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Monster review
I've heard a lot about this manga and people often made it out to be a difficult read because it is supposed to be very deep. However, this turned out to be a supremely easy read and very enjoyable too.
This does not mean it wasn't deep. Instead, the author struck a fine balance between ensuring the manga remains easy/enjoyable to read, yet keeping the readers thinking about the circumstances and morals of the actions/intentions involved. However, I think this had a negative effect on the manga's pacing/progression. I'd say roughly 70% of the manga is fluff wherein readers are introduced to new circumstances to have them think about right/wrong or introduce new complexity to the plot -- complexities, which, honestly, do more to detract from the story than add to it. Truth is that I enjoyed most of the fluff as I thought they were heart warming, but later on, it really distracts from the plot as the author continuously introduces new characters (and there are a great many of them), new plot points, and etc. I hate to say it, but the later story just doesn't flow well and makes the story more a convoluted mess than a complex story on morals. Still, I don't think anyone should take this to mean 'Monster' is a poor manga. As I said repeatedly, it is a very enjoyable read and often does make you think. I'd highly recommend to anyone thinking of reading.
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Fullmetal Alchemist review
This manga is great, I love the characters, the art, the story. I also love how the characters have so much emotion, it just makes me feel like I'm really there watching! Also I love how it makes you have to read more to know what's going to happen. Great manga, I'll be watching for new chapters! =3
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Overlord review
Premise: I decided to write this review to give the perspective from someone who did not enjoy this novel, since I have only seen overly positive reviews thus far. To note, I dropped this novel around early volume 7, since I just ran out of patience for it, but 6-7 volumes seem like enough to write a review for a 9 volume story.
To start with the good! Art (10): The art is quite cool and I like it a lot. But like all novels, not much art. Regardless, this bumped my overall rating up from a 3 to a 4. Story (5): The overarching premise of the story is actually quite good: The main character starts in an RPG styled world as the most powerful character in existence, with an army of elite AI's that have absolute servitude programmed into them, which he knows. The main character is actually just a regular guy from Earth, so he needs to adapt to this new environment. Based on the premise alone, it feels like the story has a lot of potential, but unfortunately, not much actually happens with this interesting world and setting that has been built up. Instead, we learn about the main character…but, there is not much to learn other than his internal struggle of "oh noz, if I don't act evil, the AI's won't like me. boo hoo. Whatever shall I do? I know! I'll just have this dilemma for 6 volumes straight of how I don't want to be evil, but I can't help it since I want to be liked by my AI's which have already been programmed to love me forever.” Life is just so hard for our overpowered protagonist. I tend to find his ranting to be a bit cringe-worthy. Seguing from that thought, I also find Ainz to be *incredibly* unintelligent. While it is absolutely fine and sometimes even encouraged to have a dumb main character, it does not work in this story as he just does not have the capability to be a leader. Due to the overpowered main character's lack of leadership over his battalion of subservient AI's, they go around advancing the story on their own. While again this sounds good and has potential at first glance, there really is no cohesive goal in sight, and this lack of coordination between the respective AI's leaves all that they do to feel very empty. :( Character (2): The story is mainly about the characters, but I personally find them to be dull overall. - Ainz (main character) Like previously mentioned: dumb / cringeworthy / lack-luster leader / insecure / overpowered I find his the internal struggle, "how to get his AI's which have already been programmed to love him forever, to love him." tiring to read about. He wonders why the AI's get confused what his goal is; of course it is because he's been putting up a facade up and confusing everyone instead of getting it together, taking charge and saying things directly. I am not against flaws. In fact I have read manga where the main character has a facade contrary to their true thoughts and abilities, such as Angel Densetsu and Transfer Student Storm Bringer, where the juxtaposition between the truth and perceived reality in these stories is done extremely well. So it definitely is possible to have a main character where the perceived reality and the truth do not match up. Alas, this is one where all has gone wrong. - Other characters (AI's) The AI's initially seem to have distinctive personalities, but we quickly see that all have the trait of being over-confident. So while it is a mix-mash of different characters, they all have the same vibe. Other than perhaps Albedo, it's more like generic villain A and generic villain B. etc. All in all, the AI's did not add much to the story for me. Nor did I come to love any of them. The main character is really like the only character for most of the story tbh. No one else is fleshed out as much. Enjoyment (2): I personally did not enjoy this novel for reasons already stated. Everyone enjoys things differently, so perhaps the faults that I have pointed out, you will not mind. I hope that is the case, as reading this novel was a long journey for me. Conclusion/tldr;: Due to the lack of leadership of the overpowered main character in this story, events unfold contrary to how he plans, as his minions stew up their own plans. The main character's unintelligence limits the abilities of his army, which also proceed to be stupid as well, and ultimately causes strife throughout the story when there should be none. *This large fault is particularly unfortunate as this novel seemed to desperately want to be tactics/strategy based.* While reading this story that is a play of idiots, one gets accompanied by the internal struggle of the insecure main character, "how to get his AI's which have already been programmed to love him forever, to love him." All in all, Overlord felt overrated for me.
