Gal☆Cleaning!

This is your average comedy romance manga where the guy is shy, serious, neat and the girl is popular, pretty and a total mess. Nothing new here, the story is fair and predictable. There is some originality in the comedy whenever the guy ends up cleaning up the girl's place because these situations are explained as if it was a wiki lesson 101 "How to clean this stain". I'm not sure if those methods explained even work in real life, but it's kind of refreshing. So where does it fail? Well with the second last chapter... Everything fails terrible in there. It is so fucked upthat I wonder if the author was still the same or if he didn't want to sabotage his own work for no reason... Throughout the whole manga, everything follows the same path which is perfectly fine (if you don't expect anything but just your average romance comedy manga). But no... For the second last chapter, how about reading some intense rape scene that goes way too far (there is no penetration, but you can still get your dose of licks and stuff). What the heck happened... This is completely unrelated to Gal Cleaning... as if the author wanted to try out his Hentai skills before becoming a Hentai author. It could be a 7 or even 8. But no, it will stay at 5.

DISCLAIMER: This manga is not what it looks like after chapter 8.94! If you have found this manga without knowing anything about it and you are interested in it because of the summary you have read, genres or something else, then oh boy are you going in blind! Gal Cleaning is a manga about gals and a boy (named Daisuke Kaji) who knows a hell of a lot about cleaning. Kaji is forced, by a certain event, to live with the main gal of the story. He is treated like a "slave" and every chapter has it's unique and cool little tips about cleaning, thatare pretty clever and helpful in real life. And with the chapters rolling I started enjoing this manga more and more. The story is nothing that special, but if you are searching for a manga that has some ecchi elements, some humour and stress-relieving vibes, then this basic comedy/romance manga is for you! Yes it has some dumb things every second gal sentence, yes there are some plot holes here and there but that is to be expected of a short romance manga like that. OOOOR that's what I was going to say if it wasn't for the mental breakdown of the story at halfway through! This story really had quite the potential to become some really enjoyable and happy ecchi/romance/comedy/school manga but it turned out to be more like ecchi/romance/comedy/school/drama/psychological . And after some chapters everything returns to normal. Like, the author had some serious issues at some point and after his medication he returned back to normal and finished his work with the expected ending of such a title. OVERALL: This was a project gone wrong

imagine this got axed after chapter like 8 and it will be a nice albeit short manga about cleaning with nice characters, the only reason this went to shit is cause the author threw a massive tantrum after getting axed and spent approximately half a year giving us absolute garbage, do not read past chapter 8 really, it is absolute trash which is poetically fitting for like a manga that was ostensibly about cleaning the story itself is alright, basic boy who looks very generic, if you've ever seen amano san is full of openings it's functionally the same character model, the art is the onlysaving grace of the manga past chapter 8, it is simplistic but has its own charm, the art for the main female lead is especially charming and looks like what an actual gyaru would look like funnily enough unlike most of the gyaru themed manga we see nowadays.

tl;dr: A manga that’s really good when it’s simply a light hearted comedy, but that becomes complete trash when it randomly gets dark after which as expected it gets promptly axed. Up to a point, this manga is a really solid lighthearted comedy. There are only two characters, but they’re both pretty amusing and have good chemistry so its enjoyable to read about their antics. The random tidbits about cleaning effectively are also interesting. There’s a sort of ending in chapter 8 that while not that deep is a bit heartwarming. Without a doubt the manga should have ended there. After that it doesn’t immediately get terrible,but the plot line following that introduces a new character for whom it immediately switches into a flashback that just ruins the manga. Said flashback isn’t the worst thing in the world and it wouldn’t be an issue in other manga, but it absolutely did not fit here at all. The flashback is tonally completely inconsistent with the rest of the manga in that it gets really dark. This is critical because the light hearted tone and atmosphere of the manga were a big part of what made it so good and the dramatic shift to darker content is not just completely worthless in terms of what gives value to the manga, but it also makes it impossible to bring back the lightheartedness, and furthermore casts a shade on everything up to that point in such a way that in hindsight it just doesn’t seem as good. The flashback also makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in terms of the way characters behave considering such an event happened. The flashback is also completely pointless because it's only a flashback for a character that is completely unimportant, in that it goes into their flashback immediately after they were introduced, but the manga was axed no doubt due to the fans disliking the flashback, and thus said new character never did anything of importance. Thus, it makes absolutely no sense why the flashback exists. Some believe that the author was simply trolling the readers or that his manga had already been scheduled to be cancelled so he was taking out his frustration on the manga. That doesn’t really make sense though, because while there isn’t much after it, the story does continue after the flashback, at which point it seems to try to pivot back to trying to have an actual solid ending relating to the plot before the flashback. Now, that’s completely impossible because there’s no coming back from that level of garbage fire and hence there wasn’t really any sort of way to salvage even a reasonably satisfying ending. But that the author at least tried to do that makes it likely that the whole thing was simply them making a major mistake in thinking that taking the manga in that direction was okay, which is even more flabbergasting then them trying to screw things up intentionally. Honestly, it just feels like a terrible waste, because the manga was quite enjoyable until it screwed up and I would have loved to see it continuing in the previous fashion. Furthermore, this will likely be toxic for the author as well, which is sad because he clearly is able to create a competent manga based on how this manga began, and furthermore I really liked his art and thought he was incredibly good at making a simple art style look really nice. This manga is really hard to rate because most of the manga is really good but when it gets bad its really bad. Still, the manga stops right after it gets bad so it's not like there’s a lot of it. If you stop at chapter 8, which encompasses the majority of the manga, it’s a solid read. But after that it's more like a 1.