Ikenai Kacchan Love Story

The only reason you would read this is you enjoy the work of FKMT (Nobiyuki Fukimoto) and wanted to survey what his early career looked like. So I'll put it bluntly, this work is straight up balls.

Story: Generic predictable romance with a weird amount of played for laughs sexual assault and alcoholism (not kidding) This story makes sense in light of the fact it was extremely early in FKMT's career, before he established his niche of cynical, psychologically dense gambling and gaming manga. Bascally, this story is completely diffrent from what hes famous for, and its a good thing he stopped writing romance.

Art: Can't even really tell its Fukimoto. FKMT's thick line work and ugly as hell characters is absent here, and its also just generally alot more amateurish. It manages to somehow be less visually appealing than his regular style, which is deliberately meant to look unappealing. Its bad.

Character: An alcoholic, an actual rapist, and the girl who longs for her childhood firend (who is now the alcoholic) Theyre weird, unmemorable characters, and lacking the nuance that FKMT is known fr.

Enjoyment: Sort of emjoyed it on a "so bad its good level"

Conclusion: If you love FKMT, this is a good read for appreciating his growth over the course of his career. If you havnt read FKMT, this is literally the worst thing of his ive ever read, so dont start here, go read like 70 volumes of Kaiji.

Overall: Bad (4)