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**Warning, some spoilers of the first few chapters will appear, nothing big but be warned!**

Well if your here that means that you are unsure whether to read this manga, you are looking for someone to explain to you why is there such a hype over this? To tell you the truth i don't know, i read the manga while waiting for the movie to come out and while i was reading it i just found my self drawn in to it.
Now i will point ot a few flaws that to me didn't make me give this manga a perfect ten, but non the less for me this is a must read.


- Ok we all been to school(some of you are still going) and we all seen, experienced, witnessed, did or tried to stop some sort of bullying. There are weaker kids, those that will pick on someone to make them self look stronger, those that will point out the flaws in others for a few laughs or trying to hide there own flaws and shortcomings.
And there are those that suffer, those that are picked on by others. The victims of the some times harsh life off a school kid. They can fight, run, hide, join others on bullying someone else so every one would leave them alone. Some times it's just to hard and they decide to change school or stop coming all together.
But that's not all, we talked about the few kids in a classroom that are directly involved. What about the rest, those that stand aside and do nothing? Or better yet just join in for the laughs and give support to the bully by doing so. Are they to blame, should they all stand up together and stop it?

Any way sorry for that but those are the main questions in this manga, and you will get to hear all sides of the story.

- Koe no Katachi is not a typical school slice of life manga. It's not all that happy, and for every moment you enjoy it it will give ten times more anger and sadness to overcome. We start the manga whit Shouya Ishida who is on a dally quest to fight against boredom. He jumps of bridges, get's into fights, doesn't really try to understand feelings of others. (he is the bully)
Then one day he hears a new transfer student is coming to his class. And on stage comes Nishimiya Shouko. A deaf girl. When she try's to be friendly towards the class Shouya doesn't really get it and starts picking on her. When he sees that the Nishimiya is still being nice to him and trying to get along he gets even more confused and starts to dedicate all of his school time to picking on Nishimiya. He starts destroying her things, writing insults and even gets physical...
To make the maters worse rest of the class and the sensei don't even seem to be trying to stop him. In the end Nishimiya is forced to transfer schools and all of the blame falls on Shouya.

Next we follow Shouya enter high school as a shut in kid, he doesn't have a single friend and has decided to end his life after he apologises to people he hurt the most.

For the rest read the manga!

- Now one of the main things that i didn't like about it is that Nishimiya dose not get any real depth. Most of the support characters on the other hand have been done like this was a much longer manga.
The story it self is so real and down to earth, and yet so exciting and at times so uplifting and so horrible and tragic at other. The artist really did mange to bring the pain of the characters to the reader. You hate some guys, then love them, then hate them again...
The story it self is great, but the way it was told is something that for me is the best part of this work.

- The art is standard for '13, it conveys the story to the full and is consistent throughout the whole manga. Nothing new or ground breaking, but on the other hand just right and perfectly fitted in to the story.

- Characters are great, for a 64 chapter manga they have an amazing depth. You get to know to motives of most of the characters to the end, and you don't hate them that much because you get to know them as human beings. On the other hand the shortness of 64 chapters is the "double edge sword" of this story. For me that's the only down side of this manga, that you don't get to know anything that's not essential to the plot. And the unfairness of Nishimiyas lack of story?!

- Enjoyment... well if i didn't have to go to work i would have read this in one go. It just pulls you in as the reader. You will want to know what happens next, why did he or she do what they did, how will something end? Enjoyment is a pure 10/10, i really didn't have such a fulfilling read for a long time!

- Overall this is a must read, i really rarely bother to even think to write a review and only a few times did i actually bother to write on. Koe no Katachi got me that inspired! For me now there is only to wait for the movie to come out, for those of you that haven't read it... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?!?

Edited on June 25, 2019.

Don't think this is an ordinary school. This word might be a suitable phrase for this.

Tension, sadness, romantic moments, and many more are inside. Focused on Kiyotaka Ayanokouji who had just enrolled in high school. But in the school it turned out that it was not like school in general, it meant that this school implemented a point system where these points could buy anything. Now this novel has more than twelve volumes and each volume is very interesting.

Character illustrations are equally amazing. Character design is very cute and cool but unfortunately this is just a light novel so we can't enjoy illustrations properly. Character design is made with details that make the heroine in it has its own characteristics such as differences between characters.

