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This manhwa is exactly what it says on the tin. They live in a world where a subset of the population have superhero-like abilities, the Hunters, who work to clear "dungeons" that mysteriously began spawning 10 years ago. There's a ranking system, and you're excited to meet the high ranking Hunters of other nations. There are big boss battles. The main character is super overpowered, super handsome, with plenty of waifus into him (including an S-rank Hunter).

This is your stereotypical shounen isekai (well, not really, it's set on Earth) battle fantasy, and I say that in the best way possible. It isn't deep or meaningful. It is quick, cheap entertainment in the purest form.

That being said, there is a plot. There's supposedly an explanation for the Hunters and why our MC is so overpowered. There is a sense of mystery that's slowly revealed as the story goes on. The plot isn't randomly sidelined with filler, and is pretty interesting in and of itself.

There's good worldbuilding. Other countries are mentioned, and there are realistic organizations and regulations surrounding the Hunters. It's interesting just seeing how other countries deal with things. Personally, I would've liked more, but I still applaud the fact it's there.

If you like action, OP main characters, superheroes, etc., you'll love this.

There is only one world, and it is false, cruel, contradictory, corrupt, meaningless (...). We need to lie to win this truth, that is, to live (...). The metaphysics, morality, religion, science (...) are taken into account just as many ways to lie: with your contribution if it is believed in life.

Naoki Urasawa (Pluto, 20th Century Boys and Billy Bat), through its unquestionable resources, develops Monster in a dual premise, which we can consider as manichean. This challenges the moral behavior of the characters. On the one hand, Tenma, "the doctor", on the other, Johan, "the depravity", dueling in an paradoxical ideological confrontation.

Monster gives real meaning to the definition of psychological gender, your plot investigates into the human mind, their fears and their anxieties. The plot grid its complex, their dialogues and characters tend to a surrealism, which, until then, can hardly be found in this manga genre.

Johan is a cold character, his personality is demonstrated as being logical, fascinating, above all, human and rational. It demonstrates the nature of man in the most cruel, harmful and true form, with an approach somewhat selfish and devastating. Their moral complexity is amazing, being an extremely intriguing character with a horrific and obscure past.

Tenma, the protagonist follows a nonexistent morality made to make bearable the world of life. It is intrinsic to his moral training as a doctor, give value to life, but even that does not realize that behind this morality is lying to the world, but in this perspective it is a fact, after all, he only believed, and so wanted it to be. In the end, all is interpretive, Tenma is attached to ideas that transcend and thus only exist in your conscious. One morality chain. If comes up in your mind the real worldly nature, he would see that their morale its nothing more than an interpretive makeup world and that the true nature of the world its cruelty.

The end is the great moral/lesson of Monster. What happened with Johan? Their nature prevailed again? Was seeking revenge? The questions doesn't need answers because to Tenma, kill or not Johan, no matter, both choices would be made based on moral interpretations: either to favor his revenge or his duty.

Takehiko Inoue made his name in the 90′s with Slam Dunk, the hugely popular basketball manga. After that he was sponsored by ESPN to do another basketball manga, Buzzer Beater, but that one didn’t go down as well. So the next year he decided to switch genres and starting drawing Vagabond, the samurai epic. But I guess after a few years of him waking up surrounded by pages of samurai doing slam dunks, he realised the basketball was in him and he needed to go back to that genre before he exploded. Sitting in front of his editor and faced with pitching his new sports manga, he desperately needed some new angle.

“It’s about bask..bas…” gaze darts around the office.

“Baske…ba…baaaaa” eyes dart from newbie mangaka sweating profusely to experienced editor in chief picking his nose to the new sub-editor who only has one leg so is in a-

“Wheelchair basketball! My new manga is about wheelchair basketball!”

One thing I was worried about going into Real was that the depiction of disabled folks would come off as patronising. There can be a bit of a tendency in stories focusing on disabilities to paint the characters as selfless heroic individuals with no faults, as though they think glorifying their achievements will somehow counterbalance the lack of respect regular society gives them. This is absolutely not the case with Real. The characters are assholes. Completely and utterly horrible people. There’s three main characters, two of which are in wheelchairs. One of them is a stuck-up, self-absorbed, weak-willed bully. The guy not in the wheelchair is a temperamental, anti-social idiot. Even the third dude, the up and coming wheelchair basketball star, is an angry whining little twit.

