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JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken part 7: Steel Ball Run, as the name suggests, is the 7° installment in the jojo's bizarre adventure series. The story is set in the U.S at the 1890's and it follows our protagonist Johnny Joestar, a 19 year old former horse-racing prodigy turned paraplegic, who now seeks to understand the mysterious power of the "spin", which made Johnny's legs move enough to allow him to stand for a little while. Now Johnny must gain the trust of the man who used that power, Gyro Zeppeli, and for that he must enter the Steel Ball Run Race, a mad-dash across America for a grand prize of 50 million dollars.
The duo later finds that money isn't the only thing in play here, as they discover a large scheme including some「BIZARRE」stuff in there, such as the body parts of no other then Jesus Christ scattered across the land, and when they come in contact with humans they grant them strange abilities that can only be described as manifastations of one's soul and will to fight.
Now Johnny and Gyro must try to win the race and at the same time stop the one that wants to unite all the body parts, the President of the United States of America, Funny Valentine.
This manga is probably one of the best things i've ever read in my whole life, i love the characters and the dialogue between them so much. The art is amazing as expected of Sensei Hirohiko Araki. The story is so good and exciting that you can't turn your eyes away or you might miss something.
The powers of the characters and the way they are used in fights or in other stuff is super creative as well.
Overall my enjoyment of this manga was gigantic and i recoment to anyone and everyone.

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I read Koe on Katachi after having watched the movie, and I must say that I am disheartened at the fact that I will have to give two separate ratings for the same work of art being displayed on two different mediums. To be fair to the movie, it had a lot more pressure on it, considering that it hard to work on cinematography, transitions, and other aspects of production that a manga doesn't have to work on. Nevertheless, I am here to review the manga, and I shall do just that.

Koe no Katachi's power comes from the different nuances that come to the fore with each new chapter. Character development is really strong here because all of the scenes give us greater insight into how each of the characters became who they are, allowing us to empathize with them. Even if I was opposed to Ueno's perspective vis-à-vis Nishimiya, I would be lying if I said that I didn't understand WHY she felt that way. What I love about Koe no Katachi is that it is a manga series that gives each of its characters a "voice": while Nishimiya San is the one who has an obviously "silent" voice, it can be argued that the other characters were also silent in the way it took time for them to be able to flesh out their narrative, and eventually come to terms with their respective past. The symbolism of Nishimiya's voice becomes very powerful when juxtaposed to that of the secondary characters, and this is something that the manga series has that the movie fell short of delivering.

It's hard not to get teary-eyed at the monologues of Ishida, especially since they can be very relatable at times. Feeling alone, question what others think of you, and all these all-too-familiar questions. The process of overcoming his guilt over his dark past with Nishimiya has been both an excruciating and a rewarding process, both for Ishida, and for the readers of this manga to witness. It is this for this very reason that this manga series has this allure for me: we eventually come to love (or at the very least understand) the characters for who they are, and how they are being presented to us.

This manga series is a rare gem, and I do hope that more people will come across it and read it. 10/10

Dear Reader,

Let me tell you this was not an easy selection to complete. In both the effort it took to track down the last volumes and the grind of reading through to the end, this was a tough one to do. On with the review...

The melodrama that is the combination of sex and high school life has been done to death. Anime, Manga, Books, TV, and Movies, the entire spectrum of entertainment platforms have covered this genre. But, never has one taken it to such a pretentious, unintelligent, and ridiculous level as featured in "Uwa-Koi".

I'm gonna break this down into the MAL categories featured above; story, art, character, and enjoyment.

1) Story-

The story is a load of garbage. It exists only to give a confused, horny, teenage boy a reason to have as many sexual encounters as possible. It then finds excuses to have more characters enter the story just for the purpose of more intrigue and sex. Then, when things do reach a *giggity* climax, the writer(s) take a massive cop-out and end this farce in the most aggravating and lazy way possible. This alone makes you feel you've wasted your time.

2) Art-

The art isn't too bad. The character designs are nothing special and each have enough distinguishing features to tell them apart. There are many scenes that just feature gratuitous sex and acres of flesh. There is very little beauty in these sticky fumblings and while they do have some creative censorship, it's nothing more than NC-17 pornography on display 50% of the time.

