Eromanga-sensei

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Japanese: エロマンガ先生

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 12

Chapters: 79

Status: Finished

Published: May 27, 2014 to May 27, 2021

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Serialization: Dengeki Daioh

Authors: Fushimi, Tsukasa (Story), rin (Art)

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Score: 6.84¹ (scored by 5,081 users)

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Ranked: #12146²

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Popularity: #1452

Members: 15,878

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6.84

Ranked #12146Popularity #1452Members 15,878

MangaDengeki DaiohFushimi, Tsukasa (Story), rin (Art)

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Ever since Masamune and Sagiri Izumi's parents died, Sagiri has been living in isolation despite her stepbrother having moved on with his life. They now live their lives independently of each other, but Masamune still tries to earn an income sufficient to uphold both of their lifestyles.

As an aspiring light novel author, Masamune has been in the industry for over three years now. Although he has worked with his illustrator Eromanga-sensei ever since his debut, he has never met them in person. A series of events eventually lead to the realization that Eromanga-sensei's true identity is his stepsister, Sagiri!

Eromanga-sensei focuses on the step-siblings as they experience hardships from being in the light novel industry and as Sagiri begins to reopen her heart to society.

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Eromanga-sensei has been licensed in English by Dark Horse Comics.

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Izumi, Sagiri

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Izumi, Masamune

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Yamada, Elf

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Jinno, Megumi

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Senju, Muramasa

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Takasago, Tomoe

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Sagiri's Mother

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Yamada, Chris

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Shidou, Kunimitsu

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Kagurazaka, Ayame

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Mar 4, 2025

hexashadow13

Recommended

This is the manga adaptation of a light novel series. There was also an anime adaptation, which mainly adapted the first three volumes with random tidbits lifted from later volumes thrown in. This manga more straightforwardly adapts the first five volumes, though in the final stretch it’s also a mish mash of content from later volumes leading to an original ending. Overall, I would have to say the anime is better than the manga. However, the manga goes further and has a more definitive ending so it’s probably worth reading the manga in the absence of a translation of the light novels.

The plot is centered ... around light novel author Masamune who lives solely with his step-sister Sagiri. Their single parents got married, thus making Masamune and Sagiri step-siblings. But not long after that their parents passed away. This traumatizes Sagiri and she turns into a hikikomori. Masamune does his best to support her, while also going to school, and serving as the breadwinner of the family. This sounds pretty depressing, but this manga is actually really lighthearted. It mostly just glosses over the dark parts.

Originally, it seems that Sagiri wants nothing to do with Masamune with her refusing to interact with him at all. However, this turns around when Masamune discovers that unbeknownst to either of them, Sagiri is actually the illustrator for his light novels. With that their relationship starts improving, Sagiri’s condition starts improving, and they resolve to do their best to create a work together that gets an anime adaptation. In the process they also make a bunch of interesting friends, mainly other members of the light novel industry.

Overall, the story centered around Masamune and Sagiri is decent enough. Masamune isn’t all that special, but he’s a good guy and within the context of the story that’s enough to make him a decent protagonist. Sagiri is much more unique, being a mish mash of a lot of different personality traits that come out in different circumstances, but that’s what makes her fun. The writing doesn’t really flesh out her out all that well but watching her slowly improve her mental state is still pretty satisfying. Her relationship with Masamune beyond that is pretty generic step-sibling romance, but the execution is solid. The ending was pretty rushed, but did a pretty good job at wrapping this up and I was satisfied with it.

There’s a harem that forms around Masamune with mainly two other girls also falling in love with him, Elf and Muramasa. Both are larger than life characters, but they’re pretty much complete opposites in terms of personalities, so the resulting dynamic is really amusing. What makes this dynamic somewhat unique is that for the most part it’s much more open. In most harem dynamics, either the characters are trying to keep their feelings hidden or are just so dense that they don’t get across. Here, that isn’t the case at all except for one character. The rest very quickly and openly admit to being in love with Masamune and he rejects them, but they continue to pursue him anyway. This results in a lot of amusing romantic fluff.

Beyond that the manga does have a good amount of comedy, but largely I didn’t find it all that great. There’s not enough of it, and what little there is felt somewhat repetitive. The manga also does go into what goes on in the light novel industry and related areas like manga and anime adaptations. It was really superficial about things though, and there are enough other anime/manga/LNs that handle it better that what’s in this manga isn’t enough to be a selling point.

The special art, such as the color art or the art that was used for in universe illustrations was really good. It was good quality with a good sense of style used very well. However, the regular art was generally pretty weak, being pretty rough in style and not all that nice to look at, though there certainly were exceptions.

tl;dr: A good but not particularly remarkable harem rom-com.

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Mar 6, 2016

Zomaru

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (20/79 eps)

I'm not going to bother writing a full review. This is literally Oreimo V 2.0, go read a review of that if you want one for this. This author either doesent know how to write anything else or is in love with his own sister, but I digress.
The art ain't the best but its fine
The story is original enough I guess, nothing special
Characters are Copy paste of Oreimo with new hobbies
But hey, if you like watching cute girls and the ocational lewd situation then, I mean, I guess there are worse things to read.

If you expect an actual review, well, I can attempt it, ...

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Dec 14, 2024

Erdogank

Not Recommended

This is unironicly a battle-manga about light novel authors, which is uninteresting.
The "spin" is to add a suggestive loli harem, with a hint of incest.

The reason this falls flat, is due to not committing. Suggestive tag with very little fanservice? Loli harem without any waver in the MCs conviction? Incest-adjacent with 0 in world consequenses? The end result is a bland battle manga, with underage girls gushing for the MC, who never makes a move on anyone.

I was struggling to read through these chapters. Not entertained at all. Go read Domestic Girlfriend or Kaguhara instead for some actual fun.

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