Until late last night, this review was going to be completely different. I had a whole review planned out and was all ready to joke about Path #4 on my Choose Your Own Adventure and then mere pages from the end of the volume, it went to hell in the form of a “joke” so excruciating, so forced, so stupid, I just stared, aghast.

So instead of the review I was going to write about how, Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, Volume 7 (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ ) was maybe not so bad, maybe it had gotten past it’s awful, terrible, unfunny plot complication that Maina and Eri can’t communicate well, or at all, it fucking SLAMMED down a joke, so bad that I hate the creator twice – once for making me think they can write a story, maybe, and once for not being able to write a goddamned story.

I know, I know. I KNOW. I do this every time with Hirao Auri. At this point we all just have to admit it’s a form of flagellation. Leave me to my hair shirt and flail.

You want to know the worst part? For 6 chapters this volume was GOOD. It really was! Maina and Eri could get whole sentences out and the absurd thing that happened actually made things better and the back stories of all the other ChamJam members had depth and the struggle with using their real names was interesting and it was a solid volume! And then in the fucking omake chapter….it goes to hell. For a stuuuuuupid, unfunny joke.

Yes, we get it. Eri is not screwed together tightly we get it. But no, that..no. My fucking god, how does the editor not jump over the table, screaming. This is why I am not a editor for a living, kids. I would be behind bars, ranting about excruciating characters and terribly, awful unfunny jokes that ruined acceptably interesting volumes.

Ratings:

Seriously? This manga is fucking enraging.

ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH

To express my feelings properly, I would like to share this image that was created by my friend Erin Finnegan as part of a comic she drew to fully illustrate her feelings on the end of the KareKano manga.

This panel lives rent free in my head. Especially when I am reading something by Hirao Auri.

One last note….Aya’s kimono, was genuinely, perfect. That joke worked.