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Wow, it can be hard for me to find something i can truly rate a masterpiece but this is amazing. You can really feel the boys emotions and it makes you think about life. I cried my eyes out but the ending makes up for it, showing that at the end of every tunnel, no matter how dark or long, there will always be light. This is so beautifully written yet sad, I really recommend everyone (who can stand heart-wrenching stories and a little gore) read this because it has so much meaning and displays the cruelty of war and humans.

Shingeki No Kyojin has just recently started airing as an anime this season and is the most hyped up show that is currently running. I got into the manga about a month before the anime started to see what it was about. I haven’t read too many manga so far, but I can still feel like I want to write a review about how spectacular this manga is.

I’ll address the few downsides to this manga before explaining each of the parts individually. First, this manga starts off a little slow. It goes in a slightly different, less chronological order than the anime, with more jumping around to different times and some flashbacks. Once you get into it and get used to the huge character cast who keep dying and getting replaced by stronger, more important, and longer lasting characters, it gets easier to understand. The other problem this manga suffers from is that with the huge character cast, the character designs for some characters are fairly similar and sometimes cause you to forget which character is which. This problem ends eventually though when the manga starts to focus more on the important people and less on the massive amount of death fodder characters.

Plot – 10/10
The plot is amazing. As you probably already know, the plot of Shingeki No Kyojin is about humans who have been forced to retreat behind a set of three walls and several smaller settlements next to them for over a hundred years. Titans, beings whose shapes are similar to humans’ who range from 3 meters to even one that is 60 meters tall (really fucking tall if you don’t know metric like me). For hundreds of years, the humans have survived inside the walls without the titans ever breaking through, but that’s where the story begins. One day when, five years prior to where the main events of the story begin, the 60 meter titan appears outside of the wall of the settlement where the three main characters (Eren, Mikasa, and Armin) live and breaks through the wall letting smaller titans into the settlement and producing mass chaos and lots and lots of death. Some people manage to escape, but the titans have already taken over and forced the humans to retreat behind the next of the three main walls. From there, the story jumps ahead a few years to when the main characters are joining the military and then graduate. From there, the story really gets going, but I won’t spoil anything else. It only takes about five chapters to get really into the plot. Having just caught up to the manga at 44 chapters earlier today, I can tell you that after Chapter 30 readers are in for a huge plot twist ride especially after Chapter 40. These twists really catch you off guard but are not bad in the slightest.

Art – 9/10
As I mentioned, some of the characters designs are somewhat similar. So far, the anime, which adds color especially to hair to help differentiate between brown and black hair, seems to have fixed this problem. The other problem is that some fights, especially using the 3D maneuver gear which is the main weapon used to kill titans, is so intense that it is clearly not something still images can convey as well as the anime has so far. The art is still great, but the task of drawing these action scenes is just too much sometimes. Still it does succeed in capturing the emotions of the characters, especially when they are horrified, which happens a lot.

Characters – 10/10
Eventually this manga slows down the amount of death fodder characters and gets you more into the main ones who are great characters. Eren, the main protagonist, is a boy bent on killing all titans and getting revenge for the loss of his mother when the titans first broke through the wall several years ago. Mikasa is Eren’s friend and the strongest fighter in their graduating class from the military. She is always looking after Eren and doing everything to protect him, and he does get into a hell of a lot of trouble. Armin is Eren’s other childhood friend. Unlike Eren and Mikasa, he is not a good fighter though he excels in strategizing. Personally, I think Armin may be my favorite character, though I think a lot of people like Mikasa the best. Some other notable characters are Rivaille (or Levy) who is the strongest fighter in the whole military and can take down dozens of titans single-handedly, Sasha (aka “Potato girl”) who likes food and is also a great fighter, and Annie who excels in hand-to-hand combat, and Reiner who is very muscular and always wants to protect everyone he can. While some characters may not seem very important at first, many of them have things they are hiding and pasts that have not yet even been fully explained at 44 chapters. You emotional connection you get with these characters can hurt you sometimes if a character you like a lot dies, but others live on draw you into a strong connection with them instead and never cease to amaze you.

Enjoyment – 10/10
I’ve been reading this manga somewhat slowly for the past couple months, but just today I read from Chapter 31 to 44 almost all in one sitting. Once this manga really gets going, it draws you in and you better be prepared for this thrilling, gory, twisted ride that I highly recommend to everyone who enjoys survival horror or action manga.

