Domestic Girlfriend, Vol. 6

ドメスティックな彼女 [Domestic na Kanojo] #6

by Kei Sasuga

"I’m going to hate you from now on." After Rui finds out Hina and Natsuo are dating, she resolves hate Natsuo?! With mixed feelings all around, the stage moves to Okinawa for a drama-filled school trip! Hina’s swimsuit gets carried out to sea, Al resolves to confess his love to Rui, and Natsuo and Hina finally spend their first night together…

Genres: Manga, Romance, Young Adult, Shonen, Comics Manga, Japanese Literature, Graphic Novels

193 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 17, 2015

About the author

Kei Sasuga (流石景, Sasuga Kei) is a japanese mangaka.

Reviews

[Nicolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a lot to say about Domestic Girlfriend. To say I don't agree with the ending is an understatement, but this isn't the time for that right now. One thing is for sure; the story definitely stands out from the pile of forgettable titles for the past few years.

Volume 6 contains the pivotal arc that turned the title into what it became, for better or for worse. This version is the digital edition that contains exclusive color pages of the interesting scenes. The scenes which initially brought in most of its readers, and eventually stayed for the soap operatic turn of the plot.

[Victor The Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

After she catches Natsuo and Hina having a romantic moment, Rui coldly accepts their relationship while being more coldly towards him. Later, they all go on a school trip to Okinawa and they all have their fair share of crazy moments and by the end, it really looks like our couple might face their biggest obstacle aside from how long they’ll last. B (75%/Good)

[Jon Ureña · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three and a half.

This series keeps its quality steady. The author is obviously a pro. The plot guides you carefully in some directions while building up the possibility that it might go the opposite way, and putting together interesting complications. That said, I'm disappointed in regards to my personal preferences with how things are going. (Big spoilers up to this point) Rui Tachibana, the quiet, blunt and often unreadable (even to herself) girl who kicked up this whole concept by sleeping with the protagonist when they had met barely minutes before, is by far my favorite character. She might genuinely have alexithymia. She can't seem to read her own emotions, or mistakes them. She behaves in a way that would create attachments in others, though she is puzzled when they do reciprocate and she doesn't want to (but she's not a psychopath). She is taken as aloof and lacking in feeling, but mostly she simply seems mentally incapable of dealing with them until they bubble up to the point that she explodes and goes from seemingly detached to wanting to get intimate with someone, or from calm to crying unconsolably, or to beating someone up justifiably. This might sound like bipolar disorder, but it's not a matter of "swings", just of her brain being unable to process her emotions until her instincts take over. I've dealt with that as well, and it's often associated with autism. It's no coincidence that this character has autistic traits and that I find her fascinating; I think it's been years since I haven't been able to care about anyone unless they have traits like those.

In any case, Rui has realized that she wants to have a relationship with her step-brother (the way she ends up justifying it to someone else non-chalantly as "it's okay, we are not blood-related" is refreshing, particularly for this genre). Watching her experiment with loving someone is heartbreaking when you know that the bastardly protagonist is in a serious relationship with Rui's sister, who has now moved out. He doesn't feel like he can explain it to Rui, so he lets her kiss him. Rather low of him, even if he feels guilty for it. He lies to cover up his outings to his actual girlfriend's apartment, and when he's caught, he keeps lying. Although he cares for Rui, he seems oblivious to how he's destroying Rui's ability to trust people. He also knows that Rui's father cheated on her mother after lying to her for a long time, which makes the current situation worse. Rui decides to get over loving the protagonist by forcing herself to hate. While she's wandering around in subdued pain, the protagonist promises to his girlfriend (Rui's sister) that he intends to marry her when he's older. Rui's situation gets even worse when some douche attempts to rape her during a class trip. That girl deserves some happiness.

This series hasn't been a stranger to nudity; I can't count the times I've seen Rui's or Hina's tits, and even some of secondary characters, but in this volume the events get into full blown hentai, with the crotch area whited out. I don't see how they are going to adapt this for the anime, that hasn't shown even breasts, unless they just show their faces (by the way, this is one of the opening scenes of the anime, mainly featuring Rui, for the general quality of the production).

This series is a lot of fun in any case. It's nice to focus on the emotional and generally romantic quandaries of a bunch of fictional characters in a nice remote country that has its shit together; it distracts me from how horrible this part of the world has become.

[Amara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hina you really should know better, there's no excuse. A kiss here and there is forgivable, but this?
All these hollow characters are just puppets on the author's string. Their personalities are mostly flat. And this triple taboo of student-teacher, adult-teen, stepsister-stepbrother, pfff.
I commend the efforts of the author, because I did enjoy the premise and the first few volumes, however the turn this took just left me sad for the unreached potential.

[Edward · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am glad that they are making it so the sister / teacher with brother / student pair is going to break up as i was for the sister / brother pair not the sister / brother / teacher/ student pair. I like how they made it turn around from volume 3 to volume 6 to be more 'realistic" but either way I was for the brother younger sister pair all along.

[Craig Schorling · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was more like a 2.5 but closer to a 2 for one reason. We have a scene where some has too much alcohol infused sauce and starts to rape a character. The next day everything is like "oh its cool, be a better person." For a series about drama this seemed really poorly done and makes light of a serious issue. The normal drama is there and the standard popcorn reading is entertaining still.

[Dumb popcorn's manga · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay so Al tried to rape Rui and was forgiven inmediately just like that? 😀 That's actually insane... An that last page wtf... I will proceed with caution to the next volume but this seriously gets worse and worse...

[Laura ☾ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know how to feel about this volume. I still don't get Hina. Nor her choices. And Rui is too good tbh

[Eke · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok this took Some Turns wow

[ReadingFrog · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars.

[Whitney (The Cover Collector) · Rating 1 out of 5]

This couple makes me want to vomit.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great story. Funny as always. Can’t wait to get into the next volume.

[Guillermo Schmitter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Al fin Natsuo pudo besar Hina

[Stephen Theaker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why weren't the police called? Why is everyone so chill about what happened? Why does she say it was partly her fault? Awful.

[JayLando22 · Rating 2 out of 5]

For the most part this is the same as it ever was... but, there is a sexual assault in this volume and it is not handled well for a variety of reasons.

Rui and Natsuo care about each other in such contrast to the Hina/Natsuo stuff.

The way sensitive subjects are handled in this series can vary but being a few volumes ahead of this I can say this is not the only time it goes bad but this is probably the most egregious and it is too bad.

The ending was a long time coming and as cheesy as the "sexy" stuff in this series is, I like how mutual the sexual relationships are. The female touch is most present during the sex scenes.

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was actually proud of tis volume. It made me feel that I was a character myself and able to relate.