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Yuutai Nova review
This manga was made by Aku no Hana's mangaka, Oshimi Shuuzou, and features some of his strengths as a mangaka, but is also plagued with some overt uninteresting aspects which bog it down considerably.
Yuutai Nova is a manga which plays with many promising ideas and although short, features quite a lot of anger, strangeness, out of body experiences, regret, and breasts. Many, many breasts and female genitalia. It also has invisible, spiritual peeping toms. Seriously, I'm not kidding. Story: 6/10 The premise is interesting despite out of body experiences being a common topic in stories. All of a sudden, this random boy named Haru Katsuragi, gets his spirit taken out of him and begins floating above his body. He begins flying out of his house and soars into the dark night sky. No, he's not tripping from any freaky, psychedelic mushrooms, this is actually happening to him. So of course, the first objective he has on his mind is to go silently stalk his ex through all of her activities. This includes everyday things such as: watching her read, watch tv, eat, take a shower, etc. The perverted main character also proves his burning horniness by "fondling" her breasts. His hands literally just go through them. Apparently, he likes playing with nipples he can't actually touch. It also seems they broke up due to his uncontrollable penis rage when he was younger. After awhile, he realizes the grand lesson that people can change in undesirable ways, and he ends up meeting a wonderful new girl while he mopes. Many strange situations ensue which test his manhood and the story progresses into odd, new places. Unfortunately, what drags this story down are that things begin to go downhill towards the end. What started as an interesting exposition on how people you once knew can drastically change their personality, turns into a bizarre fight for a female character and other sorry attempts at story depth. The problem does not lie in the unusual nature, it lies in the storytelling and poor usage of the interesting themes. The mangaka set up an intersting sci-fi premise that could have been used to create something truly original with an actual, solid story. Maybe it wouldn't have been an intense, daring and thought-provoking social commentary, but he could have at least made an interesting character portrait. Or maybe even a weird but touching coming of age story with more development. Instead, we get this rushed latter half/ending that sacrifices all its stellar parts for a hazy, unexplained, lazy section that doesn't satisfy the reader and takes up half of the manga. Art: 7/10 The character designs are standard. Many of them being the generic anime-eyes having characters we've all seen before. Shuuzuo's character art someewhat resembles the character art of Kouji Mori (Holyland, Jisatsutou). Nothing truly great, but nothing terrible either. The backgrounds are well done and actually have nice detail to them. The real reason it gets a "7" is because of the more expressionistic parts of it. The skewed manga panels and the nice uses of exaggeration whenever the main character is under distress is really a nice touch. However, there's not enough of this style or interesting uses of tone and color in the manga. I've seen the 'exaggerated style' done better and with more originality before, so I won't rate it higher... Oh, and the breasts are also well-drawn, just in case that's what you were wondering about. Character: 4/10 The main character is the generic "soft-spoken, fairly wimpy unless he's put in serious situations!" kind of character. The girl, Mahoro Ikaruga, is the usual savior of the main character. She's dangerous and sort of takes risks. But at the same time, doesn't really do much but make the main character realize his ex is a horny slut now. Not much exposition or unique characteristics. The real killer though is that they are not fleshed out enough and ultimately lack depth. Enjoyment: 6/10 Between trying to comprehend character motivations and wondering why there are all these perverts trying to grab at what their hands always go through, I actually enjoyed some of it. When some of the things in Yuutai Nova were introduced, I became interested and was enjoying myself. Like I said earlier, there are some genuinely intriguing ideas that are presented, but unfortunately they end up getting snubbed. I also dislike the ending and find it a hazy cop-out. Overall: 6/10 If you insist on reading this and wanting to view how good ideas ultimately become lost and stay half-baked, then be my guest. Some elements in this are good and overall it's definitely not godawful, but honestly Oshimi Shuuzou's other, more well-known work, Aku no Hana, is much better. If you want to see how he's evolved as a mangaka since he started then check this manga out. Otherwise, I'd say skip it in favor for a less disappointing effort. 6 creepy, spiritual boob-touchers out of 10.