Sennen Sensou is a rather generic story, and I realized this right from the beginning. As of right now Sennen Sensou is, and will likely continue in being, a very typical and predictable fantasy adventure manga. This is very disappointing because I think this story really has some things going for it that a lot of these other fantasy stories don’t have. The demons that the main heroes are fighting against are very interesting. The character designs are also very fun and creative with bright colors in a medieval setting, which is a nice contrast. However, the characters are flat as paper. Most of them don’t have any defining characteristics and I could describe each of them just as an archetype: Ouji is the hero, Lulu is the loli, Anna’s the ‘main girl’, and so on. The only character I would consider remotely interesting is the blacksmith girl, and even she doesn’t break the usual loli girl conventions. In terms of the story, nothing is very dramatic or exciting. The character’s long term goals are very shallow, making any subplots boring. The overarching war plot and action is only good when none of the melodrama from the subplot seeps in. Overall, Sennen Sensou is your typical shonen fantasy story. I would recommend Deltora Quest if you want something better.

I would never reccomend a smut (aka soft-hentai) to anyone but this one is pretty hilarious so, if you have time and money, give it a try, as it's even pretty short.

It's about a love triangle focused on Sakiko, a naive girl, who ends up living with her beloved college professor and his handsome (but horny) brother. Every chapter is full of gags and sex scenes and this could make it boring, but, believe me, it's far better than usual smut mangas.

Would you ever sell you soul, in exchange for power?
This is the exact question Mikogami Keigo (Main Character) had to face. In exchange for his humanity he will gain the power to kill his lover's murder.

6/10 - Story
Nothing new, nothing unique. This manga has your cliche vampire killing demon slaying plot with a sad back story and a fueled by the taste of revenge. It has its own fair share of twist and turns, cliffhangers, and sudden plot twists however it does not contribute much more than that. The pacing of the manga was pretty fast and I enjoyed it. Overall the plot isn't bad or good, and we might see more in the future.

9/10 - Art
This manga has an edgy chainsaw jigokuraku art vibe. The art style fits very well with the story and genre helping it contribute in a helpful way. I enjoyed the art. Lots of shading, textures, etc. Definitely one best art on young jump.

8/10 - Character
This series has everything from your sexy loli vampire to exhibitionist. Overall its very easy connect and relate to some characters, and each and every one of them seem to have a unique characteristic when compared to one another. However it is far from perfect, there are some flaws in the character design and from time to time they contradict each other.

7/10 - Enjoyment
Some parts of the manga made me feel sick from the sheer amount of blood. This however, did not stop me from enjoying the series. Its safe to say this manga isn't for the weakest of the heart.

8/10 - Overall
I would definitely give it a shot. Would recommend it. It is not the end of thew world if you didn't enjoy it.


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Alright. Let's make this quick

Story: 5
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DearS is a blatant Chobits ripoff from the word "go". Fortunately, it does not stay a blatant Chobits ripoff. Though it starts with the normal harem hijinks and unnecessary amounts of fanservice, it does find its own voice. Unfortunately, it rushes through everything with tremendous speed. Introducing a new character every two-three chapters for a while and half of them don't even stick around, it's as if Peach-Pit was struggling a lot through the manga to find ways to keep it going. Because of this, it feels like a NaNoWriMo project rather than a well-thought-out story, and the massive cliche of a finale is halfhearted enough that it's hard to care what happens to who.

Art: 3
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When Peach-Pit wants to make the girls look pretty, they succeed in spades. However, it seems to take a lot out of them, because the majority of the manga is told in a range between decent work and amateurish doodles that would make a How-To-Draw-Manga-taught artist envious at the thought of how such terrible skills could warrant a paycheck for this.

Character: 4
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Like I said earlier, about the middle of the manga, a barrage of new characters come in one after another. The result means characters that should get character development never do. Some are lucky if they get a whole chapter focused on them. The manga only seems to care about Ren, Takeya, and Miu and it shows. The shame in this is that those three have the most cliched developments to their person. There are some good bits of original development in Ren at the end, Unless you're new to the harem ecchi genre, it's nothing you haven't seen before.

Enjoyment: 7
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And yet, despite it all... it's fun. It's really fun. Though it goes through all the motions and often feels desperate to keep going at times, Peach-Pit puts a commendable dose of passion into each panel and it shows. I was never truly bored reading this, but nor was I astounded. It's funny but not enough to make you laugh, it's cute and sweet but not enough to give you diabetes, it's ecchi but not enough to warrant shrink-wrap, and it demonstrates what effort can achieve from an otherwise poor work.

