Kagijin

After 17 chapters(which happen to be the complete set), all I can say is "What the f***!"

Whilst the One Shot was what enticed me to read this manga, its come to that the One Shot was far more enjoyable, and they should have either carried on from that or left it at that.

Kagijin is so mediocre and cliched that there really is nothing about it to like or enjoy.

Due to the abrupt ending, you do not get any type of character development and whilst there are times where you think you're about to when....bang! End of manga.

I'm not sure if its due to not being popular in Japan, or costs involved, either way if not for free online manga sites, I definitely would not buy this.

POTENTIAL! The one word I'm longing for... Therefore this will be more a comparison between this one-shot and the manga with the same name, setting and powers.


Unfortunately after reading this first, I found that The follow-up manga was a huge disappointment... I liked the original characters that Yasuki Tanaka had created, and loved how the plot went... Instead of "Childa", a lovable smallish character who is a slave same as the main Character Tsubame, "Jilda" is a major
in the army who is after Tsubame's life and also have gained a tsundere personality... I understand that Childa and Jilda are probably meant to be the same character, but they look different, behave different and do not fit to be the same character, and this complicates the manga...

Yasuki Tanaka has a rather unique way of unlocking the superpowers with keys. in the one-shot the keys are all the same, and thus allows a more free distribution of the keys, but in the manga the keys are all different which complicates the feel.

My overall impression of the one-shot is a unique story with a very good plot and potential to become a popular manga, but Yasuki Tanaka managed to remove some of the things I found enjoyable in the one-shot in the follow-up manga...