fabishi8

(my first review)

story 1/10: was reading the reviews before and a guy was talking about how he couldn't find the story and the more I thought about the story wait what story. I mean (spoilers) when he and a group of people come across the room where he gains his powers he NEVER tries at least searching for clues on how he got the powers he just accepts it hopefully that will change when his dad comes back from the 7/11 (I'm trying to be vague so no one gets and ideas but you would think they would touchback on his dad) and where I'm up to he hasn't used any effort to find that place and don't get me started on that they forgot about the punishment thing from the start and how he gained his special skill.
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you might say the story is him climbing the ranks to support his family and pay for his mother's hospital bills but I feel this is a crappy story since EVERYONE in that world has the same objective to climb the ranks and make money.

art 10/10: some pretty nice art I mean if this was an art gallery this would be a 10/10 all I gotta say is there are some nice visuals

character 3/10: I feel after the first 40 chapters probably less he becomes an empty husk of a human. At the start yeah he wanted to help his family but then all he wanted to do was do raids on these gates with guilds. And I mean his life was barely ever threatened so there was no character development to be seen. he has a sister you sometimes see but forget about.

enjoyment 7/10: this manhwa has its ups and downs I feel if you wanna be committed just stop at chapter 108 if not just stop at chapter 80 I mean I just don't have a life. now that I look back I'm pretty sure that the story was by a kindergarten since I feel like the MC needs to feel defenseless at least once other than the start of the manhwa and I know it's like the point of the whole manhwa but it chokes you screaming at you that the MC is OP Eg: chapters 106, 114, 109 and this is in just in a range of 8 chapters.

overall 6/10

Chopperman revolves around Tony-Tony Chopper, this time he is a Medical Teacher by the name of "Chopperman" he fights like one of those superhero comics except he uses his Devil-Fruit Ability, its a very nice short read and according to MAL there are 25 chapters yet I could only find Chapter 0 and 1 translated, it comes from a magazine.

There are a couple of characters, Usopp's Pirate Crew from East Blue, and Coby from East Blue (Before the Time-Skip)

it was a small story that I sort-of enjoyed, its a lighter story made for a younger audience but I enjoyed reading some of it, I was curious to see what the side stories for One Piece were all about

6/10

Yakumo Tatsu follows Nanachi, a 21 year-old university student, who goes on a trip with his seniors to Izumo village. Why Izumo? Well, because the leader of this expedition wants to gather info for his new play with the theme of ancient Japan. But what they find there are suspicious villagers who want to kick them out, a teenager with hormonal mood-swings, closed-door witchcraft and-
RITUAL MURDER! Dumdumdah!

First of all, the art was mainstream. No details, a little lack of consistency and disproportionate mumbo-jumbo. It wasn't the shoujo sparkly-sparkle, big round lava-lamp eyes with omnipresent flower backgrounds, type of mainstream; it was the I’m-too-lazy-and-inartistic-to-have-stylised-illustrations type. Not to say that it was terrible, but it wasn't anything to compliment either.

The plot of the manga was very much in-your-face; there wasn't any room really to think about any unusual or thought-provoking ideas, simply because the author didn't put any such ideas in the plot in the first place.

So much for story depth.

But if we look at the plot flow, you'd thankfully find no contradictions (YET! I'm not convinced) in the story, because it generally lifts from ancient folklore while adding a few original contributions from the author.

Still, the actual plot itself is very controversial to say the least.
**SPOILERS AHEAD**

For example, why- just, why, is the other main character, Fuzuchi, being petted and supported by Nanachi for FLIPPING KILLING HIS DAD! Huh?!
Where's the police, the authorities, the secret service?
Where the Hell are they?

And how come Nanachi is being sympathetic? Even worse, at one point he says (paraphrased): 'well, the only way for Fuzuchi to stay on the right path was for him to kill his dad and create a bond.'
Cause you know, he couldn't be bonded with his dad without killing him...
I mean, come on, this type of thinking should just get thrown in the trash or at least, get Nanachi thrown into jail.

What were you thinking, Author?!

To stop me from continuing to dissect the crap story content, I'll change the subject.

THE COMPARE OR DIE! COLUMN (Yes, another one!)

Yakumo Tatsu reminds me a lot of Tai Zi Ye (which sucks) with a bit of Selected Pandemonium (which is awesome) thrown in; I needn't remind readers of how much I hate Tai Zi Ye because I bet my hatred is just oozing out off your monitor.

Reader: Then, why didn't you drop this like a sack of mouldy mash potatoes after chapter 1, MazMaz?

