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Death Note review
*NO SPOILERS*
Death Note is a series that I hold very dear because it illustrated to me that anime/manga can be very smart, clever and at the same time, enjoyable. When I first read the series, I loved it and considered it a masterpiece; I wouldn't do the same thing now, but it's still a great series. The series itself is very clever in nature and is very original. It has great use of literary devices such as foreshadowing which can be seen in the first chapter, great character development, and several red herrings peppered throughout the series. The mangaka duo, Ohba and Obata, seem to change Shounen manga series each time they write a series. With Death Note, they delivered a great complex mystery thriller that is a great gateway for people who generally don't like manga or anime. Story: I really liked the cat-and-mouse game between L and Light. Each battle was extremely intense, and each genius always was attempting to outclass the other. The subsequent arcs were very methodical in nature and greatly planned out. The whole story basically questioned your morals and whether or not you thought it was right to kill criminals to create a utopia in a extremely hypocritical manner. The second half is much weaker than the first half as an important happens that changes the course of the story; the second includes two very prominent but weak characters who seem to be duplicate L's. That's it; it was as if you took the "logical" side of L and turned that into a character, and his "emotional" side and turned that into a character resulting in two very bland characters: Near and Mello respectively. Characters: First we have L. L was an amalgamation of everything odd with humans. He was an extremely paranoid individual who really didn't know how to present himself in society whilst at the same time being so incredibly intelligent that many people considered him to be one of the smartest in the world. He was pretty cool with his weird quirks, BUT he was also pretty bland, almost only there to move the plot forward with his plans against Light. On the other hand, we have Light Yagami. A genius high-school student who goes through a mental rewiring once he basically attained absolute power. Each is essentially the polar opposite of the other, as Light is clean, presentable and neat, while L is a "mad-genius". The cat-and-mouse games between the two geniuses were so cleverly done that in order to outclass the other, you would have to secretly kill people while eating potato chips. Yes, potato chips. Basically what I got from L and Light was that if wants to be so intelligent, then that person must border on insanity. This was exemplified through the actions of both individuals. Near and Mello were very poorly handled, and I think it's an unfortunate result of Shueisha insisted on continuing the story of Death Note; Tsugumi Ohba possibly felt that the series was coming to a close after the death of a certain character. Either way, I personally didn't like the characters or the subsequent second halves as much as I did with the first half. Art: Obata does an amazing job with his crisp drawings of all of the buildings and character designs. With his great understanding of human proportions, you have great scale drawings of humans and the shinigami. Overall, Death Note is a great series with amazing art, an amazing first half, an OK cast of main characters, and one hell of ride. The pacing can get sporadic at times during the second half, but the aforementioned cat-and-mouse games and great use of literary techniques and themes makes up for it. *Congratulations if you got through my incoherent review!
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Fullmetal Alchemist review
I being a huge fan of FullMetal Alchemist enjoyed reading this. I only wish other characters such as Roy, etc...could have been added. I gave "8 for character" because there could have been at least a few afterwords on everyone else lives. I gave "9 for overall" because I just felt again, the other characters could have had a few mentions. But it's about Ed, Al, and Winry's life after the end of the manga so I'll deal with it haha :] Overall its a warming conclusion full of love. Long live FMA!
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Akira review
Akira is a classic.
