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The classic film Akira has been uttered by the lips of most every anime fan. However those who have read the manga are in a shrinking minority. With any adaptation (especially if you consider yourself a writer) it’s really important to absorb both and look at what was selected and condensed for the adaptation. The manga of Akira has an intense, gripping and action-heavy plot, and much of the movie summarizes the comic very well. However the movie is condensed for characterization’s sake, and leaves out certain details that made the plot make more sense in the manga.

Otomo loves both setting and action, as both are illustrated throughout the manga with care and prowess. All of the praise that this manga has received since it was published is well deserved. Setting the standard isn’t easy, and I would argue that Otomo not only builds to the art style of older manga but also takes on a unique style of his own (foreheads and all). He displays the chaos of Neo-Tokyo so well and even when the action calms down or speeds up you still know exactly where you are. Nothing is spared and every panel is filled as it needs to be. The art never looks to bedazzle you, but when Otomo wants to express the hugeness of a scene and the breadth of every event, it pulls off a sense of colossal dread that makes the story altogether incredibly memorable, terrifying, and human.

The plot of the manga is a deeply engaging stream of events that grabs you by the shirt collar and never really lets go. It takes enough twists and turns to keep the tension high but still stays linear and focused in every volume despite the chaos. The sequence of events in the manga is exactly that, while the movie’s plot is much more all over the place. You always know where you are and why you’re there with the characters in the manga, and it remains exciting because they’re always subjected to the whim of this unknown power.

The characters in the manga are more catalysts for moving setpieces than they are invested back stories and experiences. One thing that I mentioned in my film review is that Kaneda and Tetsuo’s relationship is the primary focus of the movie, and it made the two of them the most interesting part of the story due to their entwined pasts. The bike scene and the buildup given to Tetsuo throughout the film make him a much more compelling character to watch then read. His inferiority complex is his ignition switch in the manga too, but his intent is all over the place to the point where he is rabid with power and exists to move the plot rather than be analyzed.

The other children subjected to the experiments are important but particularly underwhelming, especially Akira himself. They always felt like the reason why the events effect the main characters like Kei, Kaneda and the Colonel instead of unique individuals. However, I would say the parts of the story involving Kei, Chihiro and Lady Miyako were the most compelling character moments in the series. Their intertwined stories show care and revolution for the future along with a mild journey of self-discovery for Kei, and I found that subplot to be the most interesting.

Overall, read it! Experience it knowing that your viewing of the movie will be a different story entirely. It’s really difficult to adapt a manga of this length into anything shorter than a 26-episode show, so the fact that many of the important images and ideas from the manga were adapted to the film is impressive. Both are impressive and impactful stories although I will say I like what the music and the characterization do for the movie more than the manga. But the printed story clears up so many details that the movie lacks. Both experiences are deeply moving and terrifying stories of human potential and impactful works of sequential art important to pop culture.

Overall Rating- 7 out of 10

Basically as far as i can tell this is about a girl that has sexual urges which she inherit from her family and then there is this delinquent guy in the school who has a reputation of being a bad ass and plus he has a foul mouth. I've only read one chapter and it looks promising, it's definitely different from other shoujo mangas.
I would suggest trying it out.

Story (7): I gave it a good rating because as i said before it looks promising and i thought the first chapter was good.

Art (8): The art in my opinion is very good. I like it and the guy looks pretty good and she looks cute. And i like the difference in the way he drew her. And also it isnt so confusing, the chapters because some mangas i've read i would be totally confused and had to re read the last page and then read it again to finally get what was going on. XD

Character (7): I think the characters are well made as like i said that she is a little different from most shoujo manga main characters. I like the guy but what i don't like is that he uses a little too much of the bad words. I mean there is a normal way of sometimes swearing where it can be ok to read but then there are words you don't just throw around like B**** for instance.

All together I enjoyed reading the chapter and i plan on reading it some more. I will post a later review after i read some more.

