danielstellar14

One Piece : the manga I've never thought I would read but then it become one of my all time favorite and my number one priority read every week. It started out as funny and full of action kind of story and then when the story dive in deeper it's full foreshadowing and moral meaning that parallels our society these days. Just a good manga recipe for me. It's awesomely drawn, especially the background work. And one of the only manga that ever made me cry even after reading it a lot of time and that A LOT. If you ever feel like 800+ chapter is too much to read, just try it and you'll get hooked on it and you'll never regret reading it.

For starters, i started reading this with an objective to learn mahjong rules and how it's played without readin description. I've rated this 6 because it ended up being so bad, that it actually ended up something i wont just drop and forget, more realistic "grade" would be 4 or 5.
When i've started reading it, what hello-ed me were characters that looked like Clint Eastwood in bad mood, doin' some gamblin', some action, so on... not important.
In the end i didn't learn mahjong rules, but left me with few good laughs.
You should read this if you have nothing better to do or want to read something bad to know what good means or if you like trashy stories... something like that.

It's 1 a.m. and I find myself delving into absolutely wonderfully depraved pseudo-hentai manga for reasons beyond my own comprehension.

I end up reading a handful of chapters of this, thinking "yo this really looks like some Kobayashi's Dragon Maid shit".

It is.

The author and artist of this is listed as an "original creator" for all the Dragon Maid seasons and specials.

This is literally just an R18 full-fledged manga very similar to the relationship between Quetzalcoatl and Shouta, with all the goodies of incest, rape, and hypnosis between a shota and busty mommies added in.

God bless Japan. Thank you KyoAni for hiring such talented creators.

8/10; Very mediocre manga, very satisfying hentai that scratches an otherwise unscratchable itch (mental illness?) in my brain.

Big Order is horrendous!

Everything in this series puts an fowl taste in my mouth, literally making me cringe and deform my face every time it did anything.

Before anything, I want to talk about the super powers in this series known as "Orders."

"Orders" are just "Stands" from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
If you read ANY review or comment section of Big Order, people are going to compare this series to Jojo. However, I want to get into why this bother me so much.

Stands, in Jojo, are defined as "Life energy" that are given a visual form and "stand" next to it's user, or is a "physical manifestation" of their "fighting spirit." That is kind of vague, but it gives you a general idea of what it is.

In Big Order, Orders are defined as "a supernatural power that's granted by a fairy," as a result of a "wish."

... That's it. That's the only explanation we get. It never explains how they really work, or why they appear as skeletons, or anything, really. Orders are just super vague reasons why these characters have super vague powers that stem from super vague wishes.

The problem with Orders, compared to Stands, is that the series just kind of expects you to know that it's a rip-off. The writer felt that, since people will know what Stands are, that they don't have to explain what they are. You just GET IT.

But, this backfires. The writer tries to also make Order seems different from Stands, as they seem to follow a different set of rule. The rules are NEVER explained, but they don't seem to act like Stands. If you want to know the "rules" of Stands, please just look them up, this is long enough as it is.

Basically, it tries to have it's cake and eat it too.

Now, onto the characters...

The character are boring. They look bland, they act bland, their wishes and powers are bland.

The main character, Hoshimiya Eiji, is such whiny bitch throughout the 4 chapters I've read. He is constantly talking about how the world is shit and it's "All my fault" (albeit the world seems just fine). This can work, but the way this series goes about doing it comes off a VERY melodramatic and annoying. He also has the power to "control everything in his zone" because he wanted to "conquer the world," but never explains how this works. It's just a weird square below him with a mummy in it and things happen.

The main girl, Yuno from Mirai Nikki, is just that, YUNO FROM MIRAI NIKKI! She's just some bland Yandere girl with no personality, other than that she's a Yandere. Her power is the "heal really fast," so fast that she is immortal. Also, she has a skeleton for a Stand.

Neo from the Matrix is in it, and bunch of other generic characters that don't "stand" out at all.

In short, BIG ORDER is shit. Read Jojo.

A pretty good story, that takes place in the future about a young boy who works, as a window washer, to take care of his guardian. While working there are some delinquents who cause damage to windows and harm one of his officer friends. He gets pissed off at them and crashes the delinquents and the cops chasing them into a civilian overpass. Art and story are done by Yusuke Murata who does well with this one shot. There is a small bit of feels when we learn the history of the main character. A low 9/10 very good, worth the 10-15 mins to read.

It was not bad at all. Although I wasn't expecting much, I was pleasantly surprised.

The art style was, well, what you can expect from any 90's manga.
Except for the sharp edges and those weird looking eyes that are about an acre apart, it was not bad.

Regarding the stories, the second one was my favorite by a far cry.
The third one felt a little rushed, but it was interesting nonetheless.

The other two, well, maybe at the time vengeful spirits and dolls weren't so popular, but nowadays are a common trope in Hollywood horror films. Surprisingly, they still managed to pique my interest.

