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Waratte! Sotomura-san   
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Type
Manga

Related Series
Sachiusu (Spin-Off)

Associated Names
Smile! Sotomura san
Smile! Sotomura-san
ยิ้มหน่อยน่าโซโตมุระซัง
笑って! 外村さん
笑一个吧!外村桑

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Latest Release(s)
v.7 c.121 (end) by Wonderland Translations over 5 years ago
v.7 c.120 by Wonderland Translations over 5 years ago
v.7 c.119 by Wonderland Translations over 5 years ago
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Status
in Country of Origin
7 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
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User Rating
Average: 8 / 10.0 (147 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.71 / 10.0
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Last Updated
June 16th 2020, 3:01am


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Year
2009

Original Publisher

Serialized In (magazine)
Manga Time Special (Houbunsha)
Manga Home (Houbunsha)
Manga Time Jumbo (Houbunsha)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #737 increased(+29)
Monthly Pos #1663 increased(+152)
3 Month Pos #2176 increased(+992)
6 Month Pos #5590 (No change)
Year Pos #6721 increased(+866)

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On 371 wish lists
On 267 completed lists
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Decent but Irrational and Repetitive  
by VWombat
March 8th, 2015, 1:17am
Rating: 5.7  / 10.0
tl;dr If you read much manga, you should be used to irrationality, but note that there is a large amount of it in this. Otherwise, get over how extremely repetitive the content is, and you'll probably enjoy it.

Initially, it's an amusing and cute story about a socially dysfunctional girl who is seen as a delinquent despite actually being innocent and cute. Why? Because she mistakenly acts like a delinquent, and despite two normal people in her life willing to help, she cannot change her behavior. Furthermore, both of these normal people are evidently incapable of directly communicating with others and telling them the truth. Instead, they beat around the bush with, "Ah, she's not that bad". Well, idiocy and excessive misinterpretation aren't new for manga, even if it's an exceptionally high level of it. That much can be overlooked. Then, 75 chapters of virtually the same content go by. At the end of every chapter involving an attempt to improve the protagonist's typically angry-looking smile, her friend thinks something along the lines of "I'd really like to see her cute smile" while staring off into the distance. In the background is the protagonist, and of course, she's smiling properly. Every time. Several chapters. Well, that's it at its worst. Other times, you just find a repetitive format. Generic format example: [Classmates say "X" rumor about protagonist. Protagonist does something that seemingly verifies "X". Classmates are scared].

... Last updated on March 8th, 2015, 1:31am
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Wasted  
by buttplug
July 22nd, 2014, 11:47am
Rating: 4.3  / 10.0
It's a good if somewhat predictable premise but not much is done with it here. The jokes are not very creative and the humour falls a bit flat at times when you see some jokes repeat. The protagonist is also one-note and doesn't add much. The characters are not very interesting or diverse either. On the upside the art is pretty good for a 4-koma.

... Last updated on March 17th, 2018, 8:22pm
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Hope you like the same couple of jokes...  
by Kevadu
June 1st, 2014, 1:27am
Rating: N/A
...because man you'll be seeing them a lot.

Mind you, I actually do like the setup for this manga. Not the most original thing in the world, but I enjoy these sort of stories. My biggest problem is that the author recycles the same few jokes over and over and over. Yes it's a 4 panel gag manga so that's forgivable to a degree. You're not really intended to marathon through the series in one sitting (seriously, don't) but rather enjoy it a little bit at a time. Even so, the level of repetition I see here can compete with newspaper strips like Garfield, but that took 25 years to reach that degree of joke recycling.

As far as the characters go, Sotomura is pretty cute...actually, too cute. The whole premise is that everyone is supposed to be afraid of her because of how scary she is but there's a gap between the explanations and the artwork here. Sotomura just doesn't look scary. No matter how much I'm told that she's scary it doesn't really work well when I can see her myself and can't agree. I realize that an actually-scary female lead in a lighthearted story like this might be a tough sell, but I feel like this could have been handled better...

I suppose all that sounds pretty negative, but if you can get past those two points then what's left is actually quite enjoyable for what it is. It's funny and cute, just don't expect much more than that.
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Decent but gets very formulaic  
by ZanathKariashi
March 30th, 2014, 1:08am
Rating: 6.0  / 10.0
It's a decent series but it does get fairly boring as it goes a long. Very few new things are introduced, and the jokes get similar enough that you feel you've seen it 20 times before in just the last few chapters.
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Funny, easy to read.  
by rindtron
September 16th, 2012, 9:42am
Rating: 8.0  / 10.0
4-koma, and super easy to read. The protagonist is an idiot, and I can't figure out how anyone's logic would lead them down the same road as Sotomura-san... but a lot of the gags are quite lightly humourous, so it served it's purpose well. However, there were a few that I thought were a bit too cliched and not surprising enough to be funny, so minus one point for that.
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