Watari-kun no xx ga Houkai Sunzen

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Synonyms: Watari's XX Is on the Brink of Collapse

Japanese: 渡くんの××が崩壊寸前

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 16

Chapters: 94

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 4, 2014 to Sep 20, 2023

Genres: Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Magazine (Monthly)

Authors: Narumi, Naru (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.03¹ (scored by 9,463 s)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #8673²

² based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #610

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7.03

Ranked #8673Popularity #610 31,880

Narumi, Naru (Story & Art)

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Two years ago, the death of Naoto Watari's parents left him as the sole caretaker for his younger sister Suzushiro "Suzu" Watari and forced him to move in with their aunt. So devoted is he to Suzu that he refuses to clubs or even hang out with anyone, earning him snide comments and the title of "siscon" at his new school. But as long as Suzu is safe and happy, Naoto does not care what everyone else says.

However, his sneering classmates may turn out to be the least of his worries. The sudden transfer of a girl named Satsuki Tachibana brings back traumatic memories from his past—a past she had a hand in making so unpleasant. Nasty secrets, unknown to Naoto, begin to surface with her arrival, threatening his new life.

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Watari-kun no xx ga Houkai Sunzen has been published digitally in English as Watari-kun's ****** Is about to Collapse by Kodansha USA since December 17, 2019.

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Apr 7, 2024

bergars

Recommended

My life started to spiral into a constant stress just from reading this. Recommended.

The love triangle. A trope I'm very familiar with, and everybody is familiar with. The stress of dealing with two people you wanna date at once, how it impacts every choice you have, and both people involved have a unique dynamic between them. It's extremely stressful, interesting, and it reveals the reality of people. When love is at the end of the tunnel, the rest is merely an obstacle. However, this story started to feel… a little strange.

The story itself is about Watari-kun, who takes care of his selfish sister that basically ... considers him a dad. Alone with their aunt, no time to develop friendships, no time for a job, no time for good grades, no future ahead, nothing to save him from that, until a girl sees this as a unique quality. Of course, another one from his past has come to torment him.

It's simple, cliché, typical, you name it. Boring to an extreme, nothing stuck out, and my enjoyment was minimal, but there was something there that kept me. I couldn't tell what it was, be it the humanity in the characters, the stress Watari goes through, the selfishness from the characters. After some chapters, it was finally clear. There were no “good” people in this manga, at least in the typical way. Everybody has a selfishness to themselves that's amazingly portrayed in the manga. Everybody affects everybody, they all lie, they all scheme, they all try to get an upper hand, and it's the job of our main character to BE selfish. To do what he wants to do, and not care about being hated by one or two people. You can't please everybody, and that's just, so hard to accomplish while being who the protagonist is. People will call that a terrible protagonist, but the development was there, for the whole time.

Challenged with the constant stress of being human for once, I was pulling my hair at how much tension I was feeling for this character, for everybody. But then, they never rob him of choices, they pull misunderstandings, but they add consequences to them being there. It isn't a matter of everything going back to normal. Once something happens, the story runs with it, and changes the entire dynamic. It changes as a manga, because of what each character does. There's no base to stand on, no safety net. Hence, the shortness of the manga. It doesn't do the eternal love triangle. When something fails, it stays failed, and nobody can ever fix it.

I was reminded of that time in high school, the stress of dealing with romance, organizing time, grades, people, friends, the lies, the deceit, the weird immaturity that's displayed through all of us. It was hell for my brain, like a moment of retrospective that brought with it a spiral of things I never dealt with from that time. The hatred and the friendships that came about in those times. I could ramble about how this relates to my life, but I can tell this'll relate to many people's lives. Not in the romantic way, but in how hard it is to deal with family, with crushes, with friends, and everybody's egocentric lives.

It's a lesson on selfish people, and how that's just the most human people can be. We all want something out of the world, and when we don't, there's only suffering waiting for us. Not saviors, or martyrs. We're humans, and the winner takes it all.

Of course, it's an incredibly interesting story, which people diminish by calling it: “Oh my god, every character's a yandere”. It's a romantic, character study that shows a person that isn't something, surrounded by people that ARE that something. Accompanied by art that's pretty good, all things considered.

I wouldn't call it masterful. It's an art style that fits, that gets the job done. No moments that truly stick out. The dialogue and writing ARE the winners in this department. Every character is well-written, at least for biased me, since I've met others like it. Heard a criticism once, about how nobody acts like this, and my brothers and sisters, go outside. I'd say they could've gone the extra mile.

All in all. A manga that affected me deeply, not from a disturbing standpoint, but because I lived through many of these moments, choices, and people. It wasn't fun, and the manga isn't entirely fun. Addicting to read, and even more addicting to know what would the ending be. Yes, it's got stupid moments that shouldn't have happened, even in a real-life setting. I still, deeply recommend it.

8.4/10. I need a break from romance drama just from reading this.

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Mar 18, 2025

jmhj

Mixed Feelings

Watari-kun no xx ga Houkai Sunzen is essentially a standard love triangle romance tale, though it involves more characters than just three (however, one of them is so minor they barely matter...)

During the initial 30 chapters or so, the story might mislead you into expecting something darker or more intense. The characters come off as slightly unhinged, and there's a lingering tension that keeps you on edge. But most of that buildup fizzles out into nothing significant, with explanations that feel pretty ordinary.

The romance itself is decent, nothing extraordinary. The characters make plenty of irritating and baffling decisions, which is not uncommon for this genre. ...

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Dec 14, 2024

Erdogank

Not Recommended

This manga is misleading in its tags. It is actually a fairly mild romcom harem. In the first 30 chapters, every character outside of Nao-kun appears to be yandare, unhinged or unstable. Over the remaining 60 chapters, all this foreshadowing is resolved without much drama, spice or crazyness. All of the "Ohhh this can't be good" scenes turns out to be chill people having a mild backstory and some minor issue that got misunderstood.

It was engaging to read, well drawn and acceptable characters. 92 chapters felt like a good lenght. We do see "post-confession" relationship, which is positive.

I will never reread it and ...

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