結婚するって、本当ですか 365 Days To The Wedding

KEKKON SURU TTE, HONTOU DESU KA: 365 DAYS TO THE WEDDING

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
11
RELEASE
June 12, 2023
CHAPTERS
110

DESCRIPTION

Takuya and Rika are coworkers in a travel agency in Tokyo. They’re both single, but they don’t mind, since they’re introverts with fulfilling lives at home. Unfortunately, now their job is looking to staff an office in Siberia, and non-married employees are the first to be considered. Rika is desperate to avoid the transfer and goes to Takuya with an idea: if they pretend they’re getting married in a year, they can stay in Tokyo. The only problem is the two of them barely know each other! If these two quiet coworkers “fake” a relationship, will it turn into something real?

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

CAST

Rika Honjouji
Takuya Oohara
Nao
Komiya
Gonda
Claudia
Haruko
Izumi Oohara
Keisuke
Takuya's Mother
Hideo Shinshi
Shinshi-san
Kouichi Oohara
Kaori
Ichika

CHAPTERS

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REVIEWS

BadBunnyXo
80/100
Every adult isn't perfect....untill they meet the right person who make them want to BE PERFECT
Note : The stuff which is written in Italics is my mind voice sometimes.
I like to write review in points for better understand atleast, I think so

Intro and Setting

♡ 'Kekkon Suru tte, Hontou desu ka: 365 Days To The Wedding' is a Romance, Slice Of Life manga by the creator of 'The World God Only Knows'

♡ The Main Lead works for a Travel Company Called JTC writer picked an easy name I would say

♡ As the company likes to expand they suggest, that ones who are single are meant to take on manager post in Irkutsuk which is located in Russia

♡ Then we are intoduced to the main lead TAKUYA OOHARA & RIKA HONJOUJI

♡ Takuya works under the Planning and Development Department for the company who has a problem in responding to people. He just cant pick the right words to respond with and that makes him seem like a spaced out guy being an easy going manga, no one thinks that he is rude

♡ Rika on the other hand loves to draw and play with maps and she stares people directly into the eye makes her seem like a scary person

♡ The both of them being single are offered to work as a manager.

♡ Takuya who couldnt decline the offer plans to resign. He meets rika coincidentally and tells the reason why he couldnt go and will resign soon.

♡ At the very moment rika be like

ART

♡ It is pretty good actually. Characters are well designed. Background looks pretty good.

♡ Panelling is welldone.

Progression

♡ The manga takes its time to develop the bond between the characters.

♡ I suggest you to not expect a fast progression. I mean it does progress but everyone has their own mind and way of thinking right. The only thing you need to have some patience as the understanding gets better between them.

Romance and Comedy

♡ I can only say that the romance between two characters who are decided to get married to escape from the stuff that life has it for them is worth exploring.

♡ The Characters being of different personalities and who find it very hard to communicate makes a way for comedy which is natural. you'd be like dude they act like teenagers huh

♡ Everyone has a flaw. They can grow only when the person accept it or made it possible by someone who does it just by being with them.

Enjoyment

♡ What it feels like see your child grow and become a better person. What it feels like to see your child getting married to someone who can make them happy as much as you did, maybe evenmore. That kind of happiness is felt when you see these pair tries to get a better view of their inner selves by potraying on their newer found self.

♡ This is a about marriage. Marriage includes familes which help to make the one who are getting married a better family. The Family stuff which happens in this story is very heartwarming and a key enjoyment factor too.

♡ If you are the guy who loves Romance between adults or who got bored of School Romance and a bunch of teasing romance stuff which getting popular lately, this manga 'Kekkon Suru tte, Hontou desu ka: 365 Days To The Wedding' is worth a try for you

Personal Thoughts

♡ This was suggested to me by my friend @Izukku and I had a slow start while reading it.

♡ The characters making some decisions gave me a urge to drop it but as I understood them it was a lovely experience there after.

♡ I hope you'd love it as much as I did.

Thanks for reading ^_^

Feel free to message me and share your experience while reading it only if you really want to tho...

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SUMMARY : GO READ THE MANGA IT DESERVES A TRY. IF YOU WANNA KNOW WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT, I WOULD SUGGEST YOU TO READ THE REVIEW.
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SpikeWasAlreadyTaken
89/100
Generativity vs. Stagnation wrapped up in a top-notch romcom
This review contains some spoilers. Anything major is spoiler marked.

