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Akuma to Love Song   
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Manga

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Associated Names
A Devil and Her Love Song
Akuma to Rabu Songu
Devil and her Love Song
How Lovely Her Song Is!
Ác Quỷ Và Bản Tình Ca
الشيطانة وأغنية حبها
บทเพลงรักยายตัวร้าย
恶魔变奏曲
悪魔とラブソング
惡魔拉法頌
惡魔變奏曲
악마와 러브송

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otakami
Vexed Scans
Akuma Love Scans
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Latest Release(s)
v.13 c.91.5 (end) by Lilium Dragomir over 3 years ago
v.13 c.91 by Lilium Dragomir over 3 years ago
v.13 c.90 by Lilium Dragomir over 3 years ago
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Status
in Country of Origin
13 Volumes (Complete)
8 Volumes (Shinsou Saihen-ban, Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

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Akuma to Love Song by PrincessVera

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Average: 8 / 10.0 (1362 votes)
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Year
2007

Original Publisher
Shueisha (2007, 2021)

Serialized In (magazine)
Margaret (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Viz (13 Vols - Complete)

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Not too bad  
by PrincessVera
December 23rd, 2010, 9:51pm
Rating: 8.0  / 10.0
This series drew me in quickly at first. The art is good, and the main character Maria's personality isn't like a normal heroine's. She is extremely perceptive of other people's motives, blunt in her expression of what she thinks, and hates herself. She is also strong and appears to be a good person, despite this. Her personality gives the series a comedic and dramatic element simultaneously.

The plotline itself is a fairly typical slow shoujo romance plotline and the drama is interspersed with some pretty funny comedy (Maria's "Lovely Transformation" and her like of frilly things). The series shows some (sadly very typical) Japanese school bullying, eventually develops a love polygon between most of the main characters and their friends, delves into Maria's traumatic childhood, introduces new characters as antagonists, and starts a musical subplot.

It is the unfortunate and well-documented case that most of the things happening in this series--tearing up uniforms, stealing things, messing with someone's shoes, shunning, causing mild injuries, inviting a person out and forcing them to pay for everyone's meals--are all things that happen on a regular basis in Japanese schools. Teachers do turn a blind eye or blame and punish the victim because it is better than causing a public disturbance and calling attention to. However, the series is not really about bullying, but about a smart but emotionally inept girl trying to form close relationships and to be true to her instinct for honesty and forthrightness, despite having an odd personality and a traumatic past. Bullying is just one obstacle she has to overcome, and she does it with "amazing grace."

... Last updated on December 23rd, 2010, 9:53pm
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I feel.....  
by Iiwi
August 30th, 2012, 9:07am
Rating: N/A
That maria is a good character, and is a strong and smart type of lead, being a misunderstood isn't really a bad thing but makes it bad is that here you have a good character but then she is thrown into a cliche, world that does nothing for her. It really could have become a much better series and overall story if it wasn't so much the other characters where 1D and fake. I also don't like how they kept referring to maria as a devil when she did no such traits, I could see if she pushed people down stairs or something but she never even did things like this the only thing she does is be a very blunt but truthful person.
Wow..such a devil!
But anyway, this story could have been better, I read the first volume, I really love maria but it's a pure shame to be thrown into such a lacking story like this that leaves alot to be desired, I don't like the male lead interests at all. The fact that these boys are shallow and just follow what everyone else say is pretty much showing they have no backbone for understanding the truth themselves but follow rumors, I don't like that.
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Misunderstanding Archetype  
by Roaku
February 23rd, 2014, 4:15am
Rating: 5.0  / 10.0
As a lot of commentators have said, this manga is pretty good up until the Anna Arc.

I fully got to enjoy Maria and her gang of misfits (which turns out to be pretty much everyone~). The only character that was furiously unrealistic was the teacher (who would have long been fired). But even with that, the sappiness was somewhat, really heartfelt. I don't usually (stand) like shoujo manga, but this Maria up until the arc, got me to...really like her.

What happens afterwards, well as many say, it deteriorates into mediocre. Its not bad per-se, in fact to an avid shoujo fan, maybe it is up-par. I donnu? But to me, it fell into the many plot devices, cliches and terribly executed misunderstandings (I still don't get why some supposed childhood trauma means you should avoid the persons feelings and your own).

The characters further on do a few changes, and although some might be happy, I found they became more superficial rather then the original deep. Even further along, it grows to a point where you might expect Maria to suddenly cry from getting a pat from Meguro. The whole "we can't communicate" becomes a strain on the readers mind. I still braved through till chapter 74. I'm not sure if I'll brave through further, but by now (at last) the two have finally gotten their feelings across, and finally got to the point of accepting her childhood trauma with her mother and the priest.

So my thoughts on this? I'd recommend most people to read up until her Anna friend comes along, and if you are still keen, maybe until Meguro rejects Maria on christmas. But reading further, that is only for someone who is much more of an avid romantic woes-be-me attitude lover.

