Haruma Ichinose is used to being the hottest guy in the school, but the dynamics quickly change when Yuki Mogami enters the scene. Tall and charming in the best way, Yuki is the perfect hero to everyone's dreams, and she's soon surrounded by adoring fans all around - including Haruma himself.

This was such a cute and light-hearted start to the series! You know how it is, he's grumpy and too shy to admit his feelings, and she's the personification of sunshine and happiness~ The tropes themselves were nothing particularly new nor innovative when it comes to the shoujo manga genre, but the way it all played out was so much fun to see! The characters often joke about these tropes themselves ("oh we're not in a shoujo manga/ someone should run with a piece of bread in their mouth" etc etc), and it's funny to see a tall, female "hero" with a short and grumpy "heroine".

I'd definitely be interested to pick up the rest of the series!


- Thank you Netgalley and Kodansha Comics for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I was really hopeful at the beginning that this might be a Special A/ Ouran Host Club vibe but it didn't quite reach the potential. The plot felt a bit too repetitive for my preference, the art was great but just not for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for the eARC. This is my honest review.

3.5⭐️
Refreshing change from the usual "girl obsessed with the cool guy" plot.

Watching him go all flustered while attempting to be the cool kid? 😂 But…he's totally failing at it, and it's just too cute.

However the scenes jumped around a bit too fast for my liking. Couldn't savor any particular moment as much as I wanted.

She's My Knight is the first volume in a shoujo series featuring a role reversal. It takes all the usual shoujo tropes and has the male and female leads reversed.

Refreshing and funny, poking fun at each other and the genre, this series is a blast to read. Ichinose and Yuki are adorable as the main characters. Yuki a charming, tall girl who makes hearts flutter and Ichinose is a cool, handsome boy who until now made every swoon. Ichinose has met his match in Yuki. She makes his heart flutter and his cheeks flush. Hearing the thoughts in his head will make you laugh so much. He imagines himself taller than her in his daydreams. ^..^

Can the two admit their feeling for each other? Will Ichinose realize he really is the heroine of this tale?

It’s very cute I love the male main character and his reactions to everything that the female main character does and I love that it was really easy to read it was a nice palette cleanser book

It's cute and funny overall!

The roles are switched between the FMC and MMC. Haruma Ichinose ends up taking up the heroine role and Yuki Mogami takes on the hero role. They are both popular but when Ichinose meets Mogami who's taller and more collected than him, it drives him crazy. He is easily flustered while there is endless charm to Mogami that she is somewhat oblivious about.

Reality being different from the moments that Ichinose imagined in his head was quite funny.

This was a light and quick read.

I read this manga back when it was first released in English in 2021. This re-release has additional content that definitely made it worth the re-read. It is still silly and cute and fun and really pokes fun at the tropes it builds itself on. She’s My Knight doesn’t take itself too seriously and this is where it really shines.

I love when tropes are flipped on their head in romance comedies. It brings so much life into what is usually a stale plot. She’s My Knight is the story of Haruma Ichinose, a boy who is naturally popular and adored. Unfortunately, he falls for the one girl who doesn’t see him as anything more than a friend - Yuki Mogami.

While Ichinose comes to terms with a lot of complex feelings, including the fact Mogami happens to be several inches taller than him, there is a lot of physical comedy that is enjoyable to read.

With the additional content in this edition, I didn’t like the addition of the creepy teacher who jokes about potentially dating Mogami - even if it’s a joke, I never want to see that. It gives me so much ick.

The art is cute and tongue in cheek with physical comedy and repetition that works for a giggle - however chapters 11 and 12 had this jarring pattern used on clothes and hair and it made for a very uncomfortable reading. It was almost as if they were made in a 3D like style, but with no 3D glasses available. This affected my reading to the point where I would truly glance at Vol 2’s art style to see if it goes back to how it was at the beginning of Vol 1 before deciding to continue.

She’s My Knight Vol 1 is light and funny, but some jokes fall flat and the patterns used in some of the chapters are jarring. I’d recommend flipping through the manga quickly to see if it works for you before fully picking it up.

*I received an eARC from Kodansha Comics & NetGalley. All opinions are my own*

She's My Knight had a super cute premise, and the art instantly reminded me of Ouran High School Host Club, one of my absolute favorite manga of all time. However, this fell far flat of that. Every time I turned the page, I had to double check that I didn't skip a page as the plot jumped around. It felt more like each page was it's own story rather than one cohesive storyline. The art was super awesome, but the story felt jumbled.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha for the e-arc!

My interest in this title stems from the blurb recommendation for fans of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun! After reading this, I can say this did remind me a lot of the former. I think its a good mix of what I like about the main group in Nozaki-kun. However, this series does confirm things in terms of the romance compared to the former. Overall, this was a fun read and I definitely recommend checking it out.

This one just wasn't for me. I didn't think there was very much to the story and it kept going when I felt that it could have ended much earlier. The art was well done but the dialogue didn't always work. If you like shojo manga and parodies, this might be a better fit for you than it was for me. Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for the eARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Super cute and funny read but I’ll admit I lost interest about halfway through. There’s not enough plot for me personally and jumping between one story to the next in the span of a single page, it just wasn’t enough to keep my attention. Overall it was nice, the banter was silly and I do like the characters, just wayyy too choppy for me.

This digital ARC was obtainable via NetGalley for an honest review!

This manga was cute and sweet. Hopefully, the main characters will be on the same page in vol. 2.

