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The story of Death note is divided into two sagas. The first saga consists of the first seven volumes. Surely this saga is the best. We can see the battle of wits among L. Lawliet and Kira (Light Yagami). It's one plot twist after another.
The second saga is worse than first saga. Some key characters are vanished, and some situations become repetitive.
Takeshi Obata is a great illustrator. I love his dark style.
Very good manga, many plot twists (the ending is incredible), not much action, but much reasoning.
For the most part, the characters are good (Lawliet is the best!).
Maybe not for all. Anyway reccomended.

Ever thought of reading a good sports manga which combines quality and quantity? You need something to feel and dive into? Then Hajime no Ippo is the best manga for you.
It may be that you discovered the Ippo anime and are not sure whether to start reading the manga or not because of the huge amount of chapters (1000+). Well, it's definitely worth the time. But let's review this manga as if you had no knowledge of it.
Story:
The story begins rather simple, a boy named Makunouchi Ippo is getting bullied and to grow stronger, he starts with boxing under the very strict trainer Kamogawa Genji, an old but very experienced man.
There he meets his idol and competitor Miyata Ichiro who becomes Ippo's motivation to train harder and harder.
Sounds rather simple and you might think it'd get repetitive after over 1000 chapters, but it doesn't. The story shifts from character to character in the Kamogawa Gym and even from former challengers which become part of the ongoing story.
Where the story shines is that it combines multiple genres and subplots into one huge ongoing storyline. You have extremely hilarious comedy (most times about genitals, stupidity and later puns), dead-serious boxing matches with immense tension, drama, slice of life (combined with comedy or things to think about, so no boring stuff) and some love life, most characters are adults after all. Build-up and pacing are very well handled, you don't even notice little time skips.
Everything is connected to each other so you often see friends/former challengers appearing in the story even after their fight with the main cast either for plot or comedy purposes. So it's no "enemy appears-loses-next enemy suddenly appears" pattern, it's dealt with great story telling, build-up and characterization skills. The crazy thing is that you never know who wins which is an ongoing phrase in the story ("you never know what can happen in boxing"). It's not rare in this show to cheer for the "enemy", because they're do well written.
Art:
Now, you have to consider that this manga started it's serialization in '89, so don't expect too much in the first hundred chapters.
I have to admit, when I first encountered this show, I didn't like the art at all, but that was because I was used to the generic shonen art style which doesn't need time to adapt to.
This art is really great. You have wonderful double pages of either the park with the sky where Ippo & co. are always jogging or epic boxing matches with perfectly drawn shadows and motions; even the faces of the crowd have emotions drawn into them. You can tell from this description alone that this is drawn with a lot of passion and love. Character designs and overall world building are rather retro but it is really cool and fitting. I couldn't imagine Ippo with flat screens and smartphones.
What makes "Ippo" a relaxing read is also the pattern of the panels. It stays retro by having strict panel borders, not like most new manga where you have to find out what's actually drawn there with characters out of their already screwed up panels. So the art looks simple but is drawn with lots of love for detail. Even after 25 years of serialization it never disappoints to stay fresh.
Character:
"Ippo"'s characters are so unique in their respective way. No fight is random because we get introduction and characterization of new challengers to an extent that you sympathize with their determination to win which ends in very dramatic and breath-taking matches.
Spirit is a key point in every character in "Ippo", there are fights when someone even being unconscious keeps on fighting for his goal which speaks for the character's determination.
Some early beaten characters appear later on in the story where we get to see how their boxing career unfolds which often crosses with other former introduced characters. The characters' growth is immense as you could expect from this long running sports manga.
Enjoyment:
It really never gets boring. Between the serious fights you have light-hearted, inspirational or funny moments and even detours from boxing like cooking or baseball matches - always ending in a hilarious way or benefiting to further events. Even our beloved Ippo has a really funny and cute "love" which is often held back by a certain someone or other occurrences, but always really funny and cute. You will even cheer for Ippo to be as strong minded and confident with women as he is in the boxing ring, haha. When you're into a long exciting match you will have read 30 chapters before you even noticed. The pacing slows down remarkably during fights to thoroughly explore the way the competitors are fighting which really is necessary and a good point.
You get to learn a lot about real life boxing when some real boxing strategies or punches are being introduced which is also a huge plus. It never ceases to amaze me how well the mangaka George Morikawa combines boxing punches or strategies with each character's personality.

