Japanese: GAME OVER
Synonyms: Yukai no Susume, Kedama no Cake, Kinou Kenka wo Shimashita, Happy wedding
Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 8
Status: Completed
Published: Aug 5, 2010 to Jan 26, 2011
Genres: Romance, Slice of Life, Josei
Mangaka: Mizutani Fuuka (Story & Art)
Serialization: Rakuen Le Paradis
Synopsis: A middle school boy and a beautiful OL, an extraordinary love story, from their meeting until goal in." Akemi is a beautiful OL, who is rather bored by the unchanging everyday life. To make things interesting, she plays a little game. A simple game. Every day at 7:14, she gets on her usual bus, picks another rider that piques her interest, and sits next to them. If they do a double-take on her, she wins her game. It was just supposed to kill time, but it turned out to be quite entertaining. One who is sleeping suddenly wakes up, one who is reading stops in realization... a short game. Still, a fun one. Until one day, she sits next to a kid who doesn't seem to take notice of her. Was he just pre-occupied? Maybe he's just too young? Akemi is irked, and finds that she has to up her ante, determined to win this game.
The volume also includes 3 one-shots: Yukai no Susume, Kedama no Cake, Kinou Kenka wo Shimashita.(MAL)
Baka updates: Contains a main story and 3 oneshots.
- Main Story: Game Over; A businesswoman plays a game on the bus to find one boy who seemingly isn't affected by her charms.
- Side Story 1: Yuukai no Susume (Advice for Kidnapping); A pair of siblings are having a hard time forgiving their dad for abandoning them.
- Side Story 2: Kedama no Cake; Kedama's cake shop doesn't get much business, until a yankee decides to apply for a job there to become more feminine.
- Side Story 3: Kinou Kenka wo Shimashita; Two friends try to resolve a misunderstand-ing they had the day before.
Related Series
14-sai no Koi (Alternate Story)
Groups Scanlating
Silent Dream Scanlations
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates, Bato.to
Side notes: For many readers this manga brings up moral issues. There is clear division about adults and children - what's appropriate and what's not. And I'm also one of those that would say that this is walking on eggshells moral wise.
But let's go back to the manga.XDD I think it's okay for woman to be herself without asking why I'm in love and is it right or wrong 'cause those kinds of questions are the most conflicting ones in RL. Just skip that and just let go for a one time, live your dreams fully and never look back. That's the attitude... and one way to find out what one is looking for. This makes it also a Josei manga. Though our OL is pretty egoistic or seems to be - while she can be pretty uncertain of herself if thinking the game she is playing as a way trying to convince of her own superiority over males and taking their reactions as such.
The art is pretty normal level and plain sided. The story moves also fast pace without stopping to ask endless moral questions about right and wrong. It's more about comedy than philosophy. And if reading scans on Bato.to the story of OL starst from chapter 4 so all those three chapters pbefore are the one-shots unrelated to the main story.
P.s. R 17 'cause this is a Josei though the content isn't related to that age limit (no violence no gore, no mature content). And do read the story too not just the reviews to know what it's all about.^-^b
Main characters
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| Akemi Toudou She feels herself old and tries to avoid thinking about the future of their relation- ship and possible marriage. She's actually quite clumsy and childlike so Shouta is usually the one being adult. |
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| Shouta, they met when he was about 14 or 15 and they moved to live to- gether when he was 18. He proposed Akemi at age of 19. |
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