I seriously love this manga so much, I wish the updates would come in faster, but we all can't get what we want, right. When you're first reading this, the artwork is strange and a bit unusual, but after awhile you get used to it's all together uniqueness. Some people complain about the chibi, but it's never bothered me. The story is great and funny, but the latest volumes seem useless and not moving forward with the plot. Don't get me wrong I still enjoy the series but it feels like there wont be an ending anytime soon, like you could skip some of the latest chapters and you know at the end they'd probably be eating instead. But all in all a great read, the characters are amazing and the story is filled with laughs and the few romantic scenes between the leads are precious. I highly recommend you read this if you have a dark sense of humor, you enjoy a unique female lead unlike the annoying cliched characters and you just want to read something good. I'd also recommend the anime, I don't know about the live action though, I haven't seen it but I hear it's just as good. c:

This is probably one the funniest, most entertaining, yet long mangas I have ever read. The chemistry is very good. However, I think the manga is a little too drawn out. Otherwise, I highly recommend this manga.

This manga is... a jewel. Incredibly unique in style, both in characters, and plot. Though there are a lot of fillers, the real important chapters are placed perfectly to keep interest.
The two main characters really have their feelings dragged out of them, slowly and painfully--heck almost 1/2 the time it's almost deadly.

I love it.

I will saw that when I first started reading this manga, I criticized it for having too feminine males: huge eye lashes, big eyes, womanly facial shape, perfect almost glossy lips, SCARFS, etc. but now I think it's quaint and it actually became part of the plot for one of the male characters

The Wallflower manga is...less good than the anime. Part of it is just a translation issue with the earlier scans (Evil Flowers takes over at about volume 25 and they do a great job!), but really, everything about this series works better in the show.

Art-wise they’re both weird, but least the anime has color which helps a lot because other than hair style and color, everyone looks pretty much exactly same. Especially our four main bishounen, like - in the manga, every time Kyohei gets his hair wet he looks exactly like Ranmaru, and it will sometimes take a few panels to realize who is who.

The anime doesn't have much of a plot, but it's harder to tell in a shorter format and arguably the last episode shows some progress (and everyone does at least seem to grow character-wise). The manga, however, has zero plot. In theory, the goal is making Sunako into a lady, but they never make any progress on that front and the stakes of not doing so (triple rent) are pointless when they aren't followed up on. (Obaa-san discovers that Sunako's made no progress and says she's going to collect from all of them/just Kyohei at least three or four times, and yet...nothing changes.) Also, the stories 100% start repeating (which makes sense, because no one ages in this manga; we go through at least three valentines days/christmases/halloweens, and while they reference previous years, no one learns anything or moves up a year in school or talks about growing up or colleges or jobs or anything). The stories not just similar, though, but literally the exact same scenario, like when Sunako tells Kyohei she hates living with him, Kyohei leaves and wanders Japan meeting up with strange people, and Sunako makes a big show and apologizes and he forgives her and comes back - this exact thing happens twice, with no mention of the previous time!

Also, character-wise, they're all basically the exact same people they were at the beginning (except Sunako, who doesn't change her personality but does become willing to tolerate other people). Romantically, everyone does make (some) progress in the manga: Noi and Takanaga kiss a couple times and are officially in a relationship, instead of everyone just assuming they are; Ranmaru is nice to Tamao and accepts that she is special to him -- though mostly due to manipulating from other people and while still playing around with women; there was a moment where Sunako and Kyohei seemed like they were going to realize their feelings for each other, but instead they just decided they were friends. Basically, though, everyone makes that amount of progress in the anime, and I didn't have to read 120 chapters of filler and backtracking for it to happen. Also, they bring in the other female characters a lot more in the show, which is great because yay, female characters, but also helps make the relationship growth between everyone seem more interesting and realistic; Noi and Sunako become friends almost immediately in the anime and then Noi shows up almost every episode, and while Tamao is introduced later, she then appears in almost every subsequent episode as well. The anime even goes so far as to include girls in places that they weren't in the manga in order to have a more balanced cast, which is pretty cool.