Having the main characters who are introvert and genius makes the test every volume more interesting. Most people who have strength often show it to other people but this character actually wants to hide it. With this, the storyline is increasingly tense. Starting from how they solve problems in each class.

As a Light Novels and manga lovers, honestly enjoyed this book. How come this book is also the best selling out there even though it's not as good as other books but I'm sure this entertainment won't waste your time and money.

From the whole thing it's been very good. How characters solve problems is also neatly arranged and there are no striking or strange pieces, character design is very interesting, and unique character traits. Everything is good, nothing needs to be evaluated again. If you want a spoiler, you can contact me via message or you can also visit the discussion topics that are available below.

I first read 100 Days in Europe when I was at a major crossroad in my life. I was intent on going to film school, yet as the months past I found myself in April no longer wanting to major in film. I had to quickly get a list of schools sorted, and figure out what I wanted to do with my life within a period of two months. On a Friday night in May, when my toes tingled and my head was wearied from the self-induced stress, I came across 100 Days in Europe by chance.

Chance -- the fantastical probability is exactly what 100 Days in Europe is all about. It’s an intoxicatingly endearing series of vignettes of Europe’s mystical. The tantalizing skies and ferocious peaks juxtaposed by the cooling lakes and soothing cityscapes: it’s all here.

There’s not much of a story to tell, because the simplicity heightens the visual weight in the narrative. The story tenderly grips the reader's hand and teeters them along, and before they know it there are no more pages to turn. The bright atmosphere of yellows and greens is halted for beige reality.

Hayden and Gia aren’t exactly the most riveting characters. There’s no quest or obstacle, but more of an impending doom of things going back to how they once were. Their dynamics, shortcomings, and development bleed into the background as to be the focal point of a pastel picture book. They’re the device to connect one page to the next, and enhance the atmosphere at hand by providing a continuous narrative.

The use of colors is immaculately placed and provides contrasts and highlights to accurately portray each and every backdrop. The usage is probably the most impressive part of Jihyo Kim’s art, as it consistently comes across as abstract yet oddly fitting. The blues and yellows of a Venice night sky, the oranges and greens of a Rome morning, and the turquoise and golds of a Barcelona afternoon; it all just fits.

There are cliche characterizations, unneeded love triangles, and overly repetitive thematic trappings. It’s not always the most nuanced, and the dialogue can be quite obvious. But I don’t exactly care. Don’t go into this expecting to get a European romance like Before Sunrise, with impeccable dialogue and thorough themes, but expect a wistful, luminescent journey of two people.

Most of all, 100 Days in Europe is a soothing acoustic of two characters dealing with their own problems; problems that are remedied by the companionship of the other, and the backdrops they find themselves in. I can’t recommend it enough.

I started reading this series to fill the gaping void in my heart left by “Ballroom e Youkoso”’s indefinite hiatus, and that might be the problem.

This series isn’t bad, it’s actually quite good. Asakura is an experienced manga artist and so visually I have no complaints. But I feel like I’m less tolerant of its faults because I kept comparing it to Ballroom e Youkoso.

The protagonist is, in my opinion, just not a very likable character. While Asakura seems to be going for a commentary on how masculine men can do ballet too!! it never quite hits the mark for me. In an early scene, you have an adult man telling the protagonist (a young boy at the time, not even a teenager) that since his dad is gone, he’ll have to protect and take care of the family now. NEVER MIND THAT HE HAS NOT ONLY HIS MOM BUT HIS OLDER SISTER. There is no critique of this scene, and fast forward to the protagonist as an aggressively rude MASCULINE type. He only joins ballet (after cutting ties as a young boy in order to be “masculine” ) because he saw the main girl’s underwear when she did a ballet jump in front of him in her school uniform. Like, that’s literally the reason why he goes, regardless of how he’s entranced by the dance itself when he gets to the studio. He still followed her there in the first place because of a shot at her underwear. For the rest of the volume, he basically gets free lessons from her mother, yet refuses to stop calling her “babaa” (extremely rude way of addressing an old lady), and is generally an unhelpful asshole the whole time.