Overall this manga is recommendable for everyone open to read a longer project and not searching for one-shots to add to their finished manga list. You don't even need to like boxing or sports, this manga is so thrilling, inspirational and funny. Most people I know who saw the anime (yes, they're too lazy to read the manga, but I'm working on that) got the extreme urge to work out or start jogging because this manga portrays how hard work pays off over and over again.
Don't feel scared because of the huge number of chapters, see it as a blessing that you don't have to wait weekly for one chapter but instead read as much as you want for the first weeks or months until you caught up. :-)

It's another one-shot...no real smut, just a sprinkling. One-shots never or rarely have enough meat to give a really sound estimation considering I always feel the endings are rushed but the beginnings are like the start to a long story. However this one was done fairly way. I didn't feel rushed by any means. The Art was just breathtaking. Wow, she'd draw these close ups of the male leads face and he is just gorgeous. Wow. The detail in the snowflakes are great as well. I think the art was enough to keep me really engaged with the story.

Well first off this is just a story of a girl who's in love with a womanizer who happens to have an older lady as a girlfriend. Well things develop and he ends up with two by the middle of the story to end up with one in the final scene.

It's a good read. The story is nicely detailed although it's not challenging by any stretch of the imagination. So no difficulty or complexity, very simple and something that has been done in the past. The art as I said was exceptional, I found it well done and you kind of wish the amount of energy she put in the art she should have put in developing the story and characters. The characters were decent but once again for one-shots not fully developed although I will make some comments on them. The male lead was fine. He's your typical strong, arrogant male with deep emotions. He gets basically stalked (of sorts) by the lead girl. I wrongly surmised him initially in my first review. He's far from silly and that summation was disingenuous as well as simplistic. He's not silly, he's more so stuck in a guilt ridden relationship and really didn't see a way out nor did he have a reason to leave said relationship. The lead girl is the silly one. She's the typical stalker girl of a guy she likes. She's sweet, don't get me wrong, they all are...yet she seemed more obsessed with an ideal that he represented.

This says a lot. Of course, this is coming from someone who takes things a bit seriously. So I wills ay the way women are often objectified in books the "crush" aspect found with young school girls carries the same weight. Objectification, because the lead male becomes the ideal she desires but she doesn't know anything about him. Of course this is not addressed because he is a male and so we get a rather dry story of the same old same old.

The enjoyment was satisfactory and worth the time to read since it won't take more than 15 minutes and that's if you're taking your time to appreciate the art. ^_^

Not much can be said about this manga - simple 'no brainer' with some 'Plot'. It's all about an ordinary boy, a teacher, and some girls (including sister and little girl from elementary school). All of them are in love with MC. Reason? There's no reason, or it's pretty absurd. Actual plot is straightforward and predictable. It only got couple of chapters so far, so it's hard to say if MC will try to build harem, or how the character developement will go. So far it's all about the MC, the teacher and their relationship.

I will try to be as objective as possible. In every aspect the starting value is 5, which is mediocre:
Story: 2/3
As mentioned before, it's nothing special. Chronological storyline with classic flashbacks. Predictable, straightforward, or even boring one would say (there's a lot of MC monologues that doesn't really add anything interesting to the story).
Art: 6
Art is looking pretty fine. It's nice to look at, there's a lot of details. The main problem is that everything looks alike. All characters look very similar, both in terms of overall appearance, but also in terms of clothing and facial expressions. It's not particulally bad - just nothing special, as usual.
Character: 3/None
It's hard to say how the character developement will go. So far (I'm around chapter 11 writing this review) we only know some things about MC, his sister and teacher back story. And so far, it is nothing memorable or revealing.
Enjoyment: 3/4
It's simple manga. Do not expect some deep storyline or amazing charackter developement. There's plenty of ecchi stuff (all censored by default) if you are looking for that.
Overall: 4
Of course there are many better romance/ecchi type mangas. Boku no Kanojo-sensei is nothing special, nor amazing. If you are looking for a engaging storyline - it's not here. But if you want something which doesn't require much attention, simple 'no brainer' manga for chilling between work/school, this might do the work.

tl;dr: A manga with a story told so badly it's hard to even judge the story itself, though it does have good art. 

