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| 20th Century Boys (manga) |
Masterpiece |
Shogun you are a fuckin' beast. |
| 21st Century Boys (manga) |
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Kenji you are a fuckin' beast. [SPOILERS] That was a pretty stupid ending. Not that I didn't like the final outcome, it was just really poorly executed. It seems like the mangaka got tired of doing 20th Century Boys and ended it as fast as he could. [END OF SPOILERS] |
| Ai Hime - Ai to Himegoto (manga) |
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Pretty bad, but at least it was short. |
| Aishiteruze Baby (manga) |
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I recall liking this manga a lot when I read it, but I hardly remember it at all. So approach cautiously. |
| Akumetsu (manga) |
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This manga is just so serious with itself it's hard not to laugh at the absurdity of the thing. Akumetsu is basically about being badass. It's way too long at 18 volumes, and the readability is terrible due to back-to-back pages being what amounts to one giant wall of text. Every other chapter is basically the author's outlet for his crazy-ass political rants, which is why I began to only look at the artwork and barely even skimmed the text. But the action can be pretty cool at times. Not enough to make up for all the crap, but it would have been good at 8 volumes or less. |
| Angel Densetsu (manga) |
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| Angel Sanctuary (manga) |
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| Bad Company (manga) |
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| Basara (manga) |
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marvelous. |
| Battle Angel Alita (manga) |
Excellent |
So close to greatness, but somehow off. |
| Beck (manga) |
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Hella long, but hellamazing. |
| Biomega (manga) |
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With random cuts to completely different scenarios, characters too similar to tell apart, giant plot gaps, and no conclusion whatsoever, Biomega is terrible on many levels; it unfortunately left some of the better characters on the wayside (completely forgetting more than one), and its plot was hard to follow and horribly paced. |
| Bitter Virgin (manga) |
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A rant about how the ending was stupid used to be here. But instead there's this. |
| Blue Heaven (manga) |
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| Blue Spring (manga) |
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| Bokurano: Ours (manga) |
Masterpiece |
I almost want to hate it due to everything else Kitoh has ever done, but Bokurano is probably the best manga ever made. |
| (The) Booking Life (manga) |
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Kinda crappy. But meh. |
| Cat Street (manga) |
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Eh... pretty standard high school romance fare, not really notable in any aspect. Solid, but not something I'd go out of the way to read. |
| Chibi Vampire (manga by Y. Kagesaki) |
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Eh... pretty good for the most part. |
| Chocotto Sister (manga) |
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| Ciguatera (manga) |
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"yea when I read the ending I was like.....uhhhhhhhhh......WHAT!? the mangaka is seriously a troll." - some guy on a forum
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I'd highly advise not reading Ciguatera, as although it was pretty OK for the most part, the ending, oh god the ending... . The author clearly just wanted to kill the manga, but did it in the worst way possible. Even disregarding the ending, which I feel everyone should do even if the mangaka was trying to make a statement (no matter how stupid said statement is), the story's dubious morality and lack of comeuppance made the read a waste of time for myself. If I want to hear that life sucks and not everything turns out the way you wanted, I wouldn't look to a manga. You don't need to emulate real life, in fact probably a much crappier version of real life, in your story. It might seem this would be a complaint about seinin in general, but at least most seinin manga, at least the ones that I read, incorporate some fantastical element about them that makes the reading worthwhile. You'll feel like shit after finishing Ciguatera; let's just leave it at that.
