Daniel Blackworth

"Everyone is the main character of their own individual story. Call it a supporting role, a loser role, a spoiling candidate role, or an evil role. Ugh, just cal it whatever you want! Because every single one of us in this world, we're all our very own individual heroes/heroines." - Hatori Matsuzaki from Heroine Shikkaku

I just finished this earlier, and the opening statement would be that Heroine Shikkaku is one crazy and messed-up yet funny and romantic manga. This manga illustrates Hatori Matsuzaki, a high school freshman who thinks that she's the heroine of her story and that she'd be the one to marry her childhood friend, Rita Terasaka. She isn't your typical goody two shoes, innocent, naive protagonist, instead, she's one who's very impulsive, insecure, emotional, and self-centered, so it makes for a lot of good comedy when she goes back and forth with trying to steal Rita from his girlfriend, Adachi, with her changing her type of personality, from an evil heroine, a blessed heroine, a supportive heroine, and other personas. Unfortunately, she fails to take away Rita, so she decides to go to Hiromitsu and falls in love with him. Along their relationship, Rits realizes he likes Hatori and breaks up with Adachi. It's hard for Rita though, who tries constantly to not be falling for Rita and just love Hiromitsu, but still, she becomes jealous when her best friend Nakajima becomes close with him. Later on, Rita gains the confidence to try and steal Hatori from Hiromitsu, and the couple eventually breaks up when Hiromitsu can't take Hatori's insecurities anymore. In the end, Hatori realizes that Rita will always be her primary love and refuses Hiromitsu when he offers to make up. This time, Rita and Hatori are reunited and confess their love for one another once more. I enjoyed how this manga was just so cute, what with Hatori being such a colorful individual and it never ceases to make me laugh what with all her funny faces. I also liked how it portrays that people aren't always perfect and relationships don't always go well, even if the love is mutual.
[5/9/17]

Along with Hatori's face, here are the funny faces of Hatori: