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My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1 (My Girlfriend's a Geek #1)
by
Pentabu,
Rize Shinba
Taiga is a college student who's always scraping by. All he wants is a part-time job and a cute girlfriend. So when he spies a 'help wanted' sign outside an office and a hot girl inside, he takes the job, no questions asked. And everything goes well, prompting him to steel his courage and ask Yuiko, a full-time employee at the office, out on date. And when she asks him if...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
May 18th 2010
by Yen Press
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This is an exceedingly accurate portrait of a modern-day fujoshi and her loves... which, at least marginally, now include the manga's clueless protagonist, Taiga.
Taiga is a completely regular boy--college student majoring in Lit, busy with homework, working a menial part-time job to scrape together a living, hanging out or studying with his best friend Kouji once in a while--until the day he sees Yuiko. A beautiful twenty-something admin assistant at a small business (a logistics company, it lo...more
Taiga is a completely regular boy--college student majoring in Lit, busy with homework, working a menial part-time job to scrape together a living, hanging out or studying with his best friend Kouji once in a while--until the day he sees Yuiko. A beautiful twenty-something admin assistant at a small business (a logistics company, it lo...more
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Actual rating: 2.5
Huh.... well, I have quite a bit to say about the first volume in this short series.
First, the overview - so this is a manga adaption apparently of some guy's popular blog. It's about Taiga (who represents Pentabu) and his coworker turned girlfriend Yuiko. After Taiga tells Yuiko he likes her, she tells him she's an otaku...no, much worse, a fujoshi (a girl who digs boy with boy relationships and often takes male characters in mangas and ships them). Taiga isn't really sure wha...more
Huh.... well, I have quite a bit to say about the first volume in this short series.
First, the overview - so this is a manga adaption apparently of some guy's popular blog. It's about Taiga (who represents Pentabu) and his coworker turned girlfriend Yuiko. After Taiga tells Yuiko he likes her, she tells him she's an otaku...no, much worse, a fujoshi (a girl who digs boy with boy relationships and often takes male characters in mangas and ships them). Taiga isn't really sure wha...more
It might be that I'm tired and it's almost two in the morning, but I hated this. So much in fact that it could not wait until the morning to write what I thought. I couldn't even finish it.
I found Yuiko annoying from the get-go, and Taiga to be a shojo moron. A girl walks across the street with a pretty face and he's smitten stupid. He's practically obsessed, which is ironic because she's obsessed too, just not in a real relationship way.
Thank God for libraries because I don't think I could h...more
Taiga just got a job and is crushing on one of his co-worker, Yuiko. After spending a little time with her, Taiga gathers up the courage to ask her to be his girlfriend. Before Yuiko agrees, however, she warns him that she is a fujoshi. Taiga says it doesn't bother him, but hedoesn't really know what he's in for.
I think this series would get old fast. I've only read the first volume, but I'm already getting annoyed. I find myself getting very angry at Yuiko. She has no respect for Taiga whatsoev...more
I think this series would get old fast. I've only read the first volume, but I'm already getting annoyed. I find myself getting very angry at Yuiko. She has no respect for Taiga whatsoev...more
The English title for this is so incongruous compared to the Japanese title. The Japanese title tells you the plot, it's called Fujoshi Kanojo. Fujoshi is a Japanese term for girl who like boy-love things, and Kanojo is girlfriend. And thus the story is about a boy who unwittingly starts to date a girl who is a Fujoshi, she even tells him - but he didn't know what it meant. She starts urging him to write her a BL fanfiction of a shonen manga, then discovers his friendship with another boy and go...more
Oct 21, 2012
Courtney
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Brenda, Suzie... they'll get the humour. :)
Recommended to Courtney by:
Shelfari, IIRC.
I thought this was a cute manga.
The main character (Taiga Mutou) has a thing for older woman, and falls in love with Yuiko at first sight. He gets a summer job at the company she works for in the hope of being able to get to know her.
Unfortunately for him, he has no idea what he's getting himself in for... :)
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He is quickly caught off guard by his initiation...more
The main character (Taiga Mutou) has a thing for older woman, and falls in love with Yuiko at first sight. He gets a summer job at the company she works for in the hope of being able to get to know her.
Unfortunately for him, he has no idea what he's getting himself in for... :)
(view spoiler)
He is quickly caught off guard by his initiation...more
I love manga that makes fun of fangirls (and I say this with love for fangirls). "Geek" is a weird translation of the word "fujoshi" (the Japanese title is 腐女子彼女, "Fujoshi Kanojo"). As the synopsis ^ says, a "fujoshi" is "a rabid female fan of boys' love." I wonder if Yen Press was trying to appeal to a broader audience? Anyway, I laughed out loud many times, though the humour might not translate if you haven't had direct experience with fangirls. (: The art is pretty cute, too.
