This isn't slow. Slow implies forward momentum.

Before you read this understand there are 85+ chapters. It has been ongoing for 8+ years. This is covering 1.5+ years of in manga time.

Nothing has happened.

Nothing.

They can't even call each other by their first names. Readers have been supporting this thing for 8+ years. Nothing. The protagonists are in their late teens and have been dating for 1.5+ years. They don't touch. They dont move forward. Nothing happens. There is no payoff.

By reading this manga you get turned into the male protagonist. Emotionally broken and willing to settle for the tiniest scraps which you'll gobble up with gleeful tears as the outside world looks in at you and wonders what went wrong in your life that you would allow yourself to stoop so low.

10/10

I actually really love this! I was originally put off by the whole drool thing and Urabe's personality, but it all just adds on to the story. I'm rather glad that Urabe doesn't have a completely anti-social and gloomy atmosphere around her.

All of the exciting encounters that Urabe and Tsubaki have make me all giddy and tingly. That's how an ecchi manga should be. This manga is just too cute!

I really do, I've been reading it since it's prologue chapter way back when. However something about it is really starting to bug me. I understand that first and foremost it's up to the mangaka what happens with his story, and that secondly he needs to make a buck since I'm sure they don't get paid that much for their work.

However, the mangaka has laid out several things that have yet ot be resolved, or even expanded upon. Urabe's character is severely underdeveloped, the mangaka makes it plain that there is something odd about her. I wont spoil it by typing out a list of all the things you learn in the first few volumes, but even Tsubaki notices a few of these clues and hints that she isn't exactly just a school girl. Considering how dense he is, that says a lot. Yet the mangaka refuses to develop her backstory or give any other new hints about her nor has Tsubaki endeavored to play on those hints what so ever. They foreshadowed a lot in the beginning and just left it cold even up to current chapters.

Then there is the relationship development. So far it's come to a near standstill. Urabe calls the shots and Tsubaki makes due with what little ground he has with it all. He pushes the envelope of their relationship just a bit then retracts back to where he started. Even worse is that that last dozen and a half chapters have been so predictable that they feel near unnecessary. Its the same formula.
1. Tsubaki sees his friend and Girlfriend progress their relationship somehow, or he notices a fetish or role play he'd like to try with Urabe, or he gets in trouble with Urabe.
2. Insert awkward moment and near blind misunderstandings between them.
3. Either Tsubaki gets to try out a vanilla version of what he saw his friends do, or he gets to experiment with the fetish in a mild G rating fasion, or he somehow makes right the trouble he causes.
4. Everything continues on happily ever after, and everyone acts as if it never happened. No one learns a lesson, no one gets anywhere, no character development is had. Yay...

Thats not to say it isn't readable, and the author does throw in a few twists, a one sided rival of sorts, and you even come away from each chapter feeling like it's still a potentially great romantic school love comedy. But dang it all, please have some progression! Step past one of the boundaries Urabe made, or give us a flashback of her past, or have something... /anything/ cool happen.

I recommend still read, and I think that people can enjoy it for what it is and what it offers. But I fear if something meaningful doesn't happen soon that leaves a major impact on either the readers or the characters, this manga will grow stale to the point of no return. I really want it to succeed, so hopefully the mangaka gets it together and makes this story happen. Come on Ueshiba Riichi! Don't be another Rumiko Takahashi! Dont be that mangaka!

This is one of those titles that everyone should read at some point. Regardless of what you usually read, whether you're male or female, or whether you're young or you're old like me, you'll find Nazo no Kanojo X (Mysterious Girlfriend X) funny, thrilling, sexy, meaningful, unusual, and, oh yeah: mysterious. You can think of the "mystery", though, as nothing more than the means through which Akira and Urabe connect with each other. Nazo no Kanojo X is unusual... but it shows us a kind of relationship somewhere between "that was great sex, let's be friends, oh and what's your name?" and "We're not going to kiss until we're married" without ever referring to our judging other types of relationships. Akira and Urabe define their relationship for themselves, how they want it to be (though often a little slower than Akira would like, but he's a 17-year-old boy after all). That's the beauty of Nazo no Kanojo X... and also what makes it so mysterious.