It zips through the story at a fairly breakneck pace, but being a one-shot, this can't really be helped. Likewise, there's only the barest of characterization (though still a surprisingly decent amount, considering the length). The TS disease is basically just wibbly-wobbly biobabble that's incredibly unrealistic and is transparently just to excuse the circumstances of the plot, but given the "moral" of the story, and how we're basically only introduced to the character post-disease, I'm also willing to excuse this as it pretty much just seems to be a story meant to attempt to bring some light and acceptance to homosexuality in Japan. If you're willing to excuse these flaws, and a few other minor niggles, it's an adorable, heart-warming story whose only serious flaw is not having been given a serialized run.

From the creator of SKET Dance, we have yet another wild idea that JUMP occasionally accepts. It's already known that SKET Dance has been successful in it's run; especially it's comedy. Being awarded the 55th Shogakukan Manga Award for best shounen manga in 2009 is not an easy feat–making it stand alongside it's peers and alongside Gintama; being one of the best jack-of-all-trades anime serialized in JUMP. However, enough with SKET Dance.

Kenta Shinohara has risen back to his roots and released a promising manga in JUMP recently. Witch Watch is a wacky idea and starts off self-aware in it's randomness which is a small detail from SKET Dance. It's about this guy named Morihito and his childhood friend Niko. Morihito has the strength of an ogre and Niko wants to become a witch, it's a nice original idea from Kenta and I hope he does these characters well in the series. The art is nice and a modernized version of Kenta's old style. Characters seem promising and I hope it stays that way.

For now, I'll give this series an 8 for high hopes. I'll update if I change my mind.

I picked the manga out randomly, because after reading its summary the story of a boy and a girl switching bodies could be fun and good. Well, definitely not this one.

Story: 3/10
The story was really poorly written. When there could've been lots of funny and lovely moments and cute character relationships, there was only a bland and annoying story with dreadful characters. Things happened one after another, as if the mangaka didn't spare much thought to any of them.

Art: 4/10
The art was kinda bland and the faces were mostly expressionless. There were also a lot of frames where the characters were stocky and not well drawn. The girls' eyes seemed teary all the time. And the character designs weren't well done, especially Senbongi. The mangaka's beauty ideals seem to be very...behind.

Character: 1/10
This is the worst part of the manga. The characters' personalities were really awful and seemed to be goven little consideration.
Starting with Akira. It isn't normal that a boy is such a crybaby as him. Well, it can be so to a certain extent, but he just weeps and weeps all the time, which is annoying. I doubt if any girl could weep as much as him.
Momoi is much too...evil. And egoistic. For example, when Akira seeks a way to turn their bodies back to normal, she so bluntly refuses, having stolen Akira's family and good life, leaving him only her freaky grandfather. She just doesn't consider his feelings at all. And she also freaks out when he only looks at her body, while she even beds women in Akira's. And she's such a slut, going out with other women while actually dating Shiina, but at the same time claims to care deeply about her (which was surely meant to be something cute and deep, which it wasn't).
And SENBONGI. He's just disgusting. He falls for Akira in Momoi's body and then starts attacking him, getting really close to raping, and would've actually done it, too, if Akira hadn't narrowly escaped him each time. And Akira LIKES IT. Any normal girl would be disgusted and frightened, but he only thought how good a kisser Senbongi was. He actually was falling for him. And Senbongi also looks so terrible with his long hair and glasses. The appearance would be okay, if he was meant as a laughing stock sort of a character, but the mangaka seemed to consider him as a normal, even sexy guy. Ew. And the worst part was, even after Senbongi learns Akira and Momoi have switched bodies, he still continues pursuing Akira. And his personality isn't also well thought out. With Akira, he is really flirtative and isn't embarrassed at all, even when being continuously turned down. But when Momoi in Akira's body wants to change clothes in the same room, he gets really embarrassed, which doesn't match his usual personality at all.
One thing that made me gawk was the reaction of Akira's parents after his dramatic change of personality. Instead of worrying what has happened to their son they're glad that Akira has changed, claiming that 'there was always something wrong with him' just because he was manly enough for them. Shouldn't parents love their kid, no matter his personality or manliness?

Enjoyment: 2/10
I didn't enjoy the manga. It didn't make me laugh even once. I doubt I even smiled at the wannabe jokes. The terrible characters and their relationships didn't offer me any enjoyment.

Overall: 2/10
I don't recommend this manga to anyone. I can't imagine anyone liking it (even though I see that some do).
Still, the manga isn't worth reading. Trust me.

Read this if you are looking for: A tender yuri story in Tokyo’s nightlife scene with just enough drama.

Recommendation: Pick it up!

“After Hours” follows unemployed Emi who is whisked into the world of nightclubs and raves by new acquaintance and DJ Kei. The two women bond quickly as Emi joins Kei’s group of friends and helps put on events, even as Emi struggles to deal with both her past and future. Kei and Emi are a joy to watch, as Nishio Yuhta’s character art greatly enhances comedy and drama alike, and detailed panels and wardrobes bring to life the dazzling world that has so enthralled Emi. Many of the more tiresome yuri clichés are avoided, and while the overall narrative of the women’s relationship is nothing new to the genre, the adult characters and unique setting help make “After Hours” feel very fresh.