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Monday, April 1, 2019

Manga Review: We Never Learn, Volume 1, by Taishi Tsutsui


Rating (Out of 5): ~3
Publisher: Shonen Jump (VIZ Media)
Release Date: December 2018
Volumes: 11+
Spoilers?: No.
Volume: 2.

Goodreads Synopsis:

When studious Nariyuki tutors two supergeniuses who are total dunces in their favorite subjects, he’ll get a crash course in love!

Nariyuki Yuiga comes from an impoverished family, so he’s eager to secure a full scholarship to college when he graduates high school. His principal agrees, with one stipulation—he must tutor the two smartest girls at the school and make sure they get into their target colleges! Rizu is a science genius who wants to study liberal arts. Fumino is effortlessly good at literature, but math makes her head spin. Nariyuki is stuck between a rock and a hard place, but who can complain about tutoring a couple of cute girls?

Nariyuki is facing the chance of a lifetime if he can just make sure that Fumino and Rizu excel and get into the schools they want to attend. He comes prepared to tutor them, but he isn’t prepared for burgeoning high school romance! Sparks begin to fly, no matter how much Nariyuki tries to avoid it—and things get even more complicated when a third girl joins the study group!

Review:

Nariyuki excels at most school subjects, and is trying hard to be the top student so he can get the recommendation he needs. And yet there's one girl in each subject that just beats him. He isn't bothered by this so much as impressed, and worried that he won't get the recommendation he needs to go to the school he wants.
The principal finally tells him he'll get it, but he has to tutor these girls to get it, because while they excel in one subject, they're terrible in another, and determined to work in that area instead.
It feels rather hopeless to him at first, but the girls have less hope than he does. They don't think they'll ever be taught, but when they explain why this is important to them, he becomes determined to help them.
Thus starts a study group harem. I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. It was an okay first volume, but it didn't really stand out to me, and the characters were just okay. Eh so far.


 A review copy was provided by the publisher, VIZ Media, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much!

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