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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou review
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Apr 15, 2021
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou review
“The spaces between the lines on a page epitomize the bulk of your life… but oh does that not make for a banal narrative?” — Krunchyman

Has Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata taught us nothing about the art of slice-of-life? Over the years, I have entertained a myriad of the aforementioned genre in hopes of finding a relative facsimile of the famed Studio Ghibili. Shows like Mushishi, Haibane Renmei, A Whisker Away and A Silent Voice have been nothing short of utter disappointments and have soured my tastes for the genre. Even the preordained replacement of Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda, feels like an extremely watered down version of the anime master. Before the audience gets the wrong idea, Hosoda’s Wolf Children is probably the best slice-of-life I’ve seen outside of a Studio Ghibli project; that being said, the rest of his works are rather jejune and uninspired. The problem, however, does not rest at the doorstep of the genre itself, but the manner in which most directors approach the genre. And if we consider the creative process, it’s really an issue of apprehension. Directors and mangaka’s are fully aware of the infinitesimal attention span of younger audiences, hence they throw in sexualized scenes, prosaic jokes, and character quirks that do not feel natural in the least; which makes the whole notion of labeling numerous works slice-of-‘LIFE’ rather nonsensical; Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (YKK) does little-to-nothing to change my opinion on this matter.

YKK features a disaster-stricken world where most people live in sparse towns and spend their days lazing about whilst drinking coffee. While YKK is not a tale about mental health or nihilism, I couldn’t help but wonder if the manga panel featuring a gun sitting on the table while Alpha is sipping on her coffee was a reference to an Albert Camus quote, “should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” Philosophical pondering aside, YKK is about the life of Alpha (an A7-M2 model robot) as she lives her cheerful life in her quaint town. As the reader quickly learns, most chapters are placid affairs and many of them contain little-to-no exposition whatsoever. This minimalist approach is quite rare these days and is generally encouraged to permit the viewer to enter a meditative experience about the conundrums of life; however, the conundrums of life are nowhere to be seen in YKK, making the experience in congruent to the human experience. In other words, the characters of YKK feel like idyllic, unrealistic versions of what humans truly are, giving the reader no base in which they can identify with the characters in a meaningful fashion. Life, after all, is about struggling with one’s inner desires and instincts, but when a work of art discounts the essence of life — it is already dead!

One cannot help to draw a parallel with Alpha’s existence and the surface world of Texhnolyze. Both of which are nihilistic ‘paradises’ in which comfort and security of prioritized over the grind of creating a better version of oneself. As a point of contrast, Isao Takahata’s, Only Yesterday, takes the ‘banality’ of human existence and brings to LIFE all of its good and bad aspects. The highs and lows of numerous Studio Ghibli films give the viewer a sense of purpose and fulfillment, even when purpose itself doesn’t exactly exist; whereas YKK is a symbolic representation of heaven, in which you must be comatose to ‘enjoy.’ This is why random scenes in which Alpha takes a bath with Takahiro or the transfer of information between robots through kissing (female kissing, by the way) are used to liven things up, if you will. But all this did was remind the reader that most ‘artists’ in the manga industry are rather indolent, and prefer to give the reader superficial experiences as opposed to literary depth.

It still boggles the mind, though, that YKK, Mushishi, Haibane Renmei, and the like have fooled numerous people into believing that this typifies life — let alone art.
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Eiken
Eiken
Eiken
Eiken review
Eiken
Apr 13, 2021
Eiken review
It's a very, very cliche story. There are a lot of times where the dialogue between characters is really cringe and just consisting of some awkward ecchi situation and then, afterwards, both the protagonist and the female would be all shy and stumbling over their words apologizing. There's lots of moments like that.

The manga doesn't hold back with the over-the-top ecchi and outrageous bust sizes, but, while I might be alone in saying this, I actually found that it was part of the series charm. The way it was just unapologetically over-the-top in its fan-service and the assets of the female characters I found to be one of its strengths. While some easily offended prudish snobs might scoff at the site of the very well-endowed middle schooler, I found it to be part of the reason the series was enjoyable; something so ridiculous was comedic to me and, for that reason, enjoyable. Where others found disgust, I found humor and I suspect that's why I had a better experience with it.

The art is kind of hit and miss. Sometimes it looks really nice and the characters are drawn in a really appealing way. Other times, however, their hands look like monkeys and their ears are bigger than their eyes. It's not he most consistent, but the ones that don't look right are in the minority of panels. Most of them look fine, with a few of them look really nice.

One thing I would say that the characters had going for them, is that each of them were very unique. There are a lot of characters in this and it's one of the larger harems that I've seen, even if it's not "quite" a harem. Each of the characters have their own unique quirks and personalities to them and have an adequate backstory to them. Some characters were more interesting than others and more time was spent developing some characters than others, so it wasn't really balanced across the large number of characters. A lot of them were pretty likable, though. I especially liked Kirika, Chiharu, and thought Miharu was a pretty good character as well.