Just check it out. :)

This is a grossly underrated manga, by a grossly underrated mangaka Suzuki Nakaba. I read this series of his after his shounen hit Nanatsu no Taizai. Hmm how should I say this, this manga is quite refreshing, light and cute. It's really a wonder why this page is so little-visited. Well, I guess those who like this manga series are lucky, the presentation is quite funny and cute after all XD.

[Story:8]
Call me bias, but the story seems highly on fiction, even if I never played golf before. This is because a third-grader seems quite unlikely to be able to hit really as far as he did using an adult club. Well, whatever the case, up to chapter 12 out of 15, I really enjoyed the manga for its coherency and funny nature. The story kinda sucked for chapters 13 to 15.

[Art:7]
The art is quite fine, the golf courses are drawn quite well. Expressions, eyes, character design and consistency is all not bad, but somehow Mukaida's character design looks awfully similar to Lancelot's. Anyways, there are a lot of impact lines and suitable background drawings for certain situations (e.g. black background when the character realises something or Lancelot's putting time).

[Character: 8]
Simply said, lots of potential as of chapter 15. The characters seem to be largely based on 2 kinds: warm and cold. And some characters seem to have both, forming Tsundere. Lol. Anyways, there's not much to say about characters other than "Gawain is really imba for a third-grader". Lol.

[Enjoyment:9]
Wow. Refreshing, cute and FUNNY!!!!! I think it's a shame not to read this manga, period.

[Overall:9]
There's really lots of potential for the manga as at chapter 15. It's really a pity that this 1998 manga is only translated till chapter 15.

Recommendations: Nanatsu no Taizai as well as other manga by the same mangaka XD.

The title "Anorexia" misled me. I was expecting a slice of life kind of manga and thus my reaction when I started reading this was, to summon it up: wtf.
Yet I couldnt stop but continue to read it, I was captivated.
I can't tell you how it goes because it will spoil the surprise, and boy did I love that twist!

In a way you can say they're all psychologically mad and easy. Because of some similarity and connection this whole story comes to life.
The first dinner. The first kiss. The first blood spill.
But why is this happening?
This you find out at the end.

How they made it romantically bloody makes this even better!

The only sad thing is how they rushed it too much ;-;..
This manga would have been so much better if they did not rush it.
They tried to include so many stories, it was too much for the chapters to handle.

I have nothing to say about the art. It was eye pleasing, even the gore.

This manga is, first and foremost, something that doesn't know what it wants to be. Will it be hentai levels of porn, or will it be engaging plot and interesting development? It tries to do both, and comes off as jarring, and, at the end of the day, self-contradictory.

Let's start off with the story, as it's something that I think is this manga's strongest point. It has a plot that makes me want to read more. The mystery it generates is top-tier, and the twists come hitting hard and hitting fast. Looking past the exterior of misogynistic porno, and you get yourself a genuinely interesting, and fascinating plot. Who is the doll? The answer will leave you with more questions than answers. Where is this Isekai world? The answer leaves you with more questions than answers. Why does our MC jump between the two worlds? It hasn't been answered yet, but I'm dying to know. This story is undoubtedly its strongest point, and it's what will keep readers coming back for more. Spoiler territory ahead. The mature themes of this manga are evident as soon as the manga gets past its opening stages. The first time he dies, we get a pretty shocking image of him, badly wounded, in a hospital bed. This wakes the reader up: this is no generic harem hentai isekai. This is comedy the same way Angel Beats is a comedy. It tries to be funny and ends up putting you into a depression. The fact that he travels by getting thrown out a window by the person he "loves". The fact that his classmate is most likely deceased. The fact that the Earth has basically been destroyed. The fact that the "God of Jealousy" is probably some kind of AI Intelligence or Bioweapon (or both) rather than just a plain old god (although that would be feasible too). Either way, this is definitely keeping me hooked.

Art does its job. Everything is clear, there are no questionable decisions, it's just straight-up good art. Gotta say the ruins look fucking awesome though. For those who know what type of ruins I'm talking about, yeah the toppled buildings really lend a sense of scale.

