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Review: Can I Kiss You Every Day? Vol. 1

Can I Kiss You Every Day? Vol. 1 Can I Kiss You Every Day? Vol. 1 by Hatsuharu
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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Can I Kiss You Every Day was so bad… But… I couldn’t stop reading.

Basically, what happens is this guy from the main character’s past transfers into her school and starts sexually harassing her. Hey! Put down your pitchforks! It’s totes all okay because he’s hella hot, and we all know that hot dudes can do no wrong.
Guide to life:
Step 1: Be attractive.
Step 2: Don’t be unattractive.
Step 3: ...
Step 4: Profit.

I’m kidding… Kind of. I mean, that is literally why it’s “okay” in this case. To elaborate, the childhood friend has apparently always had a crush on the MC, so when they reunite he just has to go in for a good ol’ surprise non-consensual kiss. The main character is like “Yo dude wtf” but continues to be friendly with him afterwards because, you know, he’s hot, and she didn’t totally mind it. As you can tell from the title of this series, each chapter is another day that eventually leads to another kiss, as far as the four chapters in this volume were concerned at least. Except the title is a lot more consensual than the guy ever was.

This is no beef towards the MC, by the way. I can totally see how this is a really appealing scenario: An attractive guy suddenly coming into your life and being super forward and open about his affection towards you, and giving you lots of attention and yada yada. This is 100% guilty pleasure reading material, and honestly I bet the reason I couldn’t stop reading is because despite the creepiness if applied to real life, when reading it here in manga-form it’s a little addicting.

So I guess that's a bit of why I enjoyed this volume, but the main reason I enjoyed it was because it's actually decently funny??? We've actually got ourselves what seems to be no mere romantic romp, but a romantic comedy. If you know me at all, you know I like me my romantic comedy manga—that is, I thoroughly enjoy laughing my ass off and don't mind one bit if the laughs are interspersed with character relationship exploration. This one got me chuckling, and you can't go wrong with a good chuckle.

The only discussion I’ve read about this series is a single comment saying how they think this series might become predictable—and that might very well be true—but since I don’t ever read this type of shoujo trash, I’m not familiar with all the tropes and whatnot. I feel like the MC's bother being a siscon is probably a common trope, but not gonna lie I think his antics made me laugh at least once per chapter, which was unexpected but great. I think this might be an enjoyably shitty ride for me.

2.5 stars because there's no way I can say that this was "good", however I personally enjoyed it.


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