Being the first work from the exceedingly-prolific Peach-Pit, it's a solid effort and a good sign that the things to come of them would be even better. Overall, DearS gets a 5/10.

When I started reading it, I got really into it, it showed promise...

Summary: Nene wants to be cute in the eyes of boys and Jun offers to help (Jun being her friend). You can tell right away that there is attraction between them but then in walks Izume, Jun's first love....

Izume's character was so well defined that in less than 1 chapter of meeting her I wanted to throttle her. So she get's props for knowing how to press your buttons. If you like at it from a story telling perspective, g=her characters was probably the one that makes you feel the most, but it's not good feelings.

Nene is a strong female lead (literally) but she lacks self esteem, which you notice right away. other than that, it was a fun read.

Jun, was either here or there, weather about what to eat for dinner or which girl he liked. Frankly I hated the ending because of how it turned out but hey to each their own.

The art of the manga (8). There's nothing that I noticed was wrong or weird and this was a pretty fast read.

""Goldmund, will you come back?"" ---- Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund, 1930

This magna is about love and gender in puberty in, well, a Japanese high school setting. Yuki, a first-grade high school student, had to dress up as a girl for his sister once and fell in love with his crossdressed figure. Morii, a younger girl that always looks up to the Yuki that plays soccer in middle school likes him and always wants to grow up quicker so that she can be Yuki's girlfriend. Minamo, Yuki's friendless, sensitive, and booksmart classmate, fell in love with Yuki as well but things between these two are a bit more complicated since Minamo sometimes liked Ikeda, or the crossdressed Yuki. The story mainly revolved around the love triangle among these three characters.

The story of Yubisaki (fingertip in Japanese) Milk Tea is worth a read because at its heart it's not an ordinary love-triangle or love-n-gon/DA-graph story nor a novelty-seeking story about Japanese drag queens (watch/read Wandering Son instead). It's one of those stories that's worth to retell because it portrays a rather uncommon character, Yuki's psyche very well from start to end. Yuki is fascinated by Ikeda, just like his friend in the soccer team. Much like Goldmund, he liked girls too much (which made me wonder if his parent's divorce has anything to do with it.) The best evidence for this is that he quitted the soccer team to keep his figure. Deep down, he know that he has to grow up and the androgen in him is going to make him look like a man. He know that the perfect female figure is both lovely and cruel. When the winter comes, he gave in to his sexual drive and Morri finally defeated Ikeda (hopefully I'm not spoiling too much). When reading the last sex scene when Ikeda was gone, I cried. The beautiful art near the bottom of Yuki's heart and soul is lost in sex, much like the milk tea at one's finger, after tasting. Indeed, Ikeda moves me deeply and made my doubt if the author has a very close friend who crossdresses or it's a part of his personal history.

(if you've got patience/interest to read Narcissus and Goldmund, read it instead then consider reading this... well.)

An anthology of shojo stories, it revolves around the idea of the YumeKira Dream Shoppe. It makes great use of the idea of "wishes coming true".

The first story focuses the wish of being human, the second: the ability to talk, the third: turning back time, and the fourth: changing yourself.

A sweet-collection of pure-love stories that introduces fresh, relatable characters in every day settings. Intended for girls, the content is mainly unrealistic yet attractive and adorable nonetheless. Not the most well-thought out thought, but enjoyable to the last page.

If you ever thought of a wish for true love, you'll relate to this story. It's like cotton-candy to shojo manga!

I am not fan of such brutality. I dont read manga with violence in them.

BUT . . .

Beginning was ok, everyone is beating up main protagonist. He survives again and again. Then people start losing their sensibility if they had that. Killing spree is on it's way.

That ends too, but main evil dude must have his way and so everything and everyone is used as he pleases.

Despite all these disgusting scenes and violence, I kept hoping that teacher and her student would be together after this ALL. His fighting spirit. Ohh mai what a man!

When he dies, it is just NOOOOO. Japanese Manga (long ones) mostly someone of main characters dies or all main dies. It is sad, hurt. You can really feel Inugami's feelings. It is worth reading just for that.

This piece needs a continuation. But if you want happy ending with main male and female character kiss go watch an american movie.

I wink at you, continuation can be made in your heads XD