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Eichiro Oda has to be the most interesting and skilled story writer plus manga artist! With a powerful story backing him, he goes on to make a wonderful manga that is filled with interesting and delightful characters: Luffy to Blackbeard and so on. What's kept the readers hooked is the anticipation of what is yet to come, since all those who thought that the manga was just for kids were proved wrong by the Marineford arc!

Looking foward to the One Piece, Mr.Oda!

The collection of stories from the Oingo Boingo Brothers' Adventures is, as any should expect, a collection of those few Oingo Boingo Brothers episodes of the anime or chapters of the manga, but instead, as it was depicted in the Stand Thoth. This isn't a new or original story, but more so a novelty for what it would be in-universe, like owning a replica Death Note, but a lot less deadly.

The collection apparently ends with in-character commentary by Rohan, and it fucking SENT ME and bumped up my score for this quite a bit. It plays harder than I think is canon (at least more blatantly) into Rohan's egotism, but it plays well to the comedy. I rather enjoyed what this manga had to offer and would jump on the chance of buying this in English.

I think this manga had a big potential to be something different, to create a huge universe with a bunch of stories and mysteries, but from the very first moment they threw all of this away. The storie advance really fast and you dont have enough time to relate to any of the characters, appart from the two/three principal characters you easily forget the names of all the secundary characters. Also, because of its similarities to other mangas sometimes you can predict what is about to happen. In my opinion its a manga that you can read in a couple of hours and only if you are complety boring and have nothing else to do.

This manga is like your typical Isekai story the MC dies and is resurrected in another world. The interesting part is the MC main ability is the appraisal to see everyone stats which help him build an army of strong individuals for a upcoming war. His main concern is that he knows he not strong compare to the people he his recruiting to his army and he afraid that one day they will betray him.

Overall this manga is interesting and it’s kinda different from other Isekai stories which I give it a 7 out of 10 which is not bad in my opinion. I do recommend this if my review help in any way, all this is from what I got by reading 5 chapters.

Similar to Kakumeika no Gogo (“A Revolutionist in the Afternoon”) or Yuretsuzukeru (“Keep on Vibrating”), Zenryou naru Itan no Machi (“A City of Honests and Heretics”) is a collection of short stories. While fairly mature and graphic, each story also sees its fair share of Matsumoto’s twisted, black humour. A rating, summary, and impression of each short story can be found below, with my views on Matsumoto’s art and overall thoughts in the final two paragraphs.

Short Story 1: My Daddy (9/10)
A young, upbeat girl tells a story of her father during a formal class presentation. Oddly enough, there’s a prideful gleam in her eyes when she speaks about her dad, despite the fact that the story supposedly involves elder abuse in the delinquent pastime of “old-man hunting”. She recounts the story with cheerful, childlike innocence, contrasted with keen observation and a bit of wit, fostered while living with her dysfunctional family. However, an unexpected twist turns this somber tale of a dissolving family into utter hilarity, guaranteed to make you “b’aww” by the ending.

Short Story 2: Camilla (8/10)
The second chapter takes place in a rural, South American town. It’s a short story of lust and obsession as Camilla, a young woman, attempts to uncover the past of a beautiful yet senile lady residing in a mental hospital. As Camilla continues to read the old woman’s letters love letters, she becomes increasingly enthralled with her, becoming both physically and mentally obsessed. The connection between the two is accompanied by a sudden shift in narrative perspective – from first to third person, and later back to first person – which brings in the idea that it isn’t the first time a girl has been caught in this lustful craze…

Short Story 3: Far Away (8/10)
An incompetent, cowardly samurai is tasked with delivering his teacher’s letter. Along the way, he runs into an obstacle in the shape of a revenge-crazy woman, which resolves in a messy, moral lesson for the young messenger. Set during the Meiji Restoration of the late 19th century, the story involves as much irony and debauchery as the Restoration itself, with not-so-subtle criticism to the Western reforms.

Short Story 4: Parlor31 (7/10)
In a twisted world where high school girls are eligible to carry firearms and wage violent wars with their neighbors, an “autonomous armed force” of students embarks on a whorehouse crackdown. It’s the most action-heavy of the seven short stories, but the message, if any, was inexplicit. One of Matsumoto’s other one-shots, Hiroko at After School, is set in the same world as Parlor31, whereas Matsumoto revealed a great interest in pursuing a long-running series with these two stories as pilots.

Short Story 5: Fehde in the Desert (6/10)
The fifth short story is where Zenryou naru Itan no Machi takes a turn for the bizarre. Set in a lavish school that somehow borders a vast desert, a group of students challenge each other to knife fights (Fehde being the German word for “feud”) for control over the desert’s large, abandoned tower. The story revolves around two androgynous children, who seem to be connected by an ambiguous affection towards each other, the mysterious tower, and collecting insects from the desert. There’s a vague theme of obscured sexual identity, but it’s far from being fully realized in the one-shot.

Short Story 6: Female High School Soldier (4/10)
“In order to survive, we have to abandon our humanity. But unless we regain that humanity, there will be no point to survival.” Since this was the first and only quotable line throughout the manga, short story 6 started off with high hopes. However, these expectations were run aground by the fact that chapter 6’s “female high school soldiers” were actually giant mecha high school girls, piloted by Japanese soldiers. So what was the point of this?
… Well, the majority of chapter 6 involves a gory bloodbath of said giant high school girls being dismembered, disemboweled, and horrendously disfigured. It’s a scene straight out of an eroguro manga, but it’s totally okay, since you know, they were just giant mecha and all, right?

