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One Piece has officially hit its halfway mark, spanning from August 1997 - September of 2010. Yes, it has gone on for more than a decade, and it's only at its halfway mark. There will be some questions that will arise from those curious about One Piece from this little tidbit, but they'll be addressed. Anyway, I feel that since One Piece has its confirmed "first half" done, it deserves another review.

One Piece. The first thought that entered my mind when I hit the "Write a Review" button is "...where do I even begin?" This is a VERY difficult series to review, because you cannot simply describe it, it must be experienced.

Well, let's get down to it. I must stress that if I was able to, I would give One Piece an 11/10, and that would be MILDLY putting my enjoyment of the series; I'd rather give it a 15/10.


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WARNING: BEFORE ANYTHING IS SAID, I MUST WARN YOU THAT ONE PIECE GETS *SAD*! DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE ART!

This is the main draw of people to One Piece from my experience. So many things happen in such a short span of time. "But it's gone on for over 13 years!" you wail, "Doesn't it drag?" Not in the freaking SLIGHTEST. In fact, so much is jam-packed into the panels nowadays that some people think it's TOO fast-paced, but they're hardly complaining. After you watch an episode of One Piece then watch another show, you'll be tapping your foot impatiently saying "Hurry up!" The brisk pace of the story -- that somehow manages to never leave one stone unturned -- is a major perk of One Piece.

But what would a fast-paced story be without interesting events occurring within it? Many manga that are not One Piece, for one. But really, a story must be able to keep the reader's attention, and One Piece does this from chapter ONE. So many characters, ideals, oddities, etc. are introduced in chapter one that you can't help but wonder just where the heck these things will lead.

And where they lead is a vast sea full of possibilities. Oda is often known for "weaving" his story "flawlessly"; that's because seemingly unimportant characters and objects introduced right in plain sight at some point may become HUGELY important later, all unbeknownst to the reader. And they all fit into the world and lore of One Piece, which is yet another amazing aspect of the series.

The world for One Piece is absolutely ginormous. While some anime may only take place at a school and a house or two, One Piece takes place at a variety of scenically eye-popping landscapes. These range from a humble gigantic fish-boat restaurant to a water metropolis that highly resembles Rome. The islands they've been to so far in the story are well in the tens, and each one is usually HUGE with its own sub-districts.

The world may seem like a paradise at first, but it can range from that to being absolutely chaotic. When the story picks up and they head to "that place", that's when shit hits the fan, and many more dangerous characters, weather conditions, struggle for survival, etc. all come into play. And that's another thing about One Piece, it can range from a paradise to absolute chaos in its story as well. One Piece will give you a full spectrum of emotions. Tears of joy (many times), tears of sadness (many times), tension, curiosity, freedom, excitement, horror (occasionally), hopelessness, et cetera. And that is because with the environments varying so wildly, so do the locales and personalities, which can cause clashes of ideals, and turn a fun little island stroll to a dark, drama-packed boiling pot that leaves your stomach unsettled.


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An initial turn-off for some for the series, a jumping-in point for others. Either way, if you haven't read the series, don't dare try to act like you know anything about the art.

The art has constantly evolved throughout the series, largely for the better, beginning with its humble simple cartoon-ish structure and eventually evolving into the super-detailed "not-wasting-an-inch" background-loaded megalith that it is today, still retaining its fun cartoon-y nature.

The art can range from "raw", to insanely detailed, to comedic. It all depends on what the story is demanding at that moment. In short, stick with it, and you will see the art slowly start to improve greatly throughout the series, leaving all other weekly series in the dust in terms of non-computer-generated detail.


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Even if One Piece didn't have its super-amazing-chocolatey-fudge-coated story, the characters would more than make up for it.

While some stories may have their characters eating a slice of cake, One Piece constantly has gears moving. Every character you see is usually doing SOMETHING, and that ESPECIALLY applies for the major players. Don't like the fact that in other series one of the main characters hardly gets any time to shine? One Piece is the exact opposite in that it'll give even the ugly ducklings their extended spotlight.