Characters. Oh boy, where do I start? You have our MC, who is your general goody-two-shoes with a bit of rapist mixed in there (he's power tripping like hell). He's rather interesting, but he doesn't come off as a character, but rather comes off more as generic protagonist until the sex scenes hit, then he's just there to satisfy the dom fetish, which leads to this clash in personality. Then, the girls. Oh my lord, what have they done to you? Your favorites are back! The Yandere, Tsundere, Kuudere, etc. now with 10X more fanservice! Let's be real, females in anime are always portrayed in a problematic light, and this just cranks it up to 11. You're not here to talk about social justice, I'm not here to talk about social justice. I didn't read this manga to care about social justice, I read it cause it looked like trashy hentai goddamnit! Beyond the portrayal of that specific gender which some may take offense to, the characters are rather dull. It feels like the authors took a dartboard of single character traits and just tossed darts with names on them. This one says "Galia", oh, and it landed on Batshit Insane Cannibal ok... Moving on, Vanille? "Has an attitude". Alright, Lumi? "Tsundere". Perfect. Instant characters. They do the job, they aren't unlikable by any means, but they're about as flat as a washboard (insert boob joke here).

Well, that's it for this review. I definitely enjoyed it, although the excessive amount of S E X certainly did take away from the stronger parts of the manga. The truth is that this won't be for everyone. It will probably offend a good deal of people if they read it. However, it's also clear that at the end of the day, it's got a killer plot, and I am eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

This is a tolerable one-shot. It's a cliche plotline, but it's stomachable. Almost sweet. You're really sort of rooting for them. I mean, she's a judgemental freak, and the fact that a popular, nice guy would care about this plain girl remains to be seen. But, hey. A ton of shoujo manga doesn't make sense. So, yeah, it was okay. Until the end.

He ruins her life. He ACTUALLY ruins it, publishing her secret, horrible journal type thingy for everyone to see. Everyone hates her for it (Who could LIKE a girl who does that anyway? But that's besides the point). What he did was abusive on SO many levels. Controlling, disturbing, and creepy to the HIGHEST degree. It's akin to breaking her legs so she can't walk out the door. HOW is that romantic, to make everyone hate her so that nobody will like her but him? So. Flippin'. Creepy.

I mean, yeah. A ton of romance bends moral rules just for the sake of angst, for the sake of plot. But there are some messages that shouldn't be sent. It is NOT okay for a guy to do that to somebody he likes. That is ABUSIVE and shows a COMPLETE lack of respect and twists love into something hideous. If it had been me, I would have run screaming. He's horrible. Repulsive. Disgusting. Things like possessiveness and jealousy are NOT attractive or acceptable things in a relationship. These emotions are destructive and poisonous and above all shameful, not cute or romantic. If a guy is jealous, yeah, it means he likes you a lot. But it also means he doesn't trust you, which is the fundamental building block of relationships.

It was okay. But the message was just so wrong.

This isn't really a sequel to the manga "Ju-on: Video Side" it's a manga adaptation of the movie Ju-On 2.

The art looks a little dated as it's not the generic anime style of today, but that's not a reason to avoid it.
The story follows the plot of the movie with Horror Queen actress Kyoko Harase doing a TV special inside the cursed Ju-On house only for her life to end up like the horrir films she starred in.

Kind of like the movie, this manga isn't very dialogue heavy.
Actually there's less than the movie since some scenes weren't added to the manga.
Which works condisering it helps build suspense as you're focusing on looking at what's going on in each panel.

The artwork is well drawn with disturbing creepy moments that will make you shudder.

If you want to read this, there are english copies printed by Dark Horse comics and can be found on Amazon. (At least that's where I got my copy.)

This series is aggressively bad. Instead of trying to tell a story with any kind of actual depth or nuance, its basically just aiming to shock you.

Every arc consists of the same structure. Bad buys with no characterization other than being bad do something horrible but completely over the top (almost always involving graphic rape and mutilation). A family member of the victim approaches our two generic ass anti-heroes, who then proceed to murder the fuck out of the bad buy. The story contains no humor, no character growth, and ultimately is so over the top in its depiction of violent crime that its impossible to take seriously half the time.

