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Japanese: パーフェクトワールド

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 12

Chapters: 59

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 24, 2014 to Jan 25, 2021

Genres: Award Winning, Drama, Romance

Demographic: Josei

Serialization: Kiss

Authors: Aruga, Rie (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.66¹ (scored by 6,194 users)

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Ranked: #2316²

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Popularity: #883

Members: 25,130

Favorites: 305

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Perfect World

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At a business meeting, 26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana faces the biggest surprise in her life: she is reunited with Itsuki Ayukawa, a former high school friend and her first love. She is elated that Ayukawa has been able to achieve his dream of becoming an architect, while she herself has secured a stable job at an interior design company. As they reminisce about the past, Tsugumi is shocked to find out Ayukawa has been disabled following an accident. Unable to walk on his own, he now has to rely on the use of a wheelchair.

Tsugumi knows that dating a disabled person is a complex matter; moreso, she does not want to ruin her friendship with Ayukawa, who refuses to be romantically involved with anyone. However, as she begins to interact with him more and learns about his condition, Tsugumi realizes her feelings for him may not have disappeared entirely.

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Perfect World won the 43th Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo category in 2019.

The series has been published digitally in English by Kodansha Comics USA from March 20, 2018 to July 5, 2022, and in print from April 18, 2022 to July 12, 2022. It was published in French by Akata from October 16, 2016 to May 27, 2021; in German by Egmont Manga & Anime from May 3, 2018 to November 5, 2021; in Italian by Star Comics from March 8, 2019 to September 22, 2021; in Indonesian by m&c!; and in Spanish by ECC Ediciones and Panini Comics.

Perfect World was adapted into a film which premiered on October 18, 2018. It was later re-adapted into a Japanese television drama that aired on Fuji TV and Kansai TV from April 16, 2019 to June 25, 2019.

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Ayukawa, Itsuki

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Kawana, Tsugumi

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Itozaki, Nonoka

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Ogawa

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Ogawa's Wife

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Nanami

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Nabe

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Maika

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Maruyama

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Yukimura, Miki

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Nov 28, 2024

feemboyshunter

Recommended

I will share my opinion about this manga as the son of a father with a physical disability, similar to the main character's condition.

This manga was disappointing. The beginning was very good, especially when they showcased the protagonist's physical problems, his back injury, and his suffering. Everything was fine up to chapter 20. Then, the manga took a turn for the worse, focusing on introducing many new characters into the romantic relationship between the protagonist and the heroine. The heroine became one of the worst characters I’ve ever seen. The manga strayed from being a story about a couple's life to something more like a ...

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Nov 29, 2022

zefreak

Mixed Feelings

This manga could have been great, and it started out very strong, but contrived drama seriously undermines it. The characters become unlikable and typical love triangle (square?) nonsense cheapens what had the potential to be a very powerful romance. The struggles that the main couple would have to deal with provides enough dramatic content to sustain the entire story - it should have focused on the couple growing through their hardships, learning to support each other in an inhospitable world. Instead, far too much time is focused on communication problems and manipulative secondary characters that never really earn our support. The entire middle of the ...

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Dec 30, 2017

Yautja

Not Recommended

Preliminary (59/59 eps)

Normally I wait until a series is over to review it, as I believe a series can to some degree be saved or ruined by it's ending. This manga however, like a shack built on sand or in a swamp is built with a flawed foundation. Spoilers.

The first few chapters of this series seemed rather interesting and promising. As proper, well done Josei is some of the best romance manga out there. I, like a specific comment I read on a chapter of this manga, expected to see the difficulties of being disabled, how to handle them, and how to provide support to such a ... significant other. Not this shit, where instead of focusing on those aspects, the manga uses them as a cheap weapon for characters opposed to the relationship to force cheap superfluous and frankly contrived melodrama. Something that certainly isn't SoL, and in my opinion, ends up creating a bad manga.

The characters of this manga seem irredeemable. Kawana is the most typical Shoujo protagonist I have ever seen, and hoped never to see in this supposed Josei and in any manga in general. She's weak, unable to function or think on her own, and frequently breaks down. Nothing is 'evil' or 'wrong' with these qualities individually, however compiled together it creates a frankly annoying character who has basically become concurrent with the Shoujo genre. Ayukawa is a bit more sympathetic a character and is generally of greater quality. He's paralyzed from the waist down, understandably tormented by it, and trying to deal with it. The ways his disability affected the main pair's relationship was interesting until the side characters started using it as a weapon to force drama and try and split them up. While this isn't impossible or even unlikely, it's overdone and out of place considering the genres. Kawana's parents use emotional blackmail stating her father is going to die soon and don't want their daughter tied to a cripple because 'he won't be able to provide or protect her'. Neither Kawana nor Ayukawa refute this or defend themselves. While they thankfully do not concede, they do simply accept this grotesque and invasive bullshit without response. It is not enjoyable or reasonable and does not make for a good slice of life, what this manga claims to be. The other cunt who weaponized Ayukawa's disability is his freshly divorced nurse who uses it to poke and prod Kawana and Ayukawa into breaking up be she thinks she a superior partner. An arrogant, god complexed and narcissistic cunt if I've ever seen one.

All in all, this manga instead of focusing on what it should and what by genre it purports to be, the reality of being in a relationship with someone who is paralyzed, it decides to focus on emotional blackmail, and the torment of two vulnerable characters. The only character I had the slightest respect for was Koreeda, however he ends up pursuing a relationship with Kawana after her emotional break down and nasty break up. Which is one of two things, a display of unparalleled idiocy and selfishness, or like the cunt nurse, an abuse of position and emotions.

In summary, the manga magnificently failed to focus on and write about what it should as a Josei and more specifically a Slice of Life. Instead it took a typical Shoujo approach to romance and further desecrated itself by using a character's disability as a weapon to push cheap drama. I believe such a manga had the potential for at least a "7 / 10". The reason however I am writing this review prior to it's completion is because I believe it has lost all possible hope of redemption. Regardless, I'll likely update the review upon completion of the series. While I'm almost certain that completion will resolve with the revival of the main relationship, I'm unconfident but suspect the road to such will be a typical and generic soul search, unhappiness in a new and unhealthy relationship followed by the ever unoriginal realization of who their true love is followed by reconciliation and a sad but inevitable acceptance by all previous cunts who opposed the relationship.

Considering such, I deem this manga an astounding 1 / 10. This manga merely uses disability as a cheap weapon instead of a main theme of the story. Follows typical Shoujo character design and plot formula, and aside from the aforementioned disability is of no originality of notice.

Update: I was right. Disappointing all around.

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