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OPM is a great Shonen manga that also parodies the genre.

Despite its predictable conclusion of "Saitama will punch it," the battles actually tend to be quite intense. This is mostly because Saitama often isn't in the battles, and never really "saves," the other people involved in the battle. Saitama is often preoccupied with another fight, or is completely clueless about the battle taking place. This actually sets the stage for all the other fighters to have some nice battles where the power levels are pretty even. Along with the fantastic art, OPM actually functions as good Shonen, even if it sets out to parody it.

Like I said, it parodies the genre at the same time. Saitama is a joke on the classic Shonen hero; unstoppable, always wins, but described to be "your everyday hero, the average guy." Genos is a joke on the more edgy characters with tragic backstories that look 10x more powerful than the main hero, but in reality they aren't at all. There's another character later, "Bang," who is the stereotypical wise martial arts instructor. Several characters are non allusion jokes, like "King," or "Pri-Pri-Prisoner." Overall, a very funny manga as well, and mixes action and the comedy fantastically. It knows when to be serious, and it knows when to be a complete joke.

As a whole, OPM is incredibly enjoyable to read. You'll find several references to other Shonen stuff, and even some jokes about Western stereotypical heroes. The worst part about it is how short the chapters are, chapters that don't come out too often either. In summary, I give it a 9/10.

Yeah not bad

Ok so everything is horrible, im like who likes this who is this cringy little mc probably a whore, and then their is this white pointed ear girl who is just their for no reason
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Anhyway then they introduce beatrice 10/10 best novel

MAL wants me to write a longer review, so i guess i have to continue writing in order to make the word limit. Anway how are you? im good i guess

Ok back to the review, so the main focus is on beatrice and everyone else in the story is a side character with no real value

Pretty much everyone has at least a passing interest in music and its instruments. To be a good musician, more than passing interest is need. It is necessary true dedication to music. Beck is the story of someone who only had a passing interest in music that comes to adore it and becomes a great musician.

Beck is a music drama manga that was serialized between 200 and 2008. It was written, illustrated and created by Harold Sakuishi, and doubles as his first work of note.

Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a 14-year-old who hasn't anything going for him: he isn't in any clubs, his school scores are average at best and he isn't particularly sociable. Until a chance meeting with the guitarist Ryusuke Minami and his dog, Beck, sets him on a new path. He starts to play the guitar with the hopes of working with his newly found idol.

Eventually, he does play with him in their band, Beck. With, as well, the drummer Saku, Koyuki's school friend, the funky bassist Yoshiyuki and the vocalist with rap background Chiba. Together, the band aims to become great musicians and achieve success.

While the setting and even some of the developments are fairly standard, Beck's strength lies on the way the story is told. Apart from the slow start, the pacing is great. Differently, from most other manga, the band is not easily catapulted to success, but still evolves in a pleasant-to-read speed.

The story heavily evokes the importance of music, making good use of its cast to illustrate various possible relationships with music. Koyuki's finds in it excitement and friends, while for Ryusuke it is a way of life, for example.

Moreover, the cast itself is wonderful. Each character has its own clear personality and is throughly explored. Even Koyuki, who is at first a generic and self-insert, protagonist, goes through changes and develops his own personality and new desires.

Beck even has some interesting side stories, for example, Lucille's. To the non-initiated, Lucille seems to be a terrible guitar riddled with bullet holes, but it actually is a legendary guitar once owned by likewise legendary bluesman. And Ryusuke stole it right under the nose of an important businessman.

The conclusion of Beck leaves a lot of room for imagination, but its focus isn't the destination, it is the journey. And what an incredible journey it was. Not lacking in quality, it creates meaningful and emotional plot threads and develops them until its conclusion.

The art of Beck is best described as realistic. There is a lot of care put in each panel to portrayal something visually appealing, but realistic at the same time. This is particularly evident both during close-ups of the instruments, which are wonderfully detailed down to the most minimal imperfections, and the two-page spreads, which are minuciously planned and almost pieces of art.

An interesting characteristic of Beck is the way that the music is portrayed. Rather than trying to half-ass the lyrics, Sakuishi chooses to focus on the emotions to convey sound. And this gamble worked perfectly. Emotions are much more tangible in imagery rather than in words, moreover, the impactness of lyrics is too chaotic. Whenever there were music scenes, it was impossible not to feel something.

Beck is a music epic, as in a journey of huge proportions through the world of music. It is a trip through music and what it can mean to a multitude of people.