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Fuck you, Minoru Furuya. Fuck. You. |
| Crying Freeman (manga) |
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| Dance Till Tomorrow (manga) |
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Japanese cultural insensitivity at its most hilarious. This is a shitty manga filled with shitty people, and I wasted two days of my life reading it. |
| DearS (manga) |
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...why did I read this? |
| Deus Vitae (manga) |
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Fucking terrible. |
| Doubt (manga by Y. Tonogai) |
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Oh noes, that guy's the real villain! oh wait, it's that other guy. oh wait, it's that other guy. oh wait, it's that other guy. oh wait, it's that other guy. Oh noes, we're all dead now. There. Now you don't have to read this mediocre manga. |
| Dragon Head (manga) |
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Kind of awesome, but at the same time the author just rants about stuff you don't care in almost every chapter towards the end. |
| Eagle (manga) |
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Better political manga than sanctuary, because seriously, america fuk yeah. Eagle isn't the best manga I've ever read, but it is one of the greats. |
| Elfen Lied (manga) |
Excellent |
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| Emanon (manga) |
Masterpiece |
Awesome. You should read it. Seriously. |
| Emma (manga) |
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Really good. And not too long either. |
| ES (manga) |
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Meh. |
| Flame of Recca (manga) |
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Not terrible, but too god damn long. |
| Freesia (manga by J.Matsumoto) |
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I was looking over my past comments and I cannot believe that I didn't rant about how stupid this story was. I apparently just don't enjoy anything Matsumoto Jiro writes, because the five other works of his I have read are just as rambling, visually difficult to follow, and filled to the brim with psychopathic shitheads as this is. |
| Future Diary (manga) |
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'the fuck is this shit? |
| G Senjou Heaven's Door (manga) |
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"THE MUNGA, IT'S TOO POWERFUL! Can't you see it's TEARING OUR LIVES APART!?" Wow. The shift in tone between the first volume and the end of the third volume is so profound that I don't even know. What don't I know? I don't even know. Heaven's Door starts off super disjointed, meandering, and really just lacking in an overall "point." I attempt to divine a theme in the quote above, but this does not come close to encapsulating the unintelligible mess that is Heaven's Door. All of the characters are angsty as fuck in the first two volumes (apparently because none of their collective parents ever loved/understood/supported them), and then by arbitrarily changing a few characters' personalities somewhere along the line the third and final volume becomes a story about how life is great and everyone is happy and isn't everything just swell. Neither of these narratives are implemented particularly well. I just don't care at all about this story. |
| Ghost in the Shell (manga) |
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| Girl Got Game (manga) |
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| Girls Saurus (manga) |
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| GTO (manga) |
Masterpiece |
"Fuck, I'm gonna have to jump off a building again, aren't I?"
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GTO is in essence the best let's-do-awesome-stuff-because-I'm-awesome manga there is, and I cannot recommend it enough. If you ever have the chance to purchase it, drop whatever shit you were gonna buy. Unless it's Sanctuary. In that case buy both. |
| Guardian Dog (manga) |
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| Gyo (manga) |
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| Hatsukanezumi no Jikan (manga) |
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I put off reading this manga for a few years because I couldn't get past the blandness of the opening, but once I got to reading it the first volume was mildly interesting. The Hour of the Mice approaches some cool themes such as ethical relativity and ontological ambiguity, and it doesn't take the cop-out approach one would expect of an anime/manga of going to the extremes of either "I JUST GOTTA BELIEVE, BRO! I'M REAL, YOU AIN'T GONNA CONFUSE ME WITH YOUR FANCY 'PHILOSOPHY!'" or "everything sucks and I'm depressed and human existence is futile." Unfortunately, the unconventional approach the story takes is overshadowed by a completely conventional love polygon for the majority of the time and ultimately goes nowhere with the ideas presented. It bored me to no end. |
| High School Debut (manga) |
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KFC Christmas Barrel: best name for a food product ever? But damn, I love Haruka and Assa's eyes. This is a solid high school romance. Not painful at all to read, above par in every regard. I feel like comparing every romance manga to Mars, as when I think of "best of the genre" it is my standard response, and Koukou Debut at least gets close to it. |
| Hikaru no Go (manga) |
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Eh... I felt sort of obligated to read/watch some kind of manga/anime about Go, but I feel that was a mistake -- at least in Hikaru no Go's case. It wasn't bad, but seriously, go do something productive with your life. Not a sleight at Go, but at reading an excessively long comic book about Go. |
| I''s (manga) |
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Looking back on I"s with the foreknowledge of so many other manga that are so much better than this, I don't think anyone should ever read this manga ever. forever. This is probably the opposite of rose-colored glasses -- shit-stained glasses? -- as I feel now that everything about I"s is terrible. The same probably goes for Ichigo 100%, with the entire story being a wish-fulfillment fantasy with overt sexism. Something's telling me that I was just completely wrong in liking this manga at the time of reading. |
| Ichi the Killer (manga) |
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"Oh he so hirarious, Ichi go kill guy, but ichi have boner at same time!" "A ha ha! ichi rape woman, but woman not want it!" "ahhhh!!! is funny because he mass murder without know it!"
