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It is very sad to see that this is such highly rated because of how shit this webtoon is. Webtoons, in general, are very low quality compared to manga. From the art, the story, and the characters, webtoons are just the worse younger brother of manga. This webtoon is no different. Solo leveling is a webtoon for all the losers who desire to become a badass.

The progression in this webtoon is probably the worst I have ever seen. He goes from one of the weakest hunters to the strongest in the span of 10 chapters. He is like Goku on steroids. While Goku continuously gets stronger, so does his villains. In Solo Leveling, He continues to become the strongest character while his villains are nowhere near his level. He is easily able to progress and just become God without any real struggle or effort. The main character gains this reawakening and instantly becomes super strong with very little effort. He eventually gains this bullshit class called necromancer and makes him even more overpowered. Some of his ghosts are even compared to being S-rank level hunters. The story gets so boring and uninteresting simply because of how overpowered the main character becomes. There are no struggles or obstacles he has to overcome. He literally just "solo levels" his way to the top. People who have trained and work their lives off to become strong hunters are beaten by a guy who killed like 100 wolves. He has no personality and nothing unique. Why would I care what happens to him when he is so uninteresting and lacks personality? You see glimpses of struggles like him getting flashbacks of his previous weak self, yet those issues are resolved so fast that they can't even be considered real struggles.

The story itself is also bad. It is inherently boring and uninteresting as the main character just defeats all his enemies with ease. There is nothing that gets you hooked into the story. The whole story is just a circlejerk of the main character being a badass and killing every enemy in sight. Not to mention the ant arc is just a copy of the Chimera ant arc. The story lack anything meaningful. There is nothing that makes you think or has any real significance that leaves the reader with something they will remember. There are no good characters as all supporting or antagonists lack any sort of personality or real purpose to the story besides being pawns that the main character helps/destroys. The scenery and world are alright though.

The art itself is very average and mediocre but is the best part of the show simply because everything else is so shit. It is nowhere near the level of manga drawings, but it is good enough.

Overall, the show summed up is a battle shonen with an op main character, no meaningful purpose or significance, and lackluster fight scenes. It is the definition of a pointless webtoon with nothing for the reader to care about or resonant with.

I enjoyed Mayme Angel a lot. When I read the first two volumes, I thought it's a lovely story, and happier than the other mangas of Igarashi. But on the 3rd and 4th volume, many sad things happen and it's amazing to see how a story can contain both inoncent and cruel characters. It can surprise you seeing teenagers using guns, but I guess in the time of the story, that was common. The author makes us think about some subject like revenge, the possibility on managing problems with talking and without guns, etc.

The only thing I disliked in the manga, it's its ressemblance with Lady Georgie's anime (another manga illustrated by the same author) in some parts : the doctor who loves alcohol, the babies who stop crying when you call their full name (like the dog in Lady Georgie), Eva who does the same things as the girl who was in love with Arthur in Lady Georgie, etc. Other than that I found the story original and I love some characters, like Alman or Beavery.

Hiai Mosou is a manga with an interesting stalker horror story about a woman obsessed with her teacher.

However, the problem of the show is that it suffers from a notable identity crisis. It feels like the writer could never decide whether it wanted the story to be a horror story or a sexy fanservice fest, the result is a erotic thriller in which the eroticism cancels out the thrill and vice-versa.

It's hard to be excited seeing a naked girl if you know she is dangerous and insane, at the same time that it is hard to take her seriously as an antagonist when she is freely used for over-the-top fanservice later.

Erotic horror is a genre that actually exists and can be pretty effective, but the manga can never wholly capture it for lacking a proper balance between these two elements. One of the major problems I feel is that a few of the fanservice scenes are played pretty straight for fanservice, even when they are actually portraying a terrifying situation that would be categorized as sexual assault in the real world and that assault and invasion of privacy also being used as the cornerstone of the horror of the manga ultimately cancel out each other.

Jesus. The characters were atrocious. The whole story was a mess and was clustered. I love horror and psychology, however the art was a bit.. off. The anatomy wasn't right at all, while it just seemed "ugly". Not only that, but there was no character development, a bunch of cluttered twists and most of the story line was just unclear.

The only reason this was considered horror was because of the MC (who's supposed to be the villain), yet it wasn't creepy considering the fact that it all just felt like stale crackers. There was no emotions attached to the character, no development in the character and was paced badly.

If you want a manga to just get grossed out at due to gore if horror isnt your cup of tea, this is for you. This manga did nothing for me.

Akane-chan Overdrive is a two volume manga by Mizuki Kawashita that is for all fans of gender bender mangas.

