Kin no Kanojo Gin no Kanojo (original) (raw)

*I'm writing this review while pissed off after reading the trash ending*

Imagine one day finding out that your crush, a super important ojou-sama, was split into two persons, each with different personalities that the original one had. Sounds interesting right? The fact that these two, once a single person, will now grow up to become different than the other one and the original is something with such a huge potential for character development, but was compleately wasted.

Story: 3
This fresh plot had a huge potential for developing an incredible love triangle with only "two" persons, but instead of focusing on this topic, author chooses to focus... on the ecchi comedy, which I'm fine with as long as it's funny, but it's not the case. Even if I recognize that lots of jokes and comical scenes are "original", most of them are related to sexual harassment to the main heroines ("ops somehow I grabbed your breasts/ass/others") or good jokes overshadowed by the HUGE amount of text, It felt like reading a light novel instead of a manga. After like 20 chapters, I skipped most of the text until c.40-something, only taking a fast look to interesting things like romantic development or some scene that looked funny to read because most of the dialogues have so much unnecessary text.
- The end: It gets very interesting in the last chapters, to see how this romance ends and how the climax develops is worth to read, although there are 2 quite obvious possibilities. The catastrophe comes when the story is about to end, the romantic decision was taken, it was all good and I expected the last dramatic moment to come up with a beautiful solution that wouldn't look so forced. It was at this moment that the author had to fucked up so bad, making an absolutely unnecessary and unexpected event. After a time skip, the author tries to make us believe his bad "troll", just to few moments later, out of nowhere and by the power of the plot, "surprise" us giving us the exact ending we were about to get before he came out with this "troll plot twist" in such a forced and unnecessary way that ruined the good idea of end it was.

Art: 6
Not bad, nothing outstanding tho.

Characters: 5
- The mc: Has some charm, but plain and nothing original . Yes, the only character development he gets is realizing about his true feelings, but at least had the balls to take the best decision possible (the most average will agree with this).
- The 2 main heroines: The best of the story. Although they are the typical tsundere and ojou-sama archetype and they don't get too much character development, you can enjoy them as waifu material, at least a little.
- Secondary characters: At least the story didn't become a harem romantic comedy, even if there were lots of tries and the mc gets more girls, most of them disappeared from the story almost compleately after they appeared. Other sc were just fine.

Enjoyment: 4
The only part I enjoyed reading was the last arc, but got fucked up by the "troll" author.

Overall: 4
Now I know why it doesn't have anime adaptation and only 50 chapters, waste of plot potential. I would recommend it just to enjoy the main heroines and nothing more.