There may be a good story somewhere in this manga, but it wasn’t conveyed well in this at all. By that I don’t mean that this is one of those stories where it feels like the story has a lot of potential but the adaptation didn’t do it justice. Rather, I have no clue how good the core story is because it feels like the manga didn’t really tell it at all. Essentially nothing gets fleshed out in this manga in the slightest. The world is lightly explained in the beginning, but only at a superficial level that doesn’t really count as world building, I would say. The mechanics to the combat or magic aren’t explained at all really, and hence any time anything happens it just feels arbitrary. In effect, the plot itself seems completely random too. Sure, there are some cool moments, but the context isn’t developed well enough for them to have any impact. Similarly, there are times that characters seem amusing and likable, but holistically the cast of characters isn’t really developed at all either, and thus overall this likability is in passing with their personalities and such not being memorable at all. Thus, all in all, even for a three volume manga it feels like very little happened and what did happen wasn’t that important, which as an introduction for this sort of manga is makes the entire thing seem pointless. The one thing that was good about the manga was the art though, wherein it got a bit too hectic during action scenes and the style itself was often too busy, but the art quality and character designs were all pretty well done. 

Ah, fucking manga. Though I struggled ship MC with Shirai, but as a result even the same girl his fucking little friend. And, I guess the story is a bit forced, especially when approaching at the end of the chapter. Oh god, why does it feel so painful when the ship you choose loses.

Though the main heroine is not beautiful and I guess it's also a bit annoying. Why does not the author want to choose Shirai to date MC? What in every manga story plot if there is a childhood friend then the ending should also be with that childhood friend? I do not think so, not all the characters of childhood friends are always good + pretty, because it's better to choose MC partner.

Please, I can not read this manga, I hope the author understands what I say, although not knowing orally but he knows inwardly ... And if I look at the reviews of other people too do not like this same manga. So I guess I picked something I considered quite right.

PS: I like the same art. But yes it is, less like the plot of the story.

Blue Heaven is a solid action pseudo psychological thriller. It's not long enough to be able to establish solid or well developed psychological themes but what it did a serviceable job. Focusing on the themes of what it means to live, and why one would continue to seek life despite struggle; aspects of classism, and what terror and violence mean to humanity. However, like I mentioned earlier this manga is incredibly short and doesn't have the ability to really let those themes set in.

In all the characters are mildly interesting too, but the antagonists are cartoonishly evil to the point that it can really take you out of the story. The crew members are solid though, and the main character Seiryuu was mildly interesting and definitely helped with carrying this story.

The art in this manga was honesty phenomenal. There are plenty of stand out, absolutely impressive scenes that are more than worth reading the manga just to check out. The way that the Blue Heaven was framed in each of the scenes where it's the main focus are utterly stunning and display the internal/external tension with it's physical destruction incredibly; and was very obviously a constant visual metaphor for the state of the world.

All in all, good manga but it doesn't try to be anything terribly special; and considering the length and the general quality of the writing I do think that is for its favor. If it was a longer story that had more time to breath it really would've been to it's benefit. I still do thoroughly recommend this read.

I almost dropped this after barely reading it. There was sexual harassment, sexual assault (several times), homophobia, putting people in life or death situations, and lying—all in the first chapter. I powered on so that I could give this a thorough review.

Both the protagonist, Hasegawa Tamaki (Tama), and the love interest, Sugou Kagetora (Tora), have an unhealthy codependency. She wants him to need her and he refuses to let her protest anything he does. Upon their first meeting, he found it so offensive that she thought he was gay that he wanted a woman for a bodyguard to prevent the misunderstanding. If you were a respectful person, being called "gay" wouldn't be the end of the world. After that fiasco, he repeatedly touches, kisses, and invades Tama's personal space when she doesn't want him to or when she doesn't expect it. Tora is always throwing Tama on her back as if that were some great, romantic feat. All the while, Tama harbors a lifelong crush on her neighbor and childhood friend (whose personality can be equated to a glass of air) that she magically forgets about within the last 2 chapters.

