ときめきのいけにえ

TOKIMEKI NO IKENIE

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
3
RELEASE
September 1, 2021
CHAPTERS
18

DESCRIPTION

This is a story about Mari, a modest and inconspicuous girl who dreams of becoming a manga artist. Born into a complicated family, she lives a modest school life while hanging onto her dream. One day, after saving Shigeru Hanamizuki, the most popular boy in class, from a traffic accident, he confesses to her. However, Mari turns him down because of certain circumstances...

(Source: Comic Natalie, translated)

CAST

Mari Jingyouji
Shigeru Hanamizuki

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

Dacry
100/100
Gloomy girl wants to have a normal life
Like, this manga is pretty fucked up. I honestly didn't expect it to have a happy ending

First we got Mari! Mari is just a normal girl in a not so normal family. Their cult is trying to save the world by giving blood to the blood god i guess. Her mother tried to commit suicide god only knows why (haha) so her little brother often greets their mother by licking her hand?

Mari goes to school, but she can't stand out! As if being the gloomiest kid isn't attention-calling in a way. but well. She's not allowed to fall in love, not allowed to tell her friends about her murderer family. Luckily, she's a mangaka in the making and loves drawing manga, managing to get her break out.

And talking about break outs, her possessed by god brother escapes from his baby jail, and is probably killing people! At least until god possesses Mari. Satoru, the little asshole cultist baby brother who wants to kill people, is very mad that Mari is the heir and not brobro or himself.
Later Mari says the family doesn't like to kill people, it's just their duty to save mankind. So I guess that's why Mari is the heir, because she hates it.

By the way, the cult has way more people, it's just that their house has a good space to kill in the basement. Though they lose privileges of killing people and saving the world after Mari saves her boy, her boy's friend and the friend's cousin (except her hand) from a disturbed man who lost his family or something. It's funny because Mari honestly thought he was her brother for some chapters. Like, damn. You haven't looked at his face for a while.

Anyway. Mari has two otaku friends, but I don't remember their names. Did they ever mention it? But they help clean up her puke when she gets sick, read and talk about manga with them, genuinely care about her, and try to help out her love life (because they don't know why she rejected the boy they know she loves). They do respect her wishes the best they can, but they care about her a lot. When she forgets her bag after getting sick, they bring it to her on Mari's creepy fucked up house.

By last, Hinamizuki. This boy seriously must work out a lot as an adult because he's just so fucking stupid. For real, a himbo in the making. He never stops being stupid and pure even after meeting death on the face, a corpse's head is thrown in front of him and he feels sick but even his friend is confused about how he's doing perfectly well when they go back home.

For some reason that puzzles even Mari's friends, Mari loves him. And after she saves him from a hit and run (caused by the cult but she didn't know), he falls in love with the girl holding his hand, saving him and going with him to the hospital. But remember, she can't fall in love. So she rejects him, and he's a sad puppy and don't understand why she rejected him, but keeps waving at her, inviting to go out with all their friends, when she pukes he just gives her his grandfather's "keepsake" (the old man is alive), he never looks down or anything, he's just pure light in her life of darkness.

Now that I think about it, it's no fucking wonder she loves him. What a precious puppy boy. He keeps the kitties too, and is nice to Satoru (who takes a kitten from him to give to possessed big bro, i guess it's dead).

There's only a single person Hinamizuki doesn't trust, despite being the most naive little shit.

The yandere Sayama, or how she was called in middle school, the Mad Dog. She is really thirsting to kill people. She beat the shit out of this possible creep, the police takes her. It's so fucking funny. You genuinely thinks she will be a dent, she invites both Mari and Hinamizuki to an outing to humiliate them, none of them come and she's almost detained for having drugs, weapons and the like. Maybe she's not exactly an yandere, but a violent girl who is just in love with Hinamizuki therefore willing to deploy her weapons.

Lucky her she never shows that side properly to Mari. haha

It was better than I expected, genuinely a good read if you like or don't mind blood, flesh and people cut in half with guts coming out in your pure romance. Those two are so wholesome the school eventually calls them the Legendary Couple. It's super funny too.

And in case you hate Satoru too (despite him being such a cute shota :pensive:, he dies in the end, thank goodness. Her big brother stays free, he helps out being the guardian to meet with the editor so she can fulfill her dreams. Indeed, he used to be a very kind brother. He also ditches their younger fucked up brother, that's a plus in my book.

I don't know what's up with the housekeeper, she cuts her ear off when she thinks Mari is leaving (go Mari go)
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