To put it simply, dear reader, it's because of the mediocre art.
The only plus of Tai Zi Ye was it's completely, awesomely weird art which had created the right atmosphere to fully bring out the sick plot of the manga; thankfully (or unfortunately), Yakumo Tatsu's mainstream art saved it from never appearing on my dropped list.

-RECOMMENDATION TIME-
A lot of the content can get really twisted, really fast (see above) but, I'd recommend this to people who can identify the bad and still keep going. The plot itself was fairly good and the art wasn't terrible; it's a good read if you're looking for just a good read.

So I'm not the type of person to give a manga a super low score but I just hate this shit, like we are supposed to read manga for entertainment but no! I didn't feel entertain I feel so annoyed that if I can see the author of this manga I would slap him real bad..

So what's my problem with this manga why I hate it so much??

So I hate this fcking manga because of the mc!

Like the fl has more resolved than this piece of trash, like he got reincarnated the second time and he saw the people who killed him the first time but didn't do a single shit thats already bad like he didn't feel anything when he saw them like if not because of a fcking backstory in chapter 25 we will not know the king fcking killed him (which a shitty chapter like that chapter literally just tell us the main villain goal which we already know and summary of what happened plus flashback)

And what's more I hate about the shitty as mc?? He is generic as fck but more worse like he is those kind mc but you know what's wrong?? He is fcking scared to kill for god sake like the fl has more resolved than him the fl can hurt his classmates just to see the fcking mc while the mc can't even kill an enemy for the sake of his friends like he is strong af but his friends suffered because he didn't kill an enemy and during the war all of the enemy he already met those piece of shit but he let them escape!! Like his other servant almost got killed because he didn't kill that one enemy.. Like there will be no problem and the enemy will be fcking weak if he only kill the strong one he faces but no like everytime the mc fight a enemy and defeat them he will be like

Hey who ordered you this???
Then he will repeat that shit for a long time then the anime will escape. Like bruh??

Don't read this shit if you hate a dumbass mc.. No not only because of the mc just don't read this shit it's generic af and the mc is a fcking dumbass

The manga starts off pretty neatly basic isekai death reincarnate formula you then realise that it becomes a sort of "hentai" manga at first this is all it was untill the first serious encounter with the "enemies" of the series is when it gets serious with uban legends coming to life and paralel worlds intertwining is when it gets interesting i dont urge anyone to read as it does have alot of hardcore "hentai" so anyone that isnt ready for that dont read but the story is very interesting and pretty unique the author of elfen lied has turned a hentai story into something that could be a masterpiece looking at the first plot twist is why i think why though

Story
While there is no exact "plot", the story is told as if it were an instruction manual. It details different inking pens, screentone, etc. Basically, a manga-style tutorial. It keeps to this "plot" very nicely, each lesson following the last, though they aren't necessarily related (pens have nothing to do with screentone, after all), but it's all related to the overall theme of tips and tutorials about creating manga. It wasn't hard to understand, even for me who has no history with creating manga and no intent to start (I just stumbled across this manga and thought it was very interesting).

Art
The art doesn't particularly stick out, but it details the pens and styling very well, and the characters expressions are fun as well. The style seemed fitting for this manga, and was consistent.

Characters
The characters did try to have a personality, but much of their dialogue was simply explaining the mangaka tutorial, so at times it fell flat. Their personalities were also very stereotypical and generic, but their conversations were enjoyable enough, and as I was mostly here for the mangaka tutorial anyway, I didn't mind. If you're looking for interesting, well-rounded characters though, this isn't for you.

Enjoyment
Personally, I found this very enjoyable, as I like reading instructional things even if I don't plan on making use of the knowledge. If you enjoy browsing WikiHow or learning how to do things, this will be enjoyable. If you want to make manga, this will be useful. I don't think non-manga fans would ever enjoy this, and I don't think it's particularly re-readable for most people since once you've gleaned the knowledge from it, there's not much left.

Overall, it's a fairly memorable manga, and entertaining enough to flip through at least once. I'd recommend giving it a go if it seems like your kind of thing, but it's no huge loss if you don't.

This series was bad - I am surprised it made it to 50 chapters.

I'll start off with the only positive the series has going for it: the art is excellent. I really like the character design direction by the mangaka, and they created some stunning and detailed scenery. Every few chapters there would be a big full page panel or a two-pager - I would sit and look at those for a good minute, soaking up every detail. I am genuinely impressed with the level of detail that the mangaka could put into a WEEKLY series. That takes talent and endurance that is very rare in the industry. Compared to his peers currently running in Shonen Jump, Nakamura's art competes with the top tier and is clearly better than most art currently in the magazine.

