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Sep 23, 2025
I've read this while it was being released and recently got to re read it again. I was surprised to see there was not that many positive reviews so decided to leave my own. The last arc of the original series is SO bad and random I remember how excited I was when Last Year was announced. Black Label is still the peak of the series for me story-wise, but I feel this is an integral part of the Last Year developments. And it closes the series with a satisfying development and ending.
What I like the most is how it gives a lot more of
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Nana's perspective than the original series, especially after Tachibana gets more and more involved in the story. Also, her and Sarashina's addition addressed one of my biggest pet peeves in the original series of how it never actually presented actual S&M. This is actually mostly in Black Label but Last Year develops on it, how now they're both looking into new stuff, and shows how their experience with S&M is also improving along with their relationship as Nana gets more bold and trusts Kaoru more and more. I love that. Also, the complications in this run seemed more interesting than just the "school social status" from before.
The art is very inconsistent during the original run, but in Last Year the author is at their best. I still dislike Kaoru's gigantic frog mouth but especially Nana's expressions got a lot better since the first volumes of the OG series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Sep 20, 2025
I think when you know the whole story about how this was produced, how much it costed, and how hard it is to even dare to do anything at this level... it makes it very shameful to say anything bad about it. I respect a lot the hardship to make this story come through and specially to stay true to your community and just post it for free on YouTube. That's crazy, and that's awesome. But it does feel like it is an intro for something else. We get introduced to a bunch of stuff, but there's just no time to develop much.
Girl had this
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crazy stuff happened to her, but even though it had a very apocalyptic vibe when it happened, didn't seem to affect much of her life or her world. Then she gets bored and goes to another world to do the most boring activities known to mankind, not allowed to do magic, then miss home and go back... ? Then guy is a homeless man in a magic world, that sends messages through a phone... and does nothing else.
It does feel like you have to add a lot of external meaning to make the beautiful imagery have a deeper reason. Does feel like for the writer this story had a deeper meaning that I don't think is really that easy to read if maybe you don't have similar experiences or maybe comes from a specific culture (I heard him say that some or most of this come from folklore). I didn't quite connect to it, so I was expecting the story to take me there. But the story was as bland as it gets. Maybe if most of the runtime was about the festival, and the magical creature...
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 16, 2025
I've been reading this manga for a while and it's one I didn't like at first but ended up enjoying more as the story progressed and specially after the secondary characters got developed more. It does take a while for the story to really progress, almost as if it was supposed to have just the simple premise of the two main characters trying to find out if love or friendship would be the best for them (and other characters would forever be npcs), but after some chapters decided to change it up a little bit by throwing in the secondary characters in the main plot.
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That's what imagined by reading it.
The anime at first felt to me that it would have a much better pacing, since its clearly zooming through the manga chapters. But episode 3 is so rushed. No spoilers ofc, but one of the most important scenes of this introductory arc is done in such fast paced simple angle scene.
So overall I think the anime does convey the same story and its events and has decent quality, but it's super rushed. Which at first is a plus, but after episode 3 is a massive down side.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 1, 2022
This is a very simple OP main character story with really good art. Character wanted to become an adventurer, but can't, and then his useless power ends up being the key for him to become the most OP character possible. Since the main characters almost don't have any flaws, and even the slight ones they have by being unexperienced or social awkwardness, never actually become an issue or might just disappear at some point as they get stronger. Keep in mind that when I write this, this manga is still being published and still didn't develop much (even though it's been an year since it
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begun).
Since this is a VERY common type of story, there just isn't much more I could say that anyone that reads manga wouldn't already know. It's just the same as every other manga of this kind. But the story is is very decent, and I do care for the characters' motives.
It is very light hearted, and even though many are tagging it as "harem" (and it kinda follows that genre's formula), it is not ecchi by any means. And the mc is not an arrogant douche as they often are. So if you like silly and funny stories with good art, this might be a good choice for you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 31, 2022
Look... no one reads these kind of manga expecting for a very thoughtful story, right?The characters are actually funny, enjoyable, and overall it is a good experience. Most ecchi work the only thing I'm worried about is if it gets disgusting or criminal (which is a very common occurrence in japanese things), and this was not the case.
