YMMV / Hungry Marie

• Audience-Alienating Premise: According to some reviewers, the reason the manga never became that popular was that the plot, besides the changing genders thing being already done in works like Ranma ½, was confusing due to using a real-life figure which could have been simply skipped using any fantasy character.
• Elimination Houdini: Due to the mangaka establishing a name for himself with his previous work, the manga survived in Jump longer than expected even though it has been in the bottom of the TOC rankings for more than 10 weeks before finally getting canceled.

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