目黒さんは初めてじゃない

MEGURO-SAN WA HAJIMETE JANAI

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
11
RELEASE
June 25, 2024
CHAPTERS
89

DESCRIPTION

Koga decides to confess to the the school's most beautiful girl, Meguro. To his surprise, she agrees to date him. But what surprises him even more are her following words: "I'm not a virgin."

Note: Includes 11 extra chapters

CAST

Saki Meguro
Makoto Koga

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

heourezuru2
30/100
non-sexual sexual garbage
__Meguro-san: The failed attempt of create a seinen__
As the name of the manga suggests, Meguro isn't a virgin anymore. Makoto Koga doesn't know that, - being not virgin anymore isn't a problem, but for some reason, to japanese people it is - and asks her do date him. She accept, and tells him that isn't virgin. This is the first chapter, and basic, the proposal of the manga. So, what's the point of being a "failed attempt of create a seinen"?

Meguro lost her virginity with someone that even after 50 chapters, don't has a name, she just call him "sensei". The manga doesn't specific her age when Meguro and Sensei made you-know-what, but we can assume that's about 12-13 years old, considering that she wasn't in high school based into the uniform of the flashbacks. After her and Sensei dates for a while, he broke up with her, because he knew it was wrong, but because of her body - and because he's probably a ped0 - ~it took a while. But he, for some reason, told her to "accept everything, because if she reject, it would make the other person sad". So, she always accepted when someone asked to date, broke up or have sex with her, no matter who the person was.

For some reason, that wasn't told yet (I'm in the 50th chapter) her parents never made nothing, and in these many years, just her lil sister was in home, specifically when she was with some bastard that just wanted sex. Her sister never told to the parents, and the parents are never in home in many years, even that they are alive? And so, the teachers, that in Japan are so self-called the most important person, and who guides someone to the future, NEVER made nothing? Never talked to her, NOTHING, and ya can say "but probably they don't know", you would be correct if the fuckin' intire school doesn't know about that, 'n probably a few teachers had sex with her - the manga never confirmed that, it's just a assumption that I made

Saki Meguro

Let's talk about that door with boobs. Meguro character is introduced in chapter 2 - in the backstory matter and who she is -. In the begin, her lack of personality was okay and interesting; a person without wills, that just accept everything, and is okay with everything since the other person is happy. But after 50th chapters dating Koga, she had a character development, but she still a door. Now she has wills, and just it. Her entire character is based on "she isn't a virgin", and the author remember that E.V.E.R.Y chapter, like we don't know that or has alzheimer.
__Makoto Koga__ Her boyfriend, Makoto. What I can say 'bout him? He's the classic loser main character, but in the beggining, he was a good character. I'm not counting the script convenience of he being the only one that didn't know that Meguro wasn't virgin, but he was really good. But after some chapters, he turned into a door like him girlfriend. He is insecure, and that's okay, but Meguro was just chatting with a job friend, and he thought that she doesn't love him more, and ran away. Bro, she is your girlfriend, talk to her, IT'S JUST >TALK<. "But if she got angry?" use the right words. A relatationship is builded between two people, ya need to talk and understand each other. __In the end of day__ She isn't like Aharen, that her development was being more confident and sociable; the author tried that, but he just created a manga that doesn't fit with the characters. The manga proposal was an attempt of create a seinen, but he created a complex (and kinda deep) proposal with doors, one using glasses, and the other having boobs. Meguro-san should've end sooner - in 12/24, it's still releasing ~~~
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tzjj
20/100
Interesting premise ruined by forced drama and abysmal final arc
Spoiler free review!
It's Not Meguro-san's First Time tells a story of a 2nd year high-school student Meguro, a girl with a reputation for dating and sleeping with any guy that asks her out and Koga, a 3rd year, who oblivious to the rumors surrounding Meguro asks her to be his girlfriend to which she agrees without any second thoughts.

Koga quickly learns that Meguro is not a virgin and has a lot of experience, as she makes no attempt to hide it.
To Meguro’s surprise, Koga has no interest in sleeping with her and dumping her right after.
He is genuinely interested in learning about Meguro and having a real relationship with her.

Koga, trying to live up to her ex-boyfriends, works very hard and does his best to satisfy her on their dates.
Meguro, on the other hand is often taken aback by his gentlemanly and innocent behavior, especially when she’s used to the guys being open about wanting only her body.
The contrast between both experienced Meguro and completely clueless Koga sets up an interesting plot, which makes for a very strong and mature start to the story.

For the reasons above I absolutely adored this manga after the first 10-15 chapters.
Unfortunately, the story gets less and less interesting every chapter with small ups somewhere along the way.
Past the middle point, I was forcing myself to finish it, as I was still curious about how it ends and I regret that I didn’t drop it sooner.

Reading this manga, you quickly realize that each chapter has the same uninteresting structure, usually ending with an awkward monologue of either Meguro or Koga about their love.

This happens in almost every chapter, while at first it’s interesting, later it gets obnoxious and insufferable.
Both main leads give monologues as if they have all the knowledge about life and real love, while at the same time they’re high school students who don’t really have much actual experience with either of those.
It feels like the author is using the characters as preachers, who exist just to put the author's pretentious speeches out there.

Not to mention, the characters don’t really talk in a natural way like average high school students, which feels very jarring and takes me out of the story every single time.
Although, that may be an issue with the fan translation, as I don’t speak Japanese, I can’t verify it with the original version.
Nonetheless, be aware that if you’re going to read this manga in English, some of the dialogues sound kind of unnatural, which may affect your enjoyment.

The drama that rarely arises usually starts and ends in the same chapter or at most the one after that.
With each chapter having around 15 pages, they don’t leave much impact on the reader and you quickly forget that anything even happened.

The manga also features few side characters and their relationships but neither them or their relationships are interesting in any way whatsoever and not much time is spent on them for the reader to actually care.
They suffer from the similar problem of the main pairing, where any drama is very brief or feel forced.

I have to mention that the two main characters do grow together and change for the better throughout the manga. It's nice to read how the main couple supports each other and how they deal with their unusual relationship.
Some of their moments are very sweet and heartwarming and this is definitely something this manga does well in some parts.

Although the review is spoiler free, I cannot review this manga without mentioning this aspect. You can skip the following two paragraphs if you don’t want to see any spoilers.

The last volume is an absolute disgrace to the whole series and ruins the development of those involved and everything that this manga built up.
One of the characters makes an absolutely crazy decision that contradicts their whole character, while the other makes an even worse one that makes absolutely no sense and exists just to create cheap drama.
In this case the drama goes from 0 to 100 with an NTR bait sprinkled in and feels very forced for no reason.

Another character who is an absolutely horrible person, a groomer and a pedophile is basically praised and portrayed as a wholesome person.
I don't understand how the author can ignore what this character has done.
Even if I had liked the manga up to that point, I would never, ever recommend it to anyone, because the author is basically saying that it is okay to do what he did.

As for the art itself it’s not something I can really complain or really talk much about.
It’s not the greatest art ever, but it’s pretty decent. The backgrounds don’t have much detail to them but there are plenty of pretty panels at some important moments.
The characters are distinct and easily recognizable and the main heroine, Meguro Saki, is really cute too.

All in all, I don't recommend reading this manga. The initial premise may be interesting, but the author's inability to create an engaging story without forced drama makes for a very weak series.
It could be a really good manga, but unfortunately it wasn't for all the reasons I've mentioned, which makes it really frustrating and disappointing.
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