The art and the lewdness is actually really good, and it got me curious about the sequel. So... it's good on what it is supposed to be good, and not terrible in what it could be terrible at, like other works. I won't give it an amazing score
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just because it is definitely not an outstanding piece of art. Just a cool dumb ecchi story to pass the time and make you horny.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 21, 2022
I like studio Trigger animation very much, and their attention to details. That makes the bullshit ending a little more tolerable. That was my expectation when I got to this manga.
I truly think this manga is not good overall. It's rushed from the start, characters are VERY black or white, underdeveloped, and a lot of moments seem to have changed just to please the internet critics of the anime, without any actual reason in the story. The hated characters have less time and do even more hateful things, the beloved characters don't do any hard choices and are protected and righteous to the end. But
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I guess that's what people wanted, and a lot of more random unneeded boobies (but without all the sex and actual adult content). It went from a complex adult story with weird teen innuendos to a full blown young male teen shonen.
For the most part I had the feeling that I only could follow this because I already had watched the anime, especially at the ending. Better ending? I don't know. I don't think it's an ending even. None of the characters story actually ended. It's just without all the bullshit, but also without all the development of the anime.
Maybe if this manga had time to develop like the anime did, maybe if it could exist out of the shadow of the anime (for better or for worse), or maybe if Trigger actually let Code 000 tell the story he wanted from the start. Maybe if wasn't one of the most expensive per chapter anime of recent years, they could better explain the whole VIRM space thing for another whole season, then maybe people would see the story differently.
Doesn't matter... it is what it is...
and some kids will just be toxic and try to kill random people because they didn't get what they wanted from people that never owed them anything...
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 10, 2022
I decided to write a review for this one because the hate train on this is nonsensical to me. The argument that "there is no story" is just false. This starts as a bland formulaic harem story, and progressively starts to get more complex as more characters get bits of info on different aspects of the big lie both the main characters are keeping. The crowdfunding arc is REALLY good, hitting the feels constantly, and the latest "pool trip" arc I did enjoy a lot (although it is a little too dragged out). In the latest arc, which I guess is probably the last before
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an epilogue (as I am writing, the manga is still publishing), the author manage to gather a lot of open hooks left behind throughout the story, and did not shy away from a "shit hits the fan" situation, which I did think was going to happen. I think that's most I can talk about it without spoiling it too much.
Most just hate the story for two reasons: the moral argument of paying for a girlfriend service, NTR, and the whole web of lies, and because the MC is as stupid as one can be. Look... for me the story is better because of this reasons. It tackles a real thing, real situations, and real problematic characters. Some, like Ruka, seem to be very straightforward (and annoying and dumb), but turn out to be very nuanced and complex in later chapters. She's my favorite character btw.
To me the whole "MC is stupid" is a weird incel narrative young manga readers all over the world are developing, expecting their heroes to be "alpha", "chads", and whatever terms kids are using. Hate the "beta", "simps", "white knights", men have to be strong and assertive. This used to something just conservative old people seemed to care for, and manga used to be created exactly for people who can't fit in that narrative. Truth be told, the main public of this type of work is totally not this alpha stereotype. I guess the dumb MC character used to be relatable back in the 90s and 2000s, but online life gave most people this random impression that they are just perfect and supposedly can't accept relating to a not very social character. I also don't like the main character. He is creepy, dumb. That doesn't mean the story is automatically bad. In fact it is quite the opposite. When the character spends 5 chapters mustering courage to do something assertive, just to be shut down by some of the confident characters again and again, I can truly feel that.
I do like stories about manipulative characters, webs of lies, different minded characters, situations where no one's wrong/everyone's wrong so there is not a fully clear path of righteousness. This feels to me as a japanese version of Gossip Girl / Mean Girls.
So I do hope people start leaving this weird conservative perfectionist mentality and just enjoy stories as they are presented, not as they should be. Almost seems as if every story should be written in the exact same formula, with the exact same MC...
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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