Nov 15, 2020
I love the main Kaguya-sama manga, so I had to check out the spin-offs, too, and Doujin-ban is definitely the better one of the two.
It presents itself as a slightly erotic doujin version of the main series, but it's not only that, really, there's a bunch of different stuff thrown in there. A lot of the chapters are short comedic standalone stories, but there are also some that are connected.
In the first half of the manga, most chapters focus on trying to be sexy, but they're really hit and miss. Among them, the best ones are those that focus on comedy instead of trying
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to be lewd and nothing else. The second half of the manga starts introducing some multi-chapter stories that are much better than the stories in the first half. That's also where the weird fairy tale retellings start, but more on that later.
The best and longest part of the manga is the story about Shirogane and Hayasaka working in a kindergarten and getting to know each other. It's a cute romantic comedy story and the characters are portrayed very faithfully to the original manga. Hayasaka was always one of my favourite characters of the main series, so I was glad to see her getting more screen time.
The worst chapters of all are the ones that retell famous fairy tales with characters from Kaguya-sama. Those are uninteresting, unfunny, pointless and there's way too many of them.
The art is fine, all in all. The characters look cute and have a bigger emphasis on their sex appeal than in the main series, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
All in all, this manga is a mixed bag of all kinds of stuff, but for a fan of Kaguya-sama it might be an enjoyable read.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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