While this goes a long way to making the characters feel like human beings with genuine personality, dreams and weaknesses, it can also mean that watching them gets a bit difficult at times. Particularly at the start of the story. Real takes the approach that these characters will learn and grow to become better people through their interactions with others over the course of the story. To achieve that though, they really shove these characters down to absolute rock bottom. High school dropout loses his drivers licence and cripples the girl he picked up and has that looming over his conscious as he tries to put some sort of life together. Top-tier student breezing through class gets spinal cord snapped in traffic accident and realises while in hospital that none of his previous relationships are worth shit. Aspiring wheelchair basketball player tries to set up team but most of the players abandon them due to his relentless ambition.

But in US Marine style, breaking them down completely allows the story to start rebuilding their lives. It’s fucking gruelling to sit through at the start. With every breakthrough a character has, something else will knock them back. Team gets back together, instantly loses first match. Guy manages to get job, company goes bankrupt. But with each knockback, the person will learn something. They’ll draw inspiration from one of the other characters in the story and this will spur them on to go further. It’s a feel-good story about triumph in the face of adversity, which you could probably guess from the fact it was about wheelchair basketball. But in humanising the characters and knocking them down so low, it becomes that much more rewarding when they do make a breakthrough.

The artwork is fantastic. Takehiko Inoue opts for a more realistic drawing style, which works well with the story. Characters do seem to sweat an awful lot, which makes the basketball matches look like the players were all bukkake’d before getting on the court. This is compounded by the fact Inoue likes to draw the characters with their shirts off to display muscles and so forth. The author has no qualms whatsoever about drawing dicks either, which is a little bit weird. This is actually relevant material, since your own body image is a huge theme in the story. It’s both a huge part of sports and your disability. Shots of the Australian wheelchair basketball player with his humongous biceps next to his stick-thin legs go a long way to demonstrating how characters come to terms with how they body will be shaped.

Where the artwork really seemed to improve over the course of the series is the visual metaphors and panel composition. Now I admit that the panel composition thing may be just me taking time to get used to his style, given the guy is kind of a veteran at this whole manga thing. But the more the manga went on, the better he seemed to get at depicting the thought process of characters using visual cues. The moment that was an absolute standout for me was when the guy in hospital remembered the game of basketball he played against the guy in the wheelchair before he broke his back and he suddenly realises there is a sport for him. There’s a fantastic flow to the way the panels show his mind naturally wander before his eyes widen when he remembers the guy in the wheelchair. As for the visual metaphor, these increase over the course of the manga and go a long way to allowing me to understand how the disability effected people. Stand out moment here was the guy sprinting in a race and seeing his leg crash into some imaginary mud and snap off.

It took me a bit to get into Real as the story construction requires the start to be gruelling reading. But once the characters started growing, it became a highly absorbing and rewarding read. It hasn’t ended yet. There's 11 volumes out at time of writing. But I can’t see it continuing on for too much longer because it really feels that the characters have gotten over the worst of their problems. Plus it’s about wheelchair basketball. Goddamn wheelchair basketball! How awesome is that! Go read Real, it’s pretty great.

Okay, I'm just new here and let me start first with my most favorite book I've ever read (and by book, I mean, ALL the books I've read including harry potter and star wars series.) Toaru Majutsu no Index: New Testament takes us once again to an epic tale of a collision between science and magic and the boy who stands between them. But this time, the story takes it deeper as they introduce different magic groups and the darker side of academy city. Now, the three protagonist, Kamijou Touma, Accelerator and Hamazura Shiage must now fight to protect their peaceful life loved ones. So let me get started to rate this novel.

Story 10

The novel takes the epicness level of the previous series even higher as they diverge into the different sides of science and magic. One thing I like about the plot of this novel is that it's universe is so huge and diverse unlike other story which feels cramped up. Kamachi never fails to amuse me with the roller coaster ride of the plot as it ranges from dark to lighthearted and hilarious, it is as if he had some strange power to manipulate the reader's emotions. But most of all, I leave the good parts for you to read.

