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PROLOGUE:

This manga ended with 50 chapters (web version). For reasons, this page/entry is just about the physical version of the manga, which has 4 chapters.

----- GENERAL, STORY AND CHARACTERS:

This is a shoujo-ai / yuri manga. It´s not implicit yuri, nor yuri bait nor wishy-washy yuri. It´s yuri and shoujo-ai on its true/explicit form.

The story is simple yet beautifully done as it follows the love relationship between Heath (a monster/beast girl) and Lily (human). Not only I would recommend this for yuri fans but also for those who are indifferent about yuri.

Side characters are nice and you might be able ... to feel for them just as much as you will feel for Heath and Lily.

This manga shines by providing us beautiful emotions and feels on the simplest scenes. It´s wholesome; emotional.

Whether or not this was intended by the author, there are couple of messages between the lines: some you will notice; others you will just feel; and some will probably by unnoticed.


----- ART:

Art quality unfortunately oscillated throughout the manga. From solid good art to fine-ish and even to just an enhanced sketch.

Still, this should not be able to affect your enjoyment as the content outshines the art.


---- EXTRA, PERSONAL OPINION, CONCLUSION:

In my opinion, this manga is a masterpiece (10/10) up until the end of chapter 48.

So what is the problem with the last two chapters?
The answer is simple: All of sudden a huge time skip leading to a rushed ending.

Unfornutely, Bocchi Kaibutsu to Moumoku Shoujo is another awesome manga that suffered from a rushed ending.

Just as misplaced flashbacks, big time skips are something I hardly exactly because they can be also used as an excuse to rush end a series.

Consequently, some things were left unanswered and suddenly most of the characters were gone as we will never know what happened to them. Too bad.

First and foremost: Dont let the yuri tag prevent you from reading this masterpiece that will make you laught and cry.

I dont write reviews very often but this deserves one for being such a good history and have so many good characters. I confess that i had it in my "to read someday" list for a looong time but once i started it i could not stop myself. It's a gret history of both love and forgiveness and how to overcome diferences for the ones you love.

Although i do think the autor rushed a bit, the ending of the mangá is a very good ending. ... Thanks Neji for givin us this lovely history, im looking forward for your next work...

I see this still hasn't been fixed to note the true number of chapters in this work. I've actually read up to chapter 42, for the record.

Anyway, I liked this manga a lot, because gay monster girls are a rarity, but I have to it it's not good. It's just that everything with gay monster girls I've seen so far has been an open trash fire, and this is relatively normal shoujo ai, so it looks amazing by comparison.

Art 6/10

Good enough, but kind of basic. There's more shading later on, but it's hard to say the art has improved over the course of the manga. ... The characters are consistently on-model, if that helps, it's just that the lineart is very basic. Nothing to complain about, but nothing exceptional either.

Character 5/10

Heath and Lily are... cute. They're sickeningly cute, and it's quite enjoyable to watch them, even if Lily's name (Lily Blind, literally 'blind yuri') makes me unreasonably angry. They have some basic personality traits, and they bounce off each other nicely, and that's... basically them. It's wholesome, and nothing bad ever happens. Most of the other characters are bland, but inoffensive, and I have difficulty ing their names or faces, as it's been a little while since I read this. That's probably not a good sign for their personalities.

Story 5/10

Did I mention that nothing bad ever happens? Heath is a monster. A (ittedly adorable) chimera of lizard and something furry with rounded ears. It's mentioned more than once that people hate her for it, but the problem is, they do not. She's treated pretty much normally, in a way that causes no end of problems for my suspension of disbelief. The side characters are WAY too accepting, in other words. Other than that, the romance is handled nicely, and neither of them is pushy or toxic, even if they do occasionally argue. There's not an awful lot of plot besides their relationship, and their relationship is very cute and fluffy, and there's little in the way of conflict, so... it's standard shoujo ai. That's pretty much all I can say about it.

Enjoyment 8/10

Despite the above... I liked it. I have no real desire to re-read it, but it was nice. Nobody was screwing their own mother, or twin, or was a literal child, and nobody decided raping their crush was a great idea. It wasn't ridiculous, poorly written, over the top ecchi for dudes to 'enjoy'. It was legitimately gay, and not in that irritating 'only if it's you' way, where nobody ever its that they're gay. Thumbs up.

Overall 6/10

It's cute, wholesome and fluffy, but it's not Shakespeare. I enjoyed it, nonetheless. Though I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't drop it in a heartbeat if someone did a gay Beauty and the Beast manga with some actual conflict and stakes.