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Nothing too original but pretty entertaining.

It's got a pretty great art, sick mecha design, distinct character design and great background, be it a forest or some futuristic spaceship interior.

The story is pretty simple but a good setup for mecha fight, a military rescue team stuck on a planet fighting an evil IA, and the fight are really cool because there is a pilot but the mecha also have an IA so it's got some interesting fighting strategies and chemistry.

The cast of character is basic but do it's job, shy mc, badass cute girl and obvious romantic interest, some badass veteran dude, yeah no one stand out but it's fine for that kind of story.

That's about it, nothing too deep on this one, just some nice fight supported by a great art.

So, of the many, many Harem/Ecchi anime/manga/novels I've read, the main character in this one has the most believable/manly personality (in my opinion). I really liked his character, the development/growth of his character as he went through his task. I won't put any spoilers in here, but as a summary: This is an Isekai Harem story with an overpowered protagonist. There is not a lot of challenge in any task he does, but the way it is written is such that it feels more like a slice of life than adventure story. The difficulty level of the task is on par with surviving in the world we live in - the tasks are certainly challenging by comparison of our daily life, but with his power and abilities they are made simple. The female counterparts in the story are all cute; he certainly has an enviable position. That said, I recommend this story to anyone looking for a relaxing read!

There isn't a lot to review since this is a simple one shot, in summary it is about a boy summoning a demon.

Personally, I truly enjoyed the art style, I love how detailed it is. This detailed art style makes the atmosphere intense during the short chapter and makes the reader want to know more about it.

I actually think the idea they had to create this was really good and it makes me sad that they didn't continue with it and ended up as a simple one shot instead.

This had a lot much more potential and it could have been a really good manga.

If you have dealt with at least 3-4 so-called "pantsu fighting" manga and the words "near-hentai" you associate with certain trends in ecchi manga, then you do not need to explain what Hagure Idol is. This work is a fairly well-made old-fashioned example of such, you know, the female lead with the soul of a shonen's teenn boy and the hentai heroine's breast fights with grotesque dirty men and lustful lesbians, incidentally falling into scenes that can make Yabuki blush. Two things make this work unique: Misora ​​Haebara, this title protagonist, and unusually weird attempts to declare feminist messages, not only being terribly sexist and homophobic, but even directly bragging about the "problematic" nature of work in its original synopsis. In simple terms, it is as if JoJo from the 2nd or 3rd part tried to criticize "toxic masculinity", while also starting to promote itself as "brutal violence for real men".

Speaking of the first unique element, Misora, it's hard for me to resist praise. Although her image of gyaru makes no sense, her naivety and libido with each volume goes further beyond the bounds of mental retardation, she is one of the hottest and coolest female action characters that I have ever seen. Every time you see a hentai or a Baki-inspired fighting scene with her participation, it always captures your eyes and you will love every detail. Even when her logic or behavior will force you to put your hand to your face, it will still be difficult for you to think something bad about her. I can say with a clear conscience that Misora ​​is the most important find of this work or even the entire Rui-sensei career in general.

Regarding sexism and feminism ... oh ... Dude, this is a very weird thing. First "Wait, what?" begins already in the second volume, when the lesbian rape of the main character is portrayed as a joke after the entire first volume was literally devoted to how Misora ​​defended her chaste from men trying to rape her. This attitude will continue even when Misora ​​realizes own bisexuality (that the manga is ambiguously trying to connect with her libido) and directly calls the lesbian and straight experience equal, which, perhaps, for the first time probably made me talk about open hypocrisy in a manga.

From this point on, the author begins to troll you almost openly, at the same time making rather traditional feminist comments against sexual violence or homophobia, and using lesbian sexual abuse as a source of hot fanservice, almost openly implying that harassment or unacceptable behavior by other women is not serious even if the victim herself is queer woman. For example, one chapter plays the deliberate deception of your partner for laugh, including the direct use of her inexperience to manipulate her, the other tries to justify the lesbian cheating by the fact that you are far from your girlfriend and therefore very horny and this is only a small part of this. Should I tell you that when men try to do this, it is perceived as a big deal and Misora ​​always quickly suppresses any attempts to do this?

The only thing that somehow mitigates the negative impression of the two paragraphs I wrote above is the general grotesque of everything that happens. Most of the problematic moments are almost always as ridiculous and darkly funny as toxic, all the relationships depicted are so silly completely sexual and has zero of any romantic interaction or affection that in one chapter they even tell you directly, that physical attraction is a sign of romance and so on. Not to mention that most lewd scenes are so random and weird that it would be funny even in the hentai douji format.

Ultimately, I would definitely not recommend this manga to politically active folks, and especially to people who were victims of some kind of abuse. This work literally enjoys its sexist insult. On the other hand, if you are a big fan of So bad so its good content, this kind of thing simply amuses you with its absurdity and weirdness, or you just don't care, then this can be a great action and / or smut material.

7 from 10.

