Manga 57185 Kyou No Cerberus

This is a masterpiece created by god. I never seen a manga as beautiful as this. This manga have everything you need. You want harem? there's harem. You want comedy? There's comedy. You want romance? there's romance. you want action? There's action. You want cheerful loli? There's cheerful loli. You want shy loli? There's shy loli. You want tsundere oppai? there's tsundere oppai. The angle of view during a fight scene is spectacular and the plot twist is amazing too. Basically this manga has all the things you need and every single details are beautifully drawn. It just sad that this manga ended ... but I hope they are going to make an anime adaptation of this manga

tl;dr: A pretty generic harem manga that’s just okay in terms of everything.

This manga is about a high school student named Chiaki who simply doesn’t have the ability to feel joy. It turns out that this is due to Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld, eating a piece of his soul while he was a kid. However, Cerberus has come to make amends and do her best to help Chiaki’s soul recover. It should be noted that while Cerberus can take the form of a three headed dog, she is generally a teenage girl, or rather three teenage girls all sharing the same body. ... Each of these girls seem to embody a common type of dog, with Kuro being the energetic and playful type, Shirogane being like a guard dog, and Roze being the loving type. However, none of them really know how to actually fix him, so the manga is mostly just Chiaki and the trio hanging out and trying to have fun, while getting wrapped up in various sorts of supernatural events.

Overall, I felt the manga had a decent set of concepts, but there was nothing all that original and the execution wasn’t very good either. The main cast are all decent enough characters so they’re somewhat likable, but they don’t really have strong enough backgrounds or personalities to be all that memorable. They all have character arcs that are decent enough conceptually but they’re not very well written and thus any emotional moments related to them don’t really land all that well. In terms of romance, there are a few good moments, but overall romantic development is pretty weak and there’s really not any romantic fluff at all. As such, it’s hard to get all that invested in the relationships and thus the heavier associated beats don’t really have much impact. There’s also a broader ‘group of friends’ dynamic beyond just the love polygon centered around the protagonist, but the friendship aspect wasn’t really well developed either.

There’s a decent amount of comedy, but it’s not enough in terms of quantity or quality for this to work as a comedy manga. There’s also a decent amount of action, but that’s also not at the necessary level in terms of quantity or quality for this to work as an action manga. There are some overarching plot threads and some world building that’s interesting, but overall things aren’t really fleshed out all that well and the explanations for pretty much everything are lacking, so most everything plot wise that happens just feels really random. I’ve heard people complain that people that enjoyed the rest of the manga didn’t like the ending, but I don’t really get that. I certainly don’t think it’s a great ending but it’s pretty consistent with the rest of the manga: random plot twists and writing that takes itself far too seriously for the story being told.

The art is decent enough though the style is somewhat plain. Similarly, the character designs are decent enough, but not particularly stand out. Also, despite this being a harem manga it is not really ecchi at all for whatever that’s worth.

Now, my rating may look confusing and there is a single reason, the ending, it plain and simply sucks utterly. There is no other way too say that, the manga is really enjoyable but I am a person that dislikes the whole story if the ending is utterly shit because it ruins everything that came before as well.

Now, others probably dissagree with me but I do not care, if you write such a light hearted romantic harem story, the story should either end with an actual harem ending or the author should make sure to not write all the chicks as likable charas only ... to have most of them miserable at the end. Because that is exactly what happens in this manga at the end, all 5 are really likable but in the end 4 of them get a pure bad ending.