Art 10

We could see that the art style changes from the original novel to NT. I just love the art style in this story especially the cover. Haimura drew character emotions so well that I can't help being drawn to the character's perspective and have my emotions swayed as well.

Character 10

What can I say about this? The character development is great and I just love Accelerator! There are also several lovable characters in this story that you could get attached to. But let me focus on the main character of the story, Kamijou TouMan. He isn't your usual protagonist whose powers levels are over 9000 and always screams the name of his attack (he often use the sentence I'm going to break those illusions of yours though) the latest chapters takes his manliness level even higher as trials after trials were brought up on him and this is where character development at its finest was shown. But before I end this, I must say something, I love you Othinus XDDD

Enjoyment 10

For me, this is the strongest point of the novel. Every volume never ceases to amaze me, epicness level taken to the highest level and hilarious but depressive at the same time. The awesomeness of the character plus the unique way of storytelling blends perfectly as it creates an entertaining atmosphere readers would be indulged in. Well, If I could rate this part 11, I'll gladly do it.

Overall 10

NT is one of the few books I've read which could be called a masterpiece. Every volume exceeds my expectations and I can't help being indulged in a fun ride whenever I read these. I highly recommend this to novel enthusiast so that they could see why Index was worth it to be called "The best light novel of the decade" (Don't get me wrong, I've read several light novels before but NT is the one that tops my poll.

I had high hopes for this manga because it is from one of my favorite video games "the world ends with you" but... The manga was horrible, it only has two chapters. The first chapter has a very strong beginning but the second was HORRIFIC. After Neku is given his first mission to reach 104 building, it just has a picture of a few noise then... 7 Days Later... WHAT KIND OF REAPERS GAME IS THAT, Neku doesn't even finish any of the reaper missions or beat the game master. The art was pretty good though, especially the color pages. I found enjoyment deeply staring at the art. The characters didn't really have much depth 2 chapters I say isn't enough for character development or even introduce all the characters. Overall THIS IS THE WORST MANGA I HAVE EVER READ! I highly suggest not reading it, it is a waste of life and effort to move your eyes and process the words, read something better like Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail or even Hentai just not the world ends with you manga cause I guarantee YOU WILL HATE IT.

Microwave time machine, what does it remind you of? Yes that's right, the blindly praised anime "steins;fate" another anime I'm not particularly fond of, but I won't get into that.



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The main character wants to be a mangaka, but it seems he is not able to create something original that would get him an SJ serialisation, so with the time machine ass pull- or should I say, a thunder completely randomly hits his house, completely randomly accurately hits his microwave, which completely randomly seemed to have a robot toy next to it, now the microwave is not a microwave anymore but it's a time machine, to our surprise, there was banana jelly no excuse me, a shounen jump issue from 10 years into the future, featuring "white Knight" on the cover, which sounds like a shit isekai and they are treating it like peak fiction, but this is not a review of a manga in another manga.

Wait though, it sounds like a plot twist right? A crazy plot twist, the one who is responsible for the time machine will actually prove to be himself from the future (not happened but it's basically what it's building up from what we saw in the latest chapter). Now back to the main character, he wants to create a manga for all humanity to enjoy, not very shounen MC of him, so he rips off the manga from the future that he read and found amazing. He gets himself a good start with a one shot, and gets high places several times in the actual serialisation, but the mangaka he ripped off happened to be a dumb cute highschool girl who noticed that the white Knight our mc (don't remember his name) was writing was similar to hers, but of course it could hardly be that they happened to have the same idea so she quit school and moved to tokyo to meet him, you know basic real everyday life things, she became his assistant and like the good guy our mc is felt like he either had to tell her the truth, which would probably shatter her dreams, or rip off her future manga till the end and influence her from his timeline to become an even better mangaka in the future. Well, the shounen jump issues in the microwave stop arriving and it is revealed that the itsuki aino the original mangaka of white Knight actually died and now the mc had to stop her from dying, not like makise kurisu at all, I know.




Well you can catch up in half an hour so I guess as long as you can keep up with this garbage weekly, you should read it

Ayo... This is for some sadistic/masochist manga fans. If you're not into that, then it isn't for you, and it definitely isn't for me. Here's the thing, I'm reading this author (Hideki)'s work, after reading "The Monster of 1st Grade, Class A". That story so far is fantastic, so I want to see what else this author has written... Unfortunately, the other mangas aren't quite doing it for me.

