TL;DR: it's a solid 5 across the board. If cliched and predictable shoujo manga is your thing, you can perhaps give this one a read.

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Looks like it's time to do my civil duty of writing a review of a manga that no one else really cares about. And since I'm deep into my trashy shoujo phase, I've somehow ended up here. Enter, Abe-kun ni Nerawaretemasu. The most average of shojo you can find, chock full of cliches and messy anatomy.

So, let's talk about it. I've read my fair share of shojo manga, since I am in fact Sad, Single, and Lonely. But Abe-kun honestly ended up feeling like a bit of a waste of my time. The plot does not even need to be described--you can honestly get the full experience by reading the plot synopsis on MAL, and filling in the average shojo plot points in your head. Every single story beat of this manga I have seen somewhere else.

There is nothing about Abe-kun that is new, exciting, refreshing, or even entertaining. Not that a manga HAS to be any of those things, but it simply brought nothing new to the table that would keep me reading for the long run. Plus, the art's awkward and inconsistent style left something to be desired. I'm no expert on male anatomy but I'm almost positive that it shouldn't look like THAT.

Abe (or, as he should be more formally referred to, Abs, since his entire personality seems to be built upon the six pack which he is flaunting practically every three panels) is supposed to be the swoon-worthy love interest, but reading this manga through I felt nothing more than mild contempt when I watched the two main characters flirt around each other. No, flirt isn't the right word, because whatever was going on with Abe was far more aggressive than that. This man does not seem to realize that no means no, and I was genuinely getting scared reading this damn manga. If Abe existed in real life you can bet I'd be bolting away from him because I do, in fact, value my life. There's no noteworthy characters apart from him, as Yae has the personality of a doormat and there haven't been too many other characters introduced.

Regardless... while the relationship is certainly not the healthiest or nicest to read about, it's not dumpster-fire standard yet. The Abe-kun manga's biggest drawback is simply how utterly mediocre it is. There's no particular category in which I felt this manga stood out. It was so genuinely average that I cannot even muster up strong feelings about the series. So, for fellow shojo degenerates like me, you could perhaps gain some enjoyment out of reading this manga, but otherwise, life will still go on if you don't.

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Abe-kun's Got Me Now is about the titular Abe, a high school karate champion who's of course ripped, and his aggressive pursuit of his classmate Akari. This is the type of shoujo where the story is ultra thin and flimsy excuse for the fanservice du jour, which in this case seems to be abdominal muscles, and aggressive unwanted seduction.

Why is Abe so into Akari? Because they interacted all of one time. It's that ridiculously flimsy. When it comes to shoujo cliches, it has all the usual suspects lined up too: protecting her from harassers, kabe-don, hiding together in a futon. Even Akari's childhood friend doesn't feel like a real character as much as a device to help enable Abe's pursuit and also make Abe even hunkier by comparison.

It also is really into that type of "forceful seduction" that's straight up non-consensual, but of course it's written to be taken as a fun fantasy where things like consent just get in the way. And that's okay because it's just supposed to be an escapist fantasy and not necessarily realistic. Of course, that only works for some people. Pretty much everyone else will probably rather stay clear of this one. I will at least give it that of other similarly thin shoujo manga out there, I've definitely seen worse. I also found it unintentionally funny for Abe wandering around shirtless at the slightest excuse.

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