I can only imagine how revolutionary it was for its time. My biggest complains I have with the manga are that while it may had been breathtaking with its storytellling and characters on the 80/90's, and I did enjoyed the characters and apocalyptic scenario, both these just dont felt that amazing anymore in the current days. The theme of Akira's was well explored, the whole death/life sci fi stuff was awesome, but the characters... with time I came to enjoy them more, but if I had to point Akira's main weakness, it would be those. I can connect with Kaneda and the others, even Tetsuo (later on), but overall they werent that appealing. And again, the story had some very interesting plotwists and events, but it also had some more boring arcs, so expect it, but it is interesting, and when it goes out of proportions, IT BLOWS IT SKY HIGH! The best damm thing about Akira is the art! For its time, it is outstading, detailed, massive, clean, sharp and the action scenes are quite great. I cant praise the manga enough in this category, it is that artisticly good. From the gore, the pumping detailed action(great set pieces of action, some very massive and epic in scale, at least for its time), to the beautiful landscapes, ugly decaying city, full of dirt, rubble and dust... Otomo Katsuhiro's hands are godlike with pencil, the guy is that good. Still at this day and age, the art is just stunning beautifull, it still feels classic, but has that charm and detail to it. I would reccomend reading the Epic version, which comes in full colours, 37 chapters, 70 pages per chapter, FULL COLOUR! Its quality is quite good. There will be some that will prefer to go with the classic black and white, for those... I do understand, but just think of the colour has some great extra, that you will enjoy to check out, after you have readed with original. Seeing it drawned with the rich pallete of colours epic used, it feels like you are watching an artbook. The manga itself (it or without colours, is already) a giant artbook! Add it a solid and mature plot, interesting character development, amazing action scenes, and a great setting. The Sci Fi aspect is great, I was pleasently surprised with all the phylosophy and other themes that the mangaka was bold to keep and keep exploring, again, and again, while keeping it real and interesting. When you hear people talking about the classic manga Akira, all the praise, fear not, it is really a masterpiece that aged very well with the times.
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VAMPIRE GIRL review
This manga had a really nice change from normal vampire mangas in that it was centered on a female vampire character then a male one. This gave them a lot of room to grow the characters and make them different which sadly, they didn’t. I kept feeling like the story was the same even if the vampire had been a male character the whole time, it would of still played out the same. Give me more that can make this manga stand out, not something that feels half assed. It had so much potential and they seemed to throw that all to the side. That
might be me nit picking at it but its how I feel. It did however have a surprising ending that was nice.
The artwork is nice though it feels a lot like every other manga out there with its standard background school rooms, standard school girl and school boy characters and even the standard teacher characters. Even though they talk about the color of the characters eyes, there is no color and I’m not really that against it since they say it right away and don’t have you wondering what the heck they are talking about. All in all, it was a rather standard manga for the story it gave.
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KYOUSEI HAREM KEIYAKU review
*This Review may contain Spoilers*
This was a classic case of good idea, terrible execution. It is a pseudo harem with 5 girls and the main character as the guy, but it doesn't get much into romance or ecchi. Story (4/10): The story was spastic. It starts off with a fun harem promise of 1 guy trying to date 5 girls to stop their deaths and the death of his sister, and a interesting story gimmick of precognitive dreams. The MC is motivated and skilled, and rapidly gains the attention of the first girl, and they hint romantic interest. Similar case with the second and third one. Then they rapidly drop 90% of the romantic part of the harem. Then the story proceeds to off the deep end, with murderous mascots with freddy powers to kill in dreams, mysterious dream doctors, robot suits, and magic dream powers. In the end, it is a happy ending, but a rushed ending, and feels like tying up loose ends by soaking them in superglue and bundling them together. It loses all coherence and just goes for action, and characters and plot are just thrown aside. The third girl's plot arc is thrown aside for contrived intrigue, and has little romantic harem interest, and the 4th and fifth girl barely get a plot arc, and their characters are left undeveloped and shallow. The villains feel like they don't know what the f*** they want to do, either. Overall, after the second girl, the plot kicks in, and the story collapses. Art (4/10): I mean, it was OK most of the time, but occasionally head sizes, body proportions, and facial quality were so inconsistent that sometimes I felt like the main character had a gag face during the normal parts of the story. This was especially true towards the end. Character (4/10): Don't judge the initial characters as the standard, this manga is exemplary at the art of going downhill. The MC started off strong. He had a strong sense of justice, an interesting power to see the future, and didn't lack any confidence. The first girl was a rich girl, but spirited and fun (and decidedly not a tsundere, unlike the norm for rich girls), with a fun bad cooking gimmick to add more character to her, and she likes to help the MC. The second girl was fun, with a interesting transformation from a simple looking but hard to read girl to an energetic idol, and she could gather animals to her like a disney princess. Now remember all those things I just told you? Get rid of half of them. The main character loses confidence, becomes less passionate, and his dream powers become less useful. The first girl rarely ever uses her money for anything from the end of her arc onward. She never cooks ever since the first time. She loses her energy and becomes a background character for the MC. The second girl only uses her disney gimmick like twice, and she never transforms into the idol version after her arc. On top of that, all characters introduced after the second arc are shallow and undeveloped. You have a cut and paste yakuza daughter who can call for backup, and little to no personality, and she rarely uses her backup. You have a feisty mech using girl, whose powers are largely unexplained, and feisty is about all the personality she has to her name. And the fifth girl... WAIT THERE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE 5 GIRLS! WE'RE MISSING ONE! Yeah, the fifth girl never shows up in the story at all, which was very mysterious to me. As for the other characters, we have the sister, who is pretty boring until she gets a twist... whereupon she's boring and unlikeable. Then we have a mysterious doctor, who can access dreams... and they reveal... she's a doctor who can intervene in dreams! Yeah, that's pretty much the plot twist. And then you have a girl who gives the MC things that intervene in dreams... and it's revealed... she made things to intervene in dreams! Yep. Advanced plot twists. As for enjoyment... 4/10. It would be 5/10 for most of the story, but it would be 2/10 for the end. I'll compromise. Overall, I bet you can't guess... I give it... 4/10, because that seemed to be the number of the day. Can't recommend, because it feels like watching dreams get crushed, almost the same feeling... as if your childhood idols died in a car crash.
