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When I first checked this thing out, the story seemed immature and poorly done, not to mention far too goofy. However I was soon corrected; it's none of the above. Luffy wants to be pirate king, but his main goal isn't that at all: It's to have as many adventures as he possibly can.

This is interesting, because unlike Naruto he does not wish to be the leader to get respect or anything silly like that. Luffy doesn't care about respect or appearances, which makes him a rather unique hero, even among shonen. Anyway, there are a series of shorter stories in the beginning as Luffy gathers friends (read: nakama). A swordsman, a navigator, a sharp-shooter/liar, and a chef join his crew in that order.

Although others criticize him, he takes off for the grand-line with that 5-man crew of trusty but perhaps inadequate men (and woman). The grand-line is where most of the stories in One Piece actually take place.

After that, a series of longer stories begin, each one with fresh and varying characters. Most have a very touching background, especially new crewmates.

Spoiler Alert!

The world of A Silent Voice is a web of themes and relationships that’s underrepresented in the adaptation. So after I finished the movie, I knew I had to read the source material. This manga is an expansive tale that not only examines Shouya’s psyche, but grants the same care to the rest of the cast. Without a runtime to concern, author Yoshitoki renders the characters, themes, and visuals in comprehensive, beautiful fashion.

From the start, Shouya’s mentality during his elementary school years is given much more emphasis. We understand his motivations and relationship with his former friends, and see the full extent of the bullying. But more significantly, there’s more to Shouko as well. After Shouya’s fall, the story practically halts, and the subsequent chapters are spent with each character individually. In one chapter, we embody Shouko’s perspective as she imagines an idyllic childhood that never happened. It’s heartbreaking, and one of the many gems that are sadly excluded from the movie for the sake of efficiency.

As much as it’s great to witness more of the Nishimiya family’s past, there are some misses as well. I found Sahara’s dealings with fashion forced and Kawai’s flawed personality unresolved. Removing these characters entirely would have reduced clutter while still keeping the story true to its message. The whole movie arc is very entertaining but ultimately more of a diversion than anything. Still, witnessing the gang being demolished in pompous movie-critic fashion is a hilarious subversion of expectations. Realistically though, the speaker would’ve been promptly and instantly cancelled by the public, and rightly so.

From start to finish, A Silent Voice is one moving work of art featuring some truly stunning chapters. It’s the cherry on top of an already incredible film adaptation, but the movie and manga are equally good in their own right. As their endings demonstrate, one is trimmed and purposeful, and the other is intricate and complete. Despite these differences, both communicate forgiveness and friendship in a tale that’s incredibly heartfelt and boundlessly optimistic.

Yona is a BADASS! It's not often I come across a female protagonist that I LOVE, so when it happens, I get super excited. And I'm SUPER EXCITED about Akatsuki no Yona. Before I go off on that, though, I want to point out that this is not your typical reverse harem. The romantic aspect of the story, while certainly present, is often cast to the side in favor of... you know... things that actually matter when you're living in a world struck with war, famine, and disease. It's really awesome, and I highly recommend this series to everyone, especially young women.

Okay, now I get to talk about Yona. Yonaaaaaa! The thing I love most about her is that, despite the heavy supernatural and fantasy elements in the story, her development feels so real. In the beginning, she's just a spoiled princess whose only concerns in life are her hair and her childhood crush. However, once she witnesses the death of her father and is driven from her home, her character just flourishes. At first she seems completely broken, as you would expect from a pampered girl. She experiences hunger, pain, betrayal, and hopelessness for the first time in her life, but from that she develops a strong urge to survive. She also learns to really appreciate the warmth of family and friendship that she'd always taken for granted in her sheltered life. As she travels around her country in search of the dragons, she sees the reality of her kingdom, which is totally at odds with the idealistic and peaceful vision of her father. Seeing more and more suffering, her will to survive slowly evolves into a will to see her people survive, and she works hard to make it happen to the best of her ability while living as a fugitive.

And here's the best part about Yona, the thing that really gets me fired up about her character. Despite her physical weakness (an inevitability with her upbringing, as her father despised violence), and despite her having numerous incredible warriors at her side, she works damn HARD not to be a damsel. And when I say she "works hard", I don't mean that she continuously whines about wanting to help more without actually doing anything, nor do I mean she develops some mystical powers out of nowhere, nor do I mean that she suddenly becomes an incredible warrior overnight. She trains rigorously with a sword and bow, and we get to see her labor reflected in her calloused hands and bruised body throughout the series. She REALLY works hard and ACTUALLY improves over time.

