Is Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read

Quick facts
Format	Manga (shōnen)
Run	2022–present · ongoing
Community score	AniList 7.4
Content	Mild fanservice, sexual humor
Where to read	K MANGA — official

Overview

Ume Mizunoe is a literature-obsessed first-year at Fujinasu Academy who agrees to join the student council purely to avoid repeating a grade. What he finds waiting for him is not the buttoned-up group he expected, but a small collection of people who are each, in their own specific way, a little broken. One's dangerously airheaded, one's quietly terrifying, one's a closet pervert hiding behind good grades -- and Ume, the closest thing to a normal person in the room, ends up as the reader's anchor into the chaos.

What it does well

The manga's real strength is how sharply defined each council member's comedic lane is. Rather than a generic ensemble of "wacky" characters, every member has one clear angle they work from consistently, which means the jokes rarely blur together the way they can in weaker gag manga. Pairing that cast with a yonkoma-adjacent short format keeps the pacing brisk -- setups land and punchlines hit within a page or two, with very little dead air spent waiting for the joke to arrive.

Ume's role as the relatively sane one matters more than it might sound like on paper. Having a stable point of view to filter the absurdity through gives the comedy somewhere to land instead of just being noise, and it lets the manga escalate a bit without losing the reader. The homeroom teacher, Satomi Hiratsuka, adds a nice second layer too -- her prim school persona cracking into pure laziness at home is a small, well-used running bit that broadens the cast beyond just the council members themselves.

Where it falls short

This is about as plot-light as comedy manga gets -- there's no real arc connecting most chapters, and readers looking for character growth or ongoing stakes will find almost none of that here. A handful of running jokes also rely more on simple repetition than real escalation, which can make longer binge-reading sessions feel a bit flatter than reading a chapter or two at a time. And some of the more fanservice-leaning gags read like they're serving a specific shōnen magazine formula rather than growing naturally out of the characters.

Verdict

Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! knows exactly what it is: a fast, character-driven gag manga that doesn't pretend to be building toward anything bigger. Judged as that, it's a genuinely funny, well-cast comedy that's easy to dip into -- just don't come looking for a story.