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Ukare Bakemono no Hogaraka na Hatan review
I've never written a review before, but this hidden gem absolutely deserves it.
This is a story about friendship, music, and accepting others. There is already a synopsis, but it does not mention a key fact: this manga is absolutely HILARIOUS. I cannot for the life of me count the amount of times I laughed out loud. It throws the weirdest curveballs at you, like the legends of Othello or how a sunflower is the strongest one out there. And after that, it just gut punches you in the feels, surprising you, asking you if you care for the characters yet. The artstyle is very peculiar, stylized and even a bit cartoony, but overall beautiful. Some of the best reaction images are hiding in this manga. The characters is where Ukare Bakemono no Hogaraka na Hatan shines the most at: this kids are goofy, they are troublemakers at heart. They get sidetracked as much as they breathe. But they also have another side to them, and most of all, they care for each other. Honestly, I'd just say give this masterpiece a chance.
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Osanazuma: Marple no Jikenbo review
This manga is a weird mix between short murder mysteries and intense hentai scenes, framed by a romance story about a newly wed couple. The "Drama" and "School" genres are completely wrong btw and don't apply at all, so ignore those. But does this mix work? Sadly, the answer is no.
The murder mysteries are easily the most enjoyable part of the manga. But most murder cases only last for one chapter, some of them are two chapters long... and these chapters are short. Simply put, they have no depth and don't even qualify as mysteries. We pretty much just get an information dump on the murder, then one odd little thing is revealed about the crime scene, and then we immediately get the solution. Half of the time my lazy guess at that point was correct, but I didn't feel accomplished at all since the mysteries were so simple. The other half of them just had bullshit solutions. But even if they were more clever, as a reader I couldn't care less about them. There simply is no time to get invested in anything. The characters are flat, but that doesn't really matter. There is no overarching story as the manga is very episodic, and you're clearly supposed to only read one chapter at a time. The romance framework story never actually goes anywhere and you are bound to have a deja-vu in every chapter, as it is the same thing happening again and again: Random murder, Miss Marple gets involved and immediately solves the case, hardcore fucking. The art is really great though and among the best I've seen! All the characters look unique, all the lines are clean and some backgrounds - especially on the splash pages - are absolutely beautiful! There are only very few "low effort" panels, and our main character is simply stunning! That said, there is a huge problem that I have... and it's the censorship. But more about that in the next paragraph. This manga utterly fails when it comes to the Hentai scenes. They are very vanilla, heterosexual sex scenes with various sex positions etc. That's fine, but what really bothers me is the terrible censorship! The genitals are completely blocked out by white blotches and pretty much everything is left up to imagination! I am pretty sure they did it this way to get a better rating and could publish it under better conditions, without it actually counting as porn (it's for 16+ year olds here in Germany), but at that point you have to ask: What's the point? I would have been fine with some standard "pixelation" censorship, or small bars blocking the most important parts. But if I wanted to see barbie dolls fuck I wouldn't want to read this shit and look at a non-existent penis penetrating a white void. With all of these three aspects (murder mysteries, romance plot, sex scenes) failing, I can't bring myself to rate this manga any higher than a 4/10. Which is really a shame, since I really loved the artstyle and the idea they were going for. Whether you want an engaging mystery, a good romance or some hot Hentai action: There are better alternatives out there.
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Infection review
Story (7): It's the same plot of almost every zombie story. It's the exact same premise of Highschool of the Dead, the inspiration is clear. It has nothing innovator, but it's still quite enjoyable to zombie apocalypse fans.