After reading One Piece for a while and kind of connecting with the way the author tells the story, you will notice that he absolutely ADORES his characters and cradles them like babies. Have that one character you saw a while ago and wish he came back? One Piece has done this with many, many of its characters, making them go from zero to hero in a span of episodes, when you thought you'd never see them again.

One Piece's characters range from ... HUFF *takes deep breath*: normal people, pirates, locals, giants, dugongs that know kung-fu, giant animals such as crabs and sky snakes, transsexuals (portrayed in a completely awesome way), demons, zombies, angels, mermaids, a talking skeleton ...... I think you get the point.

No matter how serious they are, 99% of the characters are zany in some way and have a quirk. And for a cast that has more than one thousand characters (1-0-0-0), I cannot think of but a handful that I dislike, and that's a slight dislike at that; can't stroke everyone the right way. One Piece is basically THE go-to manga for badasses, quirky characters, idealists, etc. But it mostly seems to pump out badasses like a gigantic testosterone-fueled assembly line. Most One Piece characters, from the seemingly simple crew to a mass-murderer-Hitler incarnate, have multiple, realistic dimensions to them. You could find the main character agreeing with the mass-murderer one second, then kicking his ass the next.

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As if the other things didn't put it ahead of other manga and anime, the sheer joy and emotion and heart you will get out of this masterpiece puts it leaps and bounds ahead. Only giant long-considered-classic monsters of manga are able to compete with One Piece, like Berserk, in enjoyment. From the interactions of the characters to the insanely detailed islands to every character getting a chance to shine to the sheer unpredictability, One Piece has MULTITUDES of things to cater to everyone, which would explain why One Piece is the most popular manga in ALL age groups in Japan, not just the teenage age group. One Piece is so enjoyed that its sales have been 23,000,000, with the next-leading manga being 3,000,000.

Basically, One Piece is proof that popularity does not make something bad, and that a God actually does exist.

It is my favorite manga of all time, and it is Japan's as well. Just to give you a grasp of just how popular it is, they have STADIUMS devoted to One Piece in Japan. Oda (author of One Piece) was voted the 50th Most Influential Person in Japan, being the highest manga author on the list.

Please note, by reading this review you only know less than 0.1% of the series. Go read it, go watch it, go change your life.

Bruh what can I say about Overlord that hasn't already been said? This is about everything I'd want out of a story of this nature. But for this review, I want to focus on something most people probably wouldn't give so much attention to in this story: comedy.

I'll admit, the comedy isn't a huge part of it but for me really adds to my enjoyment. Overlord, in its real sense, is an ironic comedy and does a fantastic job of showing it through Ain's (Momonga) character. This guy has to be the luckiest man alive. He's about average intelligence and highly over or under complicates things; so much so that he has hardly an idea what's going on most of the time. His closest subordinates are coming up with so many big brain plays all the time and Ain's just has no clue what's going on. In spite of this, his suboridents loyalty and admiration run so deep they are essentially blind to all his weaknesses and believe he himself is the ultimate big brain. WHAT GENIOUS IRONY.

[Very minor spoilers for vol. 12 ahead]
A perfect example of this. when Neia Baraja meets Ain's in the Holy Kingdom arc. This volume had me dying right from the start of the two's relationship. Ain's is so far paranoid over every little thing that he believes Neia hates him and that he's screwing up Demiurge's plan. On the contrary, Neia is infatuated with Ain's, almost as much as his own subordinates are, that she basically puts him up on a pedestal and revears him as a god. And just the way she converts so many people of theHoly Kingdom into the Ain's loving faction without Ain's even knowing himself is so funny.

But aight, I think imma conclude this here because if I don't I'm just gonna be gushing over this for another 5-6 paragraphs. In short, read Overlord, the light novel is fantastic and covers so much more than the anime was able to. Trust me, this is inadvertently, one of the funniest things I've ever read.

