I want to like Kuzu No Honkai, I really do. But I just can't, and here's why.
Art: 8
First and foremost I'd like to praise the superficial, the art. I adore Yokoyari Mengo's art, it's very well done. Each of the character's design feel unique and somehow colorful. Mengo's greatest achievement in Kuzu No Honkai was definitely her art. This is the only aspect of the manga I have very concrete positive feelings for.
Character: 6
Next the character, this is a double edged blade. It was simultaneously good and bad. Characters felt like they could be real people, they were relatable and all but one felt competent.
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Nyan Nyan Prelude, Serenade, Oratorio, Cantata, Andante, Kuzu no Honkai Décor Japanese: クズの本懐 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 9
Chapters: 60
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 24, 2012 to May 25, 2018
Theme:
School
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
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Jun 1, 2015
A fruitless love. A painful love. A one-sided love. Is that really such a wonderful thing?
It's all too common throughout the romance genre to follow the journey of an unrequited love. These stories are light hearted in nature and sparkling with color as characters fantasize about confessing to their unobtainable goal. What rarely gets explored is the emotional toll that weighs on the soul of a person who rests their hopes on the choices of another adolescent. To not be able to share yourself with the one you desire most in this world, even worse watch them grow closer to someone else, is an excruciating ... 
May 15, 2016
I've just finished reading Kuzu no Honkai (Scums Wish) and I felt the need to put my thoughts into words, so I decided to write a review. As this work is ongoing take my current score with a grain of salt, as many of you know you can't give an accurate score till something is over. However, rest assured the 8 does mean that I have "enjoyed" what I've read (More on those quotations later). That being said, let's get into the nitty gritty.
Story: The story is simple enough, two people find comfort in each other as the pine away for the ones they truly ... 
Nov 21, 2017
WARNING: This review contains explicit language.
Kuzu no Honkai is the only manga I've completed with a fast pace. This is also the first revie that I'm going to publish for a Manga here in MAL because I cannot keep myself from shading my thoughts because this fucking manga has scarred me big time. Character: 10 I love them and I hate them. I love Mugi and Hanabi and I just fucking shipped them throughout the whole time I was reading this Manga. I'll continue on shipping them till the day I return to dust but at the same time I also hated them occasionally for being so ... 
Dec 28, 2017
Kuzu no Honkai is one of those series that looks deep but will leave you feeling empty at the same time. However, I wouldn't say it's no good - because it's good. It's one of those bitter-sweet stories that I actually like.
Story: 8/10 After completing this manga, I was a bit disappointed with the way it ended.. I thought "that's it?" (no I am not talking about the romance part) but that feeling of being let down, I expected something more - especially from the characters, but I didn't get anything except of what they have shown. What I like about this manga is ... 
Jun 10, 2016
I don't really like the idea of writing reviews and have never written a manga review before, but after reading all of the currently released chapters of this manga, I just thought damn, wtf did I just read and am I so masochistic enough to read all 38 chapters that are currently released. So I've decided to write this review to display my enjoyment of this miserable experience.
At first glance, you see a young high school couple who is the "ideal" couple, however, further reading along, you realize that they are perverted humans who only utilize each other in order to satisfy their physical needs ... 
Sep 3, 2016
This review is spoiler free with nothing to do with the story, so you can enjoy the manga without knowing 'too' much. Remember this is my thoughts, therefore I will make a paragraph at the end about it not based on my personal thoughts.
Kuzu no Honkai is kind of messed up in many ways, not school days messed up but not your average manga. For me it's hard writing a review for this because i can't find much good things about it. Its not boring at all,I read all 40 chapters (so far) in the first go. I can't really love any of the characters, ... 
Nov 27, 2017
"It's not like it would be the end of this world if someone refused me." - Yasuraoka, Hanabi
Kuzu no Honkai (Scum's Wish) is doubtlessly living up to it's name by portaying how fragile humans are when it comes to temptations and how susceptible we are with negative emotions. Through this series, expect that everything will refuse fall in place. Indubitably manga is unique on it own way of showing us what love really is. Since it shows what really happens when we are broken and in need of someone that to fill out that missing part. The story revolves with Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya that ... 
Jan 18, 2017
Ok this review is very bias but i will do what i can to try to make it fair
Characters The FMC is the most insecure girl ever does every manga/anime need to portray girls with so much insecurities if they are perfect. The Male lead, its so hard to call him an mc since he basically has 0 to none screentime at all and he is basically a walking plot device with 0 personality and when he does ... 
Nov 22, 2020
Kuzu no Honkai (Scum's Wish) is essentially for people who enjoy seeing the messy, selfish side of others. Through and through, this manga remains true to being a window into the lives of those struggling with the ugly side of love.
Despite the romance tag, this manga is anything but lovey-dovey. While there may be some cute moments, the focus is very squarely on the lust side of love. Put simply, it's a representation of adult love performed naively by teenagers well out of their depth. If you are a fan of realistic characters and mild drama without melodrama, then this is certainly worth a shot. Overall, ... 
