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I read the french version of this manga, so I maybe missed some points lost in translation.

Have you ever wondered how a glider can fly?

Well, I haven' before reading this manga.

Summary:
Blue Thermal is about a young student, who will learn everything about glider and develop different relations with her fellow students.

Story:

The introduction to the glider was a bit weird but as the manga goes on, the subject is developed successfully and with rare precision. the story will give you the chill and will give you the interest you didn't know you needed about gliders.

The Art:

The art was good. the double pages well done and sometimes the emptiness was the best ally to help to feel the littleness of human to the gigantic sky. Moreover, the drawings gave a feeling of peace and calm.

Characters:

At first, the characters seem cliché but they all show some contrast after the second manga. The build-up of their personality is sometimes a bit forced and some relations are not developed at all. That creates a strange feeling as if something was missing because the characters were rushed.

Enjoyment:

This manga will give you one or two good laughs, maybe some anger toward some characters, but surely an admiration to the work done. I've never heard of the mangaka before but for a first work, it is clearly something good. The only bad point was the character development, which, I felt, was rushed (maybe because the manga is only 5 tomes long?).


Overall:

A very good manga for a first one, a promising and passionate author, a fine introduction to the glider world but work needs to be done about the characters.

Magia the Ninth

Get this, your favorite classical composers in a manga, featuring their famous compositions, fight against demons, and (SPOILER UNTIL *) not even have a proper ending.*

I think the author either likes classical music or just researched them and have them in a manga where classical music enthusiasts will enjoy them.

Well having well know composers like the 3 B, Liszt, Schumann, Schubert, and even a violin maker, Stradivarius, you know the author did some research.

At first, when they chant some words before they execute "Masterpieces", I felt that the author wants classical to not be an obscure taste.

The pieces the author chose are mostly the most famous works, with each varying stories, interpretations, and descriptions about the piece.

With that in mind, the pieces were limited. Look at Schubert, he only used Der Erlkonig throughout the entire series. Liszt only have Liebestraum. Brahms's Alto Rhapsody. And of course Beethoven has 4 because he's the . most famous composer, and he's the main protagonist.

Story-wise, young kid wants revenge and find a mentor, yeah.

Art, all of them are bishounen, because the target demographic are women so it's ok, but what is not okay, at least for me, is a WOMAN TCHAIKOVSKY. You could have choose one from the many female composers instead of gender bending.

Would I recommend you reading this? No, unless you just want to marvel at pretty boys, classical composers character, fantasy action, then I won't stop you.

This is a very weak shounen series. Some spanish users are giving it high scores because they are proud of the protagonist, who plays in the Betis futbol club, the best fooball team in the country manque pierda, but this manga just doesn't live to the hype. It doesn't do justice to the heroic team, nor convey anything particularly interesting on its own. In fact, it's a terrible and boring series that is not worth of your time.

As a Betis fan, I'm very dissapointed with this. I expected better from japan, guess I will stay away from the medium for a while.

An extraordinary rarity which contains a dose of surrealism and fast-paced action, in center fixated on a man in search for his identity, and answers about his existence. This cerebral and introspective experience will surely prompt you to read it more than once due to its intricacies and story line fluctuations.

The art utmostly pertains to this surrealistic input, albeit it is far away from beautiful, but rather suitable to this morose and melancholic atmosphere, yet it still makes the characters appear vivacious, in a sense.

Wonderful and ostentatious read, which can be hard, perplexed and unfathomable in the process, but offers a reward and exuberation once finished.

I can't really say that this held my interest for the first 7 chapters, there were ok but they weren't good the last 10 were the same and even at time dragged on so badly I even fell asleep at chapter 13. LadyPsychic says that it's like Trigun, maybe; we won't ever know as the story setting is only kinda similar: vast wasteland, big bounty, lost tech, OP MC(debatable), two companions(3 if you include the unicorn[?]). I would actually Place Rappa in it's own category because the mangaka can't decide what to do. Fantasy, magic, crazy futuristic but steampunk tech, dinosaurs(wtf?), mechs...to much in only 17 chapters.

Another point against it being like Trigun is that Trigun was 20 chapters, 3 chapters more(it does speed up halfway through) but it has a cohesive story line the isn't all over the place. This really wasn't enjoyable, I just got done the original Trigun(the first time I read it) and it was very good, and held my interest, engrossing is the word I love to use on very good stories, just like all Baki's I want to read the next chapter and not sleep, this didn't do that I found myself thinking 'only 17 chapters I'm almost done', that's not a good thing. I can't really recommend this it's not bad but it ain't good, barely scratched the surface of Trigun but not even close to being like it, to many things happening all at once. One read.

