EROMANGA
HALL OF FAME

A third instalment is where a series finds out whether readers will follow it without its original lead. Iribitari Gyaru ni Manko Tsukawasete Morau Hanashi 3 stands in the hall as the book that changed heroines and kept its audience.

It is an original adult doujinshi with student protagonists, part of the series about Kuroda Hikaru, a gyaru who keeps visiting an otaku classmate's room to read his manga. This time the centre belongs to her friend Nishizono Ria, a blonde gyaru with no patience for otaku, who storms in to check on Kuroda and finds herself drawn into the manga on his shelves. On top of the bargain carried over from the earlier books, it takes up what Japanese readers call wakarase, the trope in which a defiant character is taken down a peg.

Reviewers agree first on how clearly she is set apart from what came before. Where Kuroda stays cool, Nishizono wears every feeling on her face. One reader notes that the rashness with which she charges in on a friend's behalf is itself the contrast with Kuroda; another found it refreshing that she runs against the familiar type of the gyaru who is kind to otaku.

On the page, one review sees Manno, the artist behind the circle Amagami Honpo, growing as a cartoonist in the panel layouts and double-page spreads. Kuroda makes a brief appearance near the end. Readers have kept asking for more of Nishizono, and the circle's forthcoming titles include a provisional instalment of her own.

It was distributed at Comic Market 104 in summer 2024; the digital edition reached FANZA in September 2024 and DLsite about six months later. Animated and live-action versions also exist. It stands 94th among the hall's doujin works.