I will say that i am a huge fan of autobiographical manga works, and this is no exception, the unique look into a manga author's life is incredibly enjoyable to me for some reason.

Paru tells the story of her childhood well with the unique art style and stylised characters, the perspective of having a famous mangaka as a father is well told with Keisuke Itagaki being portrayed as a huge demon-thing.

The manga is published monthly in Kiss Magazine, as it is very new there is no official English release yet, although there are scans in English of 11 chapters as of writing this.

If you are a fan of her other work (Beastars) and want to read more of her work then of course i recommend this!

*disclaimer the following review contains words that may be considered inappropriate*

About the author

If your unfamiliar with the work of Masahiro Itosugi then you are surely uncultured. She/he is the brilliant mind behind uwakoi, a story of a young adolescent boy who smashes every girl he meets until he dies, and the other masterpiece aki-sora, a story of a young adolescent boy who smashes every girl he meets including his sisters. If your wondering why doesn't the author just draw hentai then instead of writing these lewd stories, well the author does draw hentai. However, Itosugi writes these borderline hentai stories, because the main focus is on the story and the characters itself unlike hentai, which focuses on the "actions" of characters.

What to expect about the manga

You do not need to read this one shot because the synopsis is word for word the entire chapter. Like most of Itosugi's work, this one is also borderline hentai. This is why we need a mature tag because mangas like this diminish the seinen reputation. You might not see the male genitalia in Itosugi's mangas, but you sure see the cum.

Story 10
Honestly, this story is a 10, very relatable having chicks come up to you asking for you to model naked for them and then they proceed to give you a hand job. I've never seen any hentai or ecchi manga where the mc is a pushover and the women around him taking advantage of that. Absolute genius of Itosugi to think of this concept.
Art 6
This art is better than most hentais today. However, not much detail was put into the cum. This isn't suppose to be second rate hentai. There should be more detail in all aspects of this one-shot.
Characters 1
Usually Itosugi's characters are perceived as one dimensional lustful teenagers, but usually as the story goes on they have more depth to them. Believe or not Itosugi is an actual god at making you attached to these characters or completely hating them. We are working with only one chapter here and these characters can replaced by any other character from Itosugi's mangas and it will still be the same story.
Enjoyment >10
My enjoyment cannot be expressed by a number, this story one of kind unique and has never be done before.This manga is a masterpiece not only is it a never done before story that is near hentai level but it also didn't give me any arousal because the manga was self aware that it was no nut November at the time of reading this. What a true mad lad of a manga.

There is a reason why only got one chapter, because masterpieces don't need sequels.

I give this manga a zero.

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Overall 0 (but it would be a decent hentai and worthy of a 4)

Recommend reading it if you have nothing else to do and don't made reading basically hentai or if your a fan of Masahiro Itosugi work.

It was 2014 when I got to know about indie games, "Anonymous people that make games that are not financed by any company" or more or less that way I understand the concept. Some time later, spending the internet of my cell phone for watching bored Tops, I found one that listed the indies games: And that's when I met Yume Nikki: "A hikikomori girl who travels to the world of dreams when she goes to sleep ". The curious thing is that his genre was "LSD" that, as far as I know, was an older videogame that I will not talk about because that is not the case. When we enter the world of dreams, we realize that there is no objective in the game; and the closest thing to that was finding some powers called "Effects." Most of them were useless.

In each world we enter, inside the mind of the protagonist, we will meet unique characters and some will take us events, from the strange to the terrifying. By the way, some effects play a role in that. This game, that when I met him did not know it was a very popular game among indie games, sadly it has not had an update for eight years, leaving us with an ending that has led to many interpretations by the people who came to play.

Now, this manga version, which is said to have been authorized and supervised by the original creator, shows us a very summarized and generic perspective of what happens in the game; with characters whose personality in the game does not seem to fit into what we thought they were in their original work.

