MagicalMax243

It took me only a few days to read the entirety of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part Seven: Steel Ball Run. For context, this is the longest part in all of JoJo. Not only that, it's the obvious best. It took me a few days to write this review because I couldn't figure out how to explain why this part is so good. Honestly, it's miles above every other part. I know it's difficult to believe, but hear me out.
The part is overall very different. It's not the episodic stand battles we've known to love since part three. There are stand battles, but the story is more straight forward. The stands this time around really aren't ghosts that fight for the characters. They're powers that the characters obtain and find out more about as the story goes on. The ghosts aren't as important this time around. For example, Johnny Joestar's stand is the ability to shoot his fingernails like bullets. Gyro Zeppeli's power comes from a steel ball that he uses. I think it offers for more interesting fights.
The two main characters, Gyro Zeppeli and Johnny Joestar are two of my favorites characters of all time. Never before in JoJo have I ever been more invested in character arcs like I was in this one. Both of them are not only fascinating character studies, but entertaining to watch. Their dialogue together is the absolute best in the series. They talk like real people that I could relate to. But, they aren't even the best characters. Normally, I'd say the villain is the best character. And, yeah, Funny Valentine is the best villain in JoJo and probably my favorite villain of all time. He lacks a certain coolness factor from Diavolo, but he gives off this threatening presence every time he shows up. Not only that, he's such an interesting character to listen to. The backstory of his life is tragic in a way that clearly affects him in the present. His motivations for what he does are clear in a way that the reader can understand. He can drive a reader insane thinking about how he could be right or how he obviously believes himself to be right. Even the main characters question whether or not they're the villains. Only JoJo can make a villain this god damn good.
But despite how great the villain is and the main characters, they aren't my favorite character. My favorite character, not only is this part but one of my favorites in all of manga, is Lucy Steel. From the moment she appeared, I knew she was a fascinating character, she ended up getting a ton of screentime and I got so attached to her character and there were so many moments where I fear for what would happen to her.
That's another thing about this part, pure investment. I was so invested in the story, the characters, the conversations, the fights. It has all the coolness of other JoJo parts amped up to eleven, some of the best character dialogue I've ever read, one of the best stories of all time, my favorite power/fighting system ever, and a great mixture of intense fights and fun fights. This is my favorite part of JoJo by a massive amount.

I have no qualms saying that this is the greatest thing I've read from Japan.

I just finish reading Koe no Katashi or a silent voice all in one read, it's a brilliant tale of coming to terms with social anxiety, true friendship, and love, all the characters is suggestive of the hidden problem of today teenager. My heart has swelled to twice it's size and full of love for the first time in years...and I'm married, I glad there still something that make me feel this way, grateful even. What else can make me cry like this? Until now I only know one kind of tears: Sadness. But I didn't cry because it sad but because this story simply touch me. I'm a working writer/director, I called myself a storyteller, and I'm ashamed that I never tell the story as good, as beautiful as this in my entire career. I look it up and see that the girl who wrote it are the same age as me, we even born the same month, I even fantasized about flying to Japan and thanks her in person (my wife would kill me though), I'm failed as a storyteller so far and from now on the new goal of my career is to create something that make people's feel the same way I do with this story. I love this manga. I glad I can across something like this at least once in a life time and I'm highly recommend it. Sorry about my English, it 3am, I'm really emotional right now.

This was the first volume of manga I ever bought online and translated for myself.
...Maybe I'm biased for that reason, but I can genuinely say that I love this manga from the bottom of my heart. I loved it so much that I feebly attempted to typeset the first chapter all by myself for others to enjoy and hopefully pick up, lol.

First of all, the art is very smooth & I really enjoy the artist's style. I especially love the expressions, or more specifically Hades' expressions, and the lil moe fucking blushes (on both Hades and everyone else) that make me want to cry.
May or may not have actually cried more than once. Like... why is Hades so cute? Why does that make me so damn happy?

