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Solo Leveling review
The premise of Solo Levelling is very simple: A weak character with strong principles who obtains an unqiue ability of "levelling up" and improving his strength and skills in a relatively static environment where power levels are fixed. The Manwha constantly enforces this where we see him grow constantly and the comparisons and contrasts to other characters.
Story- 8/10 Once this is out of the way, we see the story revolve around this. There isn't too much in the story: the world-base is fascinating where we have "hunters" with supernatural powers who appeal (or seemingly) to the common good by ridding the world of monsters, typically through clearances of dungeons. Dungeons vary in difficultly based on ranks that correlate to the ranks and ability of hunters. The story starts out very intriguing giving the reader the glimpse of the real world dread of the story seeing the real glimpse of what a dungeon represents. The MC on the brink of the death manages to obtain a mysterious power- turning him from the weakest hunter into someone with unlimited potential. The story follows the MC with the pondering question of who or what the system is through the interaction of the interesting world. At this point, the story of the MC is average since we don't truly dive into the main plot points. It gets a boost for it's interesting arcs of exposition and environment. Art- 10/10 The art is truly spectacular. The manwha clearly displays consistent, versatile effort with some of the most spectacular shots. There isn't much more to say. Character- 8/10. While we do see the MC change quite noticeably and gradually along the series the character does seem to lose some of it's intrigue and fleshiness glimpsed in the beginning of the series. Sure, the MC gets powerful along the way, but he quickly becomes quite bland and generic. To some this may appeal because it displays "being a badass" but often, there seems to be a divide over the series into the reader understanding him as a character such as his more vulnerable parts. Again that ties in to becoming more powerful, he is still likeable and grows but becoming stronger increases his confidence and we rarely now seem in his deathly or dire situations that show out his character. Perhaps this will happen in time. Enjoyment- 10/10 Seriously, this Manwha is action packed to the max where every chapter seems to have amazing scenes. The thrill by the author of having more and more characters in an enormous world keeps an endless potential for readers to see both the aspects of the world itself and the MC's dynamics towards it. The best part? Every arc is worth it because we as the reader are rewarded with seeing the MC grow in power- new skills, skill point enhancement (think RPG), job classes, its always a thrill. Overall- 10/10 This isn't everyones cup of tea. Solo Levelling definitely appeals to a more generic audience looking for amazing skills, abilities, monsters in an interesting setting with easier and quicker payoffs. The pacing set allows readers to never feel dull. Because of the many aspects of the world and character, readers can be captivated knowing each chapter is worthwhile.
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Made in Abyss review
Spoiler free:
A story about 2 "kids" filled with suspense, adventure, drama and friendship, that knows no limits or censorship, it does feels like youre being sumerged into the abyss of unknown. A challenge on what an action manga is about, original concept, original protagonists, original story, original "antagonist", original plot. This manga for the first time in 10 years gave me hope in the future of anime as a whole. The main theme is mistery and MISTERY is served in great fashion. A bit of criticism: 2 kids as protagonists was a questionable decision for credibility, but it doesnt really matter in the end, also there is some edgy moments, but overall it can be forgiven, and its completely justified to make the plot advance and bring importance into specific characters. I honestly cant recomend this manga enough, read it, you wont regret it.
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Made in Abyss review
Now first i'll say I really enjoyed the anime.
