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We use the whole 1–10 scale and judge each title against the best version of what it is trying to be — a comedy on how funny it is, a thriller on its tension — not against some other genre. As a rough guide: 9+ is all-time great, 8 excellent, 7 a solid recommendation with caveats, 5–6 mixed or average. A 7 is a genuine yes, not a knock. The “Community score” in each review is the crowd rating from AniList, MAL, and MangaUpdates, shown next to ours for comparison.
Erika throws everything she has at Kuzumi and he catches none of it, and somehow watching that happen chapter after chapter never quite stops being funny.
One joke, one goal, one shogi board — and somehow that's enough to carry a complete, consistently charming romantic comedy without ever wearing out its premise.
The zombie-romance hook is genuinely more sincere than it has any right to be, right up until the manga runs out of runway and has to wrap things up faster than it wanted to.
This one lives entirely in its central joke — Aharen's broken sense of personal space — and it's funny and sweet enough, chapter after chapter, that the joke never quite wears out.
CLAMP's linework is still gorgeous two decades later; the central romance is sweeter than the premise sounds, but a few subplots haven't aged well and the show doesn't apologize for them.
Pleasant, patient, and a little too polite to be memorable, but the kind of comfort read you'll actually finish.
Funny, warm, and one of the few 2000s shoujo romances where the joke is never really on the heroine.
This comedy is willing to make its heroines genuinely unlikable when they deserve it, which is exactly why it works.
The hook about a twin who finally stops covering for the sister who gets all the credit is strong; the plot that keeps making things up as it goes is not.
Having the female lead stay the stronger, steadier half of the pair the whole way through is rarer than it should be, and that alone makes the rocky opening worth pushing through.
Tanasia would rather redecorate than plot revenge, and that low-key ambition is both the charm and the ceiling here.
Yotsuha's return should feel like a rescue, and the fact that it doesn't quite is exactly what makes this worth following.