He is a beast ! T13

ケダモノ彼氏 [Kedamono Kareshi] #13

by Saki Aikawa

Suite au remariage de sa mère, Himari doit retourner vivre dans sa ville natale. Lors de la rentrée scolaire, elle découvre que Keita Ôgami, qui passait son temps à la tourmenter étant petite, et à cause de qui elle a peur des garçons, se retrouve dans le même lycée qu'elle, pire encore... dans la même classe ! Dépitée, Himari rentre le soir même pour découvrir sa nouvelle maison et rencontrer son beau-père. Elle était loin de se douter que le nouveau mari de sa mère serait le père de l'ignoble Keita !

Genres: Manga, Romance, Comics Manga, Contemporary, Enemies To Lovers, Shojo

178 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 25, 2016

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Reviews

[Zey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ve bitti. Sevimli, tatlı bir mangaydı.

[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.

[Sania Still_into_books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arghhh je reste frustrée avec cette belle fin qui est trop rapide ! Certes les tomes des mangas ne peuvent pas s'étirer en longueur mais j'aurais tellement voulu voir comment ils ont traversé la fac, le regard des autres, leur passion jusqu'à cette conclusion...
C'était mignon mais trop facile... 😕

[Anahys · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bien gênante toute cette histoire… C'était également un peu drôle de lire ça sous un autre angle, avec une perspective plus mature. Je pense que c'est ce qui m'a fait tenir (en plus du fait que j'avais acheté l'intégrale sur Vinted pour une lecture papier...)

[Cristina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ha sido divertido de principio a fin. Una buena compra :) Keita y Himari son adorables :)

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Das Ende ist soo süß 🥰

[The Reading Ghost · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25⭐

[Jenni · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the ending! One of the best and most satisfying endings I've read in a long time. The series was good the only thing I didn't like was Himaris character and that kuoda confessed to Himari but didn't get any reply. He was just there at the wedding.