Reviews for Kijima-san & Yamada-san

Kijima is able to hear the inner voices of people. If you think about it, that is probably a horrible ability to have, with all the things people might be thinking about. But along comes his co-worker Yamada, a young woman with a completely pure and adorable mindset through and through, and as such Kijima finds himself completely infatuated by her. And so the office romance begins. It is a relatively new manga, so there isn't too much to read, but it seems to keep a rather light-hearted tone. Typical romcom, focusing mainly on the two lead characters and their interactions, mostly cute with lots ofblushing involved. So far it seems that the pacing is quite decent, at least there is some very notable development even in those few chapters.

I don't feel that it is going to explore his mysterious ability too much in the future, so far it has mostly been used as a simple plot device to progress their romantic development (not that that's inherently bad, but if you are hoping some deep supernatural mystery I think you'll be disappointed).

A cute and simple romcom based on the common gimmick of "I can read the mind of the person who likes me". The gimmick is mostly well executed and the pacing and progression of the two leads' relationship is well done. It's always nice to see a romcom manga between adults, and this manga does a good job of characterizing the leads as mature without making them boring. There's some annoying aspects of the story, like the unnecessary love triangle that adds basically nothing but some drama once the leads are already together. It also felt as though the ending was cut short. Spoilers obviously,but with the story ending with the MC revealing to his partner that he has telepathic abilities and her learning to accept him, it feels like there is more to be told. It would be interesting to see how the two continue their relationship with Kijima's secret out in the open. Probably the easiest way to do this would be a time jump to however many years in the future where the two have grown comfortable with each other, with Yamada aware of her partner's special abilities. The issues with the series are honestly pretty minor nitpicks. If you like a cozy/fluffy romcom, free from most of the tropes plaguing high school romcoms, this is a great little series to pick up.

This starts out promising for a fluff addict. It's a trope we have seen a million times. A man or women can read minds and someone is in love with them. For about 13 or 14 chapters there is really not a lot to say, if you love fluff, you will love those chapters. Things progress, which can be rare in romance, even short ones. Yuna the FMC is, well, there's not much to her. She basically only exists to be in love. However, I am not positioning that as a negative since it's fluff. Then the fluff dies. The most annoying love triangle takesit's place. See, there's a girl who can also read minds just like our trusty MC and she's Yuna's best friend. So of course she falls in love with the MC because he's the bare minimum of a nice guy around her. All sounds fine so far. Annoying if you don't like love triangles, cliche, but fine.

The story dies here. It dies over and over and over. The first issue, and the big one. Not sure what the author is trying to get across with this love triangle. Yuna's best friend flat out says she doesn't want her feelings to go away, but she also won't confess. There's another guy who likes the best friend and he finds out and is all you have to tell him which is really weird. At this point in the story somehow people aren't really seeing her as negative but rather giving the lesson of you can't help who you fall in love with. So of course she tells Yuna. Yuna rightfully leaves angry, and then comes back remorseful.

I recapped that love triangle to detail just how poorly told the story is. Not one person has a reasonable reaction. Bad people and bad decisions exist fiction but they have to fit the story and the characters. Sadly this destroys basically every character as it's now just focused on sympathizing with her wanting her best friends boyfriend and everyone kind of enabling it.

I would recommend like 12-14 chapters, if you like fluff, they are basic but deliver. Sadly the story is pushed off a cliff. It doesn't fall, the author willingly and purposefully just pushed it to it's death.

Characters: no substance, but for fluff they are fine until they are utterly destroyed in like two chapters

Story: Fun and fluffy until it is utterly destroyed in like four chapters

Art: It's fine

this would be a solid 6 to 7 if the author shift awkwardly into everyone trying to make a potential homewrecker feel good. There's multiple chapters of the main couple not interacting much just so the best friend and her dumb feelings everyone is enabling can be front and center. pick a lane, if you want wild awkward love triangle with loose morals awesome, but establish those characters, don't just shift existing characters into it.