First of all, this manga is still being published, so my review can only touch on the chapters I've read this far, being those of the first two volumes as translated by Illuminati-Manga and Izumo no Ryuu.

Welcome to France, anno 1429, in the later part of the Hundred Years' War, where we meet the leader of a band of mercenaries, aptly named, as per the title, Pierre, who, when not on the field of battle, spends his time marauding and plundering. So doing, he tries to rob three men of all their goods, including their clothing, to find out one of them is actually a girl. Wanting to do the dirty, he is stopped when the girl begs him to leave her unravished, so she can travel to Orléans and fulfill her tasks there, to which she has been appointed by God Himself, after which she will submit willingly. For some reason he cannot really fathom, Pierre indeed does leave her be, thus allowing her to in fact become the Maid of Orléans, and from then on he will fight at her side.
Mercenary Pierre is yet another rendering of the story of Jeanne d'Arc, this time focusing solely on her campaigning years, as seen through the eyes of a man who starts out as a gruff and worldly dog of war, and who slowly is being redeemed by the grace of La Pucelle. As the first two volumes don't range beyond the victorious first campaign towards Reims, as of yet little more can be said about the greater story.

The art is great, reminding one perhaps mostly of the past arcs of Berserk. There is a lot of attention to detail, visible in the arms and armour, but also in the buildings, trappings, and backgrounds, making it in this aspect a lot akin to other historical series as Historie and Vinland Saga, but being more gritty and detailed in depicting the faces, and being without the annoying empty spaces especially Historie shows far too often: every panel in Mercenary Pierre is fully put to use.
It is obvious the illustrators know what they are drawing. Not only is there much attention to detail per se, but it is also quite correct, and it is clear that the creators of the manga have to some extent studied available work on the War and d'Arc's campaigns: not only are arms and utensils quite correct, for instance, but so also is the lay-out of the fortresses and cities mentioned. The attention to detail can also be found in little touches such as the (correct) map of the strategical situation around Orléans at the end of volume 1.
Quite a few pages show art with sexual content, and though these drawings are not fanservice per se, as they do tie in to the story, one may question the real use the profundity of sexual scenes has with regard to the quality of the story.

The attention to detail mentioned above is also visible in the story. Though the language used is at some points somewhat unwieldy (though this might be result of difficulty of translation), it is clear that attention is paid to making the characters think to some fashion as people of the place and age would think, and act as they should act. The issue of plunder by bands of mercenaries, including the enslavement of persons, especially women, is used often in this fashion, and though the phrasings used would make the reader think that we're dealing with stereotypical images of rape and destroy, the manga shows how such tours of marauding had an impact on logistics and the local economy, even showing the soldiers' camp as a movable economic unit in and of itself.
Issues of sexual morals and gender are raised somewhat overly often, and it is here that all too often modern-day morality seems to raise its head, though the manga tries to portray the facts of mercenary life and how it conflicts with Christian morality.

With regard to the characters, as always happens when she appears in whatever story, Jeanne steals the show. Portrayals of the Maid of Orléans are almost as varied as those of Jesus, ranging from a madwoman to one truly divinely inspired, from a naive pawn to a master tactician and demagogue. Recent approaches tend to emphasize Jeanne's human side, her doubts about her mission, and her intelligence, or common sense, when dealing with the more learned and more worldly.
Mercenary Pierre plays it somewhat more simple, displaying Jeanne as a young girl, overly naive, believing in her mission, and focusing heavily on Christian morality and propriety. Much is made, too, of her charisma, which is strong enough to make her appear larger than life and encourage men on the battlefield with her presence alone.
Her charisma and conviction seem to strongly influence the men and women she interacts with, most notably Pierre and his band, and their manners change visibly. Quite touching is how her sense of mercy and equality of all life is portrayed and shown to rub off on the gruff mercenaries.

Of course, there are downsides. Focusing so heavily on Pierre and Jeanne, much of the greater story is left somewhat vague. Jeanne seems overly naive, irritatingly so at times, while Pierre and his band seem to be redeemed somewhat too quickly. More annoying is that much use is made of the old "good simple soldier, bad conniving noble" cliché, though the fact that Jeanne was actively opposed by many nobles takes some of the steam out of the annoyance. Somewhat irritating, too, is the heavy emphasis placed on issues of sexual practice and morality.

As for the translation, in general it is of a good quality. The story is clear, and many names and terms are consistently used. A nice touch, too, is how the actively mentioned use of a northern vernacular by the mercenaries vis-a-vis the official French is shown through use of some dialect in English, though I wouldn't know whether such use is made of dialect in the Japanese original. Sometimes the translation is somewhat unwieldy, especially when it seems that a technical term is used with which the translator is unacquainted. More grating is that many proper names are incorrect (such as the consistent use of 'Tourel' for the fortress of 'Les Tourelles', and, more seriously, 'Lens' for 'Reims'), though, again, this might be an issue in the original Japanese version.

