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Ikemen-kun to Saenai-kun  
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Description
Kentarou is a plain, nondescript college student who has never had a girlfriend or any friends. After getting hit on the head by a wayward ball, he begins to notice that there are increasingly long periods of time in which he cannot remember what he was doing.

One afternoon, he regains consciousness in an apartment he'd never been to before - and sitting next to him is a young man who then tells him "You're being possessed by the spirit of my dead girlfriend"...

Type
Manga

Related Series
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Associated Names
イケメン君とさえない君
帅气君与平凡君
Handsome-kun and Boring-kun
Ikemen-kun and Saenai-kun

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Latest Release(s)
v.1 c.5 + Extra (end) by The Moon in a Box (787d ago)
v.1 c.4 by The Moon in a Box (793d ago)
v.1 c.1-3 by The Moon in a Box (825d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
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User Rating
Average: 8.2 / 10.0 (211 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.04 / 10.0
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Last Updated
December 26th 2012, 2:08pm PST

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Artist(s)

Year
2010

Original Publisher

Serialized In (magazine)
Gateau (Ichijinsha)

Licensed (in English)
No

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Weekly Pos #967 increased(+356)
Monthly Pos #2622 increased(+189)
3 Month Pos #3534 decreased(-396)
6 Month Pos #3563 decreased(-306)

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On 132 reading lists
On 136 wish lists
On 685 completed lists
On 3 unfinished lists
On 156 custom lists

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Hideyoshico can do no wrong!   
Rating: 9.5 / 10.0
by freyakoala
March 12th, 2013, 1:55pm
Another beautiful and gentle manga. Despite the supernatural premise, I found this to be very realistic. The manga was too short for the characters to be totally fleshed out, however the glimpses of their personalities that we do see are likeable and genuine.
Also, the grieving process and falling in love are realistic in this manga. Obviously the blonde guy wasn't going to fall in love with kentarou straight away and I got the impression that this took place Orr a considerable length of time. In the end, it is up to the readers to decide the fate of the romance, which may not be amazing for canon lovers but I think it was pretty obvious what the manga ka was getting at.
The side characters as always are wonderful, mi-chan was a sweet and interesting character and ken's sister was hilarious. The art is also beautiful.
Maybe I have a hideyoshico bias but it is hard not to as she is brilliant!
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beautiful one-time reading novel   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by tekiteki
August 15th, 2012, 12:57pm
The story was rather short for appreciable character development and I probably won't reread it, but i really enjoyed it. The plot is intriguing and catching, and at the same time this manga has the melancholy feeling that is inherent to mature josei manga. The only thing that i personally didn't like was the way their relationship turned into love
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- they barely talked to each other! And the childhood's story doesn't count because it was too long ago >_<
. I wish the story could be longer, so they could naturally fall for each other ^__^

... Last updated on August 15th, 2012, 12:57pm
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Light, Cute, Story   
Rating: N/A
by Oaede210
April 18th, 2012, 4:29am
I really enjoyed this story, it was very sweet and had a slight whimsical feeling. I liked all the characters and was happy about how it ended. I do however wish it was a little longer at the end, it feels just a little unfinished.
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I wished they kissed.. that might have made it feel complete.
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Confusing but Sweet!   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by fisukisuki
December 21st, 2011, 5:21am
Altough it's confusing me, but it's cute and sweet. My mind is blank just because this manga.
Touching but confusing! Cute but weird! Funny but calm! Can't be expressed in words! ^_^
I will give this 10 even though i don't know why but i my mind and my heart say i have to..hehe
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Sweet, but...   
Rating: 5.8 / 10.0
by calstine
April 30th, 2011, 9:01am
...too short to make a lasting impact. Also, the only character who has any semblance of personality is the girlfriend. The two protagonists are rather plain and uninteresting.

I don't see any reason for the blond boy to have fallen for the brunet one considering how he was obviously very much in love with his girlfriend beforehand. (And she was such a pretty, fun girl too...what a shame she had to die!) In that sense, leaving the two boys' relationship unresolved was a smart decision on the mangaka's part; since any actual expressions of affection would have been too abrupt and unrealistic.

Also, the twist at the end (while nice) was too hastily executed to feel quite right. In a slow-paced, slice-of-life-themed story, such abrupt revelations don't work too well.

Despite these flaws, there is a pure, chaste, melancholy feeling permeating throughout and the characters are fairly easy to feel at least slightly fond of -- both features that are rare enough in the BL of today.

Ikemen-kun to Saenai-kun is far from being the most brilliant shounen-ai manga ever written, but it's a rather charming little love story and definitely not a waste of the half-hour spent reading it.

... Last updated on April 17th, 2012, 9:36pm
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