All the characters seem like they are more likable in the anime as well, and also, you know, they have actual growth there (even though we spend so much less time with them). For example, in the show, while Takanaga is nervous and hesitant about his relationship with Noi because he was sheltered growing up (and also because any time he does anything romantic with her his friends make fun of him), he definitely genuinely likes her a lot; in the manga he’s sometimes portrayed this way, but other times he's kind of just a dick. Also at one point,

All in all, while parts of it were fun and made me laugh, I can’t really recommend this manga to anyone. It’s long and pointless and nobody grows up, and the jokes from chapter 1 just aren’t very funny by chapter 105. Watch the anime though! I’ve watched the anime a bunch of times, and it’s everything this manga could/should be.

... Last updated on February 26th, 2019, 9:25am

It's long. It's stupid. But it's also incredibly entertaining. When MEN, who normally won't touch all other forms of shoujo with a ten foot pole, read this manga then there must be some sort of allure. Especially when you consider the genre. Normally the idea of a bishie harem with a female protagonist with an average sized chest would make the seinen-loving guys run in fear. But not this one. For all its foibles, (like it's length, slow episodic pacing, and nosebleeds) Perfect Girl Evolution is sometimes genuinely funny. Kyouhei may look like an alien, but there's a certain Fight Club appeal to him that makes the women blush and the men go "THAT'S MANLY!" And while Sunako may be the only girl in many of the scenes, when the chibi goes away, an extremely sexy woman takes her place. A woman who will eat popcorn, cook, watch Saw III and play video games. Poof! There went the macho man qualms about reading it. (Although realistically, they're probably going to skip all episodes not involving those characters...) Just TRY to make the same guys read Paradise Kiss. Forget Nana or Mars.

But to be fair, this manga is also one of the rare instances where the anime may be a better use of your time. It really is getting up there on the repetition and duration. And the anime has the same calibre of art and humor compounded into 24-so episodes. The best stories are still there. There's even more backgrounds. (Although the manga is the only shot at seeing naked Sunako...) You don't have to wait for Chapter 100+ for Sunako to primarily appear as a pretty human being in an episode rather than a squashed Ringu chibi. And the relationships almost approach a real, tangible slice of life development. Or at least, they don't reset.

...it is starting to drag a bit. Quite frankly, this series could have ended somewhere around the 14th or 15th volume perfectly. Even if the "love issues" hadn't been solved by that time, this is one of the few shoujo series' that would have been just fine being left open-ended.

One thing that I do like about this manga is that there is no direct romance between the leading male and female characters. I enjoy subtlety--since I'm not mucn of a romance fan. Also, the fact that the mangaka dared to center her series around self-acceptance (i.e. the leading female not going from morbid-rambo-goth-chic to cinderella...but simply accepting herself as morbid-rambo-goth-chic) is quite commendable. However, it IS starting to drag. It would be nice if she could just wrap things up--in the most creative/comical way possible, that is.

... Last updated on August 17th, 2010, 7:40am

At first I loved it, but come on guys you gotta admit that the story just keeps dragging on..
Nothing actually happens, there's no character development...
It's such a shame really 'cause I honestly love this artwork (and I'm into the whole "goth" thing she uses) but this series should end. NOW.

It's an all around decent story, with good art, plotline, comedy, and characters with depth. The only downside is that it is taking foreveeeerr to finish. If only Hayakawa would stop reverting things back to normal right after some improvement :J. And is it just me or are Ranmaru and Kyohei subtly looking more and more alike, o_o. Anyway the story honestly could end within a couple of chapters of where the scanlators have scanlated thus far (ch 131), but no, of course there's 2 more volumes (for now) OTL.
And of course I'm going to end up reading them TT_TT

The boys are adorable and sunako is bat crap crazy so every chapter is funny and cute. The romantic plot is a little slow (the two main characters are tragically dense) but I really enjoy reading this series. I love the manga, anime and jdrama. Can't get enough of it

... Last updated on April 4th, 2013, 12:54pm

This series is simply overrated. While the premise started out interesting - traumatized girl lacking confidence living with four handsome men, it quickly got repetitive and draggy. I can't count how many times around Halloween and Valentine's Day have cycled through the manga. Aside from the first few volumes, there is virtually no character development. I just skimmed through vol.28, and Sunako is still the very same as she was - gloomy and "un-lady like".
This series have dragged on for too long and the mangaka is clearly out of ideas. What started out like a great series quickly turned into endless cycles of repetition.