Even though I’ve said all this, it’s still volume one so there is room for improvement. Although potential is not a promise, so I am wary of investing any further in this series. But what REALLY gets me is just that the whole time I was reading, I kept thinking “Tatara wouldn’t do this.”

Anyways, through this experience, I have gained even more respect and love than I knew was possible for Ballroom e Youkoso and the author Takeuchi Tomo. I’ll keep thinking over whether to continue reading this one.

WHAT IS ADVERSITY!? It's defined as a situation where things don't proceed the way you think they would, or a state of misfortune!

While Blazing Transfer Student has gained a relative popularity amongst small circles, Gyakkyou Nine is a manga that is barely talked about despite its relative popularity in Japan ; movies, sequel, novel, drama CD, a consequent number of parodies and even a cross-over with Karakuri Circus ! Gyakkyou Nine got a lot of side contents for itself to show off its positive acclaim.

The story features a gang of run off the mill baseball amateurs who have to overcome all odds and win the Koshien by the sheer strength of their determination to prevent their club from closing down. On paper, this synopsis would seem to be the same as any other sports manga but when he's making a sports manga, Shimamoto is not just making a simple sports manga. In fact, don't expect anything realistic or any semblance of credibility here. The nature of the different adversities that this team has to face is truly uncanny and it escalates further and further even when you think it can't possibly pull anything more absurd. Gyakkou Nine is a manga where the impossible becomes possible and where hot-blooded isn't enough to describe it ! Kazuhiko Shimamoto is probably one of the only mangaka I know that is able to have so many gags per second without being intoxicating and while keeping its freshness and the tension to the top all along.

If you're a fan of Shaolin Soccer and the likes, give this manga a try ! Although I'm saying that but only 2 volumes out of 6 have been translated so you would have to read the raws to learn what happens next.

I'm not exactly sure why I stuck around with this series for 20 whole chapters when everyone else was wise enough to drop it sooner. I was anticipating a miraculous change in quality, but no, Redo of Healer stays the exact same throughout, showing nary a single sign of narrative or artistic progress. Considering the outrage around it I expected it to be another tame outrage-bait ecchi series like Uzaki-chan or Nagatoro with some sexual assault thrown in to draw a crowd. Everyone and their mother was hyping up Redo as "THE EDGIEST MANGA EVER!" which certainly got my attention. Some people were questioning how it even got an anime adaptation considering the controversial synopsis. I'll admit I was intrigued and gave it a look. I love graphic, controversial materials as I am a morbid and self-torturing person. But what it elicited from me wasn't trepidation or disgust, instead it was irritation and boredom.

From the very first chapters the author makes it clear how much they want to shock and disturb the audience in order to draw their attention, throwing our hero Keyaru into a gauntlet of rape and torture as he braves his way through mistreatment and abuse from a variety of indistinguishable antagonists. And when he formulates his plan he has to go through all of it ALL OVER AGAIN so he can get his revenge! From then on he begins to turn the tables and dish out karmic retribution through rape. But the problem with turning rape into a gimmick is how much it becomes trivialized when used by terrible writers. So much rape happens in Redo that it stops being shocking and starts being annoying after the fourth or fifth time. Keyaru gets raped over and over and over in increasingly depraved ways by increasingly despicable characters for introductory portions of the manga. At first it's horrifying to see him be a target of such acts, but the way the author uses it as a crutch to pad out a chapter instead of developing characters makes it lose the narrative potency they were going for. And when Keyaru enacts his revenge by having his enemies raped or by raping them himself it just stops being shocking at all and dives head-first into unintentional comedy territory. There's no self-awareness or introspection here at all. It goes without saying that rape is an immoral action and a serious topic for many writers, but it gets overused and worth thin within the first 10 chapters of the series. Characters rape as frequently as one would take a dump. It's just a thing that happens, without any weight or consequence after the beginning of the story. In fact, Keyaru gets stronger when he rapes or gets raped due to one of his convenient magical powers. It comes across as insulting and asinine more than anything else. I can understand why it might've been so provocative at first for a lot of people, but I doubt many people read past the first few chapters.

