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One Piece
Solo Leveling
Solo Leveling
Solo Leveling
Solo Leveling review
Solo Leveling
Apr 16, 2021
Solo Leveling review
This review contains minor spoilers .

If manga is fine french cuisine then manhwa is fast food that you can't stop eating. And Solo leveling is one of them. Not just one of them, it's one of the best manhwa.

It's set in an urban fantasy setting. Ten years ago, "the Gate" appeared and connected the real world with the realm of magic and monsters. To combat these vile beasts, ordinary people received superhuman powers and became known as "Hunters."

Many story shoehorns fantasy in a setting and don't count for the consequences. But this manga does a good job at showing a society with access to magic and dungeons.

We follow Sung Jin-Woo, a 20 year old hunter trying to make money for his mother's treatment. One day, after a brutal encounter in an overpowered dungeon wipes out his party and threatens to end his life, a mysterious System chooses him as its sole player. Now he has the power to level up his powers like an RPG character.

It's an underdog story with a good protagonist. We see Sung go through a lot. He goes from a wimp to a badass at the end of the seasons and it's super satisfying. He fights various monsters and levels up. But no matter how strong he gets, the fights still stay entertaining throughout the manga.

Sung is a very likeable protagonist. Even though he becomes super OP the manga doesn't become boring to read. Because not only he becomes strong but also he develops as a character. Sadly the side characters aren't as well explored as Sung. They don't get enough time and they are not as interesting as our protagonist. It would have been nice to see through another character's eyes.

(spoiler) [Skip this paragraph if you want to avoid spoiler]
Sung has a reason to become a hunter. He needs money for his mother's treatment. And there is a possibility that he might find a cure in a dungeon. He finds a cure and heals his mother and he tries to drop down from being a hunter. That's what i call good character writing. Many fictional settings don't tackle necromancers. If they do, most of them are evil by nature. Sung is a necromancer and the show nicely does the subject, It may be brief but it shows what the other characters think of him. Also for a brief moment the manga shows the problems of being one of the strongest humans and his public perception.
(End of spoiler)

The art is amazing in this manga. It's fully colored. The background art is breathtaking. It's very detailed and overall nice to look. The character designs are amazing and fit their character well. You can take any page and turn them into a wallpaper or a poster.

Summary
Solo leveling is a good manga with an amazing protagonist and thrilling fight scenes.
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JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run review
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run
Apr 16, 2021
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run review
One of the best mangas I read in my life, thanks Araki

The stories are impressive, with a slow but necessary start, other manga artist make this a negative point in their stories because of their poor development of this, but not Araki.

The art of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has always been evolving, from the standard bulky heroes of the 1980’s action manga to Araki’s own unique style present in this story and it’s follow up, JoJolion. The background and characters are very detailed, and the stylization of the characters are impressive. The characters are unique within the shonen/seinen genere at large and amongst each other. Being a monthly serialization, the time Araki uses allows for the development of some incredible set pieces and the visualization of Stand powers are always impressive and eye-catching, even if at times it can hard to follow visually. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been running since the mid 1980’s, and reading from the beginning is a great way of following an individual artist’s evolution and establishment of his own personal style.


The characters, is another bright spot in this manga, and we are not only with the best protagonists in the history of Jojo's, Are the best you could meet in a work of fiction

And the final bow is by one of the most sublime moments in the history of Anime/manga


Steel Ball Run is probably the epitome, or at least the manga epitome, of the “weird west” genre. Underneath all of the graphic action, constantly twisting plot, insane concepts and over-the-top “fabulousness” of the visuals, there’s a surprising amount of humor and heart to it. If you can saddle up and find a decent translation, it’s well worth a peek. Just be prepared for a lot, and I mean a lot, of strangeness.
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One Piece
One Piece
One Piece
One Piece review
One Piece
Apr 16, 2021
One Piece review
STORY: 2/10
One piece is a shonen manga so I went in not expecting much story-wise, and I got what i was expecting. I just have to point out something first. This is a manga about pirates. They sail the high seas looking for treasure, fame, and fortune. They steal and they kill to get what they want, when they want. That's why they're pirates. But NEVER in the whole manga do they go searching for treasure except for one peice. They don't kill and they don't steal. So i'm sorry, in my mind they're not pirates. This is also one of those manga where nobody ever dies. No main characters die, no bad guys even die. The fights always end the same. Good guys win and the bad guys are knocked out. Same formula used 1000 times over. It gets old fast.

ART: 3/10
I want to break this up into 2 catagories. Quality, and style. For the quality, it's pretty good. There is a nice amount of detail put into all the panels and you can really tell that the artist put time and effort into drawing this manga. Quality alone it gets a 7,8, or maybe even 9.

