I'm really disappointed that this is episodic. The reversal of roles and also of personalities gave the manga a lot of potential, and I immediately became invested in their romantic development in the first few chapters. However, because it's episodic in nature, it takes away a lot of what makes a "regular" story interesting. I couldn't even finish this first volume, so I won't be reading the next.

Wait I literally loved this? The reversed roles were so well done; it was hilarious but also adorable. I genuinely liked both the male and female lead as well- which can be rare sometimes with shojo mangas. I highly recommend this one. I cannot wait to read future volumes

She's My Knight was a quick, lighthearted, and fun read.

To say this manga made my day is an understatement. From the first few pages I was smiling, laughing out loud, and ready to see what would be next. It was nice to see the roles reversed, to see Ichinose lose his cool around a clueless Mogami. I'll be interested to see where the two of them go from here as the entire thing left me wanting more of these two interesting characters. The side characters were interesting as well, and each had their own distinctive personalities. I hope to see more with Miyoshi in the future as I believe he's actually my favorite character in the series right now.

The art was on point, and very well done.

All in all I give this 4 stars, and will wait (not so patiently) for the second volume.

**Big thanks to Netgalley and the publisher Kodansha Comics for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.**

This book is funny and cute and charming and sweet and I love it. I could not stop laughing while reading it.

I absolutely adored this manta volumn! This was so incredible cute and such a feel good read!
I really loved how all the cliche tropes were played upon in such a cute fun way! Having the female love interest as the hero and the boy as the heroine. It was honestly so fun!
I also really loved the positivity surrounding the girl being taller than the boy. Only he ever comments on it and it was funny in his daydreams that he imagined himself taller! There was no negative comments about her being tall which was so refreshing to read!

Thank you to NetGalley and publishers for this free eArc, this is my honest review.

Such a cutesy book if you like that kinda thing you'll want to read this. I really liked seeing the little moments between the two, seeing how they really felt and was trying to hide it. It was entertaining how self conscious he was liking a girl who was taller then him and seeing the roles kinda reversing between the two where Ichinose kept landing in the role of being more feminine and Mogami swooping in to help. Overall I really enjoyed this cutesy book and look forward to seeing more in the future.

How to pick up all the tropes of a usual rom com manga and turn it over to feel so new and so fun ! Loved that the guy was so insecure in front of the girl and yet never gave up pursuing her , and he isn't even some typical nerd but the charming good looking most popular guy in school. The girl playing out so many shoujo manga scenarios in her head and comparing to her life was really sweet and hilarious. Kind of predictable plot and yet it was such good fun.

All the freaking stars.

This manga takes all the conventional shojo tropes, turns them on their heads, and then uses them repeatedly throughout the story. I was cackling the whole time. I love the dynamic of the popular guy being in love with the tall, popular girl where he constantly tries to "be the man" and she thoroughly shows him up in her bumbling, oblivious way every time.

This is such a cute story with a lot of sweet moments, but also just a ton of funny moments, like when the characters keep making comments about how Mogami embodies a shojo manga love interest, and then they basically make a checklist of everything she has done in the story thus far to prove that.

Just read it, OK. It's good.

[English below] (Gracias a Netgalley por la copia avanzada)

4/5 estrellas

She's my knight es una historia de romance, lleno de los típicos clichés del shojo manga pero con unos giros divertidídimos. Y es que Ichinose y Mogami no son los típicos protagonistas en esta clase de manga.

Ichinose es el chico pópular que le encanta ser admirado por todo el mundo, algo que deja de pasar en cuanto su compañera de instituto Mogami entra en escena. Y es que Mogami es "el príncipe o caballero" por la que todas las chicas suspiran.

Me ha gustado mucho como este manga hace humor de todos los tópicos dando el papel de heroína a Ichinose y de principe a Mogami. Esos momentos de malentendidos que en vez de aclararse se enredan más, muy a pesar de Ichinose, y la personalidad tsundere de nuestro protagonista que hace que le cueste admitir sus sentimientos por Mogami. Cuando parece que la relación va a avanzar un paso, se retrasa tres por cualquier frase o situación absurda.

Os la recomiendo porque es muy divertida y el final del primer tomo deja con ganas de más.

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(Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC)

4/5 stars

She's my knight is a romantic story, full of shojo manga cliches with some hilarious twists. And that's because Ichinose and Mogami are not the typical main characters in this kind of manga.

