Strategic Lovers

5.3/10
Read: 1-6,17,24/24+
Bookmarked? No.

“If Andrew Tate made a manga,” no truer words have been said to describe this dumpster fire. The purpose of harems are to make a reader choose a ship and sink with the ship. Instead, in this manga, the characters make me want to burn the whole port down so no ship will or should ever sail. The plot and characters are equally appalling.

The plot is so scattered, disordered, and chaotic that it’s hard to follow or connect any sort of reasoning to create a logical read. Besides for the harem and diluted doujin scenes, there’s not any memorability or impression in the manga. Oh, I can’t forget about the constant chess references that half of the time don’t make sense because it’s not applicable.

The characters are made so weird as they barely get any background, but if they do it’s hard to remember solely because THERE ARE FIVE OF THEM. A five person harem? It’s already hard enough to follow five separate characters, but to introduce them at the same time while giving them a panel of screen time to elaborate is pushing it. Realistically, there’s only two fml while the rest are going to get banished to the shadow realm.

The only saving grace of this manga is the artwork and even then it gets out of hand with the unnecessary ecchi scenes. I’m baffled on how this gets serialized and even translated as every event feels like a fever dream. Honestly, it’s not that bad of a read, but definitely not worth investing over.

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired)
10 – God’s penmanship
9 – Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 – Instant bookmark
7 – Entertaining
6 – Good to pass time
5 – Why are you reading this?
4 – Bad. 
3 – Typical garbage. 
2 –  My head hurts. 
1 – Retirement is a thought.
0 – “Did they even give you a story?!”