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Review: 毎日キスしていいですか? 4 [Mainichi Kiss shite ii desu ka? 4]

毎日キスしていいですか? 4 [Mainichi Kiss shite ii desu ka? 4] 毎日キスしていいですか? 4 [Mainichi Kiss shite ii desu ka? 4] by Hatsuharu
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Ah. It’s over. *cough*Finally*cough*.

So, TLDR: Don’t read this series, it is bad. It’s about a guy who sexually and emotionally abuses a really dumb girl who’s too naïve to know that he’s even doing anything wrong. The problem is that this is presented as being romance. Read my previous reviews for more on that (links below).

On this volume specifically, has anything changed? A little bit, yes, but ultimately: no.

Nagi (the abuser in question) just reaaaallly comes off as a super horny teenager. So every time he jumps onto Kurumi (the dumb girl in question) it doesn’t feel romantic at all, it just feels like some stupid kid using another stupid kid to fulfill his selfish desires. And then, yes—AGAIN—Kurumi literally says “no"[s] and “I don’t like it"[s], yet the motherfucker literally does not give a single micron of a shit and keeps going. After Kurumi said the latter, he actually had the balls to tell her “You like it"[s]... Bitch what the fuck. This isn’t a romance, it’s literally just a guy sexually harassing a girl. I read someone's comment saying that it’s “borderline sexual harassment,” but I say no, this shit is very clearly literally sexual harassment, not “borderline” whatsoever. Fucking disgusting.

At the end of the last chapter the author attempts to redeem him by having Nagi make them wait until Kurumi graduates high school until they’ll have sex (don’t forget he almost forced it on her in chapter 8!), so he ceases their relationship for the next 2 years (she was a first year and he was a second year when that decision was made). Um, good? I guess. Kurumi was very clearly not mature enough for their current relationship, so hopefully she grew up in that time. But this just re-illuminates the fact that he’s so extremely controlling over Kurumi. He nearly never asks her to do anything, he always TELLS her to do things, commands her. She has never had a say in a single aspect of their relationship, including this one. He didn’t ask her opinion on taking a break, he just asserted that it was happening. This combined with the previous paragraph, it’s just so clear that Nagi has exactly zero respect for Kurumi as a human being. I repeat: Fucking disgusting.

The author keeps trying hard to redeem Nagi, but it's so clear that they don't understand exactly what it is that he's doing wrong, and so all the attempts at redemption always miss the point and thus fall completely flat. This speaks miles about the author's own character.

To top it all off, this volume wasn’t even funny or all that entertaining. The first two chapters were so inconsequential that I can barely remember what happened in them, and I am totally over the siscon. The only reason I kind of enjoyed reading this series was because it was entertaining and funny, but without those two elements this is literally just reading about abuse. And it’s not like it’s a social commentary or anything, which I was hoping this would somehow turn into at the end here.

Sigh. Yeah, no. It’s not worth it. Don’t read this series. I actually can’t believe something like this was published in this day and age. And to top it off: that it's also currently being officially translated into English by Kodansha Comics! Please someone tell me who's idea that was??

Bonus: Someone please tell me what this panel looks like out of context, lol. Please tell me I’m not the only one with dirty thoughts:

Kurumi sitting and looking extremely flustered while sitting on Nagi’s lap as he says, “I wanted to surprise you so I kept quiet about it


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