Aoharu x Kikanjuu
Aoharu x Machine Gun

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Amazing manga, the anime adaptation is also perfectly done - nothing from the manga is missing. It's just that some people would think there is romance but it is barely mentioned, mostly slice of life. I love the way we get to know different characters' backstory.

Art: 10 GORGEOUS, the fighting scenes were absofucxinglutely magnificent
Story: 9
Characters: 9 I hate the fact I can't hate some of the characters. Also, I really like Hotaru, we love a badass girlboss

The only minus is the ending for me, changing her hair was painful for me, cause I loved how she looked but still overall amazing manga. One of my ... favourites

I started this manga in 2017 probably first manga i had read, was sooo good and interesting. Like character, comedy, guns art and backstory at latest chapters i notice the art was weird not like first chapters i don't know if mangaka want just finish his work or the artist changed (if somebody know please tell me). i recommand this manga if someone want light good story and easy read.


I've seen a pretty mixed bag with reviews of this show, and I thought I'd give it my two cents as well.

Story 8/10- It initially drew me in because of the whole Ouran-esque premise of ... the cross dressing, the host club, etc. However, that really only is in the first few episodes. After that, the story revolves around the three main characters forming and team and playing survival games. I don't really have an issue with this, other than the fact that the ending was pretty bad, and didn't match the quality of the rest of the show. It left me with a lot of unanswered questions.

Art 9/10- The reason I picked up this show was because I saw it on MAL and thought Tachibana looked cool. The art really appealed to me, and scenes in forests and stuff are really beautiful. Character designs were also well done.

Sound 6/10 - I finished watching this a while ago, so I can't really remember the sound. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't that memorable. There was some spunky music thrown in at the action scenes, and it got the job done. The voice acting was pretty good, I especially liked Yukimura's monotone and slightly creepy voice.

I first started this series after it's anime aired, based on a review from the Youtuber 42Believer who described the show as "OHSHC with Machineguns". On that premise alone, I thought I had found something to fill the whole OHSHC's conclusion in both anime and manga had left me with. Now, while the series does start off seeming to be ripping off that concept, I soon found that it was a very bare minimum description of what the series ended up being. While I do love the art style, especially the way the author is good at emphasizing characters emotions during battle, I'm one of ... those readers who tend to focus more on the text in the panels. The story itself I found to be going rather well, but as of the most recent chapters, its dropped a little and felt somewhat rushed, as if the author might have been forced to speed up the pacing, or as Super Eye-Patch Wolf has described in his numerous videos about the Big Four in Anime, the series may not have meant to go on for this long (although it has not been that long, nor has it been going so south that it becomes prominent). Recently, some of the newer side characters that popped up have seen rather...bland and cliche, but I'm willing to look past that. As for the main cast, what makes this show interesting is the way all of them are disturbed in one way or another. Now, while I do not believe the author's intent is to make these characters actually "disturbed", if they were all a single character in one story, they would all be that one quirky character, like Hisomu in Kiznaiver for example. However, the entire cast, except for Hotaru, is like that. You've got Yuuki playing the role of the perverted, masochistic otaku to the extreme, Mattsun having severe abandonment issues about everyone that just becomes even more impossible when its coupled with his already (what those of us in the west) would find unrealistically sensitive for a "man". Most of the characters often fall on the S or M side, which can be seen emphasized in some of the cover pages, like where Yuuki and Mattsun are wearing muzzles in a spread in (I think) volume 6. However, this isn't a detractor from this series, but rather, I find it to be rather a plus. Especially in Midori's case, you get to see these characters leading normal lives with some oddities and quirks in their personalities that make them more anime-like, but then when you put them in a survival game environment, they become crazed and malicious, and then they can walk away into the real world like nothing happened. It also helps that most of them are adults, so it gives off this vibe that I can only describe as that feeling when you realize your teachers have lives of their own and hobbies of their own. Additionally, if I were to go by what many people use to determine whether sports anime is any good, the author does an excellent job at making you like and want to play survival games. The way the characters perform in the game is never too OP (except in Hotaru's case) and its never overly strategic, as most of what has to occur is acting on instinct after a lot of training. I'm giving this series an eight overall because while I enjoy it immensely and love the characters, I really feel as though the story has fallen recently, and I hope it improves in the coming chapters.