Domestic Girlfriend

Domestic Girlfriend (Japanese: ドメスティックな彼女, Hepburn: Domesutikku na Kanojo) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sasuga. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from April 2014 to June 2020 and compiled into twenty-eight tankōbon volumes. The series has been published digitally in English by Kodansha USA under the Kodansha Comics imprint.

Plot
Natsuo Fujii is hopelessly in love with his teacher, Hina. Trying to move on, he agrees to a mixer. There, he meets an odd girl, Rui Tachibana, who invites him to sneak out. She takes him to her house and asks him to have sex with her. Natsuo, frustrated that his love will not bear fruit anyway, says goodbye to his virginity. The next day, Natsuo's dad tells him that he wants to remarry and his prospective partner is coming to their house that evening. When the door opens, it turns out that Rui is Hina's younger sister and both are daughters of the woman his father wants to marry, Tsukiko Tachibana.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The series is a poorly-written romance story where Natsuo has sex with his soon-to-be step-sister Rui and yet also has feelings for his teacher Hina Tachibana and all the drama that comes with it.
 * 2) Some of the arcs in the series that seem essential to the story end up amounting to nothing, making them borderline filler.
 * 3) * Same with certain characters in the series
 * 4) * After chapter 115 there is a substantial amount of filler arcs scatter throughout the main story that is very easy to detect and very formulaic.
 * 5) Natsuo, even by harem protagonist standards, is a poorly-written protagonist as he barely gets any development whatsoever.
 * 6) The ending. Natsuo ends up marrying Hina out of pity after she's run over by a drunk driver and ends up in a coma... despite having previously agreed to marry Rui after he got her pregnant. Natsuo and Hina then start a family of their own, whilst a heartbroken Rui and her daughter end up moving away.
 * 7) * It's especially sad knowing that Rui's daughter eventually realizes her actual dad wasn't married to her mom, thus making her a "bastard child".
 * 8) Even prior to the ending, the college-centered arcs are basically just bland drama.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Great artstyle.
 * 2) Rui and Hina are both likeable characters in their own right.
 * 3) They author portrayal of a heartbroken man is somewhat realistic.
 * 4) There are plenty of heartwarming moments here and there.

Trivia

 * 1) The manga's extras give a glimpse into previous incarnations of the story:
 * 2) *One draft had Hina be a plain-looking teacher in school, but a wild and sexy sadist outside. Natsuo was your typical carefree playboy, but when he tried to seduce Hina, he was always outdone by her, leading into an obsession over the one woman he can't easily get. The reason Hina started to fall in love with Natsuo was because he looks like the only man she ever loved.
 * 3) *There was a more down-to-earth draft with a theme of music. Natsuo, who's the son of a restaurant owner here, decides to become a musician, and Hina (named Haruki here) is his music teacher who also had a crush on his father. Rui was also present for this one, but she was not a main love interest like she is in the current story. Natsuo was also shorter than Hina in this draft.
 * 4) *One draft took a lot of inspiration from "corrupt school" stories (in particular Kill la Kill), where Hina's character was trying to take over the school and had her own elite four under her thumb. This incarnation was your typical "Defrosting Ice Queen", and Natsuo was the Ordinary High-School Student that helps her to open up. It should be noted that this draft and the one above also had a childhood friend involved.

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