Review: Not So Shoujo Love Story, Vol. 1

Review: Not So Shoujo Love Story, Vol. 1

Not So Shoujo Love Story, Vol. 1 by Curryuku, Two girls with one of them coming out of a comic pageI received this WebComic from the publisher in exchange of an honest review.

Wow, this looked absolutely fabulous, but boy I hated every minute of it.

Let’s start with the art. I thought it would look like the cover would. Maybe some silly moments. Like with how True Beauty at times has it for reactions and stuff but the rest is gorgeous. But no, the art is full on trollololo from the start with only a few moments of bliss and happiness. I wonder why this was chosen, because it is really off-putting and if I had known that this was the way the story would have been told I would have NOT requested this one.

Next up are the character. Our MC Rei can just fuck off to hell where she comes from. This sounds harsh, but lord the girl is just rude. Constantly calling people normies, constantly making remarks about people when they don’t know about an anime/manga/whatever else she is into at the moment, she has delusions constantly and seems to think she truly lives in some kind of romcom, she was so angry so many times and well in the end I even wanted to punch her. She cannot see farther than her own nose, I mean there are so many obvious hints, but instead of just listening or looking any further she makes some really harmful comments and remarks. Like in regards to her love interest and Hanna. She immediately assumes that they must be in love and romantically active because people are shipping them + she has those delusions that this is exactly like her manga/comics, the hot president and the hot vice president, both popular, so they must be together. Or when posters appear with a photograph that could be taken in many ways she immediately assumes it is Hanna because she carries posters (which are clearly ripped and crumpled, but hey, and why would she make a poster of HERSELF with YOU???????). Seriously, Rei, fuck off to lala land.

Then there is the bullying which was horrific and ewwww.

The love interest, I am sorry but I couldn’t take any of that serious. That chin. That attitude. The whole is he an alien or not???? I don’t see why everyone was so hot for him. Then again, maybe if he wasn’t drawn in such a trollololo way I would have understood, now nah.

The dream that Rei had at the end, what the actual fuck girl.

Hanna, the only normal girl. Well, OK. She is a bit obsessed with Rei and she is going very far to get her to notice her which annoyed me at times (though those flirting tips and how she executed them made me laugh so hard). But I think if this book had been from Hanna’s POV I would have liked it just a bit more. Hanna was trying her best, Hanna was really sweet. She just needs to chill out in regards to love. XD

So yeah, bad MC, horrible art. sighs The blurb and the cover looked so good. Foiled again. sighs Not sure if I would recommend this one.

Star rating, 1 stars

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