This manga is harem, no wait, no it's better then a harem. It's a yuri harem!

Story 8/10: Story is about a girl who takes over running an apartment for her grandfather while he is away. The grandpa is a perv because the tenants are all beautiful women. It's pretty typical harem, slice or life, style story but its still a good story.

Art 7/10: The art is okay, the backgrounds look very nice and are well drawn. Sadly I can't say the same for the characters. The characters don't look bad just not as good as the background art.

Character 9/10: The characters are where this manga shines! We have our harem MC Honoka, she's a shy very cute school girl. The girls who lust after Honoka are, a girl who's mystery job is a running gag, another who is a nurse, and the last one is a manga artist who basically writes hentai. Later we also get a loli, who actually isn't a loli, she's in fact older then the MC... Anyways we have a great cast and funny cast here.

Enjoyment 9/10: This manga is just fun, it's funny, the ecchi is good and doesn't feel forced, and I just love the whole yuri harem dynamic.

Overall 9/10: If you want a harem with something different (IE female protagonist), then you'll get that. If you want yuri and/or ecchi, you'll get that! I love this manga it's probably one of my favorite mangas. It just needs to update! It's been far to long since it has :(

I guess that it goes without saying that you shouldn’t be reading this if you’re unfamiliar with Devilman. Even more, anthologies like this are for fans of the franchises, if you didn’t like the original Devilman, don’t expect to like this. After all, it is just a collection of short stories of different “remakes” or “what-ifs” of the story of Devilman.

As the stories are short, unrelated to each other beyond the theme, and more importantly – greatly wary in style, reading this felt similar to visiting an exhibition. And it was certainly an interesting experience. There are stories with full colored gritty art, there are more easy-going stories with art close to the original manga, the variety is satisfying.

I would recommend this to any fan of Devilman who is looking for more content, even more so if your favourite author happened to partake in this anthology as you could explore their vision of the franchise.

I don't write many preliminary reviews, because I'm always really hesitant to read them myself. So I encourage everyone to take this with a grain of salt, but sometimes I just feel the need to justify why I dropped a series.

I'm generally pretty fond of ghost stories and supernatural plotlines. So when I found myself wandering around the bookstore, caught up on all the other manga I was currently reading, Ghost Diary looked like a good fit to fill that hole in my life. It became clear very quickly, though, that it's just... not for me.

I'll admit it: I only read the first two chapters. It quickly became clear to me that the premise of the story was the only thing it had going for it. A lot of characters are introduced early on, and I didn't find a single endearing thing about any of them. And Chloe was annoying practically from the first page she was introduced. I just... couldn't imagine willingly sitting through two and a half more volumes with Chloe as a major part of the story. Characters are the most important part of a story for me, so this is a hard handicap to recover from. (Not to mention the incest-y vibes between the main protagonist and his sister. Which is something I've gotten kind of used to seeing, here in the anime realm, but just... isn't for me.) So a lot of my critiques come down to personal preferences, but yeah. I didn't get through the first volume.

Prepare yourselves for a long review.

Mousugu Shinu Hito begins as a memorable deconstruction of the harem genre. The MC's harem is forced on him, he can only choose one "true love," and the rest of the harem will die after he makes his choice. Accordingly, each of the female leads does everything in her power (in some cases crossing ethical lines) to woo him in order to ensure her own survival.

==Story: 5/10==

It takes a lot of explanation to suspend disbelief that these dramatic circumstances have befallen these seemingly everyday characters in a situation that, other than the disturbing video that causes the forced harem, closely resembles daily life. This explanation is never given in any adequate form: the mangaka probably realized they had dug themselves into a hole with no logical way out, so they hand-waved some Ibara no Ou-style ~psychophysics~ into existence to move the plot along.

Great "dark" stories usually make disturbing ethical conclusions seem reasonable. Mousugu Shinu Hito utterly failed in that regard.

I guess a redeeming factor in the story is how, through the wonders of ~psychophysics~, the plot does come full circle, from the perky "I want these people to be happy" video in the VERY beginning to the eventual explanation of the death video's purpose.

==Art: 7/10==

The characters were all cute and appealing. To compare the art style to anime, on a spectrum from Berserk to Kill la Kill, the characters were decidedly more Kill la Kill.

The art style is characterized by its minimal, yet clean use of lines. Hiroki deserves praise for his tasteful, somewhat restrained use of "super deformed" characters where appropriate to set the mood. None of these panels felt out of place.

Hiroki did well making the characters mostly distinguishable by their hair, except for a few frames when it was difficult to tell whether a certain character was actually Riko, the school's "idol," and that character's similarity to Riko wasn't a plot device. From this, it's safe to conclude that Riko wasn't supposed to look similar to that character, and that that accidental similarity was Hiroki's fault as an artist.

The tension palpably rose from the first death to the investigation of the video, and the doll was always unsettling where it appeared.

Color inserts were clean and easy on the eyes. For a yandere manga, gore was minimal.

