Contains minor spoilers. Disclaimer I rate manga relative to others so 50 is average 60 is a little above average etc. My score does not mean that this is a bad manga. It is in fact quite a fun read. Ive got to admit Im not too huge on shonen romcoms. Some of them are good sure but a lot of them fall into the same old tropes use similar jokes and/or have bland characters. I started Girlfriend Girlfriend expecting the same kind of generic romcom thats so prevalent in Weekly Shonen Magazine. I wasnt entirely wrong but Girlfriend Girlfriend has a few things going for it that made it fun likeable characters for the most part a stupid premise that gets played seriously and above all else a sense of humor based around making fun of itself and harem romcoms to the point where it may as well be parody. At least I think its making fun of itself could entirely be lazy use of tropes played so seriously as to look like parody. Hard to tell. Either way its great. Girlfriend Girlfriend is the story of Mukai Naoya a dude who asked a girl Saki Saki out repeatedly until she finally accepted. Apparently its a pretty good relationship and they both like each other a helluva lot. Do not try this at home ladies and gentlemen. This is how you get slapped with a restraining order. Anyways the relationship is great yippee until one day Naoya is confessed to by another girl Minase Nagisa who has apparently dedicated a significant chunk of her life to making herself into an ideal girlfriend for Naoya. Again dont try this at home. You are not living my the laws of manga. This is how you get slapped with a collapse from exhaustion. Also its borderline psychopathic. Naoya being a stalwart and devoted partner doesnt want to cheat on or ditch Saki Saki. Naoya being a horny teenaged dude with a bleeding heart also doesnt want to reject Nagisa. Naoya being an absolute genius by harem romcom standards comes to the obvious correct conclusion and asks Saki Saki for permission to openly twotime her. I will not attempt to advise you on that one. The story is a pretty standard romcom from there just kind of meandering through the main characters lives but to its credit its so blatant and inyourface crazy that its funny. Naoya is a valiant blockhead sort of a mix between a stooge your kind and helpful neighborhood kid and that dumb dude in every Blist romance flick that has the social awareness of a goats toenail. Saki Saki and Nagisa while marginally less dumb create a comedy trio thats like straightman humor if the performers were all so dumb they couldnt remember if they were the funnyman or the straightman and wind up switching roles constantly. It winds up being genuinely funny and often taking romcom tropes and playing them like a comedy act. Its pretty impressive semiparody in all honesty. Also theres not fanservice up the wazoo. Might be an upside to you might be a downside. When it comes to harem romcoms they kind of need likeable characters. Suffice it to say Girlfriend x 2 has dumb enough characters that theyre endearing. Naoyas brand of socially unaware honesty is pretty good and the fact that the other characters are idiots as well really helps make the comedy side of things funny. Saki Saki and Nagisa are decent and theyve got a genuinely sweet relationship with Naoya which is nice since the series couldve easily gone for NTR. Decent characters overall. Except one who ruins nearly every scene shes in with starting stupid arguments stalkerish tendencies and just generally being annoying. Im sure she has fans but for me the manga would have been better if it had approached her characterization in pretty much any other possible way. As befits a romcom most chapters are just random bits of the characters lives with visual gags and stupid jokes. Thankfully Girlfriend Girlfriend either cleverly or through sheer lack of creativity decides to eschew making particularly unique stories and instead has dumb romcom tropes played completely straightfaced. Constantly. It does do a good job to be fair but at points I feel like Ive read the story a dozen times before. Still its either genius parody or so horrifically unoriginal that it looks like parody but either way its fun. Its hilariously dumb. Its worth a read. Yep. Definitely worth the read. Id imagine a lot of people will hate it but for me at least its a truly stupid fun series. Well written touching a great story? Not especially. Still the important thing is that its entertaining and its hilariously stupid enough to be just that. As far as harem romcoms go this is a standout.