Short Story 7: Family Restaurant (8/10)
The final short story is unique in that, unlike most manga, it adopts an even 2x4 panel layout without any gutter space. Furthermore, all of the dialogue goes one way, whereas the audience is only able to read the thoughts of the family restaurant’s sole female employee. We follow this waitress through a seemingly normal workday, until it becomes apparent that, well, she’s absolutely batshit crazy. It’s an interesting snippet of a delusional girl’s psyche, and Matsumoto’s styling shows a mangaka who’s obviously adept at depicting the clinically insane.

Matsumoto is incredibly capable of matching the vibrancy of his characters with diverse and lively facial expressions. Moreover, his settings are as immensely detailed as they are varied – from quiet Latin villages, feudal Japanese towns, war-torn urban landscapes and deserts, Matsumoto takes the reader all over the globe with his artwork. At first glance though, the artist’s use of etching instead of solid shading might look jarring. Nevertheless, the sheer detail put into every panel is astounding, and Matsumoto’s eccentric art style can only be described as “fitting” for his equally outlandish stories.

If you’re looking for Matsumoto at his best, defer to his other two one-shot collections. Zenryou naru Itan no Machi is by far his least memorable anthology, showing neither the artistic restraint that made Kakumeika no Gogo so brilliant, nor the ingenious surrealism and dementia that captivated readers in Yuretsuzukeru.

I recommend you guys to read the light novel after reading the manga. It took so long for 1 chapter to drop.

Anyway, I might be bias in this review but I have never seen any manga using game concept to teach the MC to become good at social life. Tomozaki progession is what I like about this manga. Hinami and her game strategy is fun to read even though some of her plan isn't work in real life, I still find it interesting.

My only complain is in one chapter, Pressured situation get result very quickly, I don't like the way Hinami solve that chapter problem and I don't like what other character reaction+what they respond to Hinami, It felt stupid to me.

I would love to see Tomozaki point out Hinami mentality flaw in the future chapter since some of her element isn't work in real life but overall I still enjoy reading this manga😁.

7/10 for the currently arc in the manga

but if the manga caught up to the light novel and done it right, I would give it a 9/10

So being based off a DS game and all, this manga actually kinda slaps. The art style is different from the original Tales art but pretty reminiscent of the Tales draft style and overall just looks great.
There is a lot of text and backstory being told and a slight downplay on the action, however, it never really exhausts itself.

I'm not gonna be one of those people who takes themselves waaaaay too serious when writing a review. So all in all this is a fun manga that's only 12 chapters long and if you thought it sucked you didn't even spend an hour of your life, so go read this.

Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is what people should be attacking instead of Isekai novels. Isekai novels have managed to go too far on their premises that only get sillier with time and are an easy target of mockery, but most of them are mediocre due to being just pastiches one of another. THIS? If people looked at this, even the most cliché Isekai will look like breath of fresh air. Characters are as a stereotypically 1 dimensional as they can, the plot is nonexistent, the fan service is abundant despite being severely lacking at the same time, I would have an opinion on the world building if there was any, just about everything in this novel fails. You need to turn your brain off to even get some enjoyment from this, because it doesn't even work as a guilty pleasure tbh. This novel is honestly the proof Hobby Japan will publish anything that has cute girls on the cover, and that's all this novel has going on in it, the only memorable character is the MC's incestous sister, and for all the wrong reasons. Seriously, if you think the Isekai genre is stale state and has make you lost your faith on LNs, read this one and you'll see they could be doing much worse, because I see no other merit to reading this and I would, in fact, recommend avoiding it.

I really wanted to give this a review because there is none, but it is hard to write a long enough review on such a simple story. This story would be kinda ridiculous in any other setting (think like a cheesy soap opera) but as a one-shot romance manga, this is pretty cute! It has a happy ending which is what I always want out of my romances. It would probably make a good otome game route, lol.

Also for it being a one-shot, you actually get a good grasp on all the character's personalities, and you even get a decent backstory on Ashley, which is sometimes a struggle to do when you can't build on a bunch of chapters.

Overall, it is a cute, sweet read. If you're into romance manga, definitely give it the 10 minutes of your time it deserves!

Henshin no News is a collection of one shot stories that explore human relationships and loneliness. It is an extremely experimental slice of life manga that comes to life due to Miyazaki’s unusual art style and expert storytelling in a relatively small package.

Like most manga in the slice of life genre, many of the situations that the characters deal with are relatively mundane, but there is this element of the fantastical that removes the stories and the characters from reality. At times bordering on being absurd, Miyazaki weaves magical realism into her narrative smoothly and doesn’t compromise the central theme of relationships.

Each story has a character facing some form of a crisis and meditates on humanity’s propensity for loneliness and isolation. What is truly magnificent about this manga however is the way that humor is used to cut the tension, giving the collection an overall dreamy feel. The last story in particular was fantastic for referencing manga legend Osamu Tezuka and it had me smiling from ear to ear.

While a little off beat, Henshin no News is a hidden gem and I’ve never read anything quite like it. It subverted my expectations with every story and managed to make me feel both extremely sad for each character while also making me laugh. It is a breath of fresh air and managed to be both serious and lighthearted at the same time.