Houkago Kitaku Biyori

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In simple terms: Anime Material.

I simply love everything about this manga. It is cute, funny, and has some of the best characters I have ever seen! My love for this is immeasurable.

Let's start with the plot: a bubbly and quirky girl meets a tall and distant boy, and together they... go home after school. As boring as it sounds, it has its charm, mainly because of the characters and how quickly the romance between these two builds up.

Naoki Satou (AKA: Chokki-chan) is the heroine, the bubbly girl. She is probably 17 years old, a second-year student, and the "Hyper Go Home Club" president, being the ... MC's senior. She is a bit childish, which can be very annoying at times, but she’s still pretty lovable and loves spending time with her kouhai. She simply loves going home and would do anything to be able to. She finds romance in everything and is probably the reason behind all the "going home" stuff. She's a romance aficionado. She always seemed down to spend time with the MC ever since chapter one.

One thing I don't like about Chokki-chan is that she's way too impossible to read, and I can't actually tell if like she likes him. She just seems like a person who doesn't care much about things like love. Even if she likes romance, she's not the love type, as far as I know.

Shun Satou is the MC, the distant boy. He is probably between 15 and 16 years old, a first-year student, and a member of the "Hyper Go Home Club," being Chokki-chan's junior. Even if he always has a straight face, he is pretty emotional, probably because of past events (He hurt himself during a soccer match, and now is traumatized). He was against joining the club at first, but was kind of forced to join by Chokki-chan. He's cool and very tall, causing him to be invited to a lot of sports clubs.

I feel like, even being emotionless, he's pretty into Chokki-chan's things, and they grow a lot on him, making him happy for being able to spend time with her.

In all the chapters, these two grow a lot together, and I feel like a happy ending isn't that far away. I just hope we can get some more after that.

I love that every piece of this has the potential of being a somewhat great anime, but I doubt that we'll have it since the manga isn't that popular in Japan.

I'll give it a 10/10 because it's the highest I can give.

A slow-pace manga that has a good sweet romance between the MC and the Heroine (The Senpai/Senior (Naoki)). It's a good thing to read when you are relaxing and maybe it could make your day better. The art style is really good too. I love it a lot (10/10). I hope this manga would get an anime someday in the future.

I'd say that i love this manga even though the progress / development of the story is kinda slow. It's a simple story about a boy who are unable to play football anymore due to injury on his foot. He somehow meets a girl, ... Naoki Satou (People call her Chokki-chan), which is his senior, and asked him to join the "Hyper Go-Home" Club (Which actually the school and teaching staff did not even recognise it as a club for a lot of reason). And so, this cold or emotionless (or whatever phrase similar to it) boy eventually joined with this girl and got closer to her as they spend times together after school. (By the way, she is so carefree and has a lot of weird ideas in her head).

SPOILER ALERT!!

As time went by, they become more needy of each other (It shows when they really miss each other a lot when Chokki-chan goes into the school trip). The slow-paced story might annoy you, but trust me, just enjoy it. The sweet but slow romance is how it works in this manga. However, there are important events that you should not miss, like the moment where Chokki-chan comfort him when he need to give up on his football career even though he's a star player (he actually hug her and she tried to comfort him), or when Chokki-chan meets his older brother and older sister when he is taking care of the sick him, or even the lonely feeling they experienced when they are apart for awhile (because Chokki-chan is going on a school trip) and how happy they are after they can do their everyday club acivity again, or even when they are doing the first shrine visit of the year.

Well, these kind of character and these type of story are the strong point of this manga. The mangaka (author) did a really good job at drawing the character too, which makes this manga is really heartwarming. So, overall, it is worth it to read when you have a time off or when you just wanted to take a break and relax yourself.

6.9/10


An alright fluff romance manga; I don’t love this as much as others, but it’s still enjoyable at times.

The characters are probably some of the most hit or miss aspect about the story; here’s the rundown: Quirky girl meets an emotionless boy, and he eventually changes because of her, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, this type of concept has been done countless times to mild to great success, but this manga didn’t leave that much of an impression on me due to how forced some of the developments were.

As I noted before, the fml is quirky — in fact, she’s too quirky. It’s almost ... like one of those real life people who act a certain way to scream “hey! Look at me! I’m quirky, aren’t I?” Mixed with this, the male lead is inconsistent in his reactions and development with the fmc, but I can pass it off to a freshman boy’s emotions running rampant.

The plot is simplistic — it revolves around the main cast, and there are only insignificant “plot pusher characters” who add comedy or an interaction/depth to the lore of the mc, and they do nothing more. Despite this, the plot is still wholesome at times, but it isn’t anything serious.

This could be an entirely premature review, and the author can make up a sob story with loads and loads of character depth and emotions, but I don’t see that happening, since this manga seems like another fluff story with some inconsistent characters. Flame me all you want, but the lack of character drawl makes it hard for this to be differentiated/have an identity from the rest of the fluff on the market.


You guys know this is just my opinion, right?

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”