Now to style: The next time i have to see a girl that has a bigger hand then a waist i'm going to kill somebody. It's completely ridiculous. Theres gigantic round people, stick women, and ridiculously sized animals. It's in all honesty, stupid looking. My eyes would hurt after reading just a few chapters in a row. Because of this it took me a fairly long amount of time to read 200 chapters. I had to keep taking breaks so my eyes could heal up from the ridiculousness. The art style drags quality down big time.

CHARACTER: 2/10
The characters are your average shonen characters. The strong, serious guy. The goofy but gets stronger when he's mad guy, the just goofy guy, the talking rein deer (okay well that ones original)...but none of them have any development. Nothing original. Nothing unique. Just blah. Loofy is probably the worst. He's always happy and stupid. But when he fights he looses all his personality and gets all pissed, strong, and serious. Theres about a million main characters like that. There is just way too much genericness to rate them any higher.

ENJOYMENT: 1/10
I had to stop at the sky island part. The character designs got so stupid I thought I was going to throw up. The fights all end the same. I can't even believe I made it that far in the manga. Nothing much else to say, just a pain to read.

OVERALL: 1/10
I hated this manga. It had a long, and horible story. God awful character designs to go along with god awful characters. I mentioned wanting to throw up at one point. It gets a well deserved 1 overall.
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Shingeki no Kyojin
Shingeki no Kyojin
Shingeki no Kyojin
Shingeki no Kyojin review
Shingeki no Kyojin
Apr 15, 2021
Shingeki no Kyojin review
The amazing concept blinds the readers with its poor writing decisions, unoriginality and cliches. This review is just a loose writing of my complaints for AOT



****SPOILERS AHEAD****



Let's start off with the characters. The characters are probably one of the biggest problems with the manga. They're bland, 2 dimensional, uninteresting. Giving your character a somewhat sad backstory isn't the same as giving your character are dept. Characters fall into basic archetypes and barely grow (except for Eren) I wouldn't even care if Mikasa or Armin, the 2 main characters died. That should say a lot. There are some interesting well written characters such as Zeke and Ymir, but I couldn't say the same for the rest.

The antagonist have so much plot armor for no reason except for Isayama needing them for the story a little longer. How do you screw up not killing a vulnerable, defenseless enemy 5 TIMES! "wE nEeD tO kEeP tHeM aLiVe bEcAuSe ThEy MigHt hAvE iMpOrtAnT iNfoRmaTiON" How about we quit trying gain information after the second time we miss the opportunity to kill the enemy in the same arc! It's infuriating. You can't screw up that many times, it's looses it's believability.

Now let's talk about the poor writing decisions. When Eren and Co. finally reached the basement and read the journals, I was so disappointed on how the information about the titans was revealed. The manga decided to drop an entire history lesson and backstory and moved on like it was nothing. It was so out of place and out of nowhere. There was absolutely no build up, the manga just said "yeah, here's the twist, where going to take the story in this direction now". They pulled all of that information out of thin air! I'm not sure if the writers know how to handle a lot of exposition. The only way they know how to do it is by explaining everything in one go, like a textbook. The "twist" felt like it was handed to me on a silver platter. The reveal was suppose to be big and make the reader's jaw drop, but for me having so much information revealed all in one go made it feel very anti-climatic. The unknown keeps me invested in a story. Honestly I don't care anymore, I read the manga to find out more, and since I know everything now, there's no point. The story is just morality garbage, no mystery, no nothing. it annoys me that they explained every single nook and cranny of the aot universe all at once.

Also what's the deal with the memories Eren received by touching Historia's hand? Why? WHY? Magic that's why. But why then? why not before?? Why those specific memories?? This is just lazy, you can't just throw in magic to explain stuff when you need them to. Adding magic to your story is extremely hard, you need to know how to regulate and establish its rules, you CAN NOT just use magic as an excuse for weird situations, it's bad writing. Isayama likes to add some weird magic abilities and little rules whenever he needs to and it's the most annoying thing. The magic is so loose and so flexible that at this point, anythings a possibility causing the aot universe lose it's ground.

The holocaust references were done pretty sloppily as well. Eldians are essentially suppose to be jewish people but of course they're not normal humans. They have a fundamental difference to the marleyans. Jewish people do not, have any fundamental difference, they're just as normal as everyone else. The Eldians also use to rule above the marleyans. Jews were never the oppressors. I'm not sure what Isayama is trying to say or do here, but he's probably not doing it right. edit: (okay so it turns out the guy is a whole Japanese imperialist, yikes)

The paradise arc was such disappointment. The manga chose to do the "THE GOOD GUYS WERE THE BAD GUYS ALL ALONG!!!" twist, or more specifically, "humans were the real villains", which is one of the most overused plot twist in any form of media. It's so overused that I guessed it would go down that road while watching the first season of attack on titan. The writers tried to do the philosophy of human cruelty but fall flat on their faces. It's so surface level and shallow. There's nothing deep about "humans bad". That's like saying "racism bad". It does absolutely nothing new on showing the cruelty of humans. To be honest, hunter x hunter did it better during the chimera ant arc. By showing the hypocrisy of humans, and putting them in the perspective of the animals and how we treat them. Reading that arc, you were able to realize how ridiculously terrible humans can be. It doesn't spell it out for you like attack on titan does.

