Strategic Lovers

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ストラテジックラバーズ, 戰略情人

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Manga

Release

2021

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A brief description of the manga Strategic Lovers:

Kouta, a high school boy whose father is the chairman of the Higashiyama Group, a large corporation involved in the development of railroads, department stores, and resort facilities, plays the leading role in a romantic survival game.

As the son of his father’s 23rd mistress, Kota doesn’t really feel like the son of the chairman. Despite this, he’s suddenly chosen as the next chairman of the Higashiyama Group and is assigned a girl to be his mistress.

LATEST MANGA RELEASES

Chapter 33 09.12.2025
Chapter 32 14.11.2025
Chapter 31 13.11.2025
Chapter 30 21.12.2023
Chapter 29 20.12.2023
Chapter 28 31.10.2023
Chapter 27 31.10.2023
Chapter 26 02.10.2023
Chapter 25 25.07.2023
Chapter 24 22.07.2023
Chapter 23 15.04.2023
Chapter 22 10.02.2023
Chapter 21 10.02.2023
Chapter 20 03.10.2022
Chapter 19 03.10.2022
Chapter 18 28.08.2022
Chapter 17 13.07.2022
Chapter 16 13.07.2022
Chapter 15 13.07.2022
Chapter 14 13.07.2022
Chapter 13 13.07.2022
Chapter 12 13.07.2022
Chapter 11 13.07.2022
Chapter 10 13.07.2022
Chapter 9 13.07.2022
Chapter 8 13.07.2022
Chapter 7 13.07.2022
Chapter 6 13.07.2022
Chapter 5 13.07.2022
Chapter 4 13.07.2022
Chapter 3 13.07.2022
Chapter 2 13.07.2022
Chapter 1 13.07.2022

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nonesuch

8 months ago

I found this confusing and unpleasant, and I didn’t finish it, although I might give it another chance. The translation isn’t great, but I think the original writing is the real problem. It’s trying to be a soap opera, where MC uses his chess skills to stay ahead of the intrigues of a gaggle of scheming hotties. But he’s not clever, and the plot is mostly irrational declarations. The girls don’t seem to have any personality except “scheming slut”, and MC is supposed to be likeable because he was bullied, but it doesn’t work, he just seems angry and self-absorbed. It’s also never clear what’s happened except in the broadest strokes. For now I’m saying pass, but there is ample TnA, if that’s all you wanted.

Summary: Bastard son of a billionaire is the only male descendant and a chess prodigy, so he’ declared the heir. Obviously, he must join a reality show to choose five mistresses from among five girls (and a mystery girl to be named later) in order to be president. Only mistresses can make a company great!

Irritating Squad

Corruption for Passion? Go to Indonesia

1 year ago

Drama that A Thousand Years of Anal Probe likes

Thedarhood5

2 years ago

How often does this update

Cultivation Clan

Chromis

2 years ago

I had never cringed so hard

Unholy clan

spoddy

2 years ago

hentai… but without the sex and its chess?

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Ashez

2 years ago

Anyone else see the comments below?

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Herr Forehead

2 years ago

are you some kind of porn prophet?

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Luke the Stinky Dwarf

2 years ago

If i had a coin each time i read a morally questionable ecchi harem manga with an MC named Kouta i’d have two coins…..Which isn’t a lot but it’s odd that it happened twice.

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Retired Huang Teizan

2 years ago

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?!”