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Solanin tells an intimate story about the trials and tribulations of love, loss, and grief centered around people in their twenties who often slip between the cracks of society.

History: a very human story in the sense that it is very real. The protagonists have just finished high school and have to adjust to adult life, having to leave behind their childhood dreams, in this case, playing in a band, to earn a living as an old person. It is a well-structured story that is quick to read but that you enjoy a lot, also very beautiful in all aspects, with touches of humor, and at ... times sad and raw. I emphasize for the last time that it is a very human story and that everything feels real, as if it could be the story of an ordinary person. In this aspect, Solanin takes a 9

Characters: the group of protagonists is very well structured, all being connected by the passion that music transmits to them despite the fact that they are different from each other. Well, more or less, because at every moment the boys in the group are laughing at nonsense. After the end of the first volume, in the second and last volume, there is a great development of characters to these after this final event, further developing the protagonist. In this small time skip from the first volume to the second, you can appreciate very well the development of characters and, although you can predict how the plot will continue after this development, believe me that it does not decline. In the character section, I'm going to give it another 9, I loved them all (even the mother of the protagonist hahahahahah)

Drawing: although Inio Asano, creator of the manga, specializes much more for his moving stories (e.g.: goodnight, punpun) than for drawing, he makes some very beautiful landscapes of Japan and characters that look simple but beautiful and cute, although they are not crazy either. And that resource that he always uses of black panels with a bit of text is something that I like in person, but I also think that he could represent those texts in a different way than a black background since there are pages that are vignette, black, vignette, black... and I don't like that. In the drawing section, an 8 I think is enough, although I could even lower it to 7 but... nah

Entertainment: I read the manga in two days but still enjoyed it a lot. The story and drawing style make you very calm and keep you reading. Although at first I didn't have faith in it, with all the nonsense in the end I loved it, making me think about the manga until days after finishing it. Entertainment 8 out of 10.

Conclusion: a moving and relaxed story with a great touch of realism in it that will make you fall in love with it almost instantly. Adding up all my previous notes, it gets an 8.5, but as Myanimelist seems to still be in 2005 and doesn't let you put decimals, the final grade is an 8, since it's very nice but a 9 I already see it very high having works by the same mangaka that are better.

High school student Kusakabe Makoto has to work all day to raise money for the treatment of his younger sister, who suffers from a serious illness. The father is unemployed, the mother ran away, leaving the children, bullying at work ... Despite all this, he does not lose hope and continues to live for her sister. But having learned that she did not have long, Makoto falls into despair. Fear of the unknown causes him to take a different look at the value of human life.

Story: A simple story (what to expect from a gore manga). Of course, this one follows the same pattern as ... all manga in this genre, a good protagonist who has something bad happen to him that makes him go crazy and have the police behind him, only that this work has a very interesting resource: time travel. Thanks to these, our protagonist can kill without anyone discovering him, except for the mad detective who is even crazier than the protagonist. He has a good pace, I have to say, but the conclusion is very bad. The reason why he gets his time-traveling powers are absurd, and the end of the main character gave me even satisfaction to see how it ended. 06/10, and that score is for innovating in something

Characters: The protagonist, Makoto, goes from one day to the next from being a little angel to becoming a potential psychopath, with hardly any development, his sister for whom he does all this I am not going to talk about her since she has more appearances in the mind of the protagonist than in the world of this story, appearing very little. The daughter of the prostitute she "saves" is also another little prostitute who is very heavy, has 0 intelligence and is only there to touch the balls, her reappearance after Makoto abandoned her is saving, she is jealous of the protagonist's sister and she reappears as Oolong from Dragon Ball (if you read this manga, you'll see what I mean). Then there's the crazy detective who goes after Naoto, who I found interesting at first but ended up liking him badly, nothing to say about him. The only two characters that for me are saved are the detective's assistant who looks like a cat and gives us fanservice and Makoto's second sister, one of the few well-written. And yet you know what I'm telling you? which are not even so bad. Despite having criticized some of them very harshly, I don't dislike them at all, except for the miniprosti that is insufferable. For me, the characters section is a 07/10

Design/drawing: very graphic, something I like about gore mangas because when you go to read a style manga you look for blood and strong panels. The design of the characters seems very good to me, even the Oolong is very well drawn, the landscapes and backgrounds are also very good and detailed, for me it is a 07/10

Entertainment: I'm hooked, so why am I going to refuse. Although I repeat, I did not like the ending, that revelation of where the powers of time travel come from, more than half of the manga I read in a single day, and there are 55 chapters that are said soon but take time to read having other things to do. In this section another 07/10 will also be taken that could even go up to 08/10

Conclusion: another gore, simple, but with a very distinctive resource that takes advantage of it very well, although adding all these previous notes we get a 6.75 almost 7, I'm going to keep it at 6 because it's simply good, with nothing to highlight

As the conflict between Kenji Endo, his childhood friends, and cult leader "Friend" comes to an end, two mysteries remain—Friend's true identity and whether the threat of an "anti-photon bomb" before his death was legitimate. Hoping to find an answer, Kenji, alongside the United Nations, decides to use a virtual reality program created from Friend's childhood memories in this conclusion to a long journey that will span dozens of decades.

Story: 21st Century Boys is the continuation of 20th Century Boys, a beastly manga. In this continuation, many unsolved mysteries of the previous manga will be revealed to us after its hasty ending, while another "small" ... problem is posed that would be solved in these volumes. This continuation is short, 16 chapters that are 2 volumes, but it concludes very well with the previous work, solving all the questions that were not concluded in the previous mangas and also solving the problem that arises in this one. Obviously we can't compare these stories, but the conclusion of this one is very good, and although I still have doubts about some points, for me the story is a 07/10 (in my review of 20th Century Boys I gave the story an 8 so this one is a little bit below or not even that, a 7.5 maybe)

The characters in this work are the same as the previous one so I am not going to analyze this point, and I am not going to review the drawing or the design since, although a few years have passed between the 20th Century Boys and the 21st Century Boys, Urusawa is still the same one who writes and draws and, although there is a little improvement, it is not too big to highlight it.

Entertainment: Manga that I read in 2 hours one morning, the morning of the day after I finished the first work. Despite its short duration, there are several moments that make you surprise, such as the end of Manjome or the revelation of who is really friends in the last panels of the manga, so I'm not going to put it a 10 like the original manga but those 2 hours of reading I entertained a lot, that's why it takes the 8/10.

As a final grade I would obviously have an 8 or so if we add the grades I have given

20th Century Boys is a seinen manga for adults that follows the story of Kenji and his childhood friends. Kenji becomes embroiled in a matter of mysterious deaths, seemingly orchestrated by a cult led by a certain "Friend" who seeks world domination. The most curious thing is that the symbol of the sect was created by Kenji and his friends when they were children.

Story: The beginning of this is very interesting and in less than