I hear a lot of people claim how Eren is one of the best written MCs of all time. I have to laugh, does a character being an anti-hero make them a good MC? During the paradise arc, people love to exclaim how deep and morally gray Eren due to him originally being anti-titan but now anti-human. Eren's entire thing now is "humans bad". That's so incredibly boring and not whatsoever deep. A character being an anti-hero does not suddenly make them morally gray. Eren is just a black a white character. There are some conflicting feelings (which are honestly the bare minimum) about how individually humans aren't bad but that's about all the depth you're gonna get from Eren's philosophy. Nothing new, nothing special. (I'm also not a fan of the once naive main character suddenly becomes an edge trope)

Let's compare Eren's simplistic philosophy to another character's simplistic philosophy, Light Yagami. I enjoyed Light's character more due to the writers treating him as insane, the reader is suppose to think Light is basically crazy, his simplistic perspective is the entire point. On the other hand, the writers for AOT treat Eren's perspective as enlightened. Eren acts like he just solved the secrets of the universe by understanding humans can do bad things too, making him a whole lot less enjoyable of a character.

The art is.... not for everyone, Some of the character are drawn in awkward positions and facial expressions are limited.

There's some romance in them manga which is extremely forced and done poorly [especially that Armin and annie non-sense]. (I'm convinced shounen writers have forgoten how to write relationships)

Armin couldn't have developed romantic feelings for a girl who couldn't even move or speak, so the explanation is he received his feelings from bertholdt. That's the fakest thing I've ever heard, Armin's feelings don't even come from himself. Does that mean Eren could have been given romantic feelings for his mother????? I feel like Isayama wrote this in so he could have another hetero romantic subplot.

Also why does Eren's titan look different? Is there any reason or is it that Isayama wanted to make Eren a little scarier or something. This must be another situation of throwing random elements with no explanation, or if there is an explanation, it's magic.

Isayama definitely knew where he wanted to take the story, it's just his execution was poor. Season 4 is coming soon and I'm prepared for its mediocrity to shoot to the top of my anime list surpassing Fullmetal with a score of a 10 due to the fanboys thinking it's the best thing since sliced bread, blinded by flashy fight scenes.

Though it has problems, the manga is definitely entertaining, I recommend this to people who are new to manga/anime.
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Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria review
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria
Apr 15, 2021
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria review
"Do you have a wish?"

I don't think myself able to write an objective critic to HakoMari, not while the last volume is still so vivid in my mind. As such, this is not a review, but a love letter to this wonderful novel.

HakoMari is, in a nutshell, a wild ride. A crazy, reckless and downright cruel wild ride.
The story, while thought out really well, is really just a container. It's the playbox where all the characters are thrown into while being told "Now do what you want".
And the characters are really what makes this series so worthwhile and unforgettable.

Characters who love each other but end up hurting each other.
Characters who hate each other but end up realizing how much they resemble each other.
All of them, unmistakably broken.

HakoMari is not supposed to be a "feel-good" novel. It has the wonderful gift of being able to present characters who are hurt, broken and in despair without looking edgy or try-hard.
Because at its core HakoMari is a story about many different things.

A story about regrets.
A story about envy.
As tory about boredom.
A story about misunderstandings.
A story about loneliness.
And a story about "love"

They all wander clumsily through the story, while searching for their real value, their real self, their real "wish".
And you are there with them, watching as they laugh, cry, and get hurt.
And, before even realizing it, you too have a "wish".
That at the end of their struggles, some kind of "good end" will await them...
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Death Note
Aibu de Jirashite
AI NO SANKA
AI NO SANKA
AI NO SANKA
AI NO SANKA review
AI NO SANKA
Apr 11, 2021
AI NO SANKA review
Do you want to know something funny? The description of MAL emphasizes a single sentence for this manga, "for you, I would do anything", and the curious thing about this is that the one shot is based solely on this line of dialogue with some themes here and there to supposedly be something.

I tend to find very interesting works with approaches to war themes, being able to use it to create a powerful drama, representing the raw pain and cruelty of war and things like that, it is a package full of many possibilities.

