There’s a number of men that are not popular, not smart or who don’t have the chance to meet women for whatever reason they can come up with. Well, Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess is here to “save” them! Well, specifically, Dr. Maria Eve, Professor of Behavioral Psychology at Touto University. She’s works at the Love Science Research Center for the government as part of countermeasures against the declining birth rate, and her job is to solve love issues in her office. Alongside her assistant Yui Ogawa, they aim to tackle the numerous problems that pop up.
…And there sure are a lot of issues with their patients!
So, this title was one of the manga that Media Do International made its first chapter free that I downloaded. At first glance the summary did not seem worth it at all. Then I read it and became increasingly interested in this doctor and her wackiness.
Flash forward to me reading this two years later, and Dr. Eve and Yui’s story is fairly varied. They end up dealing with a patient who’s afraid of actually making any move for a woman. A higher-up that has some old, out of touch thoughts about women. A doctor from a remote island beginning to wonder if the call girl who’s his girlfriend that’s 25 years younger than him actually wants him. And some jerk producer that wonders why, when he gets all the hottest models and women of status, a plain-looking women — who becomes famous under him — rejects him.
This manga attempts to approach topics regarding love, the declining birth rate, and give some dating tips. It’ll probably work for some, and not for others, depending on how far you’ve gone in relationships. Thankfully, the appeal is what type of stories these are. While presumably this will be about the love troubles of men, the way they advertise it — and the one client that was a woman, though not normally — makes me hope more stories have this variation. Probably not, but at least there’s an opening in that regard.
So yeah, this manga will likely run the gamut of adult romance troubles. That means it’ll live or die on its execution, and this volume at least executes well. There are characters in this volume that you’d never want to meet in person, each ranging with problems that are common (actually approaching women) to problems that can only be solved by fixing one’s brain (there’s a reason these women that are after you eventually dump you despite your status!).
And the solutions Dr. Eve suggests seem sensible. You chat with women, understand their background, and work to know what it takes to be in a relationship. The experiments — a patient chatting with 100 women at a cafe, a patient cleaning her apartment for a week, or Dr. Eve speaking with the women who dumped the patient to understand how the relationship went…while he listens to them hiding in the background — are definitely wacky. Some manage to be more hilarious than others though. With two or three chapters for each of these stories, they turn out to be quite good.
The art for the most part is passable. It’s certainly nothing special, but it’s not like it’s awful. It conveys each of Dr. Eve’s points well, whether she’s fired up or comes to her salient conclusion. And it does its job of making the secondary characters stand out when they have to. While 90% of this work is fairly tame, there’s one chapter where it got its 18+ rating for a reason. So not quite safe for work but it’s nothing like your standard ecchi manga in comparison.
And thankfully, this is more entertaining than most of them! Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess will have to be creative and continue to be somewhat insightful in future volumes, but it’s off to strong start. The stories in this one are quite interesting, Dr. Eve is entertaining, and it was all a fun read. And since this is one of Media Do’s early works where the localization is readable, will certainly check out a few more volumes.