All in all, I'm pretty impressed by the manga, and am actively awaiting more translated chapters and am hoping for an official release.

Short:
If you like the principal from Prison School, you'll like Cherry Teacher. It's a great ecchi comedy.

Long:
Cherry Teacher is about a male teacher at an all-girls school, and the ensuing funny ecchi things that happen! Sounds horribly generic, huh? But unlike the hesitating, teasing panty shots of so many manga series (Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san, for example), Cherry Teacher goes all in on the comedy and all in on the perversion. Every scene isn't just about the ecchi -- they're all hilarious.

In some sense, Cherry Teacher parodies everything about the ecchi genre. From stalkers to hot springs to peeping up girls' skirts at the bottom of the stairs, Cherry Teacher doesn't take any stereotypical ecchi scene in the usual or expected way. It somehow always turns into a hilariously stupid joke (just like the assman principal of Prison School).

Update: Finished the rest of the series. It gets much lewder and stops being a parody at some points, but the jokes are still funny.

It's short, funny, cute.

There isn't too much to say about it yet, as every chapter is only a single page. However, to give a little bit of context: Imagine a setup like Lovely Complex (tall girl x tiny boy), mixed in with some Toradora character traits (the male MC is a badass delinquent, in that way similar to Taiga). Although, even though he is a delinquent, he seems to be an actually nice and caring person.

Like I said, every chapter is only a single page, so the entire thing (so far) can be read in basically no time at all.. so instead of reading a review you might be faster just reading it for yourself.

B-shock is a romantic comedy manga about 2 college students, who meet a nutty Professor, and are suddenly forced to be extremely close to one another or else the watches on their wrist, courtesy of the Professor, will blow up, if they exceed the maximum amount of distance from each other.

As a comedy manga, it's good. Every day, due to their situation, they have to go through unique and funny situations. They have to go to the bathroom with one another, make the most ridiculous excuses as to why they can't be separated, and try to avoid scenarios that will keep them apart.

Sometimes, they see the professor and try to exact revenge or fix this little issue of theirs. Unfortunately for them, it never goes their way.

In short, their lives are a living hell, but for us readers, it's a funny ride.

As for their romantic aspect of the manga.... it's awful, just awful. Before she likes the main character, the main female lead has a crush on two other guys. One of whom, she was completely infatuated with. I wouldn't have a problem with all of this, if they showed some scenes that would convince me that she would love the main character the most. However, that did not happen. The main female lead's feelings do not feel genuine at all. It's like she's with the main character out of convenience and just because she couldn't get the other 2 guys, which also means he's really the only option left. I don't know about you, but I did not feel any satisfaction.

On a much more positive, I thought the art was good. The backgrounds as well as the character designs are quite nice. Also, the reactions really help with the comedy.

Last, but not least, we have the characters. Arata, our main protagonist as well as the main male lead, while nice, started off a bit too perverted for my taste. Fortunately, he goes through much needed character development. He knows how to stand up for himself and make good decisions. After the development, his perverted thoughts just make him seem like any ordinary boy. He has them, but they don't make you want to punch him. By the end, he's a likable and relatable guy. Anyone would be jealous, if they saw their crush staring at some other dude.

Hatsune is our main female lead. I didn't like her very much, but I didn't hate her. She was naive and a goody two shoes. I especially didn't like her when it came to the romance, you just couldn't help, but feel bad for Arata. On the bright side, she did genuinely care for Arata as a friend. She really was genuinely nice; she just sucked when it came to romance.

Basically, Arata is great & Hatsune is alright to the point where you're not going to drop the manga, but you certainly aren't going to continue reading it for her.

If you want a comedy manga, then this is a pretty good option. If you want a satisfying romance though, then there are way way way better choices out there. The romance portion will most likely piss you off more than it will satisfy you.

I'm going to make this as short and meaningful as the manga...I WANT MORE! Everything about this manga is great until it reached Chapter 7. It ended with a (...) instead of a BAM! (SPOILER ALLERt )I want to know if things went well for both of the protagonist after separating, is it really impossible for a second chance? I'm a bit of a romantic so I was really hoping for a finished, concluded, happy ending. I'm left hanging so if anyone knows if there's a continuation on this do buzz me.

On the other hand, it reflects a lot of reality in our modern days. Love is love but when trust is trashed then that could really end a should have been great relationship.

I'm still feeling sad right now and hopeful at the same time.