read and is far better than the anime.

maybebuttercup Apr 14, 2021

10

Longest manga everrrrrrrrrr (don't even get me started with Skip Beat) anyways, it felt like forever whenever I waited for new chapters. The story kept dragging and more girls kept coming, I was about to die fr. But anyways, I liked how the story turned out, the ending came and I was happy. All the characters had their resolve and no holes were left open. It was a happy ending for me :3