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DIRTY WORK review
edit: recognize the light in your life.
This tucked away gem provided for me a simple story, with a message that I constantly find myself reanalyzing. Its straight forward situations such as the ones shown in the manga that make me want to value the work even more so. From the not so flushed out characters, to the little to no background information of the setting this story was, and still is, able to provide feelings of mystery and longing. The analogies, and seemingly random inserts about chickens and chicken shit are what made me want to reevaluate this story, and look past the surface. To try and uncover a deeper message. After rereading this manga, on different occasions, it still emits different emotions of unrequited love, and unobtainable circumstances.
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Dokumushi review
Like many others here, I got recommended this by the henti man, and since I wanted to practice my japanese I gave it a go.
As a summary, don't waste your time. This is a dumpster-fire, which gave me flashbacks of School Days, in the sense that you end up hating the main character from the bottom of your heart. The only things to praise here is the concept (I never heard about locking people with no food for a while and see who survives concept, but from other reviews seems is not that rare, so if you are familiar with this concept story might be predictable for you), the artwork and how explicit some scenes are (glad the mangaka didn't tone them down), and how this manga teases you with morbid curiosity to see what fucked up thing comes up next, which was the only motivation for me to keep reading till the end. On the bad side we have stupid characters making stupid decisions, and a cast of awful people to hate (although some of them more than others). I have to say having backstories for all of them was a nice touch, and made their behavior more understandable (except for the main character, fuck that guy). Overall it made me feel sick on some parts, which is more than you could say for many other works, that's why I gave it a 4 and not a 1 or 2, but I wouldn't read it again nor would recommend it to anyone. Some scenes are freaking depressing.
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Minasama no Omocha desu review
Wow.
I've never seen something this bad in all my years on the internet. How did a human come up with such garbage is beyond me. The only character in this entire "story" that I truly despise is the MC. I've set the enjoyment at 5 because whenever he would actually suffer it brought so much joy to me that I can't even explain it. How could you call such a character the "main character" is truly more of a mystery than the whole secret of why he was kidnapped. The only good part of this manga is the art, which is sad because you can't even enjoy it since there is so much disgusting stuff that happens. If you are an M. I guess you might enjoy it but to be honest I belive that even masochists won't find any pleasure in this dumpster. If you still want to read this then do but don't be mad at me for not warning you.
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Parallel Paradise review
if you looking for good hentai manga with lot of sex and good story dont worry you found it!
Story 9/10 - The story is good planet full of womans under 20 years old and only 1 man , if any girl touch him she gets horny oh boi thats sounds... great i guess .. in this planet everyone who reach around 20 years old will die to curse and there is only 2 ways how to save them .. 1) good old sex ... yes sex can fix everything .. 2) kill the goddess of jealousy ... also you asking how there is only womans in this planet without males?? dont worry the all arrive from a castle .. makes sence ... so anyway mc starts his journey to fight the goddess and fucks a lot of chicks from every kingdom . Art 9/10 - The art is actually pretty okey Characters 10/10 - Every character have his own personality .. every guard of each kingdom have his own unique weapon from katanas , bows , spears , swords ,big hammer to lowkey megumin with grenades (and no im not joking)
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