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Uwa-Koi review
If we could count the little sins that lead us to a strange situation, on Tamaki Yukiteru's account overflow from his childhood when he accidentally burns down his house. He currently lives with the family of Yuno, her neighbor and childhood friend, who wants him "crazy", but he doesn't sense this kind of "like". But secretly dates Saotome Rena, a friend of both, who recently moved to their High School. It would be great if Yumeno Kaori, classmate, had not discovered this secret relationship at Yuno's eyes, and cause a silent pact with Yukiteru-kun somewhat peculiar. . . And the list of small sins
does not seem to stop there.
So is a fault on genre on the tragedy part - it must be clear and put the label -, so more the yandere part must put on it too, 'cause isn't a simply sex - ecchi -, so harem plot here. If you hope that it could make you have a disappointment. And don't hope any HE. This seinen is guided into a tragic conclussion, so the sex plot have an important rol on it, also the issues to manage a no sane near relationship since childhood, so many secrets on life, I mean on Yukiteru's weakness, so simplicity and the way he drives his own life and relationships. And each character main or secondary have their own dilema so issues. The plot go more difficult ahead till ending.
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Sweet Poolside review
While reading Shuuzou Oshimi's popular Flowers of Evil manga, I took a look at the rest of his works and noticed recurring themes of adolescent sexuality. Some premises had more of a... questionable nature than others, and after sharing a few with a friend we each decided to read a different one volume work from the author. Curious if the rest of his works would have the same nuance and tact as Flowers of Evil, I decided to give the most absurd premise a shot: Sweet Poolside, a manga about a hairless boy shaving a hairy girl. And thus, my life sank further into the
abyss.
The manga's largest issue is not its controversial subject matter, but rather its lack of focus on the motivation behind it. In stark contrast to the Flowers of Evil, Sweet Poolside doesn't use its premise as a means to share philosophy with any depth. For the most part, this is an atypical framework for a typical romance plot. It's organically cute in how embarrassed the two main characters are of their bodily problems and how they learn to support each other in the way that only they empathetically can. This relationship and also the characters' contemplation of their own self-consciousness are the highlights of this coming-of-age story, but what could be further detailed is covered with an overgrowth of hairy exposition. The shaving scenes are given far too much attention to the point where they almost seem fetishized, and as a story element they rarely serve any point other than to demonstrate the boy's nervousness and the girl's shyness. The only point of this is beaten over your head as these scenes are dragged out for far too long. The initial shaving scene was the only thing that needed to be shown in full, and after this the manga should've focused solely on the characters growing up now that they've found someone else to trust. This element is there, but buried under this worn, dull razor blade of storytelling. Seeing multiple pages of shaving and only one of the main female character reflecting on what that meant to her is kind of lousy and a waste of a possibly pure-hearted intent by the author. Beyond that, the art is decent but frequently cartoonish in a gag manga-esque way rather than the detailed realism of Flowers of Evil. There's also a one-shot manga chapter included in this release entry, but I can't find it anywhere. Fine enough, I suppose, as MAL grouping unrelated stories is stupid anyway. If that bonus chapter exists, please let me know.
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Shoujo Tsubaki review
If you are new to the work of Suehiro Maruo, boy you have a big storm coming. 'Shoujo Tsubaki' is his most popular work, garnering attention as being known to many people as "The most disturbing anime/manga of all time." In my opinion, 'Brother's Conflict' and 'Papa to Kiss in the Dark' are FAR more disturbing than this, but I digress.
