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Who Does Kae End Up With In 'Kiss Him, Not Me'?

Finally read Kiss Him, Not Me by Junko. I got attached to each guy but was always rooting for a specific ship to sail for Kae Serinuma.
2025-09-10 23:44:09
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Shiraa Sue
Shiraa Sue
Wait, this is Kae Serinuma. I didn’t expect her to end up with Igarashi in the end, but the two do grow. This is the final couple and while it wasn’t expected, in the end it did make sense. And another unexpected twist of romantic dynamics of the sort was ‘Kiss Me While He Watches’ by trytolk, where the heroine is secretly watched by her ex while she is trying to move on to new-to-her love interest. Unlike the first book, it is not really romantic and mostly contains lots of tension, in particular of psychological kind.
2026-08-06
Faith
Faith
‘Kiss Him, Not Me’ was a wild ride of a story, and I really loved our fujoshi heroine, Kae Serinuma, who went from a slightly chubby fanfic loving girl to being the center of many guys’ attention while being transformed into a gorgeous girl. In the end, she ended up with Shima Nishina, the quiet, glasses-wearing guy who loved her when she was still a chubby fanfic loving girl.

Shima’s unchanging devotion towards Kae while the others around her were driven crazy by her new persona is what truly made their relationship realistic and wonderful. Of course the other love interests where also really interesting, especially the hyperactive Igarashi, but in the end it was Shima and his devotion towards her true self that won out. I also really loved his final confession of love to her in the manga, it gave me serious serotonin.
2025-09-11
Valerie
Valerie
Shima Nishina! I was totally rooting for this character since 'Kiss Him, Not Me' played with all the typical rom-com tropes and had a surprisingly grounded conclusion. The main character Kae was super into the shipping of certain guys, and it could have been kinda obnoxious and alienating to her partners, but Shima really matched her energy level here. He even cosplayed as one of the guys Kae was into!

Of course, the plain one wins in a series full of over-the-top characters. Maybe that’s the point – the person you fall in love with is the one who lets you be your weird self without any makeovers or crazy conflicts with other suitors. I ended up smiling all through the ending like an idiot.
2025-09-13
Sawyer
Sawyer
I also kind of wanted Shima to end up with Kae because Kae’s journey was really one of self-acceptance and Shima was one of the few people who really got her without trying to change her for who she was, and that was really great to read. The other boys, Igarashi and Nanashima, were great in their own ways, but mostly because they were so obsessed with Kae’s appearance and how they could best win her over against the other guys.

One of the highlights of the series was Shima’s moments of quiet intimacy with Kae, like when he was reading her fanfics or even blushing at her cluelessness. It really felt like the author was saying that Kae would have been into him in that sort of way, had he pursued her, in a BL sort of way, which I thought was kind of neat. I also thought it was really cool how the series wasn’t a harem, because I think that would have been really unauthentic to Kae.
2025-09-13
Stephanie Mercer
Stephanie Mercer
I liked the ending because it was the main character with Shima Nishina, a quiet fan artist of BL manga. The reason why they ended up together was because they had a connection through their shared fandom interests. The other characters eventually started to like the main character for who she was, but Shima liked her from the start because of their fandom. It wasn’t like the main character had to change for love or anything. Instead, she found someone who was already on the same weird level as her and their final scene was cute without being overly so. It was fitting for the series and I liked it.

I remember feeling relieved that she ended up with Shima instead of one of the other guys. That would have felt like she settled.
2026-08-03

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