This was an interesting school love tale. This is the first of an ongoing series. You have Haruma Ichinose who is our beloved Mr. Popular. However, he meets Yuki Mogami, the FMC, who is taller and cooler than him. I was today years old when I found out the ideal kissing height difference is approximately 4 inches. Definitely got a laugh out of that. Anyway, therein begins a series of hilarious attempts to try to prove he’s braver and cooler than her. Not dates, of course. (nudge nudge wink wink) Meanwhile, Yuki is completely oblivious to all this and goes along happily…while also saving the day more times than not.

While this is not my usual cup of tea, I cannot say I didn’t get a laugh out of this fluffy tale. The art is well done and honestly the trope is very unique. Not every day we have a princely girl and innocent one-sided rivalry from a popular guy.

Thank you NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is a cute comedy manga with less of an overall plot and more overarching episodes following our two main characters and their friends at school. The trope for this is a gender reversal of what you'd expect to see in a shojo romance for comedic effect but also an interesting potential romance. The art looked great as well. I will say that the teacher character did make me feel uncomfortable, and I don't see why he couldn't have been written as an older student instead. I probably won't pick up future volumes, but I can see there being a big audience for this type of story.

Thank you netgalley for an advanced ARC of this manga.

I love manga and reading this was so funny and cute it gave me the feels, the fact we have a chatcter who is use to being the most popular and thinks his a man's man, to then turn into a blubbering mess around a girl who's taller then him is adorable & you see how he thinks if he does certain things she'll fall into his arms but yiu see throughout that she ain't like other girls and nothing where works as he plans.

The back and forth with his chatcter when it comes off to this girl is playful but at the same time showing this is more then just him trying to get a certain reaction put of her, but that though all his plans failing his drawn an attraction that at first he trys ro shrug off but then realises that he needs to come clean about his feeling.

I cannot wait for more in this series and see how far it goes

This four panel gag manga upends gender expectations by playing some traditional manga stereotypes against each-other. Popular boy Haruma Ichinose wants to be the school’s coolest guy, but his feisty personality and height complex make him more of a reluctant and stand-offish potential suitor (“tsundere” tropes galore). His dreams of being the strong male high school romance protagonist crumble under the weight of the personality (and height) of his crush, Yuki Mogami.

6 foot-plus Yuki’s easy charm and unfailingly cool attitude have earned her the stereotypical title of handsome-girl “Prince” of the school, with girls flocking to her. She’s protective of Haruma, but completely clueless about his feelings for her. His clumsy attempts at macho courtship of Yuki usually land him in situations where he embarrasses himself and she must rescue him (both physically and emotionally) which only adds to the comical romantic confusion.

This is a silly gag manga that cleverly plays with popular tropes in the vein of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun (though it never reaches the highs of Izumi Tsubaki's twisty interconnected character relationships' almost Shakespearian levels of comic misunderstandings), with excellent social humor built around upending traditional gender roles, misread intentions and physical comedy. Ex. In one storyline, Yuki tries to stop being charming for Haruma’s sake by wearing a paper bag over her head, but this just makes her seem more intriguing to the other girls (“Today’s the only day we get to see Paper-Bag Mogami-kun?”). In the story after that, Yuki gets cast as the Prince in a class play, and Haruma is, of course, cast as Cinderella, which really sets the tone for Haruma as the shoujo manga damsel to Yuki's prince-charming for the rest of the volume.

I eagerly await volume 2!

Opinions are my own and do not reflect the values of the institution I work for.

I didn't find this one charming at all... If you are truly going into this with expectations of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun level, don't -- the level of humor is simply not there, and with the supposedly princely/popular main character spending most of pagetime generating second hand embarrassment, I found very little enjoyment in that. No warm fuzzy feelings were found while reading this either, alas.

This was wholesome and cute. It kind of seemed like a mash up of Kagyua Sama: Love is War and Tomo Chan is a Girl. While I love both of those mangas/animes, this one felt a bit flat. The plot is pretty loose and not really there, but you wanna stick around for the characters.

Thank you Net Galley and Kodansha for this ARC in exchange for a review!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

2.5
This might be a romantic comedy, but is basically a slapstick romantic comedy. There isn't a cohesive overarching plot line, it's more like a collection of random short stories about the same group of characters. This manga also relies heavily on the miscommunication trope and tries to play it off as funny. Sure, it's a bit funny at the start, but by the end, you're sick of it. I did find the switch-up of traditional gender tropes in romance manga to be interesting and kind of cute. It just sucks that the male main character, Ichinose, is a bit insufferable of a character. His behavior isn't cute or endearing, it's aggravating. Also, the art style made me so confused about the character's ages. I had assumed they were roughly all 14 until I saw one of the characters drawn was a weirdly huge chest. I had assumed that character was like 12, so I was extremely confused and put off. I had to stop reading to double-check, and apparently, I was wrong and they're all 17. Also, the "teacher keeps flirting with his female students" thing as a "silly repeat gag" is not okay. Sure, maybe you could have gotten away with it in the early 2000s, but not now. It's just annoying and gross. Just really didn't like this manga, so it's a massive pass for me.

What this book lacks in substance, it makes up for in humor and fantastic use (and subversion) of common shojo tropes. Main character Ichinose has been popular his whole life and has never had a rival until he meets Yuki. She's also a typical shojo-prince type character that rivals his own, and as Ichinose finds himself falling in love with her, he finds himself fulfilling the leading lady role a lot. By having a boy be the main pov character, we're already getting a different perspective from other shojos, but by also making him the center of tropes typically used for the female lead, there's an interesting subversion here that is more than just played for laughs. There's not a strong overarching plot, which I wish it had, but it's so funny and fun to read I didn't really mind.