Art (9): The art is excellent, character design consistent and good scenarios. This work has a lot of panties showing off, and the design of these panties is outstandingly good and the erotic poses are very well drawn. Character (8): The only character with a distinctive personality is the main heroine that is an exhibitionist, the others have classic personalities, but they were very well chosen, you'll probably like the most of them. Enjoymente (9): The enjoyment about this work is something rather personal, if you are searching for a rich story and seriousness like on "I am a Hero" you'll not find it on this work, but if you like "Highschool of the Dead" with the shonen like horror and ecchi, you'll find basically the same thing here, and the mangaka is alive and full of health, it'll probably not end like Highschool of the Dead, probably... Overall (9): If you like shonen with horror aspects and ecchi you'll probably like it. I really don't recommend this work to people who are looking works similar to "I am a Hero", but if you are looking for works similar to "Highschool of the Dead" or "Mahou Shoujo of the End" you'll probably like it.
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GOLOSSEUM review
Golosseum
Ever wonder if there's any JoJo like anime, full of references? Here's Golosseum, where references are full of history and personalities. From the synopsis itself, yep, you read that right, Russian President Putinov and American President Billary Quintone, wonder who can those people be. I find this manga entertaining and shit at the same time. On the omake (extra) chapters, I keep on looking forward to it. This is the only non-serious part of the manga where you will have some laughs. Plotwise, I think it's unique in a way, but also shit. I also like how the mangaka didn't make any serious catalogues of the huge personalities that could bring any controversies. You might say that the author tried to be as neutral as possible. All of the actions of the characters all have meanings unlike others. They are on a certain goal. But I'm making this review because of the ending. After I read all 6 volumes, I was satisfied. 1. Because I finally finished this shitty manga 2. The ending is so wholesome I don't know what level of wholesome it is, but for me, I'm so satisfied that I hold on to that ending. Would I recommend you to read it? No, but if you life references, and you want to see some famous personalities in a manga, and you like a reasonable ending, go ahead.
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Colored review
Colored or Color of rage is another great historical manga written by Kazuo Koike, the man behind "Lone wolf and cub".
The story, set in Edo period Japan show the adventures of two escaped slaves by name of George and King, African and Japanese, and their encounters with injustice and brutality of the era. Being former slaves themselves, they rush to help to those in need, sometimes they succeed in their efforts, but sometimes they fail because in reality, you can't save everyone alone. The story shows how peasants and generally weak people were treated by the more powerful, strong people. The treatment of the humans is very harsh and this is the main theme of the manga-humans are free and given free will. Why should you bow to some one and (literally) eat mud just because he is richer than you? given that the main characters were slaves, this theme plays hard early on, about struggles of men to become free, to fight injustice of rich and successful people who use them, and to eradicate evil. The story is also very immersive, fans of lone wolf and cub know it already but the author has a way to suck the reader in the era by using simple stuff like way of speaking and particular manners of the time. As for the characters, we have two main ones. The first is George, a Japanese man that became a slave and escaped. He is very knowledgeable about the culture of Japan and how you should behave in situations, he is the more calculated of the two, and he is also a skilled sword fighter. George can appear to be more cold hearted, but this is the only more realistic approach to life-this is the way things are, and you can't always do something about it, especially when it's way bigger than just yourself. But in the end, he is always kind and helpful to his friend. His friend is the African King. Being a foreign man in strange land he has a lot of troubles understanding the culture and the way things are. This theme could be played a little bit better, but the great effect from it is the way King affected from it. He is showing his personality, kind and hateful towards injustice. Suffering a lot in United states himself and huge discrimination against his kind he passionate about helping the weak and the innocent, and against all form of slavery. The relationship of the two is very interesting as they are good friends bound by hard circumstances and painful past. The art is good. Very good even, and fit the manga perfectly. I was surprised discovering that the artist is different from "Lone wolf and cub" as it so similar. Sure, there are same-face people over the manga, but the art itself is good, and the character design of the main characters is excellent. In conclusion, the more I think about the manga the more I realize how much I enjoyed it and wished for it to be longer. There are several problems about it, like unsatisfying ending as it just... ends. We could see more about the treatment towards blacks beside the first chapter, and if we knew more about the past of the two we could understand and connect them better. The real problem is that it's simply too short, and I wish for more. I recommend you to read this wonderful manga, it won't take a lot of your time, and if you enjoy historical stuff, I think you would enjoy it.