Story: I give it a 3. It's so niche, that it's hard to score it anything higher because I'm not into it, and neither are others from what I can see. It's about a boy who loves being brutalized mentally and physically (it gets his rocks off) and same with the person doing it (obviously a popular girl in high school).

Art: Fantastic Hideki art. Honestly it's really good, and its the only positive thing I can say about this story.

Character: Characters are okay. It's kind of poorly written to be honest, there are times where I don't know who is speaking or who the character is speaking to...

Overall, it's not the greatest. Unless you like this kind of stuff (like you get horny off the idea of doing some sadistic crap to someone), idk why anyone would like this.

This work is nothing remotely resembling a masterpiece, but its well drawn and the story is over the top in such a way as that its hard not to find it charming.

Story: 3. The story basically doesnt exist. The chapters are pretty much just an excuse for Boichi to draw softcore porn and really dynamic cooking scenes. I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but essentially, every chapter involves the female characters getting naked and Caesar cooking something awesome. Its hard to say its even bad, since its pretty much not even there.

Art: 8. Boichi is an expert draftsperson, and thats on full display here, with lots of gorgeous two page spreads, action scenes, and really good looking food. I would have prefered less fanservice scenes, but those at least are well drawn.

Character: 4There's Caesar, a guy whos really, really good at cooking, and three mostly naked bouny hunter chicks who follow him around. They are neither especially interesting or original, but the work is so short that at least they dont overstay their welcome.

Enjoyment: 6. For all its many flaws, its obvious Boichi really put alot of effort and heart into this, and that at least allows it to be a reasonably entertaining (if not especially memorable) read.

Overall: 5. For those curious about the early work of Boichi, who gave the world Sun Ken Rock, Origin, and Dr Stone (all of which are much better) this title might prove to be an enjoyable but shallow distraction.

As I was looking through manga that I could read, I saw this peculiar manga. I thought that art was pretty mediocre, but I didn’t really mind that. What really caught my attention was that the manga had the word “Genders”. That word isn’t normally used in any Japanese titles from what I know, and that was pretty much the first time I saw it in a manga title. So I checked, and lo and behold, it was a manga about the LGBT+. Reading through it, I realized that this is one of the only manga that I’ve read that focuses on the sexuality and gender aspect in regards to the LGBT+ community. And it did a lot of things right.

This manga explored four of the types in LGBT+: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. While I would have liked it if they explored more sexualities and genders (pansexual, asexual, intersex, gender fluid, etc.), I know that would be too much to ask, as it is hard for people to accept all of them in one go, so I know it would take time for them to accept us. We just need to go one step at a time.

There are 5 main characters in this manga, Gin Fujigaya, Asa Nakamichi, Yuki Ogara, Akira Sumon, and Seiji Toyohara, all of which have different sexualities and genders. The main protagonist, Gin, has a hobby of crossdressing and posting selfies online, which is how the story started. As he continues to pursue this, his hobby, he starts to meet other people, like Asa, Yuki, Akira, etc. With each having different sexualities and identities, they continue to explore who they really are, and shape what they would do in life.

One of the things I liked about this manga is how the characters were able to properly explain who they are, what they identified as, and who they liked. They were able to properly find themselves, even though their journeys might have been rough. Gin was my favorite one. He is heterosexual, but he loves to crossdress because he think he is prettier doing drag than his regular self. Because of this, he and some of the other main protagonists question his gender, and some suggested that he may be transgender. After reflecting on his actions and thoughts, Gin came to a conclusion: he’s straight, and he is definitely a cis guy. I loved how he didn’t make a big deal out of it, and that he was able to accept that there was a possibility that he could have been transgender. Also, if there’s one thing to remember, it’s this: CROSSDRESSING DOESN’T MAKE YOU TRANSGENDER. You can just love crossdressing, but still be straight. Crossdressing isn’t mutually exclusive to one’s sexuality. Anyone can crossdress if they desire to, and there should be no problem with that at all.

