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REVIEW: Masamune-kun's Revenge GN 1




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CaRoss



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 2:12 pm Reply with quote
This one was getting a release in North America? That's awesome! I had read a little bit of it a while back, and finding out that it'll be available here is awesome.

That said, I agree that this could go wrong pretty quickly. While they've done plenty to make Aki an absolutely horrible person - humiliating the person who confessed to you is 100% wrong - from what I read, they seem to not really get how to keep Masamune consistent in his desire for revenge. spoiler[The "tsundere romance" element to this series seems to start to take over pretty quickly, and some chapters feel like they're forcibly reminding itself that there's a revenge story going on. ]

Hopefully that's not really the case overall and this one manages to tell a great story.
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Xavon



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 4:50 pm Reply with quote
This series started off good, but I felt it went off the rails spoiler[when the fat rival showed up.]
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Treeborn



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 5:06 pm Reply with quote
Yoshino is indeed the most interesting and likeable character in the series, even in later volumes. I honestly feel she has much better chemistry with the mc than the main girl.
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danpmss



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:29 pm Reply with quote
Xavon wrote:
This series started off good, but I felt it went off the rails spoiler[when the fat rival showed up.]


The spoiler[NTR elements] really did this series no good from that point on.
But fortunately, it's getting interesting and twisted yet again, like spoiler[ how the fat bastard is actually a girl, or at least is heavily being implied to be one ].
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maximilianjenus



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Masamune was the fat rich kid everyone picked on

did the translation mess up here or is this form future knowledge? I am on volume 3 and it's never been mentioned of implied that masaume is was/rich , the only thing close to that is when he lies about living in aki's house.
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Godaistudios



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:06 pm Reply with quote
maximilianjenus wrote:
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Masamune was the fat rich kid everyone picked on

did the translation mess up here or is this form future knowledge? I am on volume 3 and it's never been mentioned of implied that masaume is was/rich , the only thing close to that is when he lies about living in aki's house.


I don't think that it's specifically mentioned, but the school does seem to be a private school where children of the wealthy go. When spoiler[Neko Fujinomiya] appears, he's left wondering if his mom was playing matchmaker, and she's clearly well off. Matchmaking (Omiai) is usually done for people within similar social/financial standing. Take that, and that the class trip is to spoiler[Paris] and that at least suggests that his family has money, although not necessarily wealthy.
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