I would say that the most disappointing thing about the series is the pacing and ending. It doesn't really resolve anything at the end and doesn't have a satisfying ending. As I mentioned, there are a lot of characters in this, but, while a lot of them have their own arcs, most of their arcs didn't ever feel finished. There were also characters that were introduced for a single chapter towards the end or in the beginning and that was the only time they were there. I felt like they should have gotten some more focus and be developed a bit more. The last several chapters are essentially just more "filler" arcs for certain characters, rather than a conclusion to the story. It feels like there were supposed to be a couple more volumes before the series concluded. You could sense that things were getting close to resolving like they were leading up to an ending that would happen a few chapters later, but then you get to the end and... that's it. So, if not having a satisfying conclusion bothers you, you might want to look elsewhere.

This is not a deep manga, by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that people judge it a little too harshly just because they're personally offended by the fanservice and the characters' huge assets. It also does suffer from pacing issues, being cliche, and the ending not being very satisfying. However, if you can look past that, it's actually not that bad. It isn't going to win any awards, but I enjoyed it. If there had been more of a resolution at the end, I would have enjoyed it even more, though.
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Nozokiya
SCHOOL DAYS
Joshikousei ni Korosaretai
Joshikousei ni Korosaretai
Joshikousei ni Korosaretai
Joshikousei ni Korosaretai review
Joshikousei ni Korosaretai
Apr 10, 2021
Joshikousei ni Korosaretai review
tl;dr: A manga with an interesting premise but that's it.

The basic premise was strange enough to be interesting in that the main characters goal is to push a girl to kill him in a specific manner without doing anything bad to her and without leaving any evidence that she was the one that killed him. The way the story began setting things up was interesting too, in that from chapter to chapter it shifted perspective from character to character to show off a series of characters that all had decently interesting backgrounds and an interesting relationship web. After all that was setup, it moved on to him executing his plan and it looked like things would really get moving.

However, after that it fell completely flat. Maybe I just had the wrong expectations going into this, but I expected the protagonist to be someone smart and manipulative who would come up with an interesting plan and that things would go wrong during the plan and he would have to quickly modify his plans to adapt to the situation, something in the vein of the psychological thriller. This wasn't that at all. The protagonist is pretty dumb and not manipulative at all. His plan was simple to the point of stupidity. And everything playing out was pretty much instant and overall, far too easy, and thus it really isn't thrilling at all.

The ending has a bit of a twist to it, but it doesn't add much and, in the end, doesn't help at all in making the manga more satisfying. Ultimately, the manga was about people with mental issues trying to overcome them, but its half written like a thriller without enough development of the key characters, and thus it doesn't do well at that either. The art was decent.
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Ana Satsujin
Deep
Monster Musume no Oishasan
Monster Musume no Oishasan
Monster Musume no Oishasan
Monster Musume no Oishasan review
Monster Musume no Oishasan
Apr 05, 2021
Monster Musume no Oishasan review
Long-long ago, there was a war that lasted over a century. It started between humans and monsters, who were separated by the mountains, cutting through the continent. The cause of this war has been lost in the chaos of history. All that remained was a cycle of grudges, as fighting led to more fighting. However, both humans and monster got tired of killing each other. Thus, ten years ago, they formed a non-aggression treaty and put the end to the war. Old enemies are now best buddies and no one will be surprised to find a city, where both humans and monsters live. Of course, old scars are not that easy to heal and some humans discriminate against monsters and vice versa. The manga focuses on the town of Lindworm. Dr.Glenn is a human doctor that runs his clinic to treat monster girls. Of course, many injured girls appreciate the help of the doctor and make declarations of love to him. One day, the routine life of Dr.Glenn ends, when he discovers the dark side of the life in the city of Lindworm.

I know what you are thinking, that is not the continuation of Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls. There are many differences between them, take for example settings and completely different storylines. Anyways, while there have not been that many chapters for me to be able to give any reasonable assessment for the storyline, I can say that there have been many things going on. There was a war and humans and monsters are supposed to treat each other as equals, but that is not as easy as that. Litbeit Glenn is a monster girl doctor and there is a reason for him to be monster only doctor. His assistant is a lamia that seems to respect Doctor Glenn very much and there is a reason for that that has been explained already. Long story short, so far, the story does seem to pay attention to each and every detail needed for the reader to get an idea of what is going on.

Character wise, the manga shows the reason why Neikes Saphentite and Litbeit Glenn care for each other that much and it is just entertaining to observe how they help their patients. Indeed, I would love to see more development from the side of supporting characters, but this is not something for me to say after having read only 13 chapters of the manga.

All in all, this manga, as well as the light novel are getting an anime adaptation in July, 2020. And I can say is that this series has potential to be quite entertaining. Monster Musume no Oishasan does not try to be good only because of ecchi scenes, rather here it is something that cannot be skipped and should be shown. In addition to this, this fan service has never been that annoying for me, somehow it helped me appreciate the work of Glenn. I did not like, however, that doctor Glenn was female monsters doctor only. I do understand that the name of this manga/light novel is ‘Monster Musume’, but it would be more interesting if there were an episode, when Doctor Glenn had to help some male monster. Who knows? Maybe it will happen in the future chapters. With that being said, this is an ecchi manga, there is fan service, but I like The Doctor for Monster Girls for the fact that it also has an okay story, as well as likeable characters.
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