The next thing i'll say is that I consider the manga a step down. Put your pitchfork and torches down, I have my reasons. 1. Visuals The manga has great visuals but sometimes the detail is so much that you pretty much can't see or understand what's happening, especially with all the concepts flying in and out. The humanoid characters are drawn pretty well, the other characters are as if H.R. Giger became a furry. Phallic shapes everywhere with weird mutant fleshy deformities. I guess that's nice, but it still confuses me and I wouldn't mind something a bit more ... normal, I guess? 2. Story As I said, the concepts are tiresome. The Bondrewd arch was great, but it was also very linear. I also noticed that in this supposedly uncivilised world waiting to be explored they spend almost all of their time at some kind of shady bed and breakfast. I wouldn't mind a little less towns and a little more cool world to explore. I don't like me being showered with lore either. I don't care about that, I care about the world at hand. Not to mention we still haven't seen traces of Wakuna or Srajo. I went into this expecting Dante's Inferno meets Girls Last Tour but instead I got Fallout: the manga, traveling from settlement to settlement and having to sit through epochs of fucking lore through conversation. 3. Character I really like the characters. I could dive deeper into this but I complain better than I praise. All I have to say is that the characters are diverse and well written. If you like femdom, I really recommend this series. I particularly liked the merchant fellow from the Narehate Village but he's pretty much the only good thing about that entire place. 4. Enjoyment This manga can be tedious at times because of the incredibly slow pacing. You'd have to wait months to get a glimpse into this new cryptic story that ends in a cliffhanger. I wish I didn't have to rack my brain and quell my haste every time I tried to read this. Don't hold your breath folks, nothing spectacular really happens here. Even the shock value has diminished. "XD daddy's rod, aren't I edgy" ":DDD whip sexy naked kids" "oh shit, it's the anarcho capitalist world DDD:" I think that sums it up. Don't enter this with high expectations. This really is quite mediocre, despite what contrarians will say, trying to show how open minded they are by following this new, avant-garde cringefest where the author tries to keep us entertained with the occasional shock. I've been on the internet for too long for this to work on me. Liveleak and Bestgore pretty much ruin this manga for anyone.
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JC NO LIFE review
Short manga to pass the time.
The plot they have is good, some high school girls just talking about everyday life and the comedy is actually funny. Although it gets pretty sexual (note, not ecchi, but the jokes are sexual sometimes). Also, although they are sexual sometimes, there are some serious parts, but it only appears near the end which is sad actually. The art was just typical, nothing good, nothing bad. But what the REAL charm of this manga is that they have good characters, they are really uncommon in slice of life manga, and their personalities are distinct. They really show their friendship in this manga which is really cute. I mean, who DOESN'T love TOTALLY NOT YURI GIRL FRIENDSHIP? Anyways, I did laugh a few at some parts, but overall, I just kept a straight face while reading. Once again, it's just a manga to pass the time, if you're looking for yuri by the way, it's not here. Thanks for reading and see you in my next review~
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Hiai Mousou review
Delusional Love is one of those stories that just can't quite figure out what it wants to be.
It starts out an ecchi, almost borderline H, story about a beautiful honors student trying her best to seduce her new homeroom teacher. It's sexy and perverted and right when you think that something's about to happen... The manga turns into a bloody suspense/thriller story. Both parts of the story are well done. The artwork, in particular, is tremendous: the gore and violence are very well drawn in the second half, as are the breasts and titillation in the first half. But the two parts of the story don't mesh well, leading to reader whiplash. Moreover, first half doesn't go far enough down the infidelity path to be a "Fatal Attraction"-style morality tale. Also, he gives her a tragic backstory to make her a sympathetic character, which clashes with the repeated attempts to make her a frighteningly crazy figure. In short, this manga is sadly less than the sum of its parts. It's not bad, if you like thrillers, but I can't really recommend it to anyone.
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CROSS EPOCH review
A cross over devised by One Piece author, Eiichiro Oda, and Dragon Ball Z author, Akira Toriyama.
The cross over is one chapter long and displays the characters living in a world together. One character from each series is teamed up with their 'counterpart' from the other. Luffy and Goku (the strongest/lead) Zoro and Piccilo (the badasses) Nami and Bulma (the 'babes') Sanji and Roshi (the perverts) then Vegeta is a lord with Robin, Usopp, and Trunks as his loyal crew It's quite amusing and very fun
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Dokuzakura review
As you can tell by watching at my profile, I'm not really the type of person that does reviews very often.. but after reading this manga, I though that the previous ones about it were pretty strict.
