He is a beast ! T12

ケダモノ彼氏 [Kedamono Kareshi] #12

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, Shojo, Comics Manga, Contemporary

178 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 25, 2016

About the author

藍川さき

Reviews

[Aleida · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me lo he leído por la recomendación de una amiga y tuve el mismo conflicto que tengo con la mayoría de los mangas. Me pareció que Himari como la mayoría de los personajes principales femeninos es demasiado indecisa. Sé entender la timidez de los protagonistas en los mangas, pero si hubo algo que me desesperó a lo largo de la historia era la indecisión que tenía Himari no sólo sobre sus sentimientos sino también sobre las decisiones que tomaba.

El más sensato de todos los personajes en la historia me parece que fue Kuroda. Parte de mí lo prefería a él antes que a Oogami.

[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.

[GuisBell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Y encima despues de tanto sufrimiento, el final se queda demasiado corto, porque las cosas buenas no pueden durar más, ahhhhhhh

[The Reading Ghost · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75⭐

[biinee_bookaholic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Endlich ihr happy End. Ich hab mich so gefreut das es so geendet hat. Ich hätte aber gerne noch mehr gewollt. Doch es passt. So hatte ich mir das Ende für die beiden gewünscht.

[Jenni · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good volume. I quite like Keita but not really Himari. I always hate when girls are so naiv but well. I'm glad I could finally read the volume after 2 months or so.