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3. Shinigami-sama to 4-nin no Kanojo manga *spoilers*

Algernon 10 years ago

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Aka The Reaper and the Four Girlfriends

I highly recommend this if you enjoy crazy faces and crazy girls.

Grengosaurus 10 years ago

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One of these days I'd like to see a harem series where the MC-dude is a wacko.

Grengosaurus 10 years ago

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Caught up. Actually quite promising, surprisingly enough. It's fairly refreshing to see a harem MC who's genre-savvy and rather sensible, as well as having a pretty clear thought process.

Minaguchi Kaoru is nothing special. Bad at sports, poor grades, not in any clubs, and certainly not popular. He has no friends and isn't even interested in any of the girls he knows. He's also bullied due to the fact that he loves shoujo manga. Unlike the harem daydreams of his peers, he dreams of finding his true love. Unfortunately, a shinigami comes to kill him, simply because he's a failure. But when he gasps out his intention of becoming a success with his final breaths, she takes it back! As long as he follows through on his intentions, he won't be harvested.

To convince the shinigami that his plans are genuine, he declares that he will confess to the girl he likes, the very next day. Expecting failure with confessing to random girls in his school, he sends out love letters to four different girls. To his surprise, they all agree to be his girlfriend. Now, this shoujo-manga-loving guy has ended up in a kind of harem story, quadruple-timing four girls.

Then the shinigami introduces herself as Airi, and sets a time of 3 months, during which she'll watch Kaoru (and his girlfriends) very closely in order to confirm that he can pull this off. If he fails, then his head will be hers.

Shinigami-sama to 4-nin no Kanojonote is a manga by Suyama Shinya, the author of Gakkou no Sensei and Akuma Jiten, with CHuN (of Maou-sama no Yuusha Toubatsuki fame) in charge of art. The manga was serialized from 2013 to 2015 in Gangan Joker, being Cut Short at 18 chapters and compiled into three volumes.

This series provides examples of:

• Accidental Pervert: Downplayed.
• All Love Is Unrequited: All of the girls fall more and more in love with Kaoru, but in all honesty, he's more worried about saving his ass than on romance.
• All the Other Reindeer: Kaoru has no friends. The concept is so foreign to him, the idea of a phone being used to contact people besides his family was very shocking for him. He is also bullied by every boy due to his open love of shojo manga. But it is more limited to them calling him fag and such.
• Battle of Wits: Between Airi (who wants to kill Kaoru and positions the girlfriends in places that would give his cheating away) and Kaoru (who wants to fulfill the conditions set by Airi for his release and strives to keep his cheating in secret).
• Becoming the Mask: Yui agreed to go out with Kaoru in order to not be killed by Rion, Airi's sister, but ended up genuinely falling for him.
• Beneath the Mask: All the girls have 2 faces: their public image (always a positive one) and the intimate one (far more sinister).
• Butt-Monkey: Kaoru goes straight to this but barely avoids it due to his incredible ability to improvise.
• Cat Smile: Airi pulls one of these in the first chapter.
  • Kaoru does one in chapter 9.
• Chaste Hero: Kaoru actively avoids becoming too physical with the girls, as he feels their feelings are wasted on him.
  • Turns out to be the reason Risa started dating him. She wanted to mold him to her tastes
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Kaoru did get 4 girls to like him enough to date him without even personally knowing them.
• The Corrupter: A far less sinister version. Risa started dating Karou to "corrupt" his purity. So that he would fit her sexual tastes.
• Covert Pervert: Risa's intimate face. She has no knowledge about relationships, and the first reference manual we see consulting is a porn magazine.
  • Aoi is one too. When she and Kaoru got wet, she offered her uniform. When he rejected, she dejectedly said she thinks he would look good in it.
• Class Representative: Risa Umikai's public face. She fulfills the place to a T. A perfectly cool, distant student that serves without calling attention to herself and stays at the top of her class.
• Cut Short: Due to its cancelling, though it does have an ending, the story ends with a lot of plot threads unexplained and zero resolution.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Kaoru has this effect upon Risa and Emiry. Whether this is positive or not is left as an exercise for the reader.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The punishment for "speaking to and destroying" a relationship is to have your vocal cords crushed. The punishment for destroying four is said to be far worst though Airi manages to get out of it offscreen.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: It is used quite a bit, both for laughs and for drama.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Aoi's outgoing, cheerful and all-around optimistic personality earns her popularity with guys and girls, though this is her public personality.
• Expressive Hair: In the Imagine Spot, Emiry's idiot hair is spinning when Kaoru is lying about why he was with her in the subway.
  • Aoi is a much more scarier example. When she goes Yandere her hair grows longer and wilder.
• Expy: Risa resembles Shino quite a bit, as well as having a similar personality, the only real difference is Risa has giant boobs, which would probably kill Shino.
  • Kaoru and Airi are like Keima and Elsea. Keima and Kaoru are otaku outcasts that use their otaku knowledge to successfully keep a harem or their lives are gone. Airi and Elsea call their main character nii-sama and are shinigami that changed their lives.
• Forgotten First Meeting: At first Kaoru wonders if this happened between him and Airi.
  • This is later confirmed by Airi, who tells Kaoru that they met as children. However, humans lose their memory of meeting a reaper 3 days after the reaper leaves, including Kaoru.
  • Also hinted in chapter 6, that this occurred between Karou and Aoi. From Bad to Worse: Airi's sister turns up to put the screws on Kaoru, by saying she'll reap one of the girls if he doesn't kiss the one she picked.