From Tamiki Wakaki, the mangaka behind The World God Only Knows, Kekkon Surutte tells the story of Rika Honjouji and Takuya Oohara, two employees of a travel agency. When the agency announces they'll be sending a single employee to a new branch in Russia at the end of the year, the pair decide to fake a marriage to avoid having to leave behind their normal lives. The series follows them both romantically and how they and everyone around them change over time.

The series is honestly incredible. In a sea of romcoms and contrived drama, Kekkon Surutte is more experimental feeling. Rather than focusing on laughs or even the romance, the series feels more like it's simply using real-world issues such as remarriage, the influence of family on life decisions, growth vs tradition, and confronting your own character flaws to let the characters move around and grow. It feels less like the mangaka was writing out bits of the story and more like they just wanted to see how the characters would interact, and combined with the focus on real-world issues, the cast becomes beautifully, sometimes painfully human and extremely endearing.

As a whole, the cast is well established. Right off the bat, the series is able to define the main couple, as well as their flaws without leaning into the extreme, unrealistic tropes that many romcoms fall into. Even side characters have strong personalities for the most part, and for those that the series focuses on, their problems, flaws, and how they overcome them feel just as fleshed out as the main cast. Side cast spoilers ahead: There's Gonda, actively trying to move forward with his life through marriage, Nao, trying to find tangible monetary success while staying true to her art, and the dynamic between George and Shinshi, the former moving the latter through dealing with a broken family. They're all too human, and the result is realistic characters and character dynamics. Thanks to that, the series is able to tackle emotional topics exceedingly well, often successfully swinging from humorous to heartbreaking to bittersweet in just a few pages, and consistently hits emotional points in a stronger way than pretty much anything else I've ever read. The cast and their problems don't feel like ink on a page, they truly just feel human.

The series' approach to its cast also serves as a showcase of generativity vs. stagnation- most of the cast's problems are tied up in that choice between moving forward or the "safety" the comes from not changing, and the series is able to capture the feeling of choosing to grow or being forced to grow within it exceedingly well. It's not necessarily uncommon for manga these days to give characters more realistic flaws, especially series that present a simpler or more realistic story, but to see characters overcome their flaws naturally over time- thanks to characters finding reasons to want to overcome them- is less common. Be it the main couple trying to understand their relationship and the social pressures- cohabitation, sex, marriage- that come with it or Gonda's confronting his own failures to try and become better for Kaori, the series is more than able to portray the development in ways that feel natural for the character. There are points where it becomes a slower burn thanks to taking its time to develop and grow the characters, but the characters really do develop well and it's more than worth the journey.

The series is also able to portray different kinds of "family" and their relationships in a way that ties into the generativity vs stagnation theme, be it families falling apart or coming back together, single parent households, or through expectations of a child's duty to the family. It's hard to get into without spoilers, but it feels like the author is more cynical or less traditionalist than many mangaka, with their approach to the ideas of children developing on their own for their own sake rather than to meet the expectation of the family. Again, it all ties into the idea of moving forward- with no more literal an example than granny Oohara no longer being able to physically move forward and the expectation of the next generation doing so instead The approach allows the series to continually build upon character relationships through family.

In short, the series' portrayal of characters and their relationships is incredible, and it allows the series to break free from just doing typical romcom stuff and deliver a more grounded and endearing experience.

The art is also pretty nice, I like the overall style and many of the backgrounds and landscapes are great. Nothing too crazy, but the style works well with the series.

That said, the series does have some flaws. I mentioned the feeling of it being more experimental earlier, and there's an author note confirming that it was a new direction for them early on. In the first "act" of the story it does feel like the mangaka's still getting used to the direction of the story, with some odd pacing decisions and half-assed romcom "Voila! Weird situation, blush and deal with it!" shenanigans, but over time it improves noticeably.
There's also a subplot with the phone calls that's abruptly wrapped up in the span of like a page that I felt was pretty poorly concluded given its initial impact on the story, but again it's sort of tied into the feeling of experimentality that the series has early on. Some of the side plots are also left only partly finished. Given how short the series is, the amount of fleshing out it does for the cast is impressive, but it could still use a short, couple volume epilogue to finish the main couple's, Gonda's and Shinshi's approaches to marriage after the events of the story. It doesn't ruin the series or anything, but considering how invested the series gets you in each character's development seeing some great stories left dangling is a bit of a letdown.

Overall- incredible series. It's a bit experimental but pulls off an emotional roller coaster with a realistic, endearing cast and does a great job weaving in its themes alongside more grounded drama to take a rather different direction than most romcoms. Very well done, and I hope more romcoms go in a similar direction in the future.
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