I'm not going to complement on the plot. And some, if you wish (or believe otherwise) can disregard this review, as to be honest, after the whole big misunderstanding with Maria's trauma, I skipped about 2/3 of the chapters. Ha ha ....
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Pretty much bad translations/readers, not story  
by eternalight
August 19th, 2013, 1:29am
Rating: N/A
A person's experience is pretty much defined by how a manga is presented to them, and this is basically the case of either bland translation or just straight up shallow interpretation. Either the translating doesn't communicate the cultural differences very efficiently, or some people didnt fully understand Maria at all, and honestly it looks like a lot of both.

At first Maria seems like the ultimate heroine taking no bullshit from anyone. She's able to stand her ground so strongly against otherwise nauseatingly mean and bigotted classmates, an angel among a slothy pit of hell that is a peer-pressure-filled high school.

Akuma to Love Song is a refreshing change of pace for any shoujo reader, and it has a deliciously ambient tone illustrating the darkness and insanity high school IS, remeniscent of Life to be specific.

But c'mon, how can it be that hard to relate to this manga when the majority religion in almost every English speaking country is Catholic. Devil Maria, an unfitting nickname? Did no one understand how these Japanese student bullies used a Catholic reference against her to triple the blow or has no one seen a bully apply meaningful religious vocabulary to their social life these days and couldn't believe it could happen? Need i mention the irony of it all (referring to my angel comment).

Sure, if you're looking for a manga that surprises you and 'breaks cliche', try it out to see why we all say "the beginning was good." But you'll drop it like a brick like the rest of them being so seduced by that honestly pathetic idea. If you're so 'great' that nearly nothing surprises you, good luck trying to find decent stories that 'satisfy' you, because decent stories are gunna pass right over you and you won't even know it. Every story out there has a trope, you can't avoid them completely, and you'll have better luck finding the manga you're looking for by making the manga yourself, if you're so revolutionary. Needless to say, if you're the type of person who would dismiss Maria crying her heart out as 'cliche', Maria actually smiling because she was genuinely happy as 'predictable shoujo', you don't understand how REAL people develop at all and your manga is probably gunna suck.

That said, I've been reading the scanlation and the translation is pretty redundant and stiff sometimes. Maybe that has something to do with it and you should try the Viz version in your local library. (I haven't done it but I'm going to). But I focus on the story when i read and try to forgive the mishaps, and if the story can shine through so clearly among all the bad translating, well, that says at least something.

Let me talk about how i felt about this series for a second. The execution of this manga for a shoujo genre is nearly flawless. There are so many great elements incorporated here, like self-image (worrying about what others see in you), beliefs (personal religion or method of socializing), conformity (following the crowd instead of developing individuality)... but my favorite is the reoccuring play on sheer irony. How no one is who they make themselves out to be and (what became of) the real them is damn right UGLY. Akuma to Love Song unapologetically explores this.

They even make it ACCEPTABLE somehow.

This manga will make you angry at people. Embarrassed for people. Question why they're even friends with Maria in the first place yet don't we all know people we don't like but who are friends with those we do like?

In a word, the series is raw. Maria can attract readers for being an ideal feminist-appealing trope, but underneath that, the series is about Maria finding how to live WITH pretenders and liars, not against them. She helps show people who they really are and in doing so, she makes true friends, each one of them flawed and fake, which is pretty damn realistic from my experience (cliches stem from truth, but don't get them mixed up.) This is how leaders are born and rise above the rest, and Maria proves that not all leaders have to be men.

Admittedly i stopped reading the series for a while, but i found myself pick it up every ten chapters, and whenever i finished what was out so far, I'd totally want the rest. Maybe it was Anna's arc that drove me to stop following it so closely (i remember how embarrassed i felt for Anna, nothing was going nicely (cough like how i expect a story to go cough)) but that has PASSED in my book and I'm eagerly awaiting Maria to overcome her character flaw, have her love requited, and lead an actual healthy life.

AtLS could totally start a cult following because not everyone can "get" it ("it's not for everyone") but for the people who do, they'd probably love it as well as i do and more. It completely deserved the thirteen volume run it got.

... Last updated on August 20th, 2013, 1:52am
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It's good at first  
by Mi Ho
December 13th, 2011, 11:32am
Rating: 7.0  / 10.0
but somehow after the whole 'I love megu' things I couldn't keep up with it. It got sort of disappointing and boring so I couldn't help but dropped it. I like Maria's character and the others too. Although Megu's character is the typical cold guy,I found it interesting since he's not the cool-bastard-jerk type. Also Yuusuke is cute and I love Tomoya too. The characters are interesting but like I said,the story got kinda boring and I stopped reading it.

Art : 9/10
Plot : 6/10
Character : 8/10
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Lovely!  
by littleyellowdress
June 19th, 2008, 12:08pm
Rating: 8.5  / 10.0
I found this one pretty intriguing, and unlike any shoujo manga I've ever read before. The female protagonist is also unlike anyone I've ever seen before, but what she says always sort of strikes a chord within me.