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Fuck this manga and everything about it. |
| Imadoki! Nowadays (manga) |
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| Kamiyadori (manga) |
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| Kare Kano (manga) |
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I'm genuinely surprised by how good this manga was. I recommend it above almost any other high school romance, or for that matter any romance manga I've ever read. Rough is the only thing that compares. [SPOILERS] That last chapter just about had me ragequit life. thank god that panel was a joke. [END OF SPOILERS] |
| Katsu! (manga) |
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Eh... I'm starting to see the formula Adachi has for his manga... I'm sort of disillusioned now that I've read two of his works that are practically the same, just with different sports. The only thing Katsu has for it over Rough is I like the main guy a bit more. Other than that, the ending was a lot worse comparatively and I don't feel that his writing has developed much over the years. If you've read one Adachi, you've read them all. If anything this is like Rumiko Takahashi, whose same-ness has only gotten worse over time. Really the sport the main character does is irrelevant; the plot development is what needs refreshing. |
| Koikaze (manga) |
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| Kwaidan (Korean / French manga) |
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| Lament of the Lamb (manga) |
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Meh. Kinda not so good, but not terrible either. |
| Land of the Blindfolded (manga) |
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| Left Hand (manga) |
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| Ludwig Kakumei (manga) |
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| Mars (manga) |
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On par with Rough and Kare Kano. It may just be "popular-pretty-boy and quiet-shy-girl overcome their troubles together through love", but it is the best I've ever seen using that template. |
| Mars: Horse with no Name (manga) |
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| Midori's Days (manga) |
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| Miyuki (manga) |
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| Monster (manga) |
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| Monster Collection (manga) |
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| (The) Music of Marie (manga) |
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"HAHA! you thought THAT was the ending, well PSYCH!! ... [5 pages later] ZING! HA! FOOLED AGAIN, BUDDY! ... [another 5 pages] thought we were done fucking with ya? WELL THINK AGAIN!" et cetera et cetera, ad nauseum. I cannot express the degree of contempt I hold towards this manga. Kai, you complacent, figmentitive, fuck. Pipi's parents, you fail at child rearing. |
| My Lovely Ghost Kana (manga) |
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Eh... pretty solid manga, but could have been condensed a bit more or had a bit more plot development. I didn't mind that much, especially when it's only three volumes. |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga) |
Masterpiece |
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| Nijigahara Holograph (manga) |
Masterpiece |
Hey, Asano knows how to make more than one kind of manga! Would ya look at that. Beyond the art style that Asano is known for, everything about Nijigahara is wholly unlike his other works I've read. Reading this manga, I've come to more revelations about its plot than every other manga plot I've read in the past year combined. That's saying a lot, considering that not only is it a single volume, but I've read quite a bit of manga in recent months. Trying to grasp every detail on the first read-through is nigh impossible, and just when I thought I had it all figured out, reading certain parts again changed my whole perception of the story. You definitely need to be in the mood to read an Asano work to fully enjoy Nijigahara Holograph, but given that, it's one of the best manga I've ever read. |
| Nine (manga) |
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Adachi's first manga, and pretty much nothing is different in any of the other manga he's written. |
| NOiSE (manga, Tsutomu Nihei) |
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| Offered (manga) |
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Oh man, another Kazuo Koike piece about awesome people being awesome. Offered is the archetypal Koike manga, where the main character has sex with every woman just for the hell of it. The sheer absurdity of the plot makes you want to keep reading. That's really all there is to say without going into spoilers. |
| Outlanders (manga) |
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| Parasyte (manga) |
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| Pluto (manga) |
Masterpiece |
Tits yes. Whenever I see a Tezuka work with robots, I compare it to this and inevitably find myself wanting to re-read Pluto. |
| Quantum Mistake (manhwa) |
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AKA Change Guy. Most descriptive name for a manga ever? I think so. |
| (The) Record of a Fallen Vampire (manga) |
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Vampires vs. Aliens: The Manga. Fukkin' stupid. |
| Red River (manga) |
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Eh... not so great, but I managed to finish the series to its credit. Mediocre as far as the whole "ancient kingdom love story" genre goes, but if you've read everything I have there is little that can phase my jaded psyche. |
