DNA²: Dokoka de Nakushita Aitsu no Aitsu
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This manga appears rather boring on the first glance but trust me after you read the 1. Volume you want to buy the other four, too.

The story seems pretty simple at first: Some girl from the Future trying to make things better. Sounds boring? It does, if that was the only element of it. in the first few chapters you get to see something that can only be called pure romance. but moment after moment you beginn to think: Hmm... there is something else going to happen. and then suddenly starts the action. Unexpectet? when reading the first time: yes. after that the ... story develops nicely with smooth changes from action to humour to romance and back to action. The story doesn't seem to forced exept the ending, which even if it was a nice twist came rather unprepared over. Overall it is very interessting and even if the fights do have a very dragonball-ish feel to it one can largly irgnor it.

The art is clean and show much love when it comes to details. even things that normaly are only drawn in a round about way were given some time to draw probably and it gives the surrounding a nice feeling. all in all i'm actually very impressed by the art.

There is character development, there are flaws, there are changes. Whats there more to say? these characters that make up the main part of story are fleshed out and seem realistic and can be related to easily.

Well I enjoyed the manga very much and can only say that if you haven't read it yet you should do so now

Ok, just to get another view on this manga.

I read the first few chapters years ago and was amazed!
Now I had the chance to finish reading this manga and I think all the years of waitinig in suspense for a great manga...were a waste of time.

The art was great, sensei is known for his great art.

The story and characters weren't good imo.
I got the impression, that the author took all his favorite moments from Dragon Ball and put them into a sci-fi enviroment, with some ecchi added.
It was complete nonsense. Even though the emotions and values shown were decent, but overall I didn't enjoy reading ... it at all.

While it started out promising, I've never seen a rom-com manga drop harder than Quantumania's second week box office. That's right. At its core DNA2 is a rom-com, with the potential to deliver the outlandish, sensuous, hilarious, emotional, and ultimately escapist teenage drama that rivals Ranma and Yatsura. Unfortunately I have no idea what editor thought it was somehow a good idea to turn the series' direction into a Dragon Ball knockoff second act in, and then an attempt at harem with a random incest event thrown in for no reason, and then it finishes with...social commentary? (Insert confused face) In the end this turned ... into neither a good drama nor a good comedy. It's sprinkled with simple moral messages that are made hollow by its exuberant silliness. Characters do not grow, react, or reflect on themselves, because they are dragged along the shipwreck of a plot. Most of the readers would be drawn in by the moral dilemma at the start complemented with relatively tame, comforting comedy, if not solely for the ecchi art, which starts to diminish around volume 3. They should've stuck with that instead.