But thats it. The humor rarely landed for me. I know that it is a gag manga, but the story and world building were frustrating in how completely random and off the wall it would get. This guy felt like he was fucking around most of the time, scrapping ideas at random, and constantly undermining his own story. The plot had almost literally no direction. In fact, it would be better if it had no direction to begin with, because the fact that he occassionally tried to point back to the overarching plot after ignoring it and undermining it for multiple chapters only made it feel even more pointless.

The authors humor wasn't very good and his storytelling and story direction were catastrophic.

I absolutely believe that his art deserves another shot in Shonen Jump, but only if he teams up with a writer.

Koi wa Hito no Hoka is about a girl named Sayo who doesn't remember that as a young child she'd made a contract with a demon.

Honestly, I'm surprised this one isn't rated more highly. There's a ton of shoujo manga with the exact same beginning premise, and the vast majority of them are very shallow wish fulfillment. This one, however, stood out to me for several reasons 1. Despite the premise, this one was clearly not about setting up wish fulfilling titillating scenes of the demon seducing the girl by dominating her, which is the norm. 2. The focus was instead on the plot, which is pretty straight forward, but serviceable. 3. Sayo is an actual badass protagonist. Though because it's shoujo, of course she's inevitably the one being saved some of the time, she's also doing quite a bit of the fighting herself rather standing on the sidelines as one woman cheering section, which is also the norm. The author did a good job of never making her depend on Yoh so much that she becomes powerless, which is also common.

I suppose if you came looking for another one of those girl makes a contract with a demon wish fulfillment manga you may be disappointed though. And of course don't read it you're rather bothered by the idea of a girl being forced into a relationship, because that kind of thing is unavoidable with this trope. I think maybe it also could have benefitted from being longer, with more details, and more fun character interactions, but in summary, I'd call this one unexpectedly solid.

Oh, I suppose one other thing I should note is that this manga is quite fixated on the idea of demons eating humans, humans eating demons, and so forth. This will make more sense if you know that in Japanese one way to talk about sleeping with someone is to literally say you eat them. Although the demons literally mean eating, the reader is also probably supposed to have the more sensual interpretation in mind, especially when applied to Sayo and Yoh.

Dokuro is a mature character study about the dehumanizing effects a negative influence has on the person, like narcotics an intrusive doctrine can offer greatness and salvation- KILLER GRANNIES!

just kidding this story is nowhere near close to good. If you see this as a comedy you'll have a great time with the goofy brutalities, the laughable predictable archetypes, the ridiculously unrealistic acrobatics... and of course the worst, most immersion breakingly bad weapon of all times.

HOW ON EARTH DOES THE WIRE THING SHOOT OUT!!!!!!!!!!

seriously how?! it doesn't have a jet propulsiony thingy! I mean... you could at least make a half-assed attempt to justify it's propulsion-ness! but no, it wouldn't look cool if there was a gas canister in bland jesus-kun 3000's arm. no, gravity and physics itself must bend to accommodate his aesthetic.

you might be wondering why I'm on about such a little detail but he uses that weapon ALL THE TIME! and the author really wants you to appreciate the weapon in all of it's goofy glory... he pans to it dozens of times... it gets really alienating after a while so... it's not just nitpicking...

(imagine if in star wars they grabbed the lightsabres by the laser part... it's that bad)

it's not like there isn't anything to like about anti-religion empowerment fantasy the manga... I really enjoyed the themes in the flashbacks showing the allure of (albeit admittedly over the top) religion when you are at your weakest, or most unhappy... the delusion of being granted catharsis by doing actions for the church and not doing things for yourself. the intrinsically constricting nature of scripture and rules... but all that get's over shadowed by KILLER GRANNIES, RIDICULOUS ACROBATICS, IMPLAUSIBLE WEAPONS, GOOFY FATALITIES etc. etc.

I ate bread with more personality than these characters. forgettable archetypes. MOVE ON.

In summary: it's like watching a ridiculous 80's Schwarzenegger film but with religion as the flavor. could be better if it wasn't so cheesy and predictable... actually... no this script is basically unsalvageable... NEXT

P.S the art's alright... nothing special... just alright.

BYE

It's a quick, light-hearted read.

This manga follows the quest of a cute (and extremely assertive) kouhai trying to make her senpai fall for her. It has strong shonen vibes in the way that the male MC has pretty much nothing going for him, but for some reason there is a hot girl chasing after him as if he's the only male in the world. Now, that being said, it's still quite lovely and entertaining in my opinion. He's at least not a total pushover, and manages to make her flustered at times as well.

In terms of characters, there's really not much more than those two, their relationship is literally the entire focus of the manga.

The art style is... acceptable. Not really my cup of tea.