Category: not recommended
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Review: Sundome
Sundome (すんドめ), 2006-2009, Okada, Kazuto, Young Champion Content warning: weird kinks. STORY: 3 Meet Hideo Aiba, a boy madly in love with the frail classmate that took an interest in him. The supposed power of their unique and intense relationship fails to see characters change and progress decently and the dramatic ending falls short all…
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Review: Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho
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,…
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Review: Drowning Fireworks
Drowning Fireworks (Oboreru Hanabi, 溺れる花火), 2009-2010, Minenami, Ryou, Mobile Man STORY: 4 Meet Eita and Kaoki, a couple in their first relationship at 19 years old. Eita, the boyfriend, is youraverage bland university student. Kaoki, his girlfriend, has a frail body and she has to live in an hospital, potentially most of her life. She…
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Review: Jagaaaaaan
Jagaaaaaan (ジャガーン), 2017-2021, Kaneshiro, Muneyuki (Story), Nishida, Kensuke (Art), Big Comic Spirits STORY: 4 Meet Jagasaki, an average manga hero, who gets to lead a fight against humans that turn into monsters because of their overwhelming desires. Here’s a series that starts strong.. and then quite suddenly turns mediocre with a plot that becomes boring…
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Review: Usogui
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…
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Review: Crazy Food Truck
Crazy Food Truck (クレイジーフードトラック), 2020-2021, Ogaki, Rokurou, Comic Bunch STORY: 3 Meet Gordon Goliath, a man driving a food truck around a post-apocalyptic landscape. He encounters the mysterious Arisa, a character defined by constantly being hungry and flashing her naked body. There’s other characters that are, without exception, stereotypes from the most generic manga, and…
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Review: Jigoku no Alice
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…