| Rough (manga) |
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While I was a little iffy on whether I should read it at first, my fears of Rough being less developed than Adachi's, the author's, later works were thankfully unfounded. Especially for a manga created in the mid-80's, Rough has aged surprisingly well. Just everything about it is up my alley except for the occasional breaking of the fourth wall, which is gotten over quite quickly. The panel layout of a manga often makes or breaks it, and Rough just does it right, with no walls of text like Tokyo Crazy Paradise, which I couldn't bring myself to finish, or Akumetsu, where I often just skipped entire pages while reading. Rough doesn't work purely off its atmosphere like Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou or a Nihei work would either, but it doesn't need to. Adachi just knows how to tell a story through framing and actions, but doesn't hesitate to use text to make something clear, striking a fine balance between different modes of storytelling. It's a little cliche to say, but it's the truth. [SPOILERS] Oh my god. That ending was just so good. Probably one of my favorites of all time. [END OF SPOILERS] |
| Saikano (manga) |
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A manga that only gets worse towards the end. This is perhaps yet another example of shit-stained glasses. (see my I''s comment) |
| Sanctuary (manga by R. Ikegami) |
Masterpiece |
OH SHI-! |
| Sekai no Owari to Yoake-Mae (manga) |
Masterpiece |
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| Shadow Star (manga) |
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A diamond in the rough, Shadow Star has many good ideas but is unable to implement them. The series is somewhat of a lesser version of Bokurano, seeing as it is by the same author but written earlier in his career. The pacing is just not very good between chapters. Character certain motivations remain a mystery when there is no real reason, story-wise or other, leave it a mystery. This leads me to believe the reason was to create feeling of artificial suspense, which angers me almost as much as angst. The manga as a whole is just so bad compared to Bokruano I can't really recommend Shadow Star. |
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| Solanin (manga) |
Masterpiece |
When I read Solanin, the story was just so apt in comparison to my life situation at the time that I couldn't sleep after finishing it. I get this overwhelming urge to write something expressing the deep connection I felt with the main guy but get choked up just thinking about it. Perhaps others who read it just can't relate, but I have never seen a story, not just in manga but in literature as a whole, that I felt such an engulfing feeling of "yes! this is what it is like! look at this! this is how things are!". This is not to say Solanin is some wish fulfillment fantasy or depressing tragedy for depressed people to get depressed from, nor is it a mere appeal to outcasts who want to feel that their lack of social ties is meaningless. The things that so many manga and anime are today, Solanin is not. It is a story of a guy -- just a guy -- executed so well as to be incomparable to any manga trying to portray real people in a real place. |
| Strawberry 100% (manga) |
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Angsty, indecisive teens and an overly long and drawn-out story. I enjoyed it at the time, but it is in actuality terrible. |
| Subaru (manga) |
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This manga is amazing. Every dance scene is this -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs7EI5X9ePU -- ten times over. |
| Sugar Dark Umerareta Yami to Shōjo (manga) |
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The ending did not make sense, but the rest was pretty ok. |
| Sundome (manga) |
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Most absurd premise ever? Yes. Most retarded character ever? Quite literally, yes. This is perhaps one of the strangest manga I've ever seen. |
| Superior (manga) |
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*emo tear* |
| SWWEEET (manga) |
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What the hell. |
| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Guren Gakuenhen (manga) |
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| Tenjo Tenge (manga) |
So-so |
It's Oh! Great. Not much else to say. |
| Tenshi Nanka ja Nai (manga) |
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Solid. |
| Threads of Time (manhwa) |
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Pretty dec. Worth checking out. |
| Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (manga) |
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Waaaaaaaaayyy overrated. |
| Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (manga) |
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terrible, pretty much the worst shounen I remember reading |
| Vendemiaire no Tsubasa (manga) |
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| Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (manga) |
Masterpiece |
Indescribably good. Anecdotally, I actually dropped this manga a couple of volumes in, back in the epoch of my manga-reading. The reason is fairly clear to me now; not much really happens in this manga. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is not for those looking for a compelling mystery or badass shounen fighter. It takes appreciation of... stuff, namely nature, to enjoy this manga. If you haven't read at least a few chapters, give it a shot and see how it goes. |
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