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Gacha Gacha is a Shounen, Ecchi, Romantic, Comedy manga which is split up into two separate stories, however it is evident that one story is better than the other.

The first story entitled Capsule and it’s about two friends Kouhei (boy) and Clara (girl) who have a sort of love-hate relationship. During the summer, Clara goes to Hawaii with her mom but returns home with some split personalities. From the start to finish this is an incredibly whacky story and even though the split personality concept seems a bit off, it is portrayed in a great and funny way. There really is no structure to the ... story, as it is just a bunch of random events yet the characters are what help keep the story together. Having a girl dealing with multiple personalities was great idea because you could never get bored with her and Kouhei was great in the way that he adapted to interact with each one.

Onto the second, entitled Secret, and it’s about some cowardly guy (Hatsushiba Akira) who tries out the new Gachax2 virtual game machine. When all of a sudden an error occurred. Now every time he sneezes he transforms into a cute girl. Even though this story is pretty fun to read, the problem with this set-up is that it is far too unexplainably stupid and makes no sense whatsoever. And unfortunately this story is dragged on for twice the length as the previous one, so it easy to get bored of it. The characters this time around are alright but there’s no depth to them. Though Akira can be very convincing as a girl, the fact that this became an idiotic gender bender full of typical cliches leaves little to be desired. Also the female characters may be appealing, but they don’t offer much more than what you can find in your average Shounen, Rom/Com.

The artwork is probably the best aspect of this manga, because even though it may look pretty standard it still has incredibly well designed female characters, with plenty of fanservice. Too bad the guys looked like bums, but most guys who read this wouldn’t care.

Overall Gacha Gacha proved to be a somewhat enjoyable manga and the idea of linking 2 separate stories together was good. However the 2nd story just wasn’t up to the same standard as the 1st, which forced me to lower my score. Fans of gender benders may like the transition but even those fans will notice something wrong with the story.

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Gacha Gacha has 2 seperate stories, but the stories are for the most part playing of of odd circumstances in a humerous fashion. The Art is pretty good, but the characters in my opinion could have used some more work. Also I think that in some of the chapters the Story becomes too fanservice oriented. Overall a good Manga though

Mod Note: This review was initially posted for, Gachagacha Part.2: "Secret" Arc, and was subsequently merged into Gachagacha.

Gachagacha: The Next Revolution starts out with an interesting concept, but after that it goes almost nowhere.

The characters start out completely devoid of personality, save for the Akira whose personality only serves to convince the reader that he is utterly worthless, and in most respects he pretty much is.

The main female love interest, Yurika, falls into the deathly trap that is why-does-he-even-like-her. Yurika starts out as "The Pretty Girl" and not much else, whose sole purpose in life is to be loved by the main character. About half ... way through the manga (when people start acquiring personalities) hers remains one of the most plain.

The story in Gachagacha: The Next Revolution is, at best, mediocre, and moves about as slow as molasses. The love plots move about as much as they do in Ranma 1/2, which is to say not at all.

Gachagacha: The Next Revolution may not be THE BEST, but it is entertaining enough. If you go into this expecting a light hearted romance, that's what you come out with. If you're expecting a Gender Bender, it's certainly got that. But if you're expecting a Masterpiece, you will be disappointed.

I give Gachagacha: The Next Revolution a 3 out of 5.