The unfortunate fact is that rape is all the author really has as a selling point for this series. Examining Redo of Healer at a glance while discarding the controversial aspects shows how painfully mediocre and hackneyed the series actually is. The art is substandard and never shows much progress. Even in some of the later chapters, the character designs and backgrounds look lazily thrown together and unfinished outside of fight scenes. Background characters would be drawn without faces or limbs or as abstract shapes half the time. Do you like weightless violence and bland, censored sex scenes? Because that's all you get with Redo. and However, because I am an idealistic man, I would never go as far as to call the author's artistic talents outright terrible. There's some potential for growth. Even with the bland fight choreography, the illustration quality noticeably improves during major events. The characters are quite emotive and expressive too, you can see the repulsion and shame on Keyaru's victims' faces whenever he rapes them.

From a story standpoint Redo is frustratingly bad. The worldbuilding is brushed aside in favor of unengaging fight scenes and more rape. Right off the bat we don't get a feel for the setting. There is nothing distinguishing it from, say any random fantasy anime setting from even the past 2 or 3 years. On the topic of unoriginality, every plot point and character has been done to death by the legions of uninspired isekai and fantasy series released in the past few years. Shield Hero, another Godawful self-insert power fantasy anime, did the revenge plot in more interesting and shocking ways despite being an embarrassing dumpster fire in and of itself. In Redo's case said revenge story is all but dropped by the 20th chapter as it morphs into a bland, childish harem melodrama with hardly a single likeable character to root for. Speaking of, the chapters should've been shorter. They drag on and on as Redo progresses, to the point the author fills pages with exposition about stuff that we already know about to reach the page quota. With the way the story jumps around erratically, there could've been more time to focus on a variety of different characters of aspects of the setting, but rape and angst are the main priorities on display.

Keyaru was compelling for all of 3 chapters before he became a generic sociopath who only succeeds because of his asspull powers. He's what happens when you take all the worst traits from every "overpowered mastermind" type of protagonist and combined it all into one smug, poorly written dipshit. He's basically a hybrid of Shield Hero (forgot his name idc) and Lelouch but if you removed every likeable trait from him and intensified his "I'm so crazy I'm putting my hand on my face and doing an insane face" qualities. His female orbiters aren't much better. The main girl starts out as an unlikeable self-righteous bitch who enslaves and exploits Keyaru until he rapes and brainwashes her into being a submissive waifu without a shred of personality. Her main trait after becoming his tool is that she really sucks at everything and cries at the slightest agitation, because tee-hee, she's a FEMALE, guys!. Keyaru's next harem member Setsuna the wolf girl is undoubtedly the best character in the series because she's good-hearted, badass and competent, and she's got a clear character arc about wanting to be stronger for noble reasons. If the series revolved around her I wouldn't even complain, she's extremely cool in general. I can't even name a single thing I liked about the demon chick, she's just so fucking boring and annoying. I don't remember her name at all, but she went from a brooding loner to a blubbering melodrama generator in the span of a single chapter as soon as Keyaru kickstarted her character arc. And the villains are hardly characters at all. They all boil down to being irredeemable sociopaths who put on a generic hero act in public but rape and murder behind the scenes so much you'd think they were auditioning for a role in Berserk. And of course it can't be a bottom of the barrel fantasy manga without the random evil Church that's relevant for all of 2 chapters. Did Garth Ennis ghostwrite this shit? (It would explain a lot, actually.)

The main selling point of Redo of Healer is the rape and violence, but the amateurish art and pathetic characterization holds it back from evoking any lasting feelings or standing amongst the most well-known shock manga. The entire reason people like me frequently engage with series like this is for the depraved, grotesque and offensive content. Redo's cavalcade of gore and sex is frustratingly tame, undetailed, and lacks any visceral quality. The best thing I can say about Redo is that the anime adaptation is significantly better than the manga. As of this review it's still airing but I'm actually enjoying the experience of watching the series over the monotonous trudge through the 20 chapters I read. The staff behind the anime is actually doing well to make Redo of Healer a bearable experience and I commend them highly for making the most of such a banal, amateurish source material.

Story - 1
Art - 4
Character - 3
Enjoyment - 2
Overall - 2

Story:

Exact same story as every Corpse Party game, the series and manga - exactly what you expect is going to happen.

Art:

The art is decent but it is nothing in particular. The artist clearly has his own style that works well, it just happens to be just an average manga in terms of the style and such.