At this point, it is needless to say that I recommend it to basically anyone. However, I should still go through formalities: If you have at least a passing interest in music, you will find a lot to like in Beck. On the other hand, if you despise bands, music and everything they stand for, you will probably hate it too. Also, if you are indifferent to all of that, Beck still is a great drama with fun and deep characters that doubles as an emotional journey.

"But right now... I can't see past the world of a 17-year-old."

Narration of love at 17 is a well crafted shoujo series that centers around a teenager named Seyoung. The series sets itself apart from the usual and tired concept as most of the case in shojo stories by being somewhat philosophic and melancholic. It focuses more on the main characters emotion and thoughts rather than having characters face hardships and such unwanted obstacles.

I must admit I wish for a rollercoaster heartbreaking drama between the main characters but rather the series was straightforward. The story is simple and was rather written realistically. As readers we get to learn the thoughts of Seyoung as she is experiencing love, heartbreak, rivals, and friendship etc. in the mindset of a teenager. There is nothing dramatic in this series, it's all about how would you react to what others feelings. Its like a memory of a teenager's first hand experience about love.

I found myself lost in some of the characters interactions. It's definitely more mature when it comes to dialogue. I enjoyed the interaction between Yunho and Hyunjung they have such cunning chit chats. It contains so much philosophical views about relationship and feelings. I like how Sayeoung analyzes her actions, thoughts and her reactions. Sayeoung's idea about wanting to be special to someone, and some comments about doing something to someone you like are all there. How is someone is special to you but then are ordinary for others. The series is like a study of relationship.

Its quiet but powerful moving tale. The series moves in such narratively manner. The art is pleasant to look at, it captures the series overall tone. I felt as if I'm reading a manga rather than manhwa because of the art. The art reminded me of the series Swan and Rumiko Takahashi's early works.

By the end of the series Seyoung was developed into someone who came to an understanding. She slowly realizes that she's only 17 and she'll experience alot more things as time passes. Anway it was just good.

Although as a reader I can't help but to think "what if" between Seyoung and Hyunwoo. Lol.

Today I'm breaking my review hiatus to talk about a series no one gives a shit about: Boner Collection. One of the only readable series running in the dying Shonen Jump magazine, it was the rare exorcist manga that had any merit at all. Sadly, it's canceled and dead now, and let these words be its epitaph.

Boner Collection is about some dingus who meets the best and most attractive girl in the universe, Paira. He's an exorcist, she's a demon. It's Romeo & Juliet. He gets powers from pulling weapons out of her bones, like swords, sniper rifles and Nintendo consoles. Once he pulls out all 200+ of her bones, she gets to become human, presumably because Earth has more Chads to ride. It's a fun story in the usually cancerous romcom genre.

Did I mention that Paira is best girl? I usually don't say that shit but damn she is the greatest. People rip on her for being a mutation of some character named Lum from some series no one cares about in 2020, but oddly enough those same people have no issue with nearly every other SJ girl being a hapless idiot and every male being a copypasted archetype from Dragonball or Naruto.

People also tear into the art. They're wrong, of course. How do I know this? Because I am the most discerning person on the planet when it comes to comic art and I quite liked the visuals here. When people rip on the art, you can write off their opinions forever. They just wanted the series to look more generic, and if some YouTuber told them to like this series, they wouldn't have anything to say about it.

Even though the series is only 15 chapters long and was rushed into an ending, it felt oddly on-brand since the whole thing was kind of a jokey shitpost to begin with. I enjoyed the ending and the series even had a full epilogue with resolutions for every character. It didn't get enough time in the middle there to really explore the themes of prejudice between demons and humans, but that's all boring and predictable content anyway.

So yeah, the series is funny, the characters entertaining, and it had some good ideas. It's a shame about the name.

Take the hour out of your day to read Boner Collection and grieve with me.

Because there will never be Paira doujins.

It starts as a regular childish adventure tale, but the end has a really unexpected ending with strong and a bit bitter social and environemental message.
The artwork is rather easygoing, but the frames are made that way that you have a feeling of watching a movie. It's a must-read if you like Japanese manga for having a message behind the story.

Ok, here I am, I pick it up thinking it can be interesting, and it is, VERY INTRESTING, but it's not good.

The first thing that hit me was the art, it's bad, and it's good. Over all it fits the "story" and gets across what it wants to get across.

The characters are there, extremely generic, but the "story" never digs to deep into it.

