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  • Review: Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess

    Review: Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess

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    Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess (Eve: Koi wo Kagaku suru Uruwashiki Megami, The Love Science Story, イヴ 恋を科学する麗しき女神), 2008-2009, Nabeshima, Masaharu (Story), Hanakouji, Yumi (Art), Manga Sunday STORY: 6 Meet Dr. Maria Eve, a brilliant professor in behavioral studies. She is gorgeous, has an IQ of 183, an assistant with big breasts (which is reminded to…

  • Review: Akagi

    Review: Akagi

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    Akagi (Mahjong Legend Akagi, アカギ ～闇に降り立った天才～), 1991-2018, Fukumoto, Nobuyuki, Kindai Mahjong STORY: 2 Meet Akagi, a young gambler who is not afraid of death! And.. that’s it. We have a title purely centered on a single character and, despite the manga running for 27 years, the hero gets zero development! Akagi is just some mysterious,…

  • Review: Chi no Wadachi

    Review: Chi no Wadachi

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    Chi no Wadachi (Blood on the Tracks, A Trail of Blood, 血の轍), 2017-2023, Oshimi, Shuuzou, Big Comic Superior Warning for realistic family trauma and abuse. STORY: 8 Meet Seiichi Osabe, a boy on the path to teenage-hood: new experiences, more freedom, new feelings, independence! Except that.. Seiichi has a mother, Seiko, who is taking a…

  • Review: Gunjou

    Review: Gunjou

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    Gunjou (Ultramarine, 羣青), 2007-2012, Nakamura, Ching, Ikki magazine STORY: 4 Meet Soko and Chiyomi. The first woman was abused by her husband and the second killed that husband although there is no love to be gained in return. The story revolves around these two female protagonists and their painful relation. There’s three volumes showing the…

  • Review: Sensei’s Pious Lie

    Review: Sensei’s Pious Lie

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    Sensei’s Pious Lie (Teacher’s White Lie, Sensei no Shiroi Uso, 先生の白い嘘), 2013-2017, Torikai, Akane, Morning Two Trigger warning for basically everything that comes with toxic masculinity (almost all at once). STORY: 6 Meet Misuzu Hara, a high school teacher with a lot of trauma. This heavy story focuses on her relationships and on the people…

  • Review: Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho

    Review: Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho

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    Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho (Two Shots, 幽☆遊☆白書), 1990-1994, Togashi, Yoshihiro, Shounen Jump (Weekly) STORY: 4 Meet Yusuuke Urameshi, your tough-delinquent-with-a-pure-heart from the 90s, as he embarks with his friends on an adventure that is dated, cliche and inconsistent (from high school delinquents to martial art tournament to demons from hell). One can feel the constant pressure of editors,…

  • Review: Usogui

    Review: Usogui

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    Usogui (The Lie Eater), 2006-2017, Sako, Toshio, Young Jump STORY: 4 Meet Usogui, the king of gamblers! He has an agenda and he is willing to bet his life to succeed. Along with his companions, his fate will cross a LOT of very colorful (read mostly psychotic) characters along Kakerou, a mysterious organization of game…

  • Review: Jigoku no Alice

    Review: Jigoku no Alice

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    Jigoku no Alice (Alice from hell), 2010-2014, Matsumoto, Jiro, Grand Jump Premium (Warning: this manga is for mature readers only, way too much sexual violence) STORY: 5 Meet Shuu, a mentally broken teenager trying to survive with his humanoid doll Alice within the ruins of a world that is struggling to recover from chaos. In…