In the first place, although the plot of the story is not bad at all, the development itself is the problem: Madotsuki, a girl of indefinite age, owns a diary of dreams where she writes all the anomalies that arise in her mind when she enters the bed. One day, she discovers the Nexus, an area that appears after leaving the door of her room, in the world of dreams, where there are a total of 12 doors where she sends you to each world with a different ambience and aesthetic. It is there where our protagonist asks: Why do I have the same dream?

So far we can leave the plot of Yume Nikki, since Madotsuki enters the World of the Forest, everything is thrown back by turning this game of suspense and dark into a cheap shounen manga, where our protagonist, instead of giving us that air of anxiety and curiosity, they place us practically a child character that does not identify at all with what happens in the World of Dreams. However, the problem is not that our protagonist does not identify with what she dreams, the problem is the enigmas that we want to implement:

1 - Why does Madotsuki have those dreams?

2 - What secrets does the World of Dreams keep us?

3 - What does Madotsuki live is real or false? Or is it an experiment?

The first arose from always, before starting to play it until you read its derivatives (Manga and Novel), we have asked what is happening in the mind of our protagonist, the lack of text in the game makes us use our mind to try to predict some key points that can guide us to the past of our protagonist. This is one reason why this simple video game has a lot of theories for a short and simple plot with an abstract ending. (It has even been thought that it is an apocalyptic world).

The second question is almost unnoticed inside in the first question. The difference is that it only involves the World of Dreams, and not exclusively the protagonist. There are worlds that can not be entered directly through the gates of the Nexus, and that only we will achieve by generating specific actions through a probability inculcated in the game. These worlds, called "Events", are so strange and sometimes unable to make sense, and it is our way of thinking that can only say why it is there.

And the third ... it's just something that one of the characters knows. After Madotsuki loses control after being hit by Uboa, this character emerges, not within the Dream World, but inside Madotsuki's room asleep! This character calls himself Masada-sensei, another popular character whose main characteristic is a gigantic white piano that always plays him, and whose role in the manga is to find the anomaly that arises in the Nexus after Madotsuki wishes Uboa to death.

In an unexpected moment, Masada-sensei is interrupted by Poniko (who had previously met Madotsuki, and had upset the effect "Umbrella" to banish her to a world if exit), while she cuts off his whole body leaving him alive with a head and part of the shoulders. Madotsuki's madness alerts Mars, apparently the creator of the Dream World, and reluctantly offers to Poniko the opportunity to kill Madotsuki, called by Mars as "The Sixth", in exchange for which she could return to real world. "The First", a nickname that apparently from Poniko, enters Madotsuki's room. Poniko, now merged with Masada-sensei thanks to Mars, lowers the priority of killing the protagonist and decides to destroy her Diary of Dreams, so that Madotsuki is corrupted and turned into an ugly creature.

Opening the door of the room, Poniko witnesses Madotsuki turned into that gigantic creature while she decides to separate from Masada-sensei and "sacrificing herself" until Madotsuki absorbs her. When Masada-sensei notices that Madotsuki remembers Poniko, turned into Uboa, when he hit her several times with the effect "Umbrella", and takes the effects that Poniko threw before dying to throw them to Madotsuki. She absorbs the effects and that's when she remembers the way she can wake up: Just pinching her cheek. Madotsuki gets up from her bed, and that's when she meets Masada-sensei, who hastens to tell her how to get out of her dreams. She goes out on the balcony, climbs the stairs and ...

Why did not I like it?

What I said above, for those who decided to spoil without seeing, seems to be just a summary of what happens in the whole manga. But no, it's everything that happens in the manga; and the description of MAL is in my favor when they read in the "Chap. Read" section that the manga has only 9 chapters, and each chapter contains 20 pages. The main plot is not bad, the problem is that its development was so simple and fast that they did not even give importance to 1/4 of the things that happen inside Yume Nikki. Madotsuki hardly travels to 3 of the 12 gates of the Nexus, and does not get half a dozen of the effects that are distributed throughout the Nexus. This is explained later with Poniko and Masada-sensei, who possessed the rest of the effects. But if so, they must have given importance to these characters and the remaining four that would be Monoko (Second), Monoe (Third), Kamakurako (Fourth), and Mafurako (Fifth), which are the other girls who belonged to this weird "Experiment" as described by Poniko in her small talk with Masada-sensei: Where happiness is sought by separating the traumas suffered from good memories. Then, they will say to me "And that does not imply that what happens in World of Dreams has some influence on Madotsuki's personality?" It could be, but it is not the same to have an eccentric protagonist of whom we can not know exactly who she is, to tell us that her personality is thanks to an experiment which does not explain where it comes from, even if it is a dream, apparently.