3) Character-

Ha-ha-ha! "Characters"? That's a laugh! Okay, there's our main characters, a teenage boy who can't seem to control his sexual urges all while complaining about how "wrong" it is what he's doing. The girl he lives with who has loved him since childhood and is a little crazy. And the dark, seductive, mysterious, girl who our MC has a crush on and is a little crazy. Supporting cast is 99% female. But, all the girls in this Manga have serious problems and are only driven by 1 or 2 things; To bang our MC and/or complicate the plot through shady methods. There is not a single likeable character in this entire piece.

4) Enjoyment-

This sort of stuff is targeted specifically for those who like angst-ridden erotica. I can identify with the absolute whirlwind of confusion sex causes the teenage mind. The overpowering urges caused by raging hormones, who wouldn't be thrown through a loop? The Manga uses a good analogy, "Playing with fire". It's true. Dangerous and confusing times. But, "Uwa-Koi" disregards the important questions it raises by always ending with the boy and girl having sex. All the banging featured inspired me to bang my head against the wall. I got a few chuckles here and there, but only frustration at the stupidity on display.

Overall-

This Manga can provide a cheap thrill for those interested in one, but I don't recommend it. Partly due to the monotonous nature of the plot and the ending which had no thought put into it. I'm left with nothing but a chip on my shoulder and a bad mood after putting so much into getting through this sex-romp soap opera. Please, don't waste your time with this. They messed up so bad and then added insult to injury with the ending. God forbid if they ever make this into an Anime... Overall 2/10. Dreadful. Stay away!

Had a decent start but ultimately flopped till the end.

After finishing the entire manga, I can finally see why it had such a low rating here.

Let’s start with the plot. A plot doesn’t need to have a good story it can be simple at times and be great. But reading through the synopsis and after reading the manga it’s very clear that it isn’t as original as it may come out to be. I mean it’s basically a rip-off of so many horror genres with the same idea of “A group of friends going somewhere then eventually came across an accident where they go home and start having this curse shit where they only have XX days to live” kind of stuff.

The plot had a good start at first, I didn’t care about how unoriginal the plot is, what’s important is the consistency and the execution of how the story is portrayed and foretell it to be.

I focused on the main characters more since they are crucial for keeping – not only me, but also the readers to keep their drive to read. However, it didn’t really helped.

As the characters on this one was just as bland as the story is. It had no actual development. The whole idea it being that “how do we solve this curse” is the main stuff that is happening throughout the story.
As the story progresses further, we later get to learn more on Hikari which by the way, only confused me even more as it goes even further all the way till the end. As the story not only focused on the group itself but now apparently near the end it suddenly changed its focus by making the curse not only focused on the group itself but now the whole world. Some parts of the story were a bit lost for me and some even made me question wtf is happening now?

Well, what about the ending? Is it any good? At least have some decent ending, right? Well no. apparently it only confused me more as I was scanning each chapter near the end. It didn’t feel finished at all. But you know what? I’m glad it did end.

Overall, the plot wasn’t original, it had bad pacing, it was only good till the first half volume-ish something like that, it had no uniqueness at all and no decent development. 4/10

For enjoyment: I did enjoy some parts of it and found some parts disturbing (well mildly) but in the end, it was a boring experience for me and wished it had more context to give. 5/10
The art is decent however, I like it for its kind of genre but it’s alright. 6/10
So, is it recommendable?

No. if you have nothing else to read then go ahead and try this one. That’s what I had going anyway when I read this one. But there are definitely more good titles out there other than this one.

Cheers.

Tales of an axed manga: Elf season.

This series had so much potential in the beginning. An atypical MC (A futanari, even) who's half the way to being a villain, an interesting high fantasy setting centered about a magic-like card game with the main characters being equivalent to "Planeswalkers". The summoned creatures were distinct in design and character, the art wasn't bad and the story seemed to have some prospects.

Still, it's been clearly cancelled. Probably because the other work of the authors, a cooking isekai with elves, is still somewhat popular. The first detailed conflict was actually the last, and everything is resolved in a couple of chapters, very rushed. You can still see they have talent, so I expect some decent work from them in the future.

It's a shame, but it's not worth reading in my opinion.

If your new to harem manga, then it might be a nice read with some themes that you haven't seen before. And, that might be enough to hold your interest for this short series. Otherwise if this isn't your first rodeo, then it's good for reading to pass some time, but nothing mind blowing or too exciting here.

