Boku no Namae wa "Shounen A"

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This manga is quite unique I'd say



On the early chapters it got a really heavy atmosphere
Compared to most tragedy manga that I have read I felt the most on this one
The author captures the atmosphere of the situation perfectly/almost perfectly which took my attention

I find this like a roller coaster, even though it is only 32 chapters/4 volume.
The ending isn't the best nor is it bad. I find the ending acceptable but its not that good. I personally liked how it ended (no hang cliff).
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This manga reflects real life too. You can get a lots of moral from this manga

This manga is a unique one for me since I havent read one that touches on the ideas and points that this one does. In that regard I think this manga is quite good. However as a general manga that I read, it was mediocre to say the most.

Like I mentioned, the story is a unique one and had a lot of potential with what it set up in the first 3 chapters. With that said, I think what the manga did do was very lackluster and didnt use its potential at all. While I wont say it stayed safe with its plot, I can ... say that it didnt bring much to the table outside of exactly what you would expect. While it did provide one major plot twist which did change the story, it felt way too forced and is also riddled with cliches in a sense.

The characters in this manga are the worst part of it in my opinion. The main two characters have their backstory and thoughts explained since they are the protagonists, every other character that was introduced as being somewhat major to the plot didnt have as much development so it made them seem more like side characters than anything. While characters having flaws is acceptable since no one can make a perfect character, the ones in this story were too annoying in a sense. They were all there for one point and almost no other reason. Some of their actions made no sense and without some the story wouldn't have been any different. Even the protagonists seem too single minded and without purpose. The female protagonist especially seemed completely like a plot point and outside of that was completely useless.

With all that said, I can't be too harsh on the series since was only 4 volumes or 32 chapters long which is quite short. It would be almost impossible to fit everything I would have wanted into that short of a page count. And besides I can say that the manga was quite enjoyable regardless of its flaws. Sure at times it was frustrating to see how the story develops or how the characters act but other than that it is a manga that tackles a topic that while I cant relate to I'm sure there are some people out there who can. So maybe for them it would be a more enjoyable experience

Oh my, this is for sure one of the worst manga I've ever read. The author clearly had in mind making an uncomfortable series, and he accomplished that, but only that.

There was only one aspect of this manga that wasn't utterly garbage, and that was the art. But don't get me wrong, it isn't great by any stretch of the imagination, it's just that everything around it was so appalling that it seems better in contrast. This is a clear example that not everything that you write should be published.

The more I read the clearer it appeared to me, the author didn't want to make ... a story. I refuse to believe that this is truly him doing his best to pass any kind of message or meaning. Countless stories try to make the reader uncomfortable during the narrative, but for it to work on any level you have to at least feel something reading it, but the author didn't even try to make the characters convincing.

In the first chapters, the author is just dropping as many mind-boggling decisions and characters as possible. The lines and actions are so far-fetched from reality that after the third chapter is hard to feel anything reading it. The first chapter left so much potential just for the rest of the chapters to be this pitiful.