Character:

Miyu Shinohara - A bubbly transgender-female who went to school with the main gang and has a crush on Satoshi (like everyone else) and ended up getting herself decapitated.
Principal - The man who cares more about the school than anyone else, he goes above and beyond to make sure the school is always in tip-top shape, unlike his head which got destroyed by Sachiko.
Teacher - He starts off as a lovely gentleman who truly cares deeply about his students, which is shown to be fake when he openly bullies his students and at one point made a move on Sachiko... let's just say I don't think he met a happy ending.
Yuika - The principal's granddaughter who likes playing with insects by poking them with sticks - it was shown to her first-hand that it was cruel when she happened to end up with said stick through her eye... don't mess with the bugs.

Ok, so everyone was in high expectations for the anime adaption of this manga, and we only got 5 minutes per episode. But dont be fooled. While the anime fails to capture the intensity of the gruesome, violent and gory scenes, the manga is at best telling and showing you a story of child abuse, and maybe forbidden love. Dont expect more.

Story: 8

The story is about two siblings: Utsutsu and his sister Yume, who suffered from home violence when they were younger, at hands of their Father. It starts being a little cliche, with the typical and now trendy sibling/incest romance, "Onii chan" and "Yume..." words are repeated with some kind of obsession. Anyway, little sister gets infected with the "Pupa" virus, she turns into a monster, dismembers people, big brother tries to comfort her, he gets killed, but he revives as an inmortal, now with the Pupa virus. And now they try to survive and stay together while their own father, soldiers and scientist want them to experiment (or kill them). Im in episode 9 of the manga, so far thats the story.

Art: 7

The artist Mogi Sayaka seems to be an amateur. BUT his drawings are kind of beautiful, almost looking shojo style. The gore scenes sometimes are unclear, and we have difficulties to distinguish dismemebered bodies, or at least a scene is "explained" by a spray of gore. Dont expect to find awesome art like Gantz or Claymore. Pupa´s art is amateurish like Attack on Titan, but has good plot, and is kind of unique.

Character: 8

Nothing to say, Utsutsu is the typical lolicon brother obsessed to protect his little sister, and Yume is... the typical imouto that always want to stay with her brother, and having feelings that may cross the border of love. Though, some interesting characters are Utsutsu´s father, being a totally cold, psychopat yet cool killer. And Maria, being a mysterious, beautiful woman.

Enjoyment: 9

I did REALLY enjoy this manga. C´mon!!! Is better than the generic Shounen/Seinen out there, while is not that original, is a well narrated story. Is at the level of Higurashi and Corpse Party, I dare to say, better than Another.

Overall: 8

This is an underrated manga. The anime does not speak well of it. Read the manga, form your conclusions, forget what the others say about the anime, the manga is good! And if the anime adaptation have been 12 episodes with 20 minutes each, it would surely become one of the best anime of 2014.

This was dreadful, I wasted my time reading this. There was no actual story and there were only two characters. The movies were better than this!

Story:

It was pathetic! The artist really killed her career, I don't know why anyone would make a High School Musical manga.

Art:

The art was okay, it was too sparkly for High School Musical. Since the movie was supposed to appeal to all genders and young children around the ages 6-11, the art seemed a little too shoujo-y and a little too young.

Character:

The characters... they were horrible! They had like, 5 lines. They were drawn well but NOBODY would want to see them in a manga.

Enjoyment:

I didn't enjoy it at all. I don't think anybody would but it's targeted audience. If they can read right to left.

Overall:

For overall, I gave it a 2. It was so horrible! I would've given it a one, but the art was okay and that was the ONLY thing good about this manga! Please! Don't read it! One of my friends actually went BLIND from reading it! D':

I can't believe many people did enjoy this manga. This is a solid proof of what we call NTR (with no sexual intercourse)

I cannot make a lengthy review because I get mad just thinking about it.
1) MC boy has a gf who is in a coma
2) MC girl becomes interested in MC boy and starts to follow him and express her love
3) MC boy at first isnt interested with MC girl but later, becomes interested too
4) Girl who is in a coma wakes up with the fact that his bf is flirting with another girl
5) HAPPY ENDING FOR OUR MC's

See how sucks MC boy and girl are? I kept on wishing they should just die and become brain dead so ex-gf can have revenge.