Although what I have read makes me interpret that in the end Madotsuki if he was dreaming all the time, still leaves us with a sour taste in the mouth of why she was dreaming all the time. That is, what was the meaning of Madotsuki being involved in something called "Experiment"? It would be different if they had left it with "It's just a dream," but when they named "Experimento", that's when the other Yume Nikki girls had to give their contribution as well as the purpose of its creation. Was it just making them happy? And if so, why did each girl they experienced end up becoming Uboa as happened to Poniko and Madotsuki, at the time?

What saves Yume Nikki (Manga) from ending up being very bad, is the art itself: The scenarios are simple, but well done and almost well interpreted from the video game. If I were in those places, I would grab my camera and be photographing every figure and statue there was. But it's not enough, because the characters, despite having a modest design, what ruins them is the fact that, Madotsuki and Poniko, had no mouth. Also, at the beginning of the manga, the way Madotsuki moved was literally how he moved in the game. Will you know how much I laughed when I saw Madotsuki being chased by a Toriningen in the Forest World? Not to mention that there were scenes that seemed unnecessary and that only wanted to fill something, in the absence of a good development for a good main plot. Another thing that ruins art is the text, there are times when it fills almost the volume, or that there are moments when what they say becomes unintelligible. I was for a long time deciphering who spoke first between Poniko and Masada-sensei, although it was very easy to guess.

One hint I made was the small variety of characters, I only got to talk about Madotsuki, Poniko, Masada-sensei and a little Mars. But what about the other characters, those who are distributed in the twelve worlds of the Nexus? They are not present. Not at all! And if they are, they just put it in a convenient moment for the story, but that's it. As I said, lack of development hinders the way in which the characters develop. Among all the characters, the closest I can applaud his performance would be Masada-sensei, because this person had a great contribution (Very fast, at the speed of the link) on the secrets of the Dream World, and of that "Experiment" which involved Poniko (First) and Madotsuki (Sixth). But it is the "closest" to whom I can thank, it does not mean that I liked his development as a character in the manga. Madotsuki was a child from the beginning to the end, and Poniko gave it importance before she sacrificed herself in a stupid way.

Conclusion

The game will be remembered as one of the most bizarre and strange in the world of PC games, its effect on our mind would never be imitated by the best famous fangames like "Yume 2kki" or ".flow" (PS: I did not come here to disregard the community, however, I appreciate the effort they make to want to make a legacy towards Yume Nikki). Until today, apart from this manga, a novel was launched the same year and they can also consult it in MAL. Additionally, in February 2018 a remake called Yume Nikki was launched: Dream Diary developed by Steam, and apparently confirms that Kikiyama is behind the development of this "Sequel"; Not to mention that they are now making updates. I have not tried it, but I've seen trailers and I've loved the improved music as well as some scenarios that you would never have imagined if you were in 3D. What some question is its playability, but otherwise seems to have a future.

Regarding Manga, one of the strengths that wasted is that the video game, not having a plot in itself, gave him the freedom to do what he wanted with the story and with the characters. Although the three questions seem to have been answered here, there are more doubts that generate me about this strange world that Kikiyama has wanted to present to us for more than 10 years. I have read very short manga in a number of chapters, but I can assure you that the amount of surpasses four times that of Yume Nikki. The main plot was not bad, but if you really had given importance to its development, as well as the rest of the characters that did not appear in the manga, as well as the rest of the worlds that were not explored, as a fan of this videogame, I would have given my 8 points of thanks. But that's what they get from a cheap work that is summarized and poorly written.