==Characters: 7/10==

The MC is a little dense and doesn't realize the genuine feelings a few characters have for him until other characters tell him unambiguously. The redeeming thing about the him is that even though the girls in the harem almost all throw themselves at him in the beginning, he rightfully sees through the actions of the ones who are merely trying to ensure their own survivals, and refuses to take advantage of them in those situations. He's quite the gentleman.

As for the others, the characters featured in the video and its later incarnations (including the MC) come to save their friendships with each other over the course of the manga. As a result, it's hard for readers to hate any of them in their entirety.

The revelation midway that a character other than Haju had genuine feelings for the MC didn't feel forced at all.

Where this manga failed to argue for any striking conclusions, the harem characters were entertaining and singlehandedly forced me to finish Mousugu Shinu Hito, which leads to...

==Enjoyment: 9/10==

I am ashamed to have enjoyed this shallow manga as much as I did. Where the mangaka wanted me to cry or scream, I laughed and cheered for whoever I thought was best girl, even though "best girl" changed nearly every chapter. I wonder if the mangaka echoed my sentiment--it's easy to interpret the ending as evidence of such.

If you decide to read this manga, don't go in prepared to question everything and find out the truth, and definitely don't go in with a high barrier to suspension of disbelief. Go in prepared for a wild, occasionally gory ride that explores how some people become yandere to survive while others don't.

============plot holes / unanswered questions below================
(intentionally vague to prevent spoilers):
- HOW did the doll that Mikoto found appear in Riki's backpack to begin with?!
- one of the main girls irreversibly maims another of the main girls, and putting the attacker into jail would have been an easy way to force her out of the competition, so why doesn't the victim do anything?!
- who the !@#$ thought housing a server (yes, the kind that hosts a major NND-esque streaming site) in the mountains where (1) cellphone service is nonexistent and (2) five people have gone missing trying to fix the server?! On that note,
- why don't the cops, who are called to that building where one of the main characters is kidnapped, search the building immediately?!
- why don't the main characters catch the perpetrator when they get the chance?!
- what was the "dirt" that the ultimate antagonist had on their handler-turned-accomplice?!

Before reading this review please understand that any Manga don't have to be a serious genre or having real life stuff to be enjoyable; or better said, the purpose of the mangaka on Kanojo mo Kanojo is not about getting serious at all but have a lot of comedy and a great gag manga like Aho Girl was.

Kanojo mo Kanojo is another of those Romcom that ase more focused on the comical part, similar to a gag manga the purpose is to crack a smile to the reader without much thought on who is loving who.

Story is about our male MC (Naoya Mukai), enjoying his first girlfirend (Saki Saki), during the first day dating her he met another girl (Nagisa Minase) that she has intense feelings for him, and because for some logical but honest personality of the MC he ends getting her as a second girlfriend.

Now while the story is somewhat lacking, the characters are made to be the extreme of themselves, Naoya being a complete sincere and honest person that flows with feelings left and right, can't leave any of both girls and has to be in a two timing relationship with them. Saki being a useless character but at the same time she won't hate the situation and Nagisa willing to give her best so Naoya and Saki get together at the end even if her feelings are "pure" on some way. A complete mess and because of this maelstrom of feelings and logic (illogical) reasonings they'e together.

Art is real good, you can feel determination on their actions of each character on every page, at the same time we got many of these characters can't keep it low so they're always flipping their sht for any upcoming situation. The spread pages are almost perfect in giving us a well detailed joke, or the environment they're in. There are many blank backgrounds, that's something I have to deal with it because Hiroyuki (the mangaka) focused more on giving us a gag instead of a well detailed place in a few of these pages, probably these details can be fixed when a manga volume is publised in a future.

Enjoyment is subjective but at the same time is delicate on this genre, like the cake analogy of "eating too much cake everyday ends up with you dis-tasting the cake", it's the same for this manga. You can sit and read too much of it but you won't enjoy it at all after a while, because you're getting too much of it.

So if you're in need of something dumb fun, and at the same time a romcom, this manga is for you. More if you liked Aho girl.
If you real need a romcom - serious manga, then I suggest you check on some other genre, the gags won't be enjoyable for you at all even if Hiroyuki is giving his best on making you have fun.

Among all the pros and cons within this manga, the more evident and big weakness is the fact that is a very short story that deserve more. And the strong aspect, living in the shadow of that weakness, is the amount of potention that is put on the table.

The presentation is not strong, aside from the main character and her rival in the 2 late books. Again the fault falls on how short this manga is. I can see the build up for the allies, for the future rivals, for the protagonist future and mma universe. Those 21 chapters really make me want more.

I enjoy the fighting scenes and the characters desings (simple, but straight). If i have to choose a flaw it would be the lack of muscular evidence on their body desing, aside for some really beefy, big characters.

With you want a good story to pass time, give it a shoot because is worth it, but be aware that the feeling of incompliteness will expect you in the end.