* Your list is public by default. Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Dosanko Gyaru Is Mega CuteJapanese: 道産子ギャルはなまらめんこいEnglish: Hokkaido Gals Are Super AdorableInformation Volumes: 14 Chapters: Unknown Status: Finished Published: Sep 4, 2019 to Sep 11, 2024 StatisticsScore: 7.151 (scored by 1306913,069 users) Ranked: #654022 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.Popularity: #473 Members: 38,397 Favorites: 450Available AtResources
DetailsCharactersStatsReviewsRecommendationsInterest StacksNewsForumClubsPicturesMore Info Ranked #6540Popularity #473Members 38,397SynopsisTsubasa Shiki has just moved from Tokyo to Hokkaido, in the middle of winter. Not quite appreciating how far apart towns are in the country, he gets off the taxi at the next town over from his destination so he can see the sights around his home. But he is shocked when he learns the "next town" is a 3 hour walk away. But he also meets a cute Dosanko (born and raised in Hokkaido) gyaru named Minami Fuyuki who is braving negative 8 degree weather in the standard gyaru outfit of short skirts and bare legs!(Source: MU)Background_Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi_ was published digitally in English as Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable! through MANGA Plus.Related Entries MALxJapan -More than just anime- Characters Reviews Oct 22, 2024 Hokkaido gals are super adorable is a beautiful manga, with a story from the everyday life of a boy named Tsubasa, who comes to visit Hokkaido. The fun begins when he meets Fuyuki (Minami), another teenager who quickly became attached to him, forming a close friendship. Along the way, they are joined by other comrades, such as Akino, Rena-Senpai, Matsuo, etc.Therefore, the characters are very well stylized, the external and internal aesthetics are presented in a superb, subtle manner, thus presenting each character's individual traits, each in turn conveying ideas and feelings.I was very surprised by the story, a simple one of its kind, but... I appreciate simplicity in relation to beauty. This manga is pure art, in which the author put precious time and soul, every detail being oppressed by it. The story is to my taste and fits my kind of ideas, perspective and so on.This manga is among my favorites, I laughed, I was amazed by the author's transition from the first page to the last, I enjoyed every moment of the manga, I cried, I was happy to see Tsubasa with his friends. The drawings are much better done nowadays and I respect Ikada a lot for the work he has done. This manga has something very special, it is part of everyday life, a set of values that we acquire in society. I really liked the alternation between romance and comedy.Almost a year has passed since I started the manga, and I can't believe it's over, it's only logical that this should happen, but I still think about those exceptional moments of young Tsubasa. Thank you Ikada!!!! Reviewer’s Rating: 10 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all Jan 2, 2024 Mixed FeelingsWell-writtenPreliminary (92/? eps) First off, I am still a huge fan of the Oneshot and first some chapters of this manga, rating both of them 10/10. My initial review for the serialization was a deserved 3/10. More on that below. Now, ...THE MADMAN (author) DID IT. Turned a solid 3/10 into a good 6/10 before it ends by pretending that ~30 chapters never happened. What a turn of tables. It was around chapter 90 when the author realized what a hot pile of dogshit they created. The "story" and "characters" make no sense anymore. There is no endgame. THANK GOD, randomly, in the midst of an "arc", literally... mid sentence, we get a clear cut- Huge timeskip and Fuyuki is a whole different character again. Same with Tsubasa. So much (important-)stuff got pulled out of thin air from off-screen with zero foreshadowing and sense to then be resolved off-screen in an instant. The cut is pretty harsh and it is clear that the author did not know how to proceed anymore, it was a tangled mess. It was quite honestly embarrassing to read at times so acting like it all never happened was the correct choice. The senpai will forever be some of the worst writing in a shounen romance manga but whatever.This isn't 100% garbage but it can objectively not be rated higher than a 7 (the whole senpai arc...). I recommend reading the first some chapters and a skip straight to around 90. This is not a joke. There is no real character or story development that is worth reading 80 chapters for. You will get the same thing without having to see the author forget about who his own characters are at times, characters turning bipolar randomly, minor characters randomly being majorly important for something they did off-screen 30 chapters ago and some of the worst ass-pull "story"telling ever. Again, this is not a joke. It makes this whole thing a better experience.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------So, my initial rating was a deserved 3/10. It is the author's first published work. The Oneshot was great. The start of the series was, too. But everything went downhill fast. I do not blame the author (first work) entirely. It could've been an editor (most probably) pushing the author in the wrong direction.The manga instantly turns into a Harem. This is a non-issue for me. Fuyuki and Tsubasa are still really enjoyable as characters at this point. Until one or two "arcs" into the series. Even if students, all characters behave like unreasonable 5 year olds randomly. Whole relationships randomly change around. Characters behave differently. There is timeskips everywhere. HUGELY IMPORTANT PLOT happens off-screen (HOLY SHIT THE ASSPULL "STORYTELLING"). The author is abusing his characters, straight up. The story is turning in circles but not really because characters, their mental and happenings get teleported around and circle around somewhere else randomly. Every 3 chapters you gotta ask yourself "who are these characters?", "what is happening?", "why are we back in school suddenly?", "This character that was mentioned once fleetingly suddenly is major and did something REALLY important off-screen and 20 chapters ago (the Senpai)". Reviewer’s Rating: 6 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all Mar 27, 2024 Not RecommendedPreliminary (111/? eps) The very obvious and glaring problem with this manga is that it has no other purpose or goal other than working as a glorified travel brochure for Hokkaido. Every single thing —from the characters, to the romance, to the conflicts— is mediated by the necessity of, at some point, inserting a scene that goes like "look at how cool this tourist attraction is!". Initially, it's not much of an issue: you, as a critical reader might realize that the characters are as bland as a fictional water flavored ice cream; this is because none of the characters are written with the purpose of exploring a... human mind, instead, they exist as tropes which serve the only goal of constructing the simplest of plots; an excuse, in other words. But that's OK, any manga reader has come across millions and trillions of unoriginal stories and boring conflicts (the love octagon, the family trauma, the search for purpose; we've seen everything). The problem is that it gets egregious the closer it gets to the end (or well, to the now, as it's still being published). It doesn't even have so much of a story now; it's just the tourism pamphlet interpolated by panels of the main couple going "OMG I love her so much", "oh god, I'm so glad I am with you, Generic-kun!", "can't wait to see what the future will deliver for us", and more and more phrases with absolutely zero substance. Not even the story gets saved aesthetically; it feels like the artist just looked at an Uniqlo or Mujin catalogue, or perhaps the blandest of K-Dramas, and decided to base the whole artstyle over it. It has zero identity —no, actually, scratch that; it has the identity of a corporate advertisement. Because that's what this is. The only thing separating this from a TV ad from Nike where we see an athlete winning the race because of the shoe of the moment is that this one goes on from +100 chapters, somehow.I give it a 3 only because it manages to not be offensive to the reader, which is the bare minimum. Reviewer’s Rating: 3 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all Interest Stacks 44 Entries · 166 Restacks Recommendations Recent News Recent Forum Discussion
* Your list is public by default. Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Dosanko Gyaru Is Mega CuteJapanese: 道産子ギャルはなまらめんこいEnglish: Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable
MALxJapan -More than just anime- Characters Reviews 
Oct 22, 2024 Hokkaido gals are super adorable is a beautiful manga, with a story from the everyday life of a boy named Tsubasa, who comes to visit Hokkaido. The fun begins when he meets Fuyuki (Minami), another teenager who quickly became attached to him, forming a close friendship. Along the way, they are joined by other comrades, such as Akino, Rena-Senpai, Matsuo, etc.Therefore, the characters are very well stylized, the external and internal aesthetics are presented in a superb, subtle manner, thus presenting each character's individual traits, each in turn conveying ideas and feelings.I was very surprised by the story, a simple one of its kind, but... I appreciate simplicity in relation to beauty. This manga is pure art, in which the author put precious time and soul, every detail being oppressed by it. The story is to my taste and fits my kind of ideas, perspective and so on.This manga is among my favorites, I laughed, I was amazed by the author's transition from the first page to the last, I enjoyed every moment of the manga, I cried, I was happy to see Tsubasa with his friends. The drawings are much better done nowadays and I respect Ikada a lot for the work he has done. This manga has something very special, it is part of everyday life, a set of values that we acquire in society. I really liked the alternation between romance and comedy.Almost a year has passed since I started the manga, and I can't believe it's over, it's only logical that this should happen, but I still think about those exceptional moments of young Tsubasa. Thank you Ikada!!!! Reviewer’s Rating: 10 What did you think of this review? Nice
0 Love it
0 Funny
0 Confusing
0 Informative
0 Well-written
0 Creative
0Show all 
Jan 2, 2024 Mixed FeelingsWell-written
Mar 27, 2024 Not RecommendedPreliminary (111/? eps) The very obvious and glaring problem with this manga is that it has no other purpose or goal other than working as a glorified travel brochure for Hokkaido. Every single thing —from the characters, to the romance, to the conflicts— is mediated by the necessity of, at some point, inserting a scene that goes like "look at how cool this tourist attraction is!". Initially, it's not much of an issue: you, as a critical reader might realize that the characters are as bland as a fictional water flavored ice cream; this is because none of the characters are written with the purpose of exploring a... human mind, instead, they exist as tropes which serve the only goal of constructing the simplest of plots; an excuse, in other words. But that's OK, any manga reader has come across millions and trillions of unoriginal stories and boring conflicts (the love octagon, the family trauma, the search for purpose; we've seen everything). The problem is that it gets egregious the closer it gets to the end (or well, to the now, as it's still being published). It doesn't even have so much of a story now; it's just the tourism pamphlet interpolated by panels of the main couple going "OMG I love her so much", "oh god, I'm so glad I am with you, Generic-kun!", "can't wait to see what the future will deliver for us", and more and more phrases with absolutely zero substance. Not even the story gets saved aesthetically; it feels like the artist just looked at an Uniqlo or Mujin catalogue, or perhaps the blandest of K-Dramas, and decided to base the whole artstyle over it. It has zero identity —no, actually, scratch that; it has the identity of a corporate advertisement. Because that's what this is. The only thing separating this from a TV ad from Nike where we see an athlete winning the race because of the shoe of the moment is that this one goes on from +100 chapters, somehow.I give it a 3 only because it manages to not be offensive to the reader, which is the bare minimum. Reviewer’s Rating: 3 What did you think of this review? Nice
44 Entries · 166 Restacks 
Recommendations Recent News Recent Forum Discussion