May 15, 2023
Generally a pretty bland overblown sex drama that doesn’t really have much to offer.
The narrative of Scum’s Wish revolves around the idea of “unrequited love” and how to cope with it, which per se isn’t exactly the most creative idea thematically but I still found it quite interesting going into this manga. But as I continue to read Scum’s Wish ended up to be a rather bland manga with an extremely overblown narrative and monotonous characters. We constantly get this same obnoxious sequence of X falls in love with Y, but Y is in love with someone else, then we get a cutscene to X ...
Jul 21, 2022
This brutally honest and incisive manga explores the dark side of unrequited love. The inability of people to truly reach one another; the futility of waiting for a “no” to turn into a “yes”; the twisting of one’s love target into an abstract idea or, worse, fundamental part of one’s identity; the willingness, even eagerness, to be hurt by the one you love.
The six main characters in this story (with the possible exception of Kanai) are perverted in the truest sense. Not in that they have outlandish sexual preferences, but in that they consistently seek out what is bad for them, with disastrous emotional consequences ... 
Jul 13, 2019
Mod Edit: This review was originally posted for Kuzu no Honkai Décor (110489) and has subsequently been merged into Kuzu no Honkai (44929).
These chapters basically close the stories of all the characters of Kuzu no Honkai. Apparently a lot of people were disappointed with the "true ending" and claimed for these chapters to be created and released. In my humble opinion they are totally unnecesary. If you were satisfied with KnH as it is, you can skip Décor and carry on with yor life. Unfortunately seems like people cannot handle a manga without a happy ending for the MC or an open-ended story. Getting a bit ...
Jan 17, 2021
Yokoyari Mengo knows how to draw manga; not so much writing manga.
The whole premise is that unrequited love hurts. A lot. Been there done that. This manga really puts into illustration that pain one receives. However, the characters and the relations between those characters makes the plot redundant and long for no reason. What could've been summed up in 4 or 5 volumes turned into 8. Some good things about this manga: Art: Yokoyari Mengo knows what they're doing, no problems here. Theme: I like manga that take a darker tone because we all know how many copy and paste romcoms are out there. Something like ... 
Feb 12, 2017
The hardest review to write is for an incomplete series, but judging by the "omni-directional" approach it isn't presumably hard to rate unless the author decides to not lay his plans out so predictably.
Like most series, it cannot simply "remain" a work of art or story to be enjoyed. In the sense that it is created and enjoyed, then gets dragged up in its own success until it starts caving in on itself. Good artists never "stagnate" exceptionally long. Always improving and fluidly evolving. However, an unexpectedly good idea will simply get the creator carried away. We see this with long-running series, multiple-season anime, and ... 
May 11, 2020
The first thing I would like to say about this manga is that I feel it is very difficult to give it a numerical rating. Up until now, my rating has been based upon a mixture of my level of enjoyment and the level of success that the series has in doing what it intends to do, be that tell a story, put across a message etc. For this reason though I have given an overall score with this review, I would like you to ignore it and just read what I have written.
Kuzu no Honkai is a whole different kettle of fish from the ... 
Nov 16, 2020
Scums wish is something that'll make you feel. Whether is be disgust, anger, sadness, the result is a feeling that will carry on towards the end of the manga.
Story: The story is well written for the most part. The premise is unique, and the circumstances needed to be overcome are interesting, as well as emotionally charged. The story effortlessly brings in a tangled sensation of feelings, without getting too messy elsewhere. There's a great sense of pacing, despite the emotional tension throughout. Art: The art is awesome. Granted, its been a while since I read the manga, but I remember nothing but amazing panels and great ... 
Jan 23, 2017
There is two type of people who read this manga. Those who love it. And those who hate it.
Some people say that this manga contains NTR, but that isn't totally true. Kuzu no Honkai (Sick Love) premise lets you know that the MCs don't have feelings for each but for other so NTR by definition can't be related to this manga. If you've read before some smut, seinen or mature romance, chances are that you will get hooked up with this manga. It depends on yours tastes. Some people would call this manga "fucked up". If you like the premise of the manga, I think you ... 
Jun 22, 2020
First of all, this is my first review so it could be that it's not to the point. And second, it could be that you might have a different opinion for this.
Ahh.... what an ending..... really a great story. The story was good and I really loved it. I liked how they introduced the idea of "painful unrequited love" and it really intrigued me... Art style was great. It felt like it really suited the manga and made the story more interesting. It couldn't have been better. The characters were also very immersive. I loved how they carried so different personalities but were also same in some ways. ... 
Apr 6, 2019
Art: 9 - This manga has better art than most I've read. The artist has a unique touch that could work well in a different genre, I especially liked how well she managed to fit unexpected imagery into some of the dream sequences. Characters look great, more or less easy to tell apart. Facial expressions, I think the characters blush way too much. It's like an on-off switch and it feels excessive. As someone who knows next to nothing about Japanese culture and people, their actions and mannerisms sometimes perplex me, maybe they really are that neurotic and shouty in everyday situations, I wouldn't know.
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