Tama is less like a bodyguard and more like a babysitter who is constantly getting harassed, poked, and prodded by the kid she's babysitting. Tora, a bored and wealthy politician's nephew, doesn't know how to be a decent person and wants Tama to change him. He even says that in one of the later chapters. The author tries to excuse his sexual abuse with something about "dulled emotions" or whatever but it's just bad writing. I decided a long time ago that I was done with men who have the resources to take care of themselves and better themselves but refuse to. I won't have it in real life and I won't stand for it in my fiction either. Sexual abuse isn't something impressionable young girls should be thinking is "normal."

The one thing I can praise about SP x Baby is the fact that Tama started out going to a job interview. I like how Enjouji portrays how tough the job market is, whether you're 18 or 28 or older. Another thing I really appreciated was that Tama had no degree and very few qualifications for the jobs she applied for. It's another realistic thing within our generation as college standards become more difficult to keep up with (especially if you're poor) and college tuition rises. The author doesn't focus on it but it was an introductory exposition I liked.

The concept of a political man falling in love with his bodyguard is a terrific one and I would love to read a great story about that. The execution in SP x Baby, however, veered off into a ditch and burned out. The minor characters are either ridiculously mean to Tama, antagonists, or they're completely forgettable and the main characters are somehow worse. Skip this and opt for something more sensible.

I love this manga. It's fun and simple. It embodies what makes Dragon Ball fun and exciting. The story and characters are nothing spectacular, but it makes me smile so much reading it. Toriyama has still got it. I would recommend this to any old school fan of the series...

Now... enough with the positives.

Dragon Ball Minus is a broken piece of garbage and it needs to be deleted from history. Toriyama tries his hand at rewriting the backstory to a beloved character from a spectacular story that sits at the top of Dragon Ball's anime content. This was a massive mistake.

Toriyama sucks everything good out of Bardock and replaces him with an empty shell of his former self. He sits and makes pointless connections to later points of the franchise and uses little to develop his own story. He messes up Goku's age and completely ruins the irony of Goku's good heart. He attempts to make Goku's parents special essentially detracting from what makes Goku special. Gine is only there for people to have a name for their Goku fanfics and serves little to no purpose.

Its sad to see how far Dragon Ball has fallen, and this truly goes to show Toriyama has no idea what he's doing. The two things that Toryiama has contributed to modern Dragon Ball when it comes to full stories is this... and Resurrection "F". Not exactly an amazing batting average there.

I hope this never comes up again...

Typical story. Girl loves a boy who's unattainable and the athletic 'prince' of the school who's been burned by love comes to her rescue. This causes her to reevaluate and fall for him. The girl herself is not too bright and relies heavily on some compatibility site or test and horoscope stuff while the guy is too invested in tennis and thatsball we know about him. Oh and that girls like him a lot.

I never expect shoujo romance to be deep especially when the characters are all 16, it just usually doesn't happen. With shoujo romance you get what you expect usually. A sappy but heart warming love story with some beautiful perfect boy that you may or may not admit to wanting. Accepting that being the standard we can move on with the review realizing that were not looking at some deep and super meaningful forms of literature, if you want that go read some Faulkner or Steinbeck. Also the story is 6 chapters, that's it.

The artwork is well done.all pretty traditional nothing that is going to be super memorable but nice to look at.

The storyline itself is typical but execution of the story was pretty cut short, since it was 6 chapters all the action was fast moving. One chapter would pass and about three things at once would happen. They'd be in and out of love in one chapter. It appeared that there were a bunch of half made characters. Two characters try to get in the way of the romance sort of but those characters and the situation aren't developed at all reading you kinda confused.

The ending came fast and it appeared all problems were resolved in 2 pages leaving you wanting to rip your hair out since it shouldn't be that way.

This story has some nice artwork but seriously lacks development and creativity. Most of it has been done before and has been developed at least a little more and if not developed, it at least is a decent length so the stretch of events seems a little more realistic.