Alice to Taiyou is an axed Shonen Jump series that has not been fully translated in English, as such I cannot comment on the story as a whole just the first 8 chapters. With that out of the way let's begin my review of Alice to Taiyou!

Story: 1/10
In my mind it's weakest aspect is it's plot, there is a clear goal which is very shounen: They want to be the first Japanese people to win a Grammy, despite this the plot begins very slowly and doesn't really get to go anywhere grand in it's first volume. A big problem I found with this series is that despite it's goal the story itself and the characters potential arcs where very simple and boring which really kills the manga as a whole for me.

Art: 8/10
The art is perhaps the only main redeeming quality about this manga, it's very expressive, soft and cute, at least for shounen manga standards. The way characters are drawn are very appealing, Alice in particular is very cute especially with how well the author can draw various facial expressions, the way teeth and smiles are drawn are really well done, more realistic than most manga but it still works. There's barely any white panels from what I remember, making it detailed but not too cluttered. The use of shading and screen tones makes it so it's never boring to look at, especially the larger panels where bigger events are happening. I feel that it's a shame this author went to Jump and not to another magazine where they could use their talent better.

Character: 4/10
From what I read there were only about 3 fleshed out characters and all 3 where decent, none of them are amazing by any means but they're likable enough and suited the story well. I felt that Taiyou had issues that weren't entirely relatable for everyone and he also got through them very quickly leaving his character to be fairly bland by the end of the first volume like there wasn't anything left for the author to do to further his character. Alice on the other hand is a lot more likable, she's very cute and funny and much more suited to be a shounen protagonist than Taiyou, I wished she replaced him altogether to be honest. The art definitely works with the characters (Alice in particular) and makes them a lot more likable.

Conclusion:
I think Alice and Taiyou is proof that having an idea and good art does not make manga, there's definitely a story to be told but it's too slow in what it's trying to do with some aspects but then with others like Taiyou's character it seems to be going to fast which overall leads to it being a poor product.

Why it Failed:
There is a few clear reasons this failed in my opinion, firstly is that the art, characters and subject matter aren't very suited for Shonen Jump, that being said there are exceptions like the currently serializing Act-Age but having such a large competitor already there isn't room for Alice and Taiyou to exist in the same magazine. Second is that it was too slow in starting up it's story, and while it did have a goal in mind there were no real sub goals that where pushing the plot forward, not having any urgency and excitement can be a killer when running in Jump, if nobodies exited to read the next chapter then you won't survive and there was barely any excitement being built up. The final reason I will mention is a problem with a lot of new Jump series, that being the problem with the main character/s. I think usually main characters in Jump are relatable somewhat and have to have some core values that people like or respect, a lot of the time like with Alice and Taiyou the characters don't posses these traits that make them likable or aren't relatable for most people, I would go into detail on what I think these likable/ relatable characters are but this review is long enough already.

FINAL SCORE: 4/10 - Bad

Lost + Brain is a complete Death Note knockoff that is inferior in every conceivable way. That is all you need to know and it doesn't deserve much more to be written about it. The main character is less intelligent than Light and has even less depth. Death Note's art was one of it's best qualities. This has bad art and even the character designs are nothing but a pathetic imitation of Death Note. Kira's ability was interesting in its limitations. This MC's hypnotism is as interesting as watching a beige stick figure painting dry. Death Note went downhill halfway through. This started out bad, and got worse and worse, culminating in one of the worst endings I've ever seen. That's all I have to say about it. That is all there is to say about it. Avoid it. Especially if you are a Death Note fan.

This is by far 1 of if not the most bizarre manga I have read, as far as the designs go.