In fact compared to others manga of this period, or in general, it's not one of the worst. If you like thrillers, you may give it a check. STORY - 7/10 (It might makes some little spoilers, but only about the plot in general) I start saying that it's not that much original, but it isn't bad. It has the typical base plot that you could expect by reading a thriller: somebody gets involved with something fishy and need to investigate on it, of course being suspected as well. In the story are mixed also some supernatural elements that are at the base of it. It also goes plenty on the route of an harem, in fact the protagonist has really an aptitude for girls. ART - 8/10 It's a great art, I kinda like the style, although it's pretty used. CHARACTER - 7/10 The main characters are five: the "protagonist" (the guy around whome the events happen) and four girls all connected with him. He isn't the classical MC of an harem, but he's pretty smart and not lost in his lust as too many of them nowdays. The girls are different between them, and everyone of them has got a resonable motivation to trust and stay near him. ENJOYMENT - 7/10 It's good. Nothing special, but I'm happy that I started it, I'll keep follow the story. Obviously hoping for its success, and maybe a good anime adaption in the future. OVERALL - 8/10 Eight because there're a lot of manga worse than it. And it's done pretty well. It's only at its first chapters, so I don't know if it's going to become even better or to get bad, but take the review till it's now.
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Abara review
After reading several of Tsutomu’s stories, I have come to the conclusion that the major flaw keeping me from enjoying any of them is the way the characters are presented and developed throughout the story. Short, long, it doesn’t seem to matter; the characters are introduced all at once and in a manner that makes it impossible to remember who is who. We get the names in roundabout ways without any characterization, making it very difficult to follow the plot. Abara is no exception.
This is because Tsutomu prefers to tell his stories using visuals rather than dialogue. Despite this, he does not flesh out any ways the reader could become attached or interested in the characters, even with the dialogue we have to work with. The art is the high point of the manga. If I were to observe some of the pages as objective, apocalyptic, gritty stills, I would find them fascinating. Reading this as a coherent story, however, is just plain confusing. The motive of the characters is obscured, replaced by vague reasoning and urgency used to spur the action forward. I understand that withholding information is a plot device, but Tsutomu keeps everything to himself but names and basic terms, leaving the reader with little beyond cryptic drawings to unearth some motive along the way. While people praise this as a “deep, psychological” manga, the reader simply has to work harder to uncover why anything is happening, hiding an exhausting guessing game behind psychological intrigue. The author wanted to draw gritty, sci-fi-esque monsters and fight scenes, and the plot and characters were sacrificed because of that. Beautiful art aside, my score is low due to sloppiness. There was no reason why the author couldn’t add in a detail here or there to help the reader keep the characters in order and understand the plot. I will say this: I am aware that I am impartial to character development and a fleshed-out story. If you don’t mind feeling a little confused or detached from the characters, this is a grungy and action-packed read that you may enjoy.
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Dead Tube review
Where do I begin with the mess that this manga's story is? As a person who doesn't like survival games, yet I have read a fair bit of Btoom...not sure if that is it's correct spelling or not, but I do not see any story in Dead Tube. Btoom is the only other survival game manga I have read which had a story. Dead Tube has a plot, but that is all it has. The plot being film gruesome scenes and get the most views. It's a good idea as a plot point, but not as a story.
And the "story" is hardly held together by the two main characters who at 33 chapters in haven't displayed any real kind of development aside from some dull moments of forced emotional distress. Adding to this, we also gain quite a few one off characters which are introduced during the arc and subsequently killed off in the same arc. Few characters have hung around long enough to see the next arc, but still no development even from them. Even the villans hang around just long enough for their roll and then they die. The point here is explaining why there is no story to this manga and why all the characters are more or less side characters and not main. There is no over arcing plot, unless you count the psycho girls backstory which we've gotten already. What is the point of Dead Tube? Seems it would be better suited as a case by case story, each chapter/arc being a new set of characters. Now I've stray from the review a bit but only to show that this plot can be part of a good story, it's just horribly handle in this authors hands. There are one or two interesting arc's within the manga but they are poorly done as I mentioned prior. Not to mention easily predictable. But if you are one for blood, gore, and lots of nakedness--as well as other bodily fluids that has decent art. Then this is the manga for you, just don't expect a story. It's just a bunch of killing.
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