To be quite honest, this story is actually more streamline and almost makes sense is comparison to his other work. That being said, there is almost no actual storyline to follow and does not make too much sense at times. Things just happen and you have to roll with the punches. If you were hoping for actual plot and a resolved conflict, you will not be satisfied with this. What makes this manga special is the art; The stark contrast between the black and white without excessive use of screentones to mellow out those harsh lines. Instead of screentones, much of the shading is hatching, which just makes the art feel that much grittier to me. The best usage of hatching I found was on page 115, I can literally feel the hand cramp just from looking at it. I'd like to just reference some of my favorite pages, because I only really enjoyed this book for the artistic value. Page 84, the "Ant Scene.." go ahead and try to figure out what happens in the ant scene. Pages 106-107, which I would like to refer to as "An actual nightmare, OR a really good time!!" My favorite of all though was on page 111, where we see Midori standing in front of a cold night sky. It's not the most detailed or refined drawing, but it is just really nice to look at, when you see it you'll know what I mean. I am not even going to bother talking about our "lovely" cast of characters. There's nothing to talk about, other than the fact every character other than Midori is an ACTUAL PREDATOR and will not hesitate to bust a nut at any given second. But I will give credit to Muchisute for eating with his feet though, what a king. He can't play rock paper scissors but MAN he do be dressing well!! If you are a horror/guro fan and haven't given this a chance yet, literally what are you waiting for. Or if you're someone who simply wants to expand their horizons by reading something different or weird, I'd say give this a go! Keep in mind there are tons of explicit and disturbing scenes, such as r*pe, mutilation and murder. 'Shoujo Tusbaki' is a mere 1 volume, so a quick read that I would say is very much worth it :3c <3
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Girl May Kill review
SPOILER FREE REVIEW
Girl may kill is a "drama" using mafia ambientation,if you're expecting blood and a show of extreme violence in each chapter, just calmn down, this manga is not a gore thing. But a good drama need good characters and this manga fail on it. It's a cool to spend some time, but nothing great. Story- 7 The idea of use mafia to create situations of conflict and exploring the dangerous aspect of this side of society is pretty well made, the reader understand that the characters are in a dangerous place and their life is in a constant risk, however the story doesn't have a defined plot, an end to aim, we only know a bit about Mei's goal and the others characters just follow the mood. The author make very strange moments, the characters take unatural actions without much background to explain it and the end is just ???? YOU DON'T THROW AWAY THE WHOLE NARRATIVE PROGRESSION IN SUCH A SIMPLE AND INCONSEQUENT WAY it looked like the manga was canceled or the author get tired of it, but the final makes sense with the "Scorpion and the frog" story of the beggining of the manga. Art- 4 It's not bad, but is nothing special and the scenes of fight seems "steady" to much to a person in movement. Characters- 5 The characters doesn't look like humans many times and are hell weak. Gohongi: The nice guy, with some values but with ??? motivations, but the author uses him in a good way to show the perspective of a normal person in such extreme scenario. Mei: She has a motivation in the manga and guide the whole narative. *****SPOILER But damnit she throw it away, her goal is what made the story go for 19 chapters just to vanish in a strange manner and after that the thing get out of hand.****** END OF SPOILER Katsura: Exists to be our hotblooded onee-chan. Kuzuki: A good oldlady i like her, one of the few "normal" person here. Ristu: She's here just to create conflict to others characters solve. Manome: A good guy, but one detail of his past just turned the whole series bad :( The other characters are not so good and have little timescreen, but with a potencial to be good characters if the writer wouldn't have been such a moron creating a plot with such shallow end. Enjoyment- 6 Even with such weak story the manga is pretty good to spend some time and is cool how the characters deal with this dark side of society.
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Sensei no Boku review
As Always I'll be short. It's a story about a young male student who falls for his Female teacher. He confesses his love and is told that he is loved in returned. It’s followed by the announcement that he's her slave, and the betrayal of his love for her. She proceeds to abuse and toy with him and his love, placing him in emasculating positions. She has no true love for him just a desire to humiliate, destroy and make him her toy. If you get your rocks off by watching a young man being made into sissy toy then you’ll love this; otherwise steer
clear. I hated it and would love to deck the mangaka for the boy.
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