Story- (77/100) The story is something that I have never before experienced. Nineteen-year-old Takashi Amamiya dies after tripping on a bottle but is transported into a body of a cute girl, Akane Hagiwara. Amamiya goes through various trials and tribulations dealing with, being a girl, getting his body back, and dealing with old and new friends.

Art- (87/100) The art is very good. There isn't many sorounding images but the characters are all drawn amazingly.

Character- (70/100) This is probably the weakest point to the manga. You really can't figure some characters out. Takashi Amamiya seems to change personalities without a reason and the other characters aren't really helping. The only character tgat I feel for is Satoru Murai. I personally can relate to him the most.

Enjoyment- (73/100) This manga was enjoyable. There was a lot of things in this manga people would enjoy, and I don't mean the rape scene.

Overall- (77/100) This was a good ecchi gender bender manga. The art was what made me read the whole manga and the story helped out. What most people will probably not like about this manga is the characters. It is pretty enjoyable and is a must read for all gender bender fans.

Awesomely funny writing that comes across great in translation. Ultimately gave this up because I am just not that interested in the power struggles of high school girls determined to be popular, but others might like it. Read if you liked Peach Girl or Gals!.

"Fight for what you believe in and never falter!"

Break Hands is a short manga set in a world where powers come from mysterious crystals embedded in the person's body, a world where a single mass of land contains all life divided by countries at war.
The story starts with our hero joining his country's military to follow his family's steps to continue their legacy in the military ranks. His first mission is to find the princess who has gone missing inside the city, and he's the only person who knows how to find her, but as soon as she's found, an invasion from a strange ship brakes through the kingdom's defences and manages to kidnap the princess. He must now pursue the ship and captors in order to rescue her before it's too late.

I might have sugar coated the story in a few ways since it felt bland and unoriginal. The first few chapters are confusing. If you wanted an explanation as to why they have powers? How do they work? what world is this? or why does he know the princess so well? then you won't get any until much later or maybe none at all. Still, it's a fast paced story with a one-directional plot.

The quirkyness of the characters is their only positive. It's hard to relate to any of them considering how uninteresting and monotonous they are. There's no real character development that I could notice, and the backstory to the main character is quite cliched.

The art is good, the standard to be expected in most shounen mangas. The fight scenes and character expressions maintain their quality throughout the story. Nothing special though.

I had a few Full Metal Alchemist deja vus whilst reading this. The powers, the setting, and even a few characters seemed like bad copies of it. I have to say the ending was also disappointing. The hints and clues it leaves here and there are simple enough to pick up which makes it easy to presume what's going to happen in the end. It's a poor plot twist that makes you wonder if maybe the mangaka was rushed in his last volume or the manga was cancelled.

Nevertheless, it won't take much time to read and a few people might find the fights, drama, and character interactions more enjoyable than me.

Why are there no reviews? Great art and hilarious characters. If you like those cute father daughter type of mangas, this one is a must read.

Story: 9/10
It starts with a bang and continues to be more in depth than expected

Art: 9/10
easy on the eyes and Shima is as cute as a button

Characters: 9/10
Each character is distinct with their own strengths and flaws. Well thought out.

Enjoyment: 9/10
Laugh out loud. The father daughter relationship is a complicated one and this manga portrays the some of the more cringe worthy moments with good humor. An occasional deeper chapter syncs well with the overall feel of the manga

Overall: 9/10
Too cute for school. Very few manga handle this genre with this much humor and with such well drawn art.

I recommend this manga.

Complexity comes in many forms. Simplicity comes in maybe more.

Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge is a manga that hinges on an extremely thin thread to drive the story forward. The protagonist – the bored Yamamoto – borders on being so plain that forgetting his face in the next chapter can be a normal occurrence. However, he one day meets a large man with a chainsaw in the middle of battling a cute girl complete with a school uniform that has an extremely short skirt with no battle armour whatsoever. And she’s winning. Since Yamamoto is so bored with his life not knowing what to do, he decides to investigate the matter further and tries to talk to this fearless girl called Eri. And with this simple premise the story takes off.

Though the manga tries to portray Yamamoto as a bored young man without direction in his life, it also tries to deepen his personality by having him think about his life in an existential way. He does not know what to do. He does not know who he is. He wants to spice things up by having a goal – any goal – so that he has something to look forward to. And while this could be a chance to make Yamamoto truly excel as a sympathetic character, the story decides to take another turn by having him be involved in a fight between two dubious character that have nothing to do with him. It seems so random but in a way, it works.

The true driving force of this manga is Eri. Like in any relationship between two people meeting each other on a cold night while fighting a guy with a chainsaw, she starts off dismissive towards Yamamoto, not wanting him involved in her situation. But since Yamamoto is so bored, he refuses to walk away because of the adrenaline he felt during the sight of that battle, despite Eri kicking him in the nuts multiple times. In some way or another, Eri and Yamamoto develop a relationship where Eri does the fighting and Yamamoto does the encouraging even though she does not need it. In this strange manner, they grow closer and closer, fulfilling Yamamoto’s need for adrenaline and giving him a purpose to wake up every day and help Eri.

