He is a beast ! T06

ケダモノ彼氏 [Kedamono Kareshi] #6

by Saki Aikawa

Suite au remariage de sa mere, Himari doit retourner vivre dans sa ville natale. Lors de la rentree scolaire, elle decouvre que Keita ogami, qui passait son temps a la tourmenter etant petite, et a cause de qui elle a peur des garcons, se retrouve dans le meme lycee qu'elle, pire encore... Dans la meme classe ! Depitee, Himari rentre le soir meme pour decouvrir sa nouvelle maison et rencontrer son beau-pere. Elle etait loin de se douter que le nouveau mari de sa mere serait le pere de l'ignoble Keita !

Genres: Manga, Romance, Shojo, Comics Manga, Contemporary

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2014

About the author

藍川さき

Reviews

[Bibliothecat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review for complete series



A Note on Aikawa Saki
If you've read one, you've read them all.
If there's an author who I love and read despite my better judgment, it's Aikawa Saki. I absolutely adore her artwork. However, her plots and characters are virtually all the same and filled with cliches. Knowing all that, I still seem to love each and every one of her works.



Himari's mother has married again so a new home and school are waiting for her as they move to live with their new family. The first shock comes when Himari finds out the boy who used to bully her years before is in her new class. The second shock comes when she arrives at home - he is also her new stepbrother.

Stepsiblings falling in love seems a popular trope in manga. I don't mind the trope itself so much but I am rather surprised how each time the parents rush into things. By that, I mean that they get married and move together before their children get a chance to meet each other; wouldn't it be more normal to gradually let the two families get used to one another rather than having first introductions take place in the doorway of the new house?

Either way, Aikawa Saki does it again: Kedamono Kareshi's characters, situations and plot directions are more or less interchangeable with all her other school romances. And despite that, she once again manages to make me love it. Himari and her new stepbrother Keita are much the same as all her other protagonists. Although, this may be down to translation, but the way Keita talks reads as though he's never been to school in his life. I suppose they were opting for a cool slag or something, and my guess is he did have some form of slang in the Japanese original, but goodness it's irritating, especially for a character who is supposed to have good grades. Luckily, I can more or less ignore it and just mentally change his dialogue to normal speech.

To be fair in Himari, I think she is a tad more assertive than previous Aikawa female leads and she is a lot more clear about what she does and doesn't want. Meanwhile, there's also Saeki - the friendly classmate who Himari initially falls for. Poor Saeki, I think Aikawa really needs to make a manga where at least for once, the nice guy gets the girl. Aikawa always adds quite a few love rivals and Kedamono Kareshi makes no exception, introducing a total of three boys who are genuinely interested in Himari. The problem is that she always makes them all perfectly likeable so that at the end, you don't even know which one you're rooting for.

That being said, I really did like Keita - the teasing in their early school days was your typical boy teasing the girl he likes. Himari would probably disagree, but from a reader's perspective, it was pretty cute. His teasing ways continue as they're older but he also shows a lot of care for Himari and becomes rather cute when he realises that he likes her.

Of course, the main issue lies with them being stepsiblings and how their parents and society would accept it. While it doesn't seem to be a big deal at school - rather, they are often suspected - they mostly worry about their parents. I like how Himari and Keita reacted differently about these worries, with one being more cautious and considerate of the other. Especially Himari's struggles were well written.

I felt as though the end was a little rushed and some things dragged a little with their back and forth. It's also Aikawa's longest series to date and I've never been a big fan of drawn-out Romance stories, but apart from the rush at the end, Kedamono Kareshi has good pacing and as always with Aikawa, the art is beautiful - I would read this entire series just for that.

[Catwithbooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Himari kann es einfach nicht glauben. Keita hat vor zu seiner Mutter zu ziehen. Seine Gefühle sind zu viel für ihn und er kann nicht so weiter machen in Himaris Nähe. Nur Geschwister zu sein gefällt ihm nicht. Doch für Himari zählt nur ein die Familie, sie möchte nicht das etwas zerstört wird.


Himari hätte nie mit gerechnet das Keita wirklich vor hat auszuziehen, da sie dachte ihm ist auch die Familie wichtig. Keita gesteht sich seine Gefühle für Himari ein und man merkt auch das es ihm ernst ist und keine fixe Idee oder der gleichen. Doch Himari sieht das Ganze anders und ist froh wieder eine glückliche Familie zu sein können. Keita bittet Himari um einen letzten Gefallen, so möchte er ein aller letztes Date mit Himari haben. Dafür hat er sich was ganz besonderes ausgedacht um endlich abschließen zu können. Himari ist wieder überrascht wie weit Keitas Gefühle gehen, denn hinter seiner rauen Schale läßt er nicht jeden Blicken. Der Ort des letzten dates läßt wirklich sehr tief Blicken und man merkt das schon damals hinter Keitas Absichten Himari zu ärgern mehr ist.

[Isabelle_ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Premières larmes versées 👌

[The Reading Ghost · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5⭐

[Isa Pacheco · Rating 2 out of 5]

2½ ✩. P.s.: dei a mesma nota para todos os volumes, pois como para mangá uso o método do My Anime List, é uma nota só para todo o mangá, não separadamente por volume.

[LubaBo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ich liebe diese Reihe einfach. War wieder sehr emotional.

[GuisBell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Con la separación aparecen los rivales, complicando más la situación de la pareja, ahhhhh