Thanks to Potato-otaku’s relent­less trans­la­tion, Kai­chou wa Maid-sama finally brings out the inter­est­ing details, after… 45 chap­ters, forty-five chap­ters!!! Well, this is assum­ing that ch46 brings us the goods, see­ing as dear 45 left on a cliffhanger.

Dear Fuji­wara Hiro, what were you think­ing! You’ve tan­ta­lized us with this mys­te­ri­ous past of Usui since god knows when. If it weren’t for the fact our dear cou­ple look so cute together I would have dropped this ages ago, and even then read­ing Kai­chou felt almost like a guilty plea­sure prior to this chap­ter. As some­one on baka-updates manga put it, Kai­chou is like smut with­out the smut. It really is a fit­ting descrip­tion once you think out­side the box and look past the usual mean­ing for the word smut. Most of Kai­chou up to this point is pretty much about Mis­aki and Usui (who has been well estab­lished as a per­fect guy) look­ing cute together as ran­dom hur­dles gets thrown into their not-even-established rela­tion­ship, lead­ing to var­i­ous shenani­gans like that crazy but­ler con­test. Also, I swear the amount of tsun-tsun and dere-dere blush­ing Mis­aki does tal­lies more than the num­ber of pages. If it weren’t for dear heroine’s inde­pen­dent and tsun­dere per­son­al­ity, this series would devolve into real smut almost imme­di­ately (of course, then it wouldn’t be Kai­chou anymore).

Okay, I can grasp my head on why they do this. But milk­ing the prod­uct before it even broad­ens out its ini­tial sto­ry­line is just stu­pid in my opin­ion, espe­cially when Kai­chou is Fujiwara-sensei’s first seri­al­ized manga.

At least Kai­chou is finally about to start beat­ing its almost-exact-double: Spe­cial A. Why? Because some­thing is about to actu­ally hap­pen!!! Ugh, that just sounds sad…

Shoujo manga why do you do this to me (TT_TT )

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