Everything happening from then on seems random and without explanation, and even then the story works. It works because of the strange relationship the two ''fighters'' share, complementing each other. The great thing is that you actually get to see that it develops. Yamamoto ended up in this because of his boredom and even though there seems to be nothing in it on the surface for Eri having Yamamoto meet up with her every day, it becomes slowly apparent that their relationship works because they complement each other so well. It’s just too bad to see that the story takes up so much time setting the context (more than half of the manga) that the real character development happens later on.

See, the writer of this manga decided to just randomly think up of a situation where two strangers meet in a weird way and end up together because their human needs are not so random. Nobody ever heard of a black-robed chain saw man battling a cute girl in the middle of the night. Nobody ever heard of a boy without direction in life deciding to risk that very life of his by accompanying this girl. But even though these situations are so far from reality, the important thing to note is that the context of the story does not matter. It is the elements of character dynamics that make the absurd story work so well in such a way that it’s believable. It is therefore a missed opportunity that the story never goes too deep in the minds of the characters to develop their personalities even further since there is so much potential to do just that.

In terms of art, the drawings are of a decent quality. You will notice the occasional quirk such as weird placement of the eyes on the face or the extremely wide mouths accentuated by thick lips for comical highlighting. But the funny thing is that these are only noticeable when the characters are drawn standing still. When the characters give the impressions of movement, the drawings are very dynamic with action being shouted all over the page. In fact, there are more little details in the drawing of the characters in motion than when they are standing still, where they would need it more. The fan service of the fighting beauty Eri is something that comes up often in the story with panty shots all over the place in the heat of the fight. It could be conceived as a sight worth seeing but ultimately distracts you from the fighting scenes and story while the drawing style isn’t well suited for ecchi anyway (though it gets better later on).

Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge is a manga worth reading if you are into random scenes without explanations all over the place. The premise of the story is simple but can be horribly confusing when trying to make sense of everything because there is no sense to be found in the first place. Despite this, the story slowly comes together towards the end of the manga when character development is at its peak showing a great character dynamic between two strangers of two different worlds. Though there are missed opportunities here and there with the character development being later on in the story and not going further with it than is possible, it is a fun manga with decent art and somewhere deep down a message about direction in life.

I'm likely one of the few people in the world that own all of the Kiseki and when I saw their were no reviews for Kieseki I decided to write my own.
To start off with I would like to say DO NOT buy Kiseki unless you are familiar with Clamp's work. Why? Because the Kiseki series was made for fans of Clamp-not people that having read all there works (I know I haven't) but for people that have a fondness for Clamp's characters, art and story lines. In addition, Kiseki doesn't cover a large portion of Kobato., xxxHolic,Tsubasa and Legal Drug and has no mention of Gate 7 because Kiseki was released before its publication. Most of the grading rule brick which myanimelists provide does not work for this series so I will be, to an extent breaking away from the standard format.
Story-4
Each book addresses one or more of Clamp's numerous series. Each comes with a fair amount of summary of the stories. Again, this is only summary material to help you to understand the premise of the series if you are not familiar with the series. Each book comes with a mini comic made especially for kiseki. They are nothing special-just gag comics for the most part but it is a nice touch of originality in comparison to most of the book which is a compilation of work over the years. Since there really isn't a concentration on storyline in Kiseki I gave it a harsher grade than the other catagories.
Art-9
Clamp makes beautiful art and is able to vary the art style greatly from series to series (though this is largely a result to the amount of time between the series) the only reason I don't give the art a 10 is because some of the older art has a rough feel to it-especially RG Veda's art. This is not to say the art isn't good but it could have been better. Each picture comes with a caption describing the history of the art piece which is wonderful to see.
Character-7
I love the diversity of characters in Clamp's stories so the character profiles are a wonderful touch in the book. However, the gag comics at the end seem to lack the flair of character personalities. I am not sure if I should grade the comics or the profiles so I decided to try and split the score.
Enjoyment: Along with the art, profiles, and summaries each book has an interview with Clamp and someone Clamp has worked with like a manga editor, anime producer, or chess piece designer. This is very entertaining to say the least. The book also comes with a list of products relating to the featured serie(s) which is wonderful to look at.
Overall-9
Kiseki is one of those series that you read over an expanse of time. It gives a lot of eye candy and food for thought but doesn't give off the air that you must have all 12 books. The chess pieces are a nice touch and are beautifully made. I recommend finding a kiseki book of a series you like or a series you are interested in from Clamp and read.