Reviews for Eromanga-sensei

I'm not going to bother writing a full review. This is literally Oreimo V 2.0, go read a review of that if you want one for this. This author either doesent know how to write anything else or is in love with his own sister, but I digress. The art ain't the best but its fine The story is original enough I guess, nothing special Characters are Copy paste of Oreimo with new hobbies But hey, if you like watching cute girls and the ocational lewd situation then, I mean, I guess there are worse things to read. If you expect an actual review, well, I can attempt it,but Don't get your hopes up. The story centers around Kyousuke V 2.0, AKA Masamune, A guy of indeterminate age who writes a novel a day for whatever reason. And his shut in sister Kirino V 2.0 AKA Sagiri, A girl who is probaly Bisexual, and enjoys spending months on end locked in her room drawing lewd art for novels, Somehow managing to keep a girlish loli figure despite her hardest exercise being walking to and from the bathroom. Is that digressing to far? I'm not sure, but someone had to bring it up.

Any way, the entire plot seems to focus around getting Sagiri out of her room, Which is just a convenient excuse to surround our local neutron star with a harem of women who bare striking resemblances, in charactor and likeness, to characters you are probaly very familiar with if you are bothering to read this far.

Any way, if you are board and wanted to chuckle a little, I'd give it a try. But It's nothing to go out of your way to find.

...what? WHAT!? Everyone knew how this would end but even so seeing the final chapters just feels so rushed and out of place with the series. The pacing of it was terrible and frustrating. Not even a satisfying ending either... As for the rest of the series... it was good at first but had quite a big decline in its story. The art style had a TREMENDOUS improvement from what it was, however, and it is clear there is A LOT of potential there, but it just wasn't used to its fullest. There is not NEARLY enough drama, the characters all react in waysthat don't make any sense in the instances that they are in so it is VERY confusing at times as to how they feel.

This is unironicly a battle-manga about light novel authors, which is uninteresting. The "spin" is to add a suggestive loli harem, with a hint of incest. The reason this falls flat, is due to not committing. Suggestive tag with very little fanservice? Loli harem without any waver in the MCs conviction? Incest-adjacent with 0 in world consequenses? The end result is a bland battle manga, with underage girls gushing for the MC, who never makes a move on anyone. I was struggling to read through these chapters. Not entertained at all. Go read Domestic Girlfriend or Kaguhara instead for some actual fun.

This is the manga adaptation of a light novel series. There was also an anime adaptation, which mainly adapted the first three volumes with random tidbits lifted from later volumes thrown in. This manga more straightforwardly adapts the first five volumes, though in the final stretch it’s also a mish mash of content from later volumes leading to an original ending. Overall, I would have to say the anime is better than the manga. However, the manga goes further and has a more definitive ending so it’s probably worth reading the manga in the absence of a translation of the light novels. The plot is centeredaround light novel author Masamune who lives solely with his step-sister Sagiri. Their single parents got married, thus making Masamune and Sagiri step-siblings. But not long after that their parents passed away. This traumatizes Sagiri and she turns into a hikikomori. Masamune does his best to support her, while also going to school, and serving as the breadwinner of the family. This sounds pretty depressing, but this manga is actually really lighthearted. It mostly just glosses over the dark parts.

Originally, it seems that Sagiri wants nothing to do with Masamune with her refusing to interact with him at all. However, this turns around when Masamune discovers that unbeknownst to either of them, Sagiri is actually the illustrator for his light novels. With that their relationship starts improving, Sagiri’s condition starts improving, and they resolve to do their best to create a work together that gets an anime adaptation. In the process they also make a bunch of interesting friends, mainly other members of the light novel industry.

Overall, the story centered around Masamune and Sagiri is decent enough. Masamune isn’t all that special, but he’s a good guy and within the context of the story that’s enough to make him a decent protagonist. Sagiri is much more unique, being a mish mash of a lot of different personality traits that come out in different circumstances, but that’s what makes her fun. The writing doesn’t really flesh out her out all that well but watching her slowly improve her mental state is still pretty satisfying. Her relationship with Masamune beyond that is pretty generic step-sibling romance, but the execution is solid. The ending was pretty rushed, but did a pretty good job at wrapping this up and I was satisfied with it.

There’s a harem that forms around Masamune with mainly two other girls also falling in love with him, Elf and Muramasa. Both are larger than life characters, but they’re pretty much complete opposites in terms of personalities, so the resulting dynamic is really amusing. What makes this dynamic somewhat unique is that for the most part it’s much more open. In most harem dynamics, either the characters are trying to keep their feelings hidden or are just so dense that they don’t get across. Here, that isn’t the case at all except for one character. The rest very quickly and openly admit to being in love with Masamune and he rejects them, but they continue to pursue him anyway. This results in a lot of amusing romantic fluff.

Beyond that the manga does have a good amount of comedy, but largely I didn’t find it all that great. There’s not enough of it, and what little there is felt somewhat repetitive. The manga also does go into what goes on in the light novel industry and related areas like manga and anime adaptations. It was really superficial about things though, and there are enough other anime/manga/LNs that handle it better that what’s in this manga isn’t enough to be a selling point.

The special art, such as the color art or the art that was used for in universe illustrations was really good. It was good quality with a good sense of style used very well. However, the regular art was generally pretty weak, being pretty rough in style and not all that nice to look at, though there certainly were exceptions.

tl;dr: A good but not particularly remarkable harem rom-com.