Maddies Manga

This is a mini review / first impressions of Dessert’s new manga, “Oshiete Shitsuji-kun”.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find a free sample of this manga, but you can see all available chapters here!

A quick recap

The life of the only daughter of a financial conglomerate is a rather lonely one. Or at least, it is for our main character Kikyou. After her mother died, both her father and grandfather began to dote on her heavily, and none of the house servants would dare tell her no.

That is, until Hanayagi was brought in. At the young age of 12, he was probably the youngest butler-in-training that Kikyou had ever met. When she gave him attitude for being so young, he threw it right back at her, telling her she’s also a child (she was 8 at the time).

While Kikyou did try and fire him right away, Hanayagi defended his words, claiming to see Kikyou as a human like anyone else. “If you don’t have anyone around that will speak to you normally, wouldn’t you get lonely?” he asks the room. This struck Kikyou, as she was incredibly lonely, and she was smitten with him from there.

6 years later, Hanayagi is really all Kikyou thinks about. At school she talks to her friends about him, and at home she has him hang out with her. While they’re not dating, and Hanayagi swiftly avoids all of Kikyou’s advances, Kikyou keeps on making her feelings towards him clear.

Art Glance

My Thoughts on the Manga

I loved this intro chapter so much! I love the dynamic between Kikyou and Hanayagi, and I find both characters to be incredibly interesting. Hanayagi is a little bit aloof, and rather hard to read. It’s unclear whether he has reciprocal feelings for Kikyou at this point, but he’s very skilful in subtly joking around with her.

Kikyou is a typical teenager with a crush, and I found it funny to read about just how obsessed she is with Hanayagi. It doesn’t at all look like he’s actually bothered by her antics, so I like to think he’s at the very least incredibly fond of her.