Very generic and average typical harem setting. It feels like all the right character types, scenarios, and locations are there; however, added up it just doesn't work. It's relatively short, so there isn't a whole lot of character development either. Maybe my sense of what is good and not is skewed by everything else I've been reading, but I found the manga adaptation of Maburaho to be somewhat boring.

Under beneath the sheep man's clothing there's a despair awaits inside the wall..

Conclusion started in a small mild orphanage were less tons of girls living a dire unanimous crisis between poverty. Such preposterous sickening tales takes place in a different turn after getting a suicidal note set away towards between the depths of theatrical opera play. Where every adopted girls been taken to least greedy desire to grew money. In a plethora sense of art, as usual there are few spark which oppose an aspects along it's charm. Tales are bit bizarre and pale which leads to vile gruesome concepts by droving a nonsense shocking traits that paths beyond hysteric cruelty among petty erotica schemes.

Being the basis living an agony in cage is utterly pointless. A sacrificial lambs where they began to test as a noble by the head may have a point, Neither listening to their screams inside that attached their mind must be reflected that being a livestock was painful and wrong doing. A cold reality upon on a certain thematic tells unnerving disarray hollow living between treachery.

Tokko is an action/horror/seinen manga that combines familiar elements in a stylish visual package. The story takes place in Tokyo where the undead have found a way to escape into our world through special "gates". All hope to prevent the end of the world rests on a group of characters (hunters) who have survived the violent attacks by forming a symbiosis with the undead residing in their bodies. This all sounds like its been done before but the way Tokko presents these events distinguishes it from similar manga out there.

The initial volumes set a great premise and the story smoothly unfolds as you get to know the lead characters while weird events happen all around them.

Minor spoiler alert -> the manga has a lot of interesting concepts and little tid-bits that help it stand out such as the premise that hunters have to awaken the monsters within them and it depends on the character what kind of monster/undead spirit awakens. There were various aspects of the undead world that, although not properly developed or elaborated upon, I still found enthralling.

At the end of volume 2, the primary story halts and volume 3 concentrates on a new narrative with fresh characters. This was a weird decision on the manga-ka's behalf as it cuts off the reader's interest that has already familiarized himself with the details of the original plot.

I would have probably given this manga a higher rating if the original story arc was finished with a conclusion of some sorts. As it stands, the manga should be viewed as a short collection of stories in a particular universe. Nevertheless, reading them was quite enjoyable and it definitely has potential to develop into a proper series if the author decides to continue the work in the future - 7/10

This is a story of a human raised among demons that didn't realized he was human (the are basically the same in appearance), the dude gets fired and he enters in a human village and meets a cute girl (she is hot).

He is OP AF when using human techniques and he fights a couple of monster and assholes. The story has romance with a solid AF ship with a nice development. There is no harem so far, nor I think it will. I love the art and how detailed it is.

This is like a slice of life fantasy, with an above average amount of battle for this type of story with a nice art adding some spice to it and a really nice romance that actually surprised me with how it developed. Also, a tiny bit of comedy and fanservice.

If I get picky, the worse aspect of the story are the characters. They are decent and believable, but they don't leave a mark.

It has a bit of everything, a pretty classic fantasy with a wide amount of stuff that doesn't gets reflected in it's tag. I really think that you should give it a shot, I have a wide taste so I enjoy everything it offers but surely there is an aspect that everyone may enjoy.

And last, so far, the story even if it gets axed it's going to have a satisfactory end. The story reached a nice point that is kinda hard to fk up and it leaves little to imagination in some aspects.

This could be the quintessential Shintaro Kago manga. It's got all his standard fixations - violence, sex, surrealism, body horror and dark humor. There's some grisly and disgusting stuff in here for sure, but it's framed in such a way that it's rarely disturbing; Sometimes, the author inserts something anachronistic (like a mangaka struggling to meet a perpetual deadline) just for the sake of a laugh, or draws an unnecessarily detailed diagram of sewing techniques. That's how Kago manga is: Scenarios are taken to their most extreme, absurd conclusions and it's sometimes funny in a surreal or tragic way. Good example: the first story has a woman horrifically disfigured into a ghostly mass of vaguely-humanoid viscera and from that point on, she just shows up in the background, acting casual.

This is sort of a sequel to the other Korokoro Soushi, but really only in its shared setting (Edo period Japan) and themes. But yeah, with Kago, you'll feel disgust, shock, confusion, cringe and maybe even laugh, but you won't get bored.