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Japanese: LOCK ON！ーロックオンー

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 18

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 22, 2010 to Jun 28, 2010

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Tsuchida, Kenta (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #5503²

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Popularity: #2244

Members: 9,699

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Ranked #5503Popularity #2244Members 9,699

MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Tsuchida, Kenta (Story & Art)

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Utsuru Sanada is a professional photographer at the age of 17, he can guess the exact 3 sizes of any girl, he can memorize anything he sees, and he can counterattack karate moves (Most guys would want these abilities). Why? Because he has superb photographic memory called “Shutter Eye” (Shutter as in the shutter of a camera). He meets Niko Kurihara, the female protagonist, who dislikes men, is a master of martial arts, and is of course beautiful. Utsuru attempts to prove to Niko that he is not the guy she thinks he so he can take a picture of her.

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Mar 4, 2014

Blue_Shadow

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Ok to begin with it found is manga randomly when I was looking through people's manga and I was like ok let's see what this is.

Story-7 I like the way the story had been set but it was getting a bit boring and there weren't as many twists in the manga.Lock on was a bit too short in my opinion, as for the result it kind of disappointed me too.

Art-8 Yes, there was a certain thing I like about this manga. Yes the art. I just loved the way they drew expressions on Niko when she got angry ...

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Mar 26, 2012

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Be warned, this review may contain /spoilers/.

Lock On! is a short manga by Tsuchida Kenta. It was first serialized as a one-shot in Weekly Shounen Jump in 2009 and later began serialization as a series in 2010.

The premise is simple – Utsuru Sanada is a professional photographer at age seventeen. He likes girls, and he likes taking pictures of girls. Not those kind of pictures – he actually dislikes people who make the assumption that he takes dirty pictures. The thing he really enjoys is seeing girls smile; not fake smiles that girls pull off in front of the camera, but “real” smiles that he ... knows are genuine. The secret to his power of seeing “genuine smiles” (as well as other things) is his “Shutter Eye”, which he normally keeps covered with an eye patch. His Shutter Eye functions similar to a camera, giving him superb memory.

He meets Kurihara Niko, a beautiful girl who is a martial arts master and hates men, believing they are all dogs and should not be taken seriously. Sanada makes it his goal to take pictures of Niko when she really smiles. Niko, of course, has a best friend, named Yuki, who is the typical happy airhead you always need in a manga. However, Yuki, and the rest of the characters as well, grow and change throughout the story – Yuki becomes more intelligent and a bit less naïve by the end of the manga. Another character introduced is Yamato Takeaki, a “delinquent”-type character who has an enormous crush on Yuki.

The art of the manga is surprisingly good for a weekly one; the art is original and has a rather distinct style. The quality does go down a bit near the end, but it is still very good. One thing I will point out is that it’s rather obvious that the author is being suppressed. He wants to focus on more serious subjects, but it seems to me as if his editors were constantly forcing him to pull off gags and make the manga less serious than he wanted it to be. This is especially prominent in the one-shot – it was a bit different in that Niko was the target of “dirty pictures” by other boys at the school which gives it a more serious feel. Even the serialized manga itself has a bit of this serious tone – while it is mostly a romantic comedy, there are a few chapters in which Yuki is kidnapped by two men who say they want to take pictures of her, while hiding their true intentions.

Since it is a shounen manga, there is some fanservice, but only a bit and nothing that I can really complain about. Actually, the fanservice manages to be funny when it does appear, and isn't explicit or particularly erotic in the least. From what I can remember, there is only a panty shot (which, as stated before, manages to be funny given the situation; read the manga and you’ll see why) and a scene where girls change in the locker room – although that part wasn’t emphasized. It was just…there. It wasn’t racy or fanservice-y in the least.

Lock On! is a very cute, romantic, shounen comedy. Some people say it has clichés, although I didn’t notice them, probably because I was too busy laughing or simply enjoying the storyline. The manga has enormous potential – I really, really wanted to see where it would go. And then…out of nowhere, it was discontinued. I think it has in part to do with the “romance” of it, and also the way the author couldn’t truly send the message he wanted to. It is a very good manga – it’s just a shame that it ended so soon. I look forward to Tsuchida-sensei’s next works, because Lock On! was really a very enjoyable (albeit a tad short) read.

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HolHorsea

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (2/18 eps)

I kinda liked this series, but it had lot of elements that I didn't like and made me stop reading the series.

The things I liked:
The art work was really nice. It was simple, easy to read, characters were easy to recognize, pasing was good... Setting was also interesting as it had shounen serieses "superpower" theme but was also romantic comedy.

But what went wrong was the characters...

The main female lead hates all men because she has been molested in her youth by many man: there is list of flashers, train molesters etc mentioned. And the main male character is creepy and everyone considers him as a ...

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