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Final Fantasy XII review
As everyone may know, this manga is based on the RPG Final Fantasy XII, this work helped understand me the story a little better compared to the game, especially the beginning. nonetheless; it was bad after all.
I highly doubt that someone who haven't played the game would enjoy reading this manga, the story was not explicit so it''s hard to follow, and -for some reason that I don't know- it got axed, so it will stop at a very wrong point, if you're thinking of playing the game then maybe this manga will give you a general idea about what you're going to play and you get to know the characters... though I wonder if someone would want to play of the PS2 generation now. The art was bad in my opinion, in some point the author suddenly decided to draw some really violent scenes that really doesn't suit this series, I mean the game was one which anyone with the age of 12+ could play, yet I won't really recommend anyone below 16 to read this one because of some disturbing scene. that aside; the drawing wasn't really clear and many facial expression of some characters were somehow off. The only thing that I could give some credit for this manga is the characters, they were well-done I would say, especially Balthier and Basch, here you could get to know them better if you already had played the game. My overall rate is 4/10, I did enjoy reading it but, like I said before, it ends in a really bad point, so I got really disappointing after all. Thanks for reading! :)
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:REverSAL review
I randomly stumbled upon this manga and the art style, female main character and horror theme peaked my interest.
Story: 7/10 On the one hand, the story is quite original. It takes elements from quite a number of universes and create a "coherent" one with it (real life zombies, video game, parallel world etc...). Moreover it takes places in a world not often linked with such themes (modern world but with dissonant elements: geisha etc...). On the other hand, this work is quite short and I think the story does not get enough time to be developped and even with the twists I had some difficulties to stay focused on it. Art: 9.5/10 I am not really objective on this point, but this is the exact art style I love: perfectly clean, not too much details or too few. Actually some elements are really detailed and some others are just simple clean shapes. Maybe a little bit too focused on the characters and not often enough on the environnement. Nevertheless it creates a great atmosphere. Characters: 7/10 Good points: strong female lead, which is not that frequent, and, linked to the previous part, really good characters design in my opinion. Bad point: since the story is quite short the characters do not get enough de development, it's harder to relate to them. Enjoyment: 6.5/10 I liked this universe but I found it a little empty (as stated twice before, maybe due to the story lenght I think). That is the kind of creating I will remember as something I liked and found artistic but that will not leave a deep souvenir. Overall: 8/10 I recommend it as I really liked it: it has a decent story and characters but especially a good athmosphere and a great art design even if not really original (problem is: art style appreciation is really dependant on the person)
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Key Ring Lock review
The story, how to say it, I don't know what happened throughout the story. Also the white-haired guy did lots of confinement before. The black-haired guy always try to understand and appear as caring figure, didn't judge the white-haired guy even though he clearly did bad thing. It's actually have big potential to be a very, very good shounen-ai manga, surpassing other well-known shounen-ai manga but the story didn't reach that standard as well. The illustration delivers strange yet calm feeling, with detailed background, simple strokes, and great shading.
Good shounen-ai without rushing things, no kissing, pure affection without strong feelings at each other (they also barely touching each other). Good to read for beginners at BL genre.
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Deus Ex machina review
Deus ex machina is a manga with a simple yet vibrating story about a girl whose age is unknown name machina(yea i know sounds odd huh) whose job is to hunt down androids call clockworkers, a machine that was design to kill people during a war, however the war is over and clockworkers are looking for people to kill and black markets are now making them even more dangerous to sell.
The art is great and not bad compare to some mangas. The main protagonist machina is not like alot of mangas, having tsndere girls is and can be a bitch but for reasons. She would be cold and evil compare to some mangas. overall it is not bad and can be fun to read but you won't find it anywhere easily
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