LogFAQs > #979637414

After years and years of being an anime fan, I finally finished my first manga! (I'm reading Dark Gathering and 7th Time Loop too but they're ongoing. I've also finished a four volume one that wasn't very good, it was just so short that it shouldn't really count.)

Engaged to the Unidentified is my favorite anime, and I was always sad it didn't go beyond one season. Since the manga ended, I started reading it... and binged the whole thing in three days. I wasn't sure if the anime's perfection would carry over into print form, but thankfully it did. My only complaint is that the grammar in the scanned translations was dodgy at times, especially early on. Then again, who am I to complain about free translations. The people who did that work and enabled me to read this story are heroes.

This manga was romantic comedy slice-of-life perfection. It's honestly impressive how a story with only twelve actual characters managed to stay so fresh for its entire 187 chapter run. I loved how all the different character combinations had their own running gags, and they kept finding angles to craft new jokes or situations. Kobeni and Hakuya have the most adorable romance ever. Mashiro is the funniest, cutest girl ever. Even Benio's over-the-top siscon antics had me laughing more often than not. As for side characters, my favorite running gag was that Suetsugi kept wandering in at just the right time to witness something embarrassing and then there'd be that hilarious silent reaction panel. It never got old!

I guess another complaint is that it didn't have much of an ending. It just kept on going with the slice-of-life stuff until it just kind of stopped. On the one hand, I'm sad there wasn't some big final arc. On the other hand, I suppose the author is the one in the best position to realize that maybe they should stop before things started going stale. In any case, Engaged to the Unidentified was a wonderful manga.

I'm not sure where I'm going to go from here. I feel like I've already finished the best manga ever. Everything from now on is going to be going downhill