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Review: Kiss Him, Not Me!, Vol. 1

Kiss Him, Not Me!, Vol. 1 Kiss Him, Not Me!, Vol. 1 by Junko
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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This is a review of the entire series.

When I first read the synopsis of Kiss Him, Not Me! I instantly knew that I had to watch it. Kae Serinuma is a true otaku (a fujioshi specifically) who ships her male classmates with each other. When one of her favorite anime characters dies she becomes so sad that she locks herself up in her room for a week. In this time she rapidly loses weight and miraculously becomes extremely beautiful. Because of this she gains a harem of boys from her school who all try to win her over, but all she wants is for them to love each other!

The anime just finished airing last week and it’s safe to say it has become a new favorite. Because of this I knew I had to continue with the series by reading the manga. The anime and manga are exactly the same (except for one slight exception which I will explain later), so you can pick either one and have a good time.

Nana giving a thumbs up

Except I never found myself laughing when I read the manga, only when I watched the anime. But that could be because I read the manga second, so I already knew the jokes so that’s why I didn’t laugh. It was still a joy re-experiencing the series though. *Edit* This review was originally written directly after reading up to and including the eighth volume (aka everything the anime adapted), so it was all essentially a re-read. However, once I got to the content I had never seen before, I kid you not, this series DESTROYED ME with how funny it is and how much it made me laugh! This series is so good that at one point I literally felt withdrawal while I had to wait for the next volume to get published in English.

Nana and Igarashi-kun

The exception I mentioned earlier is pretty much only relevant if you’re someone who has watched the anime and would like to continue on with the manga without re-reading all of it. The exception is that one of the key moments in the series was presented at a different point in the anime than it was in the manga, so this is something you need to be aware of if you’re transferring from anime to manga. So click the spoiler tag below to learn that, and also to find out where the anime drops off so you know where to continue in the manga. Don’t click the spoiler if you haven’t read up to chapter 22 (volume 6), or if you haven’t completely finished the anime.

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So, since this is a harem (albeit a reversed one), this means that there is one important question that must be asked… Who is best girl boy? If you’ve been paying attention throughout this review you may or may not have noticed something….

Igarashi-kun

A sort of… motif… you might say… Throughout my chosen images…

Nana

If you haven’t caught on yet, Nana (blond one) and Igarashi (other one) are my favorite boys. Nana because… Well… Just LOOK at him. Quite nice, quite nice indeed. But personality-wise he’s a dick, so he’s not actually BEST boy. That title belongs to Igarashi, hence why he’s the poster boy for the banner I made for this review. Speaking of which—HOW FREAKING EXTRA AM I!?!? I made a freaking banner for this review, for frick’s sake. Also I took the time to Photoshop all the images together to create the anime-manga comparisons. I never cease to amaze myself, like I seriously need to calm down. *Edit*: Photoshopping the banner for this review was so fun that it actually spurned a new tradition for my reviews: all my reviews of the first volume of a manga now have a banner I personally photoshopped for it (even my old ones)! Click here to see a gallery of all of them.✧ Bonus: Click here to see this review's original banner (the one you see now is an improved version I made after I gained more banner-making experience)! My username was Lizgigler back then, teehee

So yeaaah. I found this series very enjoyable and funny. I read some discussions about episodes as I was watching them weekly, so I know that there are other people who somehow didn’t get as much enjoyment out of it as I did, which is unfortunate. I think that if you’re out of the target demographic you won’t like it as much. Like, if you’re a straight male. I think there’s just something about this series that doesn’t appeal to that group as much as it did to me. It won’t give them the giddiness that it gave me. By the way, this is NOT a yaoi series, if you thought that’s what I was implying (especially since this is made by a yaoi author). But anyway, as a teenage girl I thought this series was very fun.


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Volumes: 1*, 2, 3-8 (N/A), 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

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