The story is about a group of girls who can jump to different universes using these santa look a like hats. They must only wear them when they are on duty. Their purpose? Well quite frankly it is too jump from universe to universe stopping these creatures from using the kids of that universe for feed. There are 600 universes, but not all they are suppose to go to. Just the assigned by their teacher. The goal of the creatures for is to "lock" each universe with the children of that universe to create a grand universe.
The characters are under developed girls both mentally and physically whom's parents are no where to be found. They fight each day to save each universe from these creatures and their plan for a grand universe. They are looked after and taught by both a teacher and a doctor who give them the knowledge to handle the task for each universe given.


That is the mainframe of this manga. However, the underlining themes are the true story. What Hitoshi was trying to create here was a series centered around themes such as responsibility, individual growth, accountability, equality and coming of age. Hitoshi used his styled art to try to tell the story through symbolism and simple character dialogue, but failed miserably with overexerted flash scenery, nonsensical fight scenes, and just flat out weird designs. Although I do like his designs, but he took it bit too far here.

The main problem with this title, he never set up the story in the beginning and tried to jump in a 1/4th of the way through with his symbolic art style and simple dialogue. Not to say that the story never kicked off, but the structure was never fully built up and fell flat a lot of the times due to the weird scenery and designs. If he had simply stuck to developing the symbolism and characterization the story would have been much better. A lot of the times it felt like he got trigger happy with the scenery.

What Hitoshi tried to do here in the end was recreate the magic he had in Alien Nine. The story and themes are replicable, but far in between as far as quality goes. Which proves that over indulging leads to bad habits and a less then stellar outcome.

Story 3
Art 9.5
Character 5
Enjoyment 7 (it is bloody fun if you're a horror fan or love monster designs)

Overall 4.5/10

I recommend the far superior Alien Nine. But don't read Emulators. It is basically the same thing except rushed and pointless. Also, the OVA is good, but only covers volume 1.

first questions why they put published up to feb 28 i mean its still ongoing. kindly change that plss

my first impression of the story is just a another typical oujo sama manga like
spoiler:
she run away because of fix engagement with her favorite butler of course and get busted
then she run away again but meet an actress and finally the princess release how hard to be a normal so she work and receive large amount of money for the part time job as an actress.
would the princess come back home or the butler finally found her and live happy ever after
P.S at the last scene of volume 2 the actress point to oujo sama body that she could make much money with it
or she will work on a AV industry.
found out your self!?
well thats the story 6/10 i just feel ts generic
art outstanding 9/10 of course its ponkutsu
character man oh man the characters they put fits perfectly 10/10
enjoyment 9/10 even though it has generic story line i still really injoy
over all 7/10
this manga is in raw up to volume # if you can read kanji like me well i still recommend this for someone looking for different romantic love other than school background.
and by the way this manga is seinen so ages 21-25+

Before you read this, know that I am very biased to Ninomiya's works as Nodame Cantabile is my number 1 favourite Anime & Manga... But this was a disappointment.

At first, I quite liked this series a lot. I was in a computer science program at school at the time when this manga first came out [in English] so I was excited to learn about overclocking! Ninomiya really expresses this hobby nicely as she didn't make it too confusing and everything was presented well so anyone reading would understand what it was. The overclocking matches were presented well. They were thrilling and fun. As usual, the "opponents" in the series were amusing to watch like they are in Nodame. The main character is very different from Nodame and Chiaki which is refreshing. He's very level headed and intelligent. I loved watching him grow while he learned the basics of overclocking. However, he and the other main characters were all so one dimensional. There was not much to them.

The story - It's rushed and it lacked impact. With only 53 chapters, it felt like half of the story was pushed into a few chapters at the end. I felt so sad, because I wanted to see this series prosper the way Nodame did. There was some travel aspect in this but it was still so, so rushed.

Let's talk about the art! It was good as usual. I wished the recurring and main characters didn't look so much like Nodame and Chiaki though, that was a bit weird especially when their personalities lined up as well. I wish Hana was more decisive rather than ditzy.

Overall, it's an okay series. Be sure to check it out if you want to learn about overclocking but don't expect a "wowzer" because it's just too short to be enjoyed.