This manga is on a contest between Ginen Shounen,I"s,Kimi no Iru Matchi and Pastel about which one is the WORST.I think Open Sesame and Ginen Shounen get the first place,because from the beginning till the end they continued being crappy.Even it's author has forgotten it's characters(where is Aoi?) and writes the story on the fly.I won't comment about the stupidity of the characters or the lack of plot because i can continue this meaningless,pointless ranting for long.Thankfully the recommendations below mine save me the time.It's a miracle that this manga was serialized for so many years.Avoid opening this sesame at all costs in case a fly gets inside, and if you have already opened it,close it as quickly as possible.
PS: one of 77 people who have given a 10 to this series can (in case you are above 10 years old) you please tell me what's so masterful about it?It's those ratings that recreate these crappy romance manga instead of making the authors think of a better romance story.
@Leris.I don't usually debate on the comment section.But since you commented on my post here is my answer:The least you can do when rating a 1 or 10 is to write a serious recommendation,especially when the manga doesn't have sky high or bottom ratings.
And i also gave 9 Hetakoi and Honeymoon Salad,8 Countrouble,Bitter Virgin and Baby leaf and good enough ratings on a lot more series similar to these and Open Sesame.So,what was this particular one lacking?
Since RexiX and Badkarma as i mentioned covered me almost completely i didn't find necessary to copy my older posts from other sites.Well here are my thoughts:
The good:
1)Normal(not weak male lead)
2)Good start,bad continuation-execution
The bad:
1)It has become repetitive,long dragging and predictable.
2)Every romance story has a bit of clishe,but when you pass the limit the story fails miserably.Danjou moving in the same city,school,class and sitting by her.I have seen 2 or 3 times random guys trying to hit on the girls on the streets and suddenly our main hero appears to save the day.How many times has Mogami have gone shopping clothes in this series?Has she thought opening her own cloth store with all the clothes she has bought?Ok,we know she lives nearby but the times she has met her by chance is ridiculous.Also,the recreation of the tragic event on chapter 85 was way over the top.
3)The whole idea of the mascot rooster is plain idiotic and it's made only to fill in the pages or make some extra chapters.No seriously,imagine seeing someone walking on the street with a rooster on his elbow,the girls in this story say cute but if you saw in reality someone like that you would say "where this guy came from a village,or that guy is a laughingstock".The doctor is a pedophile(since he has finished medic about 6 years of school i suppose he is 24+) who not only has feelings for his sister but after failing he makes a relationship with her friend who is 15.(Ok,skip that since you will start talking about age of consent in Japan and i want to avoid the procedure about that subject).And the joke is that he says to her "let's get married after i come back from America".The manga is shounen not shoujo.The biggest joke is that we see him in cases talking about his love problems with the 15 year old Danjou.
4)If there was a poll about "which manga is the most inconsistent,Open Sesame would take first place by far in my book".I haven't come across in a manga that the author deletes his characters as easily as this one.Ok,in pastel the same phenomenon occurs,but they are side characters that served their purpose and made their appearance for 3 chapters at most.Also,on Hunter x Hunter,Hishoka the main villain hasn't appeared for 200 chapters.But no this series exceeds even that.Has anyone counted about how many chapters Aoi hadn't made an appearance.That's more than 2 years in real time.And she didn't until the end of the series!She died or sth?Badkarma comments on all of these inconsistencies on his first paragraph on a better degree.I will state the irony of all this issue by saying that someone had created a thread with the subject:"Where is Aoi?"And what about the transfer student girl who joined the boxing club?She said she liked Danjou and she was completely later forgotten.
5)Furthermore is Danjou a moron?There is no chance that either Aoi or either one of his hometown kids hasn't mentioned Mutsuki all those years.If he was a little curious he would knew from the beginning that sth was wrong,you don't have to be a god damn detective.Yeah,let's also skip that part so as to write 94 chapters.
6)Also the ending came out of the blue.I would get that if there was a notification to the author to rush it.But that's not it.It would be more reasonable not to introduce random girls like the drama actress or the photography girl and focus on the character development of the given characters.But the author didn't go down that path.He/She simply preferred making episodic chapters on a plot continuity based story,leaving that way poorly developed characters.
7)Artwork.Well,RexiX gave the better comment on this one.I will only say that if Danjou had long hair i would easily mistake him for Mogami.
Also that Maki is such an egoist and causes so much rage(one of my most hateful characters),so that fact is enough to avoid this manga.
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