As for the other characters, they're all really well developed. Yona's companions are a bit "typed" at first glance, but they're far from flat. The main cast consists of Yona, our lovely, wonderful, bestest heroine; her childhood friend, Hak, who is also the leader of the Wind tribe and a renowned fighter; Yun, the self-proclaimed genius bishounen; and the four dragon warriors that Yona seeks out during the first few story arcs. The main group gets quite large by about 50 chapters in, but every character is distinct, they all develop unique relationships with one another, and they all have their own demons that they have to grapple with as they grow.

It's not just the main cast that shines, though. By the time I got to the most recent chapters, I found myself caring deeply about everyone, even the "villains" and minor characters. I really love how your perspective of the characters in each arc shift as you start to see new sides of people that you first thought were obviously "good" or "bad". Really, being able to create such dynamic and relateable characters for minor roles is, imo, a huge testament to Mizuho Kusanagi's incredible storytelling ability.

The story itself has a very "epic" quality to it. The pacing is pretty slow at times, especially in the beginning. The first few chapters, before things start to take a supernatural turn, feel like an entirely different story. But I think the slower pace is really a very good thing, as it allows plotlines to develop more naturally instead of feeling forced. It's hard to pin down a central theme for the story, both because it's still ongoing and because soooooo many different things are explored. There's really something for everyone, whether you're a fan of action, adventure, fantasy, romance, coming-of-age, or you just want something fresh to fall in love with.

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Minami Kanan delivers what she does best! Smut which takes your breath away with the mere beauty of the characters and settings involved! While the artwork isn't as magnificent as that of Kyousou Heaven, in fact Seri looks a bit unbecoming a lot of the time, the storyline is longer, though not complex or linear, more repetetive and predictable (and honestly, annoyingly maudlin) at points.

So Seri is excited about entering high school and wishes to do so with a boytoy at her side. Enter childhood karate partner and pain in the ass Tamaki with his raging hormones and undeniable sex appeal! How is Seri to blame if she ends up his "toy" because she lost a match she shouldn't have taken up in the first place?! Regardless, so starts their torrid little affair which steams up the entire 8 volume saga. And yes, it is a saga, and no, the drama is not going to keep you on the edge of your seat, but the smutty moments in between make up for it!

As the mangaka herself mentions in the author talk often, she wanted to push shoujo boundary with this story. In that, she wanted to introduce realism in some aspect into the love between Seri and Tamaki. So while tons of absurd things have to be accepted for the sake of the plot, like a drug which simply on coming in contact with your body immobilises you and how another drug turns you on so much, you will attack the helpless girl next to you, even though you're noble enough to tell her to make a run for it; she does introduce one element which I think hasn't been dealt with too much. The heroine's wily hormones! Of course this is just one subplot which deals with how Seri is a victim of her own body as well as a tawdry villain, but it was a little disturbing to read. Another even more disturbing villain is introduced later with a Norman Bates like fetish which is even more unsettling considering this IS a romance after all!

But yes, villains seem limited in their malicious intent almost upto the end, "must separate lovebirds". But each villain is dealt with sympathetically once they've done their dirty deeds, how there is a reason to why they are vicious now, but were gentle once upon a time. It gets annoying after a point. It's OK! Not everyone NEEDS to be a good human being! Another odd aspect that attracts attention to itself is how rushed the ending feels. After volume 7, when the author feels she's put two 17 year olds in as much jeopardy as is humanly possible, she rushes through the last volume trying to incorporate a whole year's worth of drama into 5 chapters with a conflict which doesn't sit well with the feel of the manga.

Feminism... Hmm, well, Seri should technically be able to protect herself against the repeated assaults she's exposed to panel after panel, but we'll surmise she's just delicate and in shock when the situation arises. Once or twice, she does try to put all that Karate training to use, but she fails miserably. Maybe THAT's why she doesn't bother defending herself other times, why embarrass herself?! She doesn't appear too pathetic as she's not in love with an abusive fellow, so she doesn't need to be on her toes all the time. As for the love scenes between her and Tamaki... STEEEE-AMY! They are one naughty constantly-hot-for-each-other couple! Well, he more than her! He gets it going on in so many unexpectedly public places, that you'll think twice about occupying the ice cream parlour booth next time! But he is so loving and fixated, that you forgive his rabbit like ways.

Character development is weak. The hero is apparently flawless, his only weakness being his possessive love, while the heroine is perhaps the most mediocre girl ever. She's not a good cook, is clumsy, easily lead, and a victim of her own desires more often than not. But he loves that part of her! Villainous characters on the other hand have, as mentioned, tons of grey shades in themselves. Overall, it's not a great thinker's manga. The smut is delicious as is its delivery. The couple is forever ready to entertain the voyeuristic reader and Kanan never denied that this is her forte in the first place.