You should be reading this.

Seriously. It's great. The art is very unique, the plot is unique, the characters are enjoyable.

... Last updated on February 1st, 2009, 6:51pm

This manga starts off with an interesting premise - strange psychic powers? A surreal dreamscape? A boy literally addicted to a girls saliva?

It's quickly jettisoned about 4 chapters in to follow a standard "slice of life" plot that never leads anywhere. I'm not being melodramatic about this, it literally leads nowhere - by the end of the manga the couple in question have not even managed to kiss a single time.

Some people may consider that a spoiler, but since this manga bills itself as a "romance" I think it's fair to point out that there is very little in the way of romantic progress in this manga at all. It's strange too because there are side couples, some of which only get together much later in the manga, that make much deeper and faster progress than the main characters do.

I recommend reading this only if you are a masochist that wants to suffer through 92 episodes of cliche boilerplate rom-com and subpar fanservice only to be denied an ending that answers any of the initial questions in the manga or has a satisfactory romantic conclusion.

Mysterious Girlfriend X just stands out as being unusual but quite entertaining for a seinen manga.

The plot is quite intruiging, the characters each have their own personality and the drawing style is quite nice (though it something that would be found in a shonen manga).

The relationship between the two main protagonists stands out the most, and is quite interesting to see what directing it takes (and how long it will last).

Overall, I would recommend this Mysterious Girlfriend X in case anyone is trying to find a manga worth reading.

First of all, I love this guy's art. His previous work (like Discommunication) was overwhelming--each panel looked like one of the occasional "dream sequences" he puts into X. Here he's opened up the space in his art, concentrating on the characters, and developed a new, lighter line with less spot black. And it's all a matter of taste, but I find his girls as cute as hell.
Some previous reviewers have commented negatively on things like how Urabe won't let him hug her, etc. But I disagree. Remember, Urabe said right at the beginning of the series that he's the man she's first going to have sex with. And as you see in the story, each step along the way is not only controlled by them, but, in a way, by their "bond." Urabe doesn't want to move ahead of where that mysterious "bond" wants them to be. I admit it's a little slow. You'd think that when she starts getting sexually excited due to the progression of the "bond," things might heat up a little more than they have. But it's just not "that kind of comic," apparently. Regardless, there are always lots of fun little stories and Ueshiba's fascination with how sexual relationships develop between juveniles provides him an opportunity to experiment, playing "what if?"
Fan service? Sure. But it is, after all, about the relationship between two teenagers who are "destined" to be sex partners, and a few panty shots are not exactly out of bounds. You've got to give the poor sex-starved boy something to get nosebleeds about, after all.
So far I've enjoyed the hell out of it, more than any romantic comedy I've read in years.
The recent Imai storyline has me a bit concerned about where's he's going, but it's fun to see Urabe be both reluctant (in her usual way) and and the same time kind of intrigued by the unique opportunity she's being offered. She could certainly tell them to go pound sand and walk out, but she doesn't. Even some of her dialog was charmingly cute and hesitant at that time.
Anyway, I look forward to reading it every month.

This is one of my most favorite mangas of all time because of only one thing -- the unique way with which romance is presented. Romance is a well-worn subject in culture and art, and though the ideas in the manga has been thoroughly explored in other media -- saying no to the advances of a guy, sweeping a girl off her feet with a romantic approach, etc.etc. -- I have never read about it in the way it is treated in this manga.

The most artful illustrations in the manga are during dream sequences of Tsubaki. My most favorite dream sequence is the one where Tsubaki and Urabe is dancing -- I thought at that time, "What a great way to think about falling in love!"

Overall, I like this manga for its originality, and the weird yet delightful way with which relationships are presented. I look forward to what will happen to the characters in "Nazo no Kanojo X" in the future.

... Last updated on September 21st, 2008, 5:19am

Its a beautifully dynamic relationship ....
The bond is portrayed with trust,loyalty,caring and lots of love with strong bond...//
A must read for people to understand real love and emotional attachment....
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Don't mind comments below...they just want lots of kiss and sex scene ..otherwise they think the relationship is not strong.....
They are only in school and they both understand it...that's why they have there own pacing///