Manga 615 Ai Kora

Ok, my friend from Thailand was reading this waaayy back then like 3 years ago when I was 12, 13. At that time only the first few volumes came out I think. I saw him reading it and I read the first few chapters from him and thought it was pretty. However I couldn't remember the name so I spent like a whole hour trying to find it like a few days ago hahaha. Anyways this story was really good and I liked it. Every single chapter was worth it to a certain extent, though some just seem off-plot, but overall it was good. So ... I am telling you just give it a try, even if it seem like "what..." just go on. Don't just dropped it because the first chapter seem bad, read a few first then decide what you want to do.

Story 10:
Yeah it may seem crazy to say "whoa 10?!" But honestly the build up of the plot was good. It starts off with a part loving boy who go search for his lovely parts. Things build off from there quite nicely. He spent his days protecting and trying to make all the girls with his favorite parts all happy, until one day he realizes that parts isn't everything, which changes him. And the ending, you'll have to find out for yourself.

Art: 8.5-9
The artwork was really good, the characters did not have the generic anime styles. Each looked quite original, and there is a lot of funny seens.

Character: 10
Each character definitely had their own "development" chapter. Which is kind of what all harem type scenario chapters are, but this one has more, and the characters interact with each other pretty evenly. Unlike most harem like mangas where one can almost easily tell who the main guy will end up with.

Enjoyment: 10
Yes, 10 10 10. Well overall this manga was really fun and great. I loved it and every moment of it. I kind of like the sense of innocence it had to it which was really good. The comedy part was actually amusing, though there might be a dull chapter like 1 in 4 volumes, but overall its really entertaining. Took me 5 days to finish it, which was quite annoying because I had other things to do that got in my manga reading time.

Ai Kora is a story of a boy living in a dorm with the girls with his dream parts. At first I was quite hesitant to read since I was against reading ANY ecchi manga, but it turned out to be something i never expected. Although it's a shonen manga, the balance of comedy, romance and drama can make girls hooked too. the characters are also quite remarkable because there's a tsundere, the quiet and girly type, the "small but terrible type" etc. You will also find it's romatic parts qite different from most romantic comedy manga. The art is cute, although the hairstyle are ... kind of repeating if you read other mangas by Ai Kora's mangaka. Well, if you are into romantic comedy, read this!

Honestly I feel a bit like I wasted my time. It's not really bad or anything but it's not all that great either. The story is a cliche among cliches. Boy gets to live in a girl's dorm. Wow. Haven't seen that before. I expected better from the mangaka.

The characters are weak. They don't evolve. They are stereotypes and have stayed the exact same up to the last volume I read (the fifth). I would be lying to say I could distinguish all the random scenarios in this manga from the billion other similar ... ones like Love Hina and so on. Heck the characters even look the same as in all other typical harem manga. For Christ sakes, not yet another bipolar girl with pigtails that likes the protagonist but doesn't realize it. And yet again, she is apparently on track to be the protagonist's main love interest. Sigh. And oh, what do we have here, the glasses girl with big tits who is yearning for attention but doesn't get what she deserves. And the sexy teacher. Yawn.

Okay, I'll be fair. It's not all garbage. There are some original parts. The protagonist has a specific fetish for "parts" of females. He doesn't believe in aesthetic gestalt, he appreciates only the specific parts of a girl. And in no terrible act of coincidence, the girls he meets at the dormitory each have only one part he wants. One girl has great tits, another has great eyes, and so on. A decent premise, actually. But the mangaka (a famous one too) seems to waste all the potential by jumping on the cliche train for everything else.

One thing that is a bit unusual, and the reason I didn't bring the character rating down to a 5, is that the protagonist, at least, has some actual balls in this manga versus all the other typical harem manga. He's not a weakling and is very straightforward about what he wants. He doesn't get all emo and whatever about random stuff. I'm not sure this is enough to salvage the overall rating to more than a 6 however.

This all said, it's not actually *bad* per se. Just somewhat trite and repetitive. If you haven't read very much harem manga it'll be a decent read. Even if you have, you might still like it, if only because ecchi manga is basically the Japanese equivalent of pulp fiction. Easy to read, quick to understand, and steadily consumed by all males with a pulse no matter how ludicrous the scenarios get. Enjoy, guys.