Manga Highlight: Mysterious Girlfriend X

Mysterious Girlfriend X is strange to say the least. At one point, two girls are having lunch. After they’re done, one of the girls puts their finger in their mouth and drools on it. “Here, Dessert.”

Yeah. But past the inherit weirdness of “drool-sharing”, there is a fairly intriguing story. It’s really interesting.

Urabe Mikoto moves into the class of Tsubaki, the main character. Urabe is clearly a strange girl, doing things such as laughing out loud in the middle of class for no apparent reason, and acting extremely anti-social when people try to talk to her. Tsubaki finds her asleep in the class room after class, drool in a puddle on her desk. After she leaves, he randomly tastes the drool on the desk (Look, I don’t know why, even he freaks out that he did it).

In the days afterwards, he begins having dreams of dancing with Urabe, and soon collapses and has to stay home sick. Urabe comes by to give Tsubaki some “handouts”. After seeing him sick, she drools on her finger and puts it in his mouth. Tsubaki, though freaked out, discovers that the drool has cured him, and he feels better than before. She reveals that he has no cold or flu, he is suffering withdrawal from not tasting any of her drool. Tsubaki wonders if there are drugs or bacteria in the drool causing the withdrawal, but Urabe just laughs and say it wasn’t anything like that: Tsubaki was just love-sick.

They begin meeting after school, getting a “dose” to make sure he doesn’t get sick. Tsubaki learns of Urabe “scissors hobby”, in that she can adeptly cut anything using the scissors that she keeps in her panties (yeah, I said panties…).

Eventually, he develops feelings for her, and wants to ask her to be his (mysterious) girlfriend. She initially refuses, because she doesn’t like his average proposal, so he borrows her scissors and cuts up a picture of his old crush, saying she is the only girl for him. She responds by spitting out a whole bunch of drool, saying she’s become really happy (I wonder what they’re alluding to…). She reveals why she laughed in class before: She heard a voice in her head saying Tsubaki would be the first boy she would have sex with. She walks to leave, but first tells him that she is now Tsubaki’s (very mysterious) girlfriend.

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I’ve read to chapter 13 of this series (I might post on more chapters, this is just on the first chapter, which is over 50 page long), and it’s pretty interesting. It toys with the idea of the emerging sexuality of Tsubaki without being overtly sexual (which is… a hard thing to do). The whole “bond of the drool” thing is explored, to some interesting results. And I’m pretty sure you’ll never see another story where people can communicate through drool…

I just found it really interesting. I wonder how the story will play out, and what exactly become of their relationship. And what is the freaking deal with Urabe and the “drool bond”. It might be a good read ahead.

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