People hate Boruto due to anime adaptation. They don't read manga because of that. Now those who read manga drop it fast. They are writing review by reading only 10 chapters. They have to read to latest chapter and i don't know why but i think because people hate boruto it has become my favorite manga by defending boruto. . In first the art was bit off but its improving every chapter. when i saw review who gave low score i clicked on there and they read upto 10 or 20 chapters(there are exception too). I am glad to give it 10 by 10.

Once upon a time a wee 15 year old kevin was browsing through the sacred mangafreak app trying to see if "Hataraku Maō-sama" had a manga. Unfortunately, the manga wasn't found but like all men of culture the loli on this cover caught my attention and I was prepared to be amazed. This manga is basically "The devil is a part timer" but instead of a single protagonist, it follows the lives of 6 girls that work fullish- parttime? fulltimeish? lives? in a family restaurant. Anyways while the storytelling is shifty at times the art and character designs pays way tf off.
Summarize- If ur tryin to laugh or something read this

I don't even know where to begin..

It is a trainwreck of a story where the female lead claims to dislike guys because she thinks they are disgusting and rude, unlike girls. Her dislike of guys is too overdone and the source of this phobia is literally because of a guy growing armpit hair.

Okay so it's a shoujo manga, things are supposed to be overdone. I agree, the only problem is that she falls in love with a guy who rightfully disagrees with her dislike of boys and teases her about it. She fell so easily for him it was as if she didn't dislike boys at all. There was little to no inner conflict, and it turned out to be that this guy already had a girlfriend ( whose personality is bland). It felt like the girlfriend was only there to fill the 'jealous' girlfriend archetype that you see in so many shoujo manga's.

I had to drop the manga. The lead characters are bland and stereotypical, same goes for the art.

Definitely not recommended.

This manga follows the episodic adventures of one ghost hunter, while he does his odd line of work and exorcises the ghosts that his clients are bothered by. The story on paper sounds plain and the bland execution of it was quite unsatisfying, and borderline monotonous.

The stories presented in these 3 volumes are standalone, every chapter portrays the interaction of certain person with a ghost, and involves the main character, saving the day. For people with some understanding of the japanese urban ghost stories, the setting will feel familliar. After reading 3-4 of them you know well what's gonna happen in general, with a few notable exceptions.

The manga's art is pretty well done, the artstyle is distinct and memorable, a good blend of realistic facial expressions, tho tad same-y as the story goes by. The main character looks bizzare and eccentric, which feels just right. The ghosts are portrayed as distorted, maimed and creepy, which fits right in the narrative.

Character-wise, the manga suffers alot - the episodic 1 dimensional characters doesn't help a bit, and the main character's antics became repetitive quite fast, somewhere along the way the mangaka probably saw that coming, and embraced kind of comedic approach sometimes. We do get a snippets of his dedication to dealing with ghosts, as well as a backstory, told in a few scattered chapters.

Overaly, whether you'd find this manga entertaining is up to you. If you are looking for some horror based on the urban horror stories of Japan, then you'd enjoy this one, if you're not looking for a complex story, you could appreciate the episodic nature of the manga, and if you're looking for a creepy, non-engaging ride, maybe you'd like it.

This is about two married couples who are suffering in their marriage (because they aren't satisfied or happy). Both leads are married to different people and one day console each other about their worries in which they become more close.

They continuously meet, and console each other about their problems. Obviously, as colleagues. While you are reading, you will understand why the leads are upset with their partners and why they arent happy in their marriage. It's pretty realistic but in a good way.

While consoling each other several times, they both realize they have a lot in common and eventually fall in love.

I'll be honest but the partners of the leads will annoy you because of their behavior. But other than that, I like the leads since they actually attempt to fix and enjoy their marriage. They don't give up on their marriage. But because of the lack of communication between them and their partners, it eventually falls apart. Slowly but eventually.

By the end, I hope the leads end up together

Hello Baby tells a simple story of how gangster mentality can be the deadliest killer. Our story centers on Kinya as he deals with the aftermath of a failed execution and attempts to regain his masculinity. He's joined by his right-hand man Taku and his girlfriend Aya who all believe that the only way for him to become a man is to be a killer.

Kinya was supposed to kill a gang leader but he didn't have the nerves to do it. Things get even worse when Aya reveals she's pregnant. This leads to Kinya's inner turmoil where he wants to prove he's a man but doesn't want his baby to be the child of a murderer.

Kinya is a victim of performative masculinity; feeling the need to engage in toxic behavior to prove his worth. His limited set of morals clashes with his desire of gaining respect and ultimately leads to an event that forever changes his life.

The art by Takeshi Obata is full of life and has a great punk/ street life aesthetic to it that works perfectly with the atmosphere of the story. He was probably the best artist that could've been commissioned for this manga. Read Hello Baby if you want a true to life gang story.