On one hand, the jokes are right on target: Yuiko is a pretty accurate depiction of a certain type of fujoshi. On the other hand, it's not a particularly sympathetic portrayal. Yuiko is self-absorbed, and Taiga pretty much deserves what he gets given his own shallow reasons for dating her. I laughed a lot when I read this, but I don't like the characters enough to be interested in reading the next volume.
Why did the translators feel the need to title this "geek" I'll never know! The girl isn't geeky, she's just your stereotyped yaoi weeboo, the bad kind!
If there was ever a character with no likeability, drowned in her own yaoi fangirl delusions and deserved a punch in the face - THIS 'rotten girl' is her. She doesn't even pretend to give a fuck about the guy beyond "z0mg!! lemme use you for my new shouta fantasy!!"
If there was ever a character with no likeability, drowned in her own yaoi fangirl delusions and deserved a punch in the face - THIS 'rotten girl' is her. She doesn't even pretend to give a fuck about the guy beyond "z0mg!! lemme use you for my new shouta fantasy!!"
This series doesn't represent fujoshi in a good light whatsoever. The main character easily accepts the guy's request to date and then goes on to just use him as a sounding board for her thoughts and her fantasies but not in any capacity as a couple. She doesn't think of him at all, nor does she seem to care about him in any way as her boyfriend.
All this story seems to say is that fujoshi are weird women who can't have normal relationships and don't care about straight men. I didn't enjoy it at...more
All this story seems to say is that fujoshi are weird women who can't have normal relationships and don't care about straight men. I didn't enjoy it at...more
This series looks really interesting so far. The guy seems like he is in a bit over his head at this point in the series and I feel kind of sorry for him but it is funny to see how confused he gets about some of the things she says.
Sep 09, 2010
Littlebearries
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Yaoi Fangirls who don't need plot in their stories
Truly awful manga. The only good thing about it is the artwork.
The characters lack personality... the girl is fan service to Yaoi fangirls who dream of having such a daft, idiotic boyfriend.
Absolutely disliked it.
The characters lack personality... the girl is fan service to Yaoi fangirls who dream of having such a daft, idiotic boyfriend.
Absolutely disliked it.
Some funny material to be had. I could understand much of the feelings being a fan of such material myself. Or should I say, being a fan who's husband has been terrified by occasionally looking over at my screen. :)
Note: review is for the series up to where I've read (volume 3).
Very cute and funny. Some of Yuiko's actions and mannerisms can seem a bit excessive (and I do wish she's stop calling Taiga "Sebas"), but overall it's still a sweet series.
Very cute and funny. Some of Yuiko's actions and mannerisms can seem a bit excessive (and I do wish she's stop calling Taiga "Sebas"), but overall it's still a sweet series.
Shoujo were guy falls for a yaoi fangirl. There's tons of BL lingo here that's pretty damn funny and had me chuckling continuously. Plus art by BL mangaka = win win.
That's a nice train of laughs from reading this. Read some random lines from the novel previously so I had some idea of the stories.
Let's see... the first meeting and ring case (not in the novel?), the confession story, the understanding what "fujoshi" means story and the "uke Sebastian" story with more BL fan service on the male character.
So, Y-ko is for Yuiko. The comic version is cute, although the chibi version is cuter.
Worse part of the comic version in my opinion is because this is semi-fi...more
Let's see... the first meeting and ring case (not in the novel?), the confession story, the understanding what "fujoshi" means story and the "uke Sebastian" story with more BL fan service on the male character.
So, Y-ko is for Yuiko. The comic version is cute, although the chibi version is cuter.
Worse part of the comic version in my opinion is because this is semi-fi...more
I was amused by this but that's really it, nothing else to be had from this but light entertainment.
Very funny. Some terms we confusing though.
A wonderfully hilarious tale of a guy and his fujoshi girlfriend. The characters' antics are quite humorous, though not too over the top. Also, there is a helpful glossary of terms throughout the book to explain terms that the reader may not already know. The art is quite pleasing to the eye as well. One noticeable difference between the written novel and the graphic novel is that Y-ko doesn't seem quite as... highstrung in the graphic novel as she does in the novel, which I find a bit more enjo...more
reviewing on my blog, Fujoshi Librarian
such a weird manga but i liked it
Boy falls in love with cute girl. Girl turns out to be creepy boys love fangirl. It's kind of an interesting twist to have the girl be the creeper, and I learned a lot about yaoi fan culture, but it's just not my thing.
I had hoped for this one. It looked like it had the potential to be rather funny, but it was just plain boring.
this reminds me of me and my bf only I'm just an otaku not a fujoshi
Absolutely awful no matter how you look at it.
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