Overall, there’s themes running through this that have been done many times before, from Welcome to the NHK, with its take on otaku and erogames; Chobits, with its ‘which-is-better’ theme; and the herd of slightly deranged magical-girlfriend stories that are out there.
Hanazawa manages to combine all three elements, however, in a tightly-knit tale using humour, pathos, drama and wrapping it all in a slightly stinging rebuke of otaku-dom and their retreat from reality into the world of moe dating sims.
Watching Takuro and Tsukiko’s clumsy courtship is sweet, but entirely fake - she’s nothing more than a program, whilst he is an attractive and unreal facsimile
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: ルサンチマン InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 4
Chapters: 49
Status: Finished
Published: Dec 15, 2003 to Feb 21, 2005
Theme:
Strategy Game
Demographic:
Seinen
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Big Comic Spirits Authors:
Hanazawa, Kengo (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #83592 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2645
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Sep 23, 2012
"res•sen•ti•ment
noun 1. any cautious, defeatist, or cynical attitude based on the belief that the individual and human institutions exist in a hostile or indifferent universe or society. 2. an oppressive awareness of the futility of trying to improve one's status in life or in society." That was a definition I ripped off straight from dictionary.com. I usually wouldn't start anything with a textbook definition of a word – because 1) its cheesy as hell and 2) most titles are arbitrary – but I felt the need to bend the rules just this once to emphasize how important the title is to this manga. Defining its literal meaning though ... 
Dec 3, 2018
This manga is one focused on the dark side of virtual reality. By that I don't mean the super dark military mind control type stuff, but rather the creepy side where people become addicted to it. From that point of view, it certainly was unique, as most mangas that are VR focused seem to stay away from that side of things as the focus. But at the same time, this results in the characters being unlikable and the plot being pretty pathetic. And unrelated to that, overall it just seemed pretty messy and directionless all around, where no characters exhibited any growth and no major points related to
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Apr 21, 2021
"Wow, that escalated quickly".
Man this manga is bad. Not because the main character is almost a lolicon or because there is some gross sexual+funny(?) scenes, or not even because the end is completely non-sense: it is bad because it's just like any other manga that hypes you, makes you feel that something freaking cool is going to happen and then......... AND THEN.... nothing. Just bullshit. I would be lying if I say that I didn't enjoyed reading the first or even the second volume. The story keeps going deeper and being detailed... but then suddently everything starts just being non-sense. Prepare yourself to tilt at least at ... |