When I saw this one shot, I was curious to see the construction of a romance over a future war, with one of the members of the couple being summoned to the army, a development in the face of something so tense that it disturbs the entire emotional structure of the couple. It's a different and interesting approach, it even crossed my mind that it could be well applied even in a one shot. But, from an interesting idea, something superficial, sticky and quite irrelevant came.

It's normal to see comments in front of many romance manga, things like "it's sticky", "it's superficial", "it's cliché/repetitive" I would say that these mangas are a pleasant walk in the park accompanied by a good vanilla ice cream cone next to this one one shot, because Ai no Sanka is composed of these defects on another level.

I can summon all these 3 reasons in a method used by one shot in an unimaginable way: Dialogues. The dialogues are horrendous, easily one of the worst I've ever read. The dialogues follow a pattern of conclusion that, regardless of what happens, one of the loved ones will say that he/she will protect and always love him/her... once said it was not enough? I mean, the first time was kinda cool, they say this stuff, kiss, a plane flies upon them and all. And the plane symbolizes the war is coming to one of them.

The characters are annoying and very boring, I can only say that because that's all the manga delivered. The empty conflicts of the daughter running away from her father and things like that are absurdly hurried, everything is hurried, I understand it's a one shot, but if you want to delve into something like that, extend it or use a better method. It still goes through my head that one shots are good for interpretive and/or contemplative things.

The art is ok, I have the feeling that the oldest art of manga is very thorough in quadrinization with good techniques and has a beautiful style, but here it is quite empty, like everything presented by the plot.

In the end, the war theme was a ladder for this very weak drama to make the reader create some empathy, but that ladder broke and the fall was hard, and there are those who see it, and there are those who see that such a fall was actually an incredible performance, it’s up to you to decide.

In the end, this one shot was a completely opposite approach to everything the war could be, being empty and without feelings.

And i didn't really get the ending, like, was that whole war thing something that hasn't actually happened? If that's the case, that's pretty bad, i mean, the whole thing was for nothing and nothing actually happened?

I understand who likes and finds a typical uncompromising romance that sometimes drinks from the source of repetitive proposals pleasant, but this one shot? We have a problem.
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Aoi Haru
Aoi Haru
Aoi Haru
Aoi Haru review
Aoi Haru
Apr 10, 2021
Aoi Haru review
It's strange that no one has even bothered to write a review about this awesome manga. But then again I guess it's not much of a surprise given how it isn't very well promoted. However, this manga is one of the buried treasures of the manga world.

STORY: Alright, this story is actually a compilation of several stories all done by Taiyo Matsumoto, best known for his work Black and White, about a group of students during a Blue Spring, or a dull depressing spring in which nothing happens. These kids are on the fringes of society ranging mainly from punks to thugs and it deals with their problems, many of which are quite dark and disturbing.

That said, while some of the stories are absolutely jaw-dropping (If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands, Mahjong Summer) some of the others are mediocore (Revolver: 1-3) to just plain bad. (Peace) These stories are dark and for the most part thought provoking, much like his previous work B&W, but some are just fillers that won't cause you to look twice. This is why I had to give it a 5 in this category although I consider some of the singular stories as 9s or 10s.

ART: Like Taiyo Matsumoto's other works this one's art is somewhat strange. It is not the standard manga-style as is seen in many of the shounen jump works, instead it is much more cartoony and a little more unrealistic. Some people I'm sure will be turned off by it, it took me some getting used to, but others will latch onto it from the very beginning and love it to the very end.

CHARACTER: As in many other manga compilations, the characters are hard to relate with simply because they are only in one story or chapter. The other problem with the characters is what I mentioned before, the characters themselves are just plain hard to relate to because for the most part they are punks and thugs. None of them are really driven by their own desires and they generally belong to a group and follow the demands and needs of the groups. Pretty much, they are sheep.

The only good thing is that some of the other characters in the manga, for the most part they are very minor, but they seem to have more impact on the story than the main characters do. Espiecially in the If You're Happy and You Know It... story. These characters are for the most part not sheep like the main characters and therefore much more likeable. They really make it worth reading.

ENJOYMENT: For the most part, I enjoyed this manga. Like I said before there were a couple of stories in it that I just didn't care for but then again there were some stories that I absolutely loved and reread frequently. A couple have actually inspired the way I write my own stories. For the most part I really enjoyed it.

OVERALL: Like I said before, their are a couple of bad stories, the art may not be for some people's liking, and some of the characters are rather week. BUT (And this is a big but.) some of the stories are simply masterpieces, as is to be expected by a master storyteller like Taiyo Matsumoto. It's just a a shame that he couldn't keep it up all the way through.

Despite all its faults the goods outweigh the bads, and it is certainly worth checking out espiecially if you enjoyed Black and White. As said before, it is one of the lesser known great mangas. Definately worth the read.

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