The characters are really well made, I think. I was really shocked when affections were confirmed in the very first chapter - it's refreshing, really. I also love Hades' design and his lil monocle, and the author's representation of Aphrodite and Athena - and of course Elvira. Bless her, tbh.
I love Elvira's stoic-ness around Hades and both of their clueless & hopelessness. I get so many warm fuzzy feelings.

The story isn't the most unique obviously, but I like the twist it has on greek mythology. I mean, it's bordering on a 4-koma manga so I'm not even sure how to rate the story pfft.
The character development happens reallllly smoothly & there was no... er, ~edgy moments~... which was both shocking and relieving considering it's a romance manga.

The comedy was actually really good, and I laughed even more than I have in other manga that are centered solely around comedy. I love the interactions with the other employees (attendants? idk).
Overall, I love this manga a lot and I hope a team ends up picking it up so more people can experience it in English :)

First of all, sorry for the bad and poor english, i'm from Guiné-Bissau, and i studied english all by myself since i was 12. With this in mind, have a nice reading and have in mind that this is all my opinion and i don't want to offend anyone that likes this manga.

How to begin with this... thing, i think everybody saw or read at least one insanely trash anime or manga in their whole lives, but this one is just repulsively bad written and it's an ofense to the readers' cleverness, this review contain spoilers, so if you haven't read it (i don't recommend u so) don't read the review, cause that will ruin your experience.

Story - The whole "story" its about the MC revenge against the "heroes" that treated him like trash, and that's absolutely okay, but everything in life has limits and when i say that he seeks revenge against the heroes that tortured and raped and treated him like a pig, im saying that he seeks revenge against every hero that ever stepped on the world, the author calls them "yuusha" but all and every one of them are just a bunch of assholes with powers, literally all of them are just bad and trashy people. And u might be asking "why the hell are they like this?", and i tell u this was the way that the lazy author found to make all the actions of revenge from the MC seem reasonable, he rapes, torture and etc. with the convenient excuse "they did it to me, so i'll do it to them", the author doesn't even try to build a world nor a nice and enjoyable environment, all the chapters are about sex, sex, torture, horrible jokes, sex and sex, it's like a cheap and horrible type of hentai. Not to mention, that the MC was supposed to be a healer and NONE of his skills are about healing, i think this is the best part of the joke, or should i call it "manga".

Art - Don't have much to say about the art, it doesn't have any originality, it's just mediocre.

Character - Well, as i said before, their all the same, MC included, all of them are just a bunch of scum, without a trace of personality, all greedy and nasty, and the most important part is that the majority are all women, so that our dear author can keep making sex and rape scenes that will secure him that the "only fap" fans don't drop this. The most ironic part is that the MC wants "revenge", and all he does is raping them and add'em into his harem to take care of them and have lots and lots of sex (i think this is the only thing that our horny author thinks of), and this applies to every single one of them.

Enjoyment - I don't think anyone can enjoy this, but i'm not gonna be a hypocrite and i'll admit that this made me laugh with it's hideous writing and horrible jokes.

Overall - I do not recommend this to anyone that have at least 5 IQ, just trust me when i say this is one of the worst manga ever made.

Story(5) - Psychotically disturbing. i never thought such a relationship would exist, the mangaka had fully tried to provide an interesting romance theme where hate is also an element of love. In conclusion the story was weird to the core.

Art(8)- Art was pretty good especially the male characters were drawn beautifully.

Character(6) - Grading this was hard. Some of the characters are mindfully surprising from their actions, the female lead was very dependent whilst i couldn't understand why the male lead fell in love with her anyway.

Enjoyment(7) - I enjoyed it very fairly, especially the drama. Also this is not your average shoujo, it's a little bit twisted. The tragedian air is always about when you dig deep into the story.