Although she wants to be accepted and redeemed in the eyes of society, she doesn't try to project a desirable / agreeable image of herself that would enable her to get socially assimilated. Instead, she faces people straight on without pretenses and inadvertently forces people to confront their own negative qualities which they would rather be oblivious to. She also voices out bluntly many underlying truths beneath social interactions and relationships which people would prefer to leave hidden and unsaid, hence making her a rather unpopular figure. In doing so, she preserves her identity and sense of self, yet paradoxically condemns herself to her malicious social image ("devil") at the same time.

I guess I can't judge whether this manga will live up to its potential based on only a few chapters, but it seems quite promising though!

... Last updated on July 22nd, 2008, 7:38am
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stunning manga!  
by hematitecrow
May 1st, 2008, 5:32am
Rating: N/A
i really hated the girl in the beginning, but as i continued reading, i found the whole story so amazing! it's just so deep, not like other manga that are pretty shallow sometimes. this is something deeper, and it's amazing. when Kawai started singing the song, Amazing Grace, it really rang in my ears. amazing manga, two thumbs up!!!!!!!
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I know you did all that evil, but it was for LoVe so everything is ok!  
by NerevarineVivec
June 25th, 2021, 10:14am
Rating: N/A
Damn, girls are mean. The beginning starts out with horrible bullying and some horrible stuff the antagonists are doing. But all is forgiven because the girls were just doing it because of love. So that makes everything all right. The teacher had no love, so he remains bad.

But actually the start is pretty great. The main character straight up carries this series with how awesome she is. A completely refreshing character with how blunt and to the point she is. The main romantic interests were also pretty great and a nice love triangle was forming.

But then towards the middle the series really starts to drag. In the Anna arc it introduced this completely dumb plot device to force the romantic interests apart. And introduced another completely pointless love interest with absolutely no chance to drag the story even further. Everything just became way to melodramatic and trite and the main character started losing what made her great to begin with. I ended up dropping it around here.

But reading the other comments it seems the author takes the whole forgiveness angle to the extreme.
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It seems the main character even forgives her pedo father who raped her mother when she was 14. An act so dramatic that it forced her mother to commit suicide. But no worries mate, it was done because of love! So it's all good.


... Last updated on June 25th, 2021, 10:19am
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Oh no, it happened  
by mskiddkidd
April 12th, 2015, 5:53pm
Rating: N/A
I read up to chapter 81 and then read chapter 91 summary as I felt this manga was going downhill.

My rating is a 5. First quarter was interesting but the rest was very melodramatic. There is a lot of progressing and then regressing again and again in characters' developments.
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Like, ugh, an example is Shin. Okay, I get he have insecurities but it's being replayed after he thought he overcame it. I think it was poorly executed. The story line became tiresome.

I read another user's review about how it was decent until Anna's plot. Very true. After this, everything is shallow. I do, however, like Shintaro as his character is consistent.

What I hate: chapter 91 have Yuusuke's monologue as the conclusion. At this point, I just pity him. He has always showed strength toward Maria, being there every time she needed help, and he is mentally strong to put back his shortcomings in order to support her, unlike Shin (multiple times)... yet the last chapter portrayed him in such a pitiful way. He's rejected but still idolizes her traits. =_=


... Last updated on April 12th, 2015, 5:59pm
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Great Start  
by Shellsan
November 5th, 2014, 4:56am
Rating: 7.0  / 10.0
To start off with this series is really good. The characters all have this air of suspense that makes them interesting and unique, especially Maria.
However as the manga progresses things become more and more dramatic and as things are revealed I feel as if it starts to go a little cliche.
The story behind Maria's birth is great and I loved the way that it linked up to her hatred of physical contact but I feel as though that hatred of physical contact shouldn't have disappeared as fast.
I also feel as though the way in which Maria simply forgave the man who raped her mother -regardless of love or other feelings- was too unrealistic.
I enjoy the mangas that i read to be a little more realistic then what i've been reading now. When reading through the parts involving things like the suicide and self hatred i find that to be even more unrealistic. It would have had more impact had the artist made it more realistic because after an experience like that, people shouting at you wouldn't help and the way it was handled was honestly not up to par.
Also, in the beginning i felt that Meguro was the type of guy who was laid back but as the story progressed he became more cliche and he lost the restraint that he should have had towards Maria and the way Maria began to act towards him was way too fast for my liking.
Overall this starts off as a great read but as you continue things become less interesting and unrealistic making it slightly irritating to read. It also loses a lot of the suspense that the characters were great for and the personalities of them, for kanda yuusuke and Erosu this is especially true. Finally I feel as though Maria's unique personality diminishes a little too much during the character development and she starts to look like a normal everyday girl.
This was a great manga and although it has its down i believe it's still worth the read for those who are looking for some romance and drama.
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