I feel the story is also a little absurd. The central conceit is the idea that the Japanese criminal justice system is powerless to actually punish people. In reality, besides Japan being a low crime society, its arguably the most ardently policed country in the developed world, with people going to jail for years for simple possession of marijauna and the country having a 99% conviction rate for those accused of crimes. THis may be too serious an approach to take to a silly story like this, but the story having legitimately nothing in common with reality makes it feel like a borderline piece of right-wing propaganda advocating for harsher punishment of criminals. Ultimately, the story fails because it is too serious in tone to treat as just over the top violence for violence sakes, while being way too over the top to function as a serious crime drama. TLDR: This shit is bad.

Art: Functional but not great. The backgrounds are mostly photographs, the fight scenes all look like janky playstation 1 graphics. Occasionally theres a good two page spread of people dying horribly.

Character: Barely remember any of them. They've either or got generic ass backstorie, the generic victims of horrific crimes, or generic rapists. You, the person reading this review, could almost certainly write better characters than this.

Enjoyment: I actively dislike this series. Its like if Ichi the Killer/Deadtubewas poorly drawn and lacked memorable characters. Legitimately mad at myself for spending 3 hours of my life reading it.

Overall: 3

Oh Taranta Ranta why did you betray me so…

I actually managed to learn all the characters names and for what? For you to leave me hanging out to dry in the air. What’s the manga synonym for cock blocking? I really need to start rating my reviews…

It was a good premise. Haruki lost her brother two years ago and it’s just her and her mom now. Her brothers absence is a palpable piece in her life, but she’s working on moving on. She meets a guy who resembles her oniisan and he seems to be sweet too. She starts to like him (I can’t figure out if I’m creeped out by it or surprised) after he kisses her his attitude does a complete 180 and he turns into a jerk. Is that how her first love ends?

That’s actually the beginning of a story, you can say that meeting him was what set the rest of the manga chains into motion like it usually goes. I won’t say that Taranta is the personification of high school real life because it isn’t. I mean some elements are there and the characters deal with them as best as they can. It has potential to be deeper but it leaves things halfway, specially with her brother or figuring out her feelings. It was funny but it lacked focus. I know this is a shoujo and a romantic one at that, but does the heroine have to fall in love and leave us wondering how it happened in the first place? She loves one, then it changes and she loves someone else. In that sense I think she captures the stereotype of a high school girl completely, making it a little disappointing.

The characters are actually quite charming. I liked a lot of the background characters more than the actual main cast sometimes. They were just funny and got attention from way back there, in letters so small I get so close to my screen I invade my screen’s personal space, so you know they were worth to read.
Hikaru is really average. Not a bad thing but it’s a, been there, done that deal.

The art, was above average. It does have a lot of cute guys so it gets a higher score in the art department just for that. The characters have a lot of detail in the hair since that’s what sometimes differentiates them apart. I really liked that even from far away when characters are in the distance or background the mangaka still gave the art attention and it doesn’t look sloppy.

I wasn’t the only one upset with this ending. But I also don’t think it was all bad. At least they didn’t leave the girl hanging for her life by a small piece of rope(I'm sure there's a specific term) in the middle of climbing Everest. Not that this manga is like Everest...

All I’m trying to say is that it’s a bad sign when I keep clicking the “Next Page” button and nothing happens and I check my computer to make sure it didn’t freeze but it turns out that there just isn’t any more pages. That that is in fact the ending, we Do not pass Go, Do not collect 200 feeling…

Nice concept. If you go into it thinking this is a romance focused story, this is not it. BUT.

The manga is a nice sex ed class in a easy to digest format.
I like how respectful and dummie friendly it is. And until this point the manga didn't encourage any toxic behavior, in fact, it condemns harmful ideas and tries to educate in a empathic way.
Which I think is something that needs to be done in a medium like manga, a medium with so many stories that fails to approach and exploits teenage sexual development, especially with so many young consumers.

I really like what this manga is trying to do, and how well it's doing it. The art and pace makes it easy to read, and the explanations only comes after we were interested in the topic by the interactions of the characters.

Hopefully this gets the attention it deserves