If I spent more time watching anime, I definitely wouldn't have been beat out by V. But instead here I am reading countless novels about ikemen. Am I sorry? A little bit. But for now it's alright to spend my young adult years tucked safely away into the worlds inside these different manga.
{Spoilers, except it's shoujo so you already know}
Well, the first order of business is to clarify that this is a reverse harem. There's this girl Hina and she's recently been widowed. Her former partner was this billionaire guy that was old enough to be her father. When he passed away, she vowed to never love anyone again, but of course this sweet man didn't want his beloved wife to be alone forever. So he set up this shop called Queen's Cafe (you can guess who the queen is lol) and filled it with three ikemen that, unbeknownst to her, were her options for remarriage.
It's pretty sweet though because even though those ikemen were put there just as her marriage options mostly out of obligation to Hina's husband, they were all able to mend each others' wounds in small ways by just supporting each other. And you got to understand a little bit of the backstories about each of the members and how they were related to Hina's late husband.
For a 15 chapter story, it was decently fleshed out. There were a lot of parts where it felt kind of forced and jammed in there, but for the most part it was decent. The only one that I really disliked was the lawyer. He was some random dude that fell in love with Hina, only to find out that he was Hina's husband's lawyer. And then once the husband died he thought it was his turn to swoop in on her and the makeshift family she found in the cafe. And he was kinda creepy about it. Sure, it could've been a lot worse, but he was also lowkey a stalker.
Would I recommend this manga? It was pretty good I guess. A lot of parts were sudden like when Hina fell in love even though she vowed to never fall in love again. Like why did she fall in love with this guy? I dunno, just seems like they could've gotten to know each other better before the whole thing. So maybe the chemistry was just a little bit off. In a nutshell, you could definitely find a better manga. And I don't have that much experience with reverse harem manga to recommend anything better, but I'm sure they're out there somewhere.
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