Nisekoi: False Love, Vol. 18: Attack

ニセコイ [Nisekoi] #18

by Naoshi Komi

It's day three of the school trip, and Raku visits a temple known to be a power spot. Little does he know that it’s a place famous for magical bows and arrows that have romance-fulfilling properties! With all the girls determined to shoot him down, which huntress will bring down her prey?!

Genres: Manga, Romance, Young Adult, Humor, Graphic Novels, Comedy, Fiction

200 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 4, 2015

About the author

古味直志 (Komi Naoshi) in Japanese.

Reviews

[Gavin Abdollahi]

3.5 outta 5.
This volume should have earned back that one star.
It should have made me happy, now that the story is finally back on track.
But...
It didn't.

So, Naoshi Komi writes down a bunch of "filler" volumes, putting of the story for so long, then just suddenly plunges right back in? Just like that?
The story is now bland. Boring. Predictable.

This deserves 3 stars.
But... Because of what it used to be, I find it kinda hard to give it three stars.
Hope it gets better.

[Erica Henry]

Holy crap! What a cliffhanger!

[Abi]

The first half finished off the school trip. Raku said he actually enjoys spending time with Chitoge, yay! In the second half, Chitoge is supposed to move back to the U.S.! Raku's helping her try and stop it. I'm sure she'll succeed somehow. Also, Shu asked Raku who he loved more: Onodera or Chitoge? So Raku is finally realizing he likes her, which I appreciate. I liked that this volume brought the story back to the main storyline. 4 stars.

[DonutKnow]

This one was actually pretty good! Raku is actually starting to feel something concrete, and I love that despite the danger of being killed by a rival gang group, Raku had no doubt that he wanted to be/save Chitoge.

Also, gotta love Shu 😍😍❤️

[Rod Brown]

After treading water for quite a few volumes, the story picks up some steam as one of the major cast members faces a move that would take her out of Raku's harem. That drama comes in the second half of the book and is balanced by a very funny archery sequence in the first half as nearly the entire harem hunts Raku down with love charm arrows. It seems like previous volumes tried to focus on just a couple characters at a time, but this volume shows that the series works best when the full ensemble is interacting.

[Katt Hansen]

The class trip. There is always a class trip. And even though people are supposed to be in groups and performing certain tasks, they're still all over the place, stalking poor Ichijo to the point where it becomes absolutely ridiculous. Someone please put one of those arrows in the reader and put them out of their misery...

[Judyth]

~4/5

Much of this volume continues the school trip arc, in which there are a lot of antics for all of the characters. Roku gets dragged into a lot of schemes, and he gets hit by several of the girls.

And then we get the news that Chitoge is moving away, and thus her and Roku don't need to pretend dating anymore. This brings about a lot of sadness for everyone, including Tsugumi. The surprising part is when Chitoge starts trying to barter with her family/Claude to get them to let her stay, and when instead they lock her up.

I don't have many doubts about her staying in Japan, especially with what Roku is even doing to try to help, but it should be interesting to see how it's wrapped up in the next one.

This is fun, harem-y goodness. Will be reading the next one soon.


A review copy was provided by the publisher, VIZ Media, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much!

[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]

[Amanda Setasha]

There's finally some decent plot going on in this one and I super appreciated that this is FINALLY going somewhere.

[Izzy]

no chitoge no! don't leave me! and don't leave raku! he loves spending time with you 💕

i am 1000000000% sure that it means something that chitoge shot raku with her arrow first ♥️♥️

[Bery]

Continuando con el viaje escolar, Chitoge sigue evitando a Raku, por mientras Marika aprovecha la situación, una obra divertida con Raku y Tsugumi, y por ultimo una batalla por el amor de Raku, donde sera cazado con arcos y flechas debido a las supersticiones en el templo de amor. Justo al final cuando Chitoge cuida a Raku que se recupere del flechazo (¿Quien le dio?) .. casi le confiesa su amor a Raku pero una llamada interrumpirá y cambiará la vida de todos...

Divertida, con mucho suspenso de posibles declaraciones de amor y con un gran cambio que hará que Chitoge y Raku se unan más para evitar una gran separación, buena historia con un final de suspenso .

[Craig Schorling]

After several volumes where it felt like nothing was really happening we finally get back on track. Raku has to make a difficult decision and the ending is a total cliffhanger. I hope that the remainder of the series stays more focused like this volume.

[Claire]

The arrow scene was hilarious! And a cliffhanger ending

[nidah05 (SleepDreamWrite)]

Good volume.

[Elaine]

Oh no, oh no, oh no!! Poor Chitoge! And what will happen to Raku?!

[Anai Arce]

Aaaaa, fue casi perfecto...
Por fin algo de avance con mis personajes favoritos ✨✨✨😍

[Kurtis Burkhardt]

Really loved this manga, Really cute story and love the art and cute characters 😻😁👌❤️❤️

[Paola]

Ohmy it finally is moving forward! This volume was amazing~

Raku is finally starting to acknowledge the true meaning of his relationship with Chitoge~

[ReadingInRedLondon]

First half was the usual but damn the second half! Really liking this new development actually, and I appreciated the cliffhanger haha. Looking forward to the next one!

[Jenny Clark]

This finishes up the school trip arc,and now Chitoge has to move. Seams like it's getting back to the actual point of the story, ie who will Raku choose, but there's still a bunch of volumes left...

[Daphne]

The episode at the temple was hilarious. Pretty much the reason why this volume is getting 4 stars haha

[Laëtitia]

Sword fight !! my highlight of the book
Purée il a fallu attendre 17 tomes pour que la situation bouge big time... abt the same time as OHSHC in fact, now that i think abt it
I'm sad for Chitoge

[Jesus Flores]

Viaje escolar, y Marika es la que mejor aprovecha el “encontrarse a Raku por casualidad”.

Luego viene lo de las flechas en el Templo, eso es divertido.

Aquí si ya viene un cambio grande en la historia pues Chitogue recibe un mensaje de que ya no necesita fingir ser novia de Raku, y que se muda a otro país, intenta escapar y quedarse en casa de Raku, pero Claude la descubre y atrapa en casa, podrá Raku rescatarla?

Buen cliffhanger y aunque no es la historia de las llaves, si le da impulso a la trama

4 stars

[Dylan Murphy]

An absolutely fantastic addition to the Nisekoi series! The author really upped his game with this volume, as it's easily one of my favourites in the series!
Full of laughs and some really heartfelt events, this one really drives the story forward! Definitely can't wait to see where the story goes!

[Tiago]

Segunda lectura: 3,5/5
Primera lectura: 3/5

[Doremili]

Ya se puso buenooo

[Sarah]

I feel like we're just now getting back to the main story after several volumes of episodic side stories. I approve.

[Fiona]

Actually quite emotional this one. Can't wait to see what happens in the next volume. A real cliff hanger!!