Ichinose is the popular boy who loves to be admired by everyone, something that stops happening as soon as his high school classmate Mogami enters the scene. As Mogami is "the prince or knight" for which all the girls sigh.

I really liked how this manga makes humor of all topics giving the role of heroine to Ichinose and prince to Mogami. Those moments of misunderstandings that, instead of clarifying, become more tangled, much in spite of Ichinose, and the tsundere personality of our main male character that makes it difficult for him to admit his feelings for Mogami. When it seems that the relationship is going to advance one step, it is delayed three by any absurd phrase or situation.

I recommend this story because of how funny it is and the end of the first volume leaves you wanting more.

THIS WAS JUST TOO CUTE!!

Et hem, I mean, it was SO ADORABLE MY HEART MELTED!!!

Ummm...what I meant to say is...

I really liked the role-reversal of the female being the "hero" and the male being the "heroine" in their behaviors. Also loved the body positivity of a 6 foot plus female romantic lead with the male romantic lead being shorter and while he was a little upset he was shorter, no one else minded and they all still loved the female lead and there was no tall shaming going on. (I don't personally have the problem, being altitudally-challenged, however it was nice to see in the book.)

I really enjoyed this and can't wait for the next one to come out so I can devour it! I will be recommending this at the store, definitely! 5, it's just so CUTE, stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.

This vignette manga was cute. Of all the characters, the main characters best friend was the best part of this for me. That ongoing disappointment in their friends failure to get it together is peak friendship.

There is not much of an ongoing plot at this point in the series, since it is very vignette based, so hopefully that changes in the next volume.

Overall, a very lovely manga that reverses a lot of gender tropes!

Visually She's My Knight is nice, it’s cute and the characters a pretty. Story-wise I am not sure about this. It feels more like a single volume than a series at this point. Maybe the second volume is the one that turns it around.

Holy mother of manga and romance this was so good!! I was a little unsure at first because our main character seemed a little arrogant and vain but we quickly see that he is so much more than that. Yes, he’s aware that he is charming and good looking.. that is until he sees Yuki Mogami. She is not only taller than him but also exudes more hero energy. He is quickly marked as having heroine energy which is just adorable.

Their friendship and banter and really every interaction together was so cute and just instantly put a smile on my face. It was so nice to see a change of pace, where the girl is more of the protector, hero type versus the guy. I had a blast with this manga!!

I highly recommend this if you like romance and manga!! I am so hyped for volume 2!

5/5 ⭐️

3.5/5 stars
This was so cute!
I loved that it was so aware of itself, pointing out and poking fun at all the manga tropes that came up and being very meta about the couple aspects (there was also the classic only one bed trope (but chair) which is always hilarious).
The couple are adorable and I love how awkward they are about confessing their feelings. I'm definitely sitting alongside the side characters cheering the couple on to hurry up and say they like each other ughh haha.
The date situations and the whacky tropes that they kept finding themselves caught up in were hilarious and the art style really added to everything. One of my favourite things about reading manga are all the incredible and fun facial features that get drawn haha.
Overall, a hilariously adorable first volume, I can't wait to see where it goes from here!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Kodansha Comics for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

As a big reader of Shojo I really loved this volume. It's a great start to a new series and it's not often I want to compulsively pick up the next volume. The swap of gender roles was refreshing and the art style is cute and easy on the eyes. The way tropes were turned on their head was fun to read and I will be reading more from this mangaka and continuing this series.

She's My Knight was such a sweet, funny manga, and it instantly brightened my day! This shoujo follows Ichinose, who has been the most popular, attractive boy since he was born, but he meets his match in Mogami, his taller female classmate who is more popular and charming than him— and he has the most obvious, adorable crush on. I loved how this manga reversed the blushy, tsundere girl-in-love and the suave, cool prince charming tropes around to have Ichinose be the flustered, unsure character and Mogami be the oblivious, attractive (and taller!!) love interest. Regarding the other characters, while I would have loved to see more development from the side characters Miyoshi and Nikaido, or any development for Mogami's unnamed friend, I liked their comic relief and them teasing Ichinose about his crush. No shoujo is complete without a meddling side cast!

One of my favorite things about this manga was the wall-breaking. The meta jokes about shoujo romance added to the humor a lot, but the way the panels were set up was very dynamic and really kept your eyes moving. This was truly an adorable trope reversal story, and I'm really looking forward to the next volume!