Overall(7) - It actually gives us a message to be careful of ourselves when coming to love and also to wonder about people in we meet in general. It surely did meet the Psychological aspect more than i expected, plus has a dark feeling to it. In related to all the genres, i give it a 7 despite the weird story-line.

It really was very difficult to read, their characters suffered a lot in each scene to the point of thinking that more people could die in the next chapter.
The careful and cute drawing makes us assume that we are reading a beautiful story, but the dialogues and scenes are quite adult. I dont consider myself sensitive but this work gave me the nervousness that you expect from a psychological thiller with a good story.
My recommendation is that you read it knowing that there is a lot of crazy and shocking scenes that will make you nervous, although you will have good character development complementing the most mundane chapters.

I've got a lot of excess feelings since the translations finished so here we go!

First of all, for all my reviews I rank by personal enjoyment. Sometimes I'm looking for a masterpiece, most times I'm looking for a way to kill time and then I get attached. With Ikenie Touhyou, it's the latter.

The plot is nothing too special; the characters don't strike me as particularly interesting, but the plot does its turns and despite how everything seems to jump right to the dirty stuff I still got emotional.

Seriously, this isn't some philosophical manga about technology and human connections. It's not your best go-to when you're feeling pretentious and want to hunt down fridge brilliance examples, but if your heart isn't completely shut off and you still get emotional at times, this might be your manga when you're bored.

You'll have a fun time if you're looking for a somewhat satisfying conclusion, a single tear or two at very specific moments, and some decent twists here and there. You will not enjoy this if you're expecting something better than your average "survival game" type of story.

You best believe I'm gonna write a discussion about what I liked to preach on a soapbox, by the way.

I cannot reccomend this at all. I read the whole thing - I swear I did. And I still don't really know what was going on. Maybe it was the messy artwork? Maybe it was the translation? Maybe the story just made no sense, but in a world filled with manga, try something else. Something that has a story line and characters and things.

Romance is the way to made story, no matter what shape of the character. Here the romance is not the love of lover, but something between more than friend and less than lover, because each of them just had both of them to depend on.
As the story is about a couple of girl, that sadly one of them becoming zombie because certain disease. While the story progress the MC trying her best to fulfill the promise, while many hurdles coming to their way, yet after all, everything could be resolved in a good way.

For manga, even though it is quite short, it had impact that the plot needed to be, from the how they becoming friend to how she is finally passed away.
Quite enjoyable story.

STORY: 7/10
Reviewing spin offs can be a bit tricky but I'll give it a go. Supposedly, this manga takes place some time after the events in the main OreShura line. We are introduced to a new female who served as the main driving plot of this manga. However the overall direction of the story was a bit wonky and somewhat melodramatic at times. The manga was told in a continuous flow as a proper story should with a proper introduction and ending wrap up.


ART: 6/10
As another reviewer brought up, the art changes mid way - twice, I think. While the new female character stayed pretty consistent and appealing, the original female characters [Chiwa and Masuzu suddenly became genderly confused. Sure they were females by appearance but the drawer really went to town on their facial features. It went from traditional OreShura standards to becoming sort of unappealing to almost downright warped near the end. Well the latter might have been a bit of an exaggeration... maybe.


CHARACTERS: 7/10
We have the same old crew from the parent story so don't expect anything out of left field. As mentioned earlier we are introduced to a new female who is the premise of the plot of this series. She was... "okay". She had a promising introduction with a potential to grow but her "15 minutes of fame" came and went without much development. The personalities of our characters were par the course and their antics were enjoyable without deviating from the main line.


ENJOYMENT/OVERALL: 7/10
A "legit" follow up succeeding the main OreShura line. Personally, it was just ~okay for me. As far as ranking it with the [4 koma] and [Ai] sub-series, this one falls a bit short in comparison. Not to say this was a horrible read, rather a combination of a somewhat forced plot, a shaky villain at best and the disruption of artistic flow hurt it's overall value. Casual readers avoid until you've familiarized yourself with the parent story and OreShura fans might want to take heed.