Koi to Uso
Love and Lies

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👁 Koi to Uso

👁 Koi to Uso: Isshou no Koi/Koi no Kimochi

13 Recommended

7 Mixed Feelings

4 Not Recommended

Jan 4, 2023

Choixs

Good Manga, 2 different endings. Shame there was no space for a third, alternative ending :P

Sometimes I like to think I'm living in this Manga/Anime as Nejima. Defo would make some other choices, especially career wise, but would definitely end up with the best waifu, Ririna :)

Worth a try.

Thanks.

No idea why MAL wants this review to be more informative. Like m8 nobody got time to read that. If the yhad time to read this review they would read the manga instead ;/

... Just gonna copy someone#s review in order to publish that one. Thanks. (Reference: gumrats)

There are several characters for whom the character writing is exceptional--for me, the stand-out ones are Nisaka Yuusuke and the two minor characters Yajima and Ichigo. Nisaka in particular has, in my personal opinion, one of the best written arcs I've ever seen for a side character. For both him and several other characters, their emotions and behavior feel realistic and more importantly, heart-wrenching and heart-warming

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Sep 6, 2023

Wwwwat

6/10
I read the first 5 volumes, 105 chapters in total. And I was a bit disappointed. I was expecting some huge drama. Something to happen that would make it interesting, but it didn't really.

It starts off with this kind of interesting concept of an organized marriage and stuff. And the first scene is a kiss scene, so you think it'll probably be mature and the characters won't be.. idk what to call it... but I guess innocent? naïve? purely goodwilled? But... once the MC gets his planned partner they all become friends. And that in itself isn't bad, but the girls don't really stand up ... for themselves. And that turns it into a harem, instead of a romance drama.

And every now and then something a little dramatic happens. And there are moments where they don't see eachother or where they don't text eachother for a long time. But besides saying that off-screen they still have good times. I did read 105 chapters of it after all (although most chapters are under 10 pages), so it's not *that* bad. Just a problem that I was waiting for something to spice it up in a way that wasn't happening.

Anyway, if you don't mind a love triangle with a bit of a bland protagonist and want to see him having drama with the girls, you could like it. But if you're looking for something more mature, I wouldn't read this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 3, 2022

Executor23

What happens, when a guy gets governmental notice about his future wife being chosen, but falls in love with another girl? The story follows this specific struggle as its main focus.
Sounds cool and all that… until reaching around 1/4 of the manga, when I realized it all starts getting noticeably worse and is slowly falling apart.

Specifically the dialogues. The conversations between characters lead almost nowhere. It is rare to find a meaningful talk and it takes way too long to have some progress. It contains many events that could be avoided (or at least put together). After some time, it completely loses a proper direction.

The ... artstyle looks very nice. I find the looks of the characters appealing (specifically those big eyes; way too big even by anime/manga standards, but it has its charm).
The problem is again with the dialogues from the perspective ‘art-to-text ratio’. I find it too dense with texts. Sometimes I felt like I was reading light novel, not manga. And, as mentioned, given that the dialogues are pretty boring, this creates very bad synergy.

To conclude it, the original premise sounded very good. Then the story started getting into dead-ends and further into a mess.
The only viable solution was to create two alternative endings to conclude the story and conveniently avoid picking only one girl over the other. And yet still, as it turned out, only one ending was really worthwhile; the other one felt forced in my opinion (not spoiling which, of course). So even in the end it got half-butchered.

Not totally bad manga, but painful to finish. I can’t recommend. Still, if you like romance stories, you may enjoy it way more that I did.

Pros:
+ interesting premise
+ visually appealing artstyle

Cons:
- boring dialogues
- unbalanced art-to-text ratio
- too lengthy; contains unnecessary events

Double-edged:
+/- ending for both girls, but only one feels canonical

5/10 (AVERAGE)

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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