Atashi wa Sore wo Gaman Dekinai by Maki Enjouji

Atashi wa Sore wo Gaman Dekinai by Maki Enjoji


Genre: Josei (fairly smutty as well)
Length: One Volume - 4 Chapters

Art and story (c) Maki Enjoji

            The art of this mangaka, I've always liked it, the people look like adults, though the men all tend to look the same. Long faces, with relatively small eyes that have a lot of expression and definition. As an older woman's manga there is some sex in it, so I can say the bodies look good and the poses are well done. There weren't a lot of backgrounds but there was a sufficient amount so you don't really note the absence. Clothes were rather plain.


            Several stories of romance that read very much like romance novels. Beginning with a woman who finds herself trapped in a relationship with a married man when she wants something more. A woman who wakes up with amnesia and has to rely on the kind man who is taking care of her, though she has questions of their relationship. A woman who has to move in to a new house once her parents die, counting on the kindness of her father's friend, only to find its a house of only men. And lastly, a seasoned nurse takes care of a patient that wants her as his girlfriend, but she refuses him knowing that, like many others, he will only forget her once he is healthy again.


            This mangaka also wrote 'Hapi Mari' and this manga is of the same vein, meaning mean men taking advantage of ditzy women. Abusive/domineering men are not my preferred trope of josei romance, but that is what this author likes to write so be warned. I think I've posted one of these anthology types of manga before, and they are a little harder to give a firm review for since some chapters can be good and some can be abysmal, Atashi wa Sore wo Gaman Dekinai (I Can't Endure It, I believe the translation is) wasn't too bad, it was more of a middle ground. The chapter with the amnesia girl I found really boring and hard to get through and not because of the creepy factor but because it was lackluster, but the others were easier. My main problem with the domineering man type is that he is always paired with the weak woman type and those always annoy me. I think the nurse story is the least extreme of this type so I ended up liking it the most. All in all its a solid anthology, the art is good through out and the plots, though cliched by both genre and author, are fun to read. The humor was particularly good, which was the only reason I ever stuck with Hapi Mari FYI, and I got a few chuckles from reading it. My particular scans were half translated from Chinese raws so some of the characters had Chinese names, which I am not adept in pronouncing and had to stop to try and work them out from time to time, so I was a bit annoyed by that but I don't think it has colored my opinion. Which is: despite the fact I do not much enjoy this type of manga, it was well drawn and the writing was evenly paced, and so I cannot fault it too much.



4/5 If you like domineering types you'll probably love this.