Another thing I liked was that some of the characters already knew who they liked and what they were at a young age, and they were able to accept it. Even if other people disagreed and shunned them, they were able to wholeheartedly accept their identities and beings, which is something I want the LGBT+ community to be able to do. We need to be able to be true of ourselves without being rejected by others saying that “it isn’t normal” or that “it’s sin”. It should be normal to know your identity, and what you like, since it shapes who you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life.

This manga isn’t perfect, and there are a bunch of mistakes and things I found that I didn’t like. The main problem for me is the title of the manga itself. Yes, gender is also explored in this manga, but the main thing that was explored was their sexualities. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, those are sexualties and not genders. Transgender itself isn’t a gender either, but a gender identity. For clarity, sexuality refers to which of the genders you are sexually attracted to, while gender identity is the gender you identify as. I understand that the author might not have gotten the English word properly as a Japanese, so I can forgive it. But I hope future authors won’t make this same mistake again.

Another thing I disliked is the character of Seiji Toyohara. He was portrayed as obsessive and a bit psychopathic, which made him a toxic character. Since the LGBT+ community is still ostracized by a lot of people, if one bad apple is revealed to the public, the whole community will be painted in that light, making it harder to properly show who we really are. I feel like some people who will read this will incorrectly connect that Seiji’s personality is how most of the people with the same sexuality act, so they will be seen in a bad light. I’m glad that Seiji became a better person by the end, but hopefully people would know that obviously not everyone is like him, and that we all have our own personalities and ideals.

The art is pretty mediocre, it’s not a masterpiece, but it isn’t garbage either. It’s just smack in the middle, which I can forgive, as the focus of the manga is to help educate those who are still uninformed of the LGBT+ and how we think.

So with these things in mind (and other things that I couldn’t find the words to write), I gave this manga an 8. But honestly, with everything in the manga alone, I would have given it a 7, or even a 6. So why did I give it an 8? The reason is that the author is a hetersexual male. Heterosexual. I was shocked that he was able to write this kind of manga. He said in his afterword that while he was writing the manga, he had to read LGBT books to be able to properly understand how his characters were thinking, and that he had to consult and meet LGBT people to delve deeper into who they are. This made me really happy. I really liked how the author of the manga worked hard in order to write a story that doesn’t focus on people like him, and how much he studied and consulted on the subject in order to give life to the characters in the story. The author's intentions and actions are the reason why I gave this manga an 8. I hope other authors will follow in his footsteps if they decide to write manga focused on the LGBT+ community. And while this manga focuses on the LGBT+ aspect itself, I also want to see manga/anime that just has an LGBT character that isn’t there for drama, but someone who’s just there. A character that just continues to live their normal life, just like the way straight characters are able to do in manga/anime. I hope I can see something like that soon.

Now with all that’s said and done, I know that there will be people that still wouldn’t be able to understand us. Their mindsets and lifestyles might be different, and that’s okay. Everyone lives differently, sees life differently, thinks differently. One manga wouldn’t be able to instantly change the mindset that you have, and it won’t make you automatically give you all the knowledge about us. That’s why we ask you to study and consult about this topic. To make you understand us better. But I know even after all that, there will still be people who can’t, or won’t understand. If that’s the case, then there’s a quote I’d for you all to read, and it’s something that reverberates through the whole LGBT+ community.

“You don’t have to understand us, but we want you to acknowledge us.”

We exist. We’re alive. We’re human. We’re here, and we’re queer.

So I'm writing this while I'm on chapter three.

How can this manga be bad if all of other mangas good stuffs were stolen?

A gangster guy that falls in love with the geeky girl.
A girl that will pursue everything to be the guys girlfriend.
Her first kiss was when the guy was performing her a CPR.
There was a storm and the guy saved the girl.
Gangsters vs good kids.
Gangsters judged without really doing something.

Omg sorry for spoiling the 1/4 of the story, but I can absolutely assure everyone who will read this that you'll remember some exact manga scenes you've seen in a different manga in the past.

But putting everything stolen aside, it's pretty decent (because it was stolen!!! lol. but really)

why not try reading to see what I mean.
recommended to those who wants to hate.

Anyway, the art is annoying!! But it's cute how the artist draw the girl chibi.