She’s My Knight, a new ongoing series by mangaka Saisou and published by Kodansha, follows the plight of arrogant, 17-year-old Haruma Ichinose as he finds himself falling for Yuki Mogami: a classmate who seems to effortlessly and frustratingly defy everything Ichinose believes about how boys and girls should act and who they can be. The English translation of She’s My Knight Volume 1 is by Mari Au, with lettering provided by Mohit Dhiman and Monika Hegedusova.

Quick, light, and chuckle-out-loud funny from panel to panel, She’s My Knight Volume 1 is a great read for anyone looking to jump into a comedic romance full of charming high school vignettes, with some refreshing twists on common shoujo tropes. It also wastes no time getting to the point. Our protagonist, Haruma Ichinose, is introduced in a shower of sparkling roses and fawning, faceless female classmates. Ichinose has always been popular, he explains, never having to do much more than flash a smile or cast a sly glance for teachers and fellow students to fall over themselves around him.

Ichinose is also a typical tsundere, constantly at war in his head with his own feelings, and adorably blowing up at anyone who dares to poke at his delusion that he isn’t head-over-heels infatuated with his classmate Mogami. That creeping crush is established within the opening pages of She’s My Knight Volume 1’s first chapter. His obsession with Mogami is the source of Ichinose’s outbursts, his near-constant state of blushing, and the crux of the story.

Yuki Mogami hasn’t done anything to draw Ichinose’s ire, other than to exist. Unfortunately, her existence overturns everything Ichinose expects. She’s taller than him, for one thing, and stronger, too. She doesn’t need his help, and she doesn’t fall under the spell other girls do when they talk to him. In fact, she barely matches the image in his head of a girl at all. With Mogami, Ichinose’s fantasies always end up shifting. Where he’d once imagined himself swooping in to save the day, he instead finds himself the damsel in distress. More and more often, it’s Ichinose who is looking up into the familiar, tender gaze of a girl who happens to be the ideal kissing height taller than him.

While visual gags and momentary twists on shoujo tropes are charming, it will only take this story so far. Initially, it seems as though what drives Ichinose’s feelings for Mogami has more to do with how her features and personality contrast with his own expectations, rather than being attracted to her as an individual person. But is this projection just a defense mechanism? There’s a possibility that deep down, maybe Ichinose doesn’t want to always be put on a pedestal. Maybe there’s a small part of him that wants to be saved. But to get there, he’ll need to shed some of his own pride—and learn to communicate with someone who isn’t immediately rendered speechless by his presence. He’ll also need to let go of some of his hang-ups around masculinity long enough to let someone in who doesn’t need to be swept off of her feet.

Fast-paced and full of laughs, She’s My Knight Volume 1 is a fresh addition to the shelves of anyone who enjoys a good high school romance. Great chemistry between the romantic leads, plenty of comic miscommunications, and new takes on the genre’s tropes make for an enjoyable ride from start to finish, leaving the reader eagerly awaiting more.

It's very cute and funny, and I love that the stereotypical shoujo characters have been switched around. I hope there is going to be some kind of moment for Ichinose to realize that it doesn't matter which "role" you take in a relationship, as long as you can be yourself and be happy.

Thank you to Netgalley for sending me this manga in exchange for a fair and honest review!

This was a manga with a really fun premise. Our main character is a male student who's always been the most popular until now, when he's suddenly been beaten to the hearts of the female populace by a female student who's effortlessly cool, taller than him; and who he's definitely not fallen for. The art style is fun and super expressive; definitely reminiscent of something I'd click on and read in its entirety.

It's awkward and hilarious to watch Ichinose try and fail to be suave; for his pride to get in the way of his words and actions. But... that's about it. I was hoping there would be more story, and found myself losing interest half way through. It felt a bit like a 4 panel drama but extended to unrelated chapters instead of the usual panel format. I would have preferred a bit more drama, a bit more happening.

My initial description to my Partner: They are like Tamaki and Haruhi, just make Tamaki less self defeatist and suave. But reverse the height difference.
My later description was Shojo Manga / Romance Trope Bingo.

This manga is super self-aware while also being incredibly wholesome.
The plus of breaking the gender roles of certain tropes was just a bonus for me.

Other things you can find: Crossdressing, Muffins, Side Characters that ship them as much as you.