The "story" as I call it, is shit... let me rephrase that... nonexistent.
SURE, there are bits of what you could call a story.
There is also... well... bits of a story... that doesn't know how to tell itself?

it feels a bit to too fast paced, and it never goes into anything, it leaves more questions than answers, and the whole time I am looking for a story ESPECIAL in volume 2, I found myself yelling WHAT THE @#%$ IS GOING ON and WHO the #@$# is THAT. And then if I'm right and there are only 2 volumes, the thing just stops, there feels like there needs to be at least a third volume to end whatever "story" there is.

Above I said that the art is good, but this style is a problem for me because so many people look alike I can't tell who is who, or seeing someone from a different angel will make you wonder who is that.

Enjoyment, is a hard one, on one hand there is no story, on the other hand it doesn't need one... exactly... you understand if you read stuff like this every now and then.

But overall, the no story, who the #$%^ is that moments that happen to often, and abrupt stop, I can't give this any more than a 3

The story is actually kind of cute and makes you feel sorry for the main character. The ending is really interesting because it leaves it up to why she would be letting herself fly away from all the trouble. I do feel that making the tree able to talk kind of made it a bit over the top because she doesn’t talk to anything else like that. The only other things she interacts with are a bird and a little kid so the tree just feels a bit out there. Not only that but the face and art style of the tree is kind of bla. The name of it also doesn’t make much sense because they do not explain why its 100 days. It’s just a dream she has.

The artwork is really bland and yet in some areas, nicely detailed. It’s just enough that it’s on the higher end of being average.

I still feel that it needed a bit more but it was quite good and worth the read.

No Bra: Please note this manga is somewhat Yaoi (Guy on guy). Just to warn u guys first :)

Story: No Bra follow the story of Tokyo high schooler Masato. In the begining, Masato was noticed that a childhood friend is going to live at his house. Like any harem, that childhood friend is a cute girl. However...

Nomura Yuuki is a male cross-dresser (and possibly gay)
I guess everyone can see where this is going ;)

The Story of No Bra is original. While it may be odd for some, it is an alright comedy and an intersting but eerie eechi vibe.

Art: Your normal shounen harem kinda art ( see ichigo 100%, IO and MxO). Nothing particular fancy and nothing too odd about it.

Characters: Seeing that you have a gay cross-dresser. The characters surrounding him(/her!?) is original. The indecisive male lead takes on a whole new challenge (about his gender prefrence), which is pretty interesting to read. Not much to say about the others characters though...

Enjoyment: While I have been positive here, it does have its faults. While it does have originality and is quite funny, the concept of the "struggling gender preference" may be overused and does take up massive manga squares. But that shouldn't be too much of a problem :).

This manga is recommended to older audiences. The sensitive theme of this manga may leave yound readers with a disgusting aftertaste.

I have never seen any Grudge movie or experienced any related media. This manga is my introduction to the franchise, so I can give you the point of view of someone not familiar with the story at all. After reading the manga, I have also watched the movie (the 2000 Japanese version), so I can also give you a comparison to the movie.

This review might contain what some could consider a spoiler, but it's nothing specific, just the basic story outline.

I am a fan of horror manga. I am however not much of a fan of regular horror movies, so I was interested in how a manga based on a horror movie would turn out. I can't say that I was disappointed as my expectations weren't exactly high, but I certainly wasn't surprised. This manga feels just like a mediocre horror movie.

The basic story is exactly as expected, without nothing out of ordinary. Family moves in a haunted house, ignoring the warning that it might possibly be haunted. Angery evil spirit is angery and spooks it's victims few times before ultimately killing them off. Why must this evil ghost do this? Fuck if I know, the manga doesn't exactly bother to explain how the spiritual system actually works, but it's fairly common for basic horror works to not do that. It's angry and it needs blood, what more do you need? Duh.

The characters don't really have much of a personality and exist there just to fulfil their role of victims. I kinda liked the hint of "motherly" nature of Kayako (even though I had to google what even was her name). Sadly it doesn't get much expanded upon as the whole manga feels quite rushed. It is, after all, a whole movie put into just one volume.

The art is okay at best most of the time, but is does actually shine when illustrating the gorey parts. Especially one certain part which I would say is the only part in the manga that actually works as a horror. Too bad it lasted only few pages.

Finally, a comparison to the movie. The manga doesn't seem to be a 1:1 adaptation, at least not of the version that I've seen. I cannot say that the manga is a botched adaptation though, as I had the similar experience when reading it as I had when watching the movie - just a typical horror b movie. I might check the other versions of the movie later, but this didn't really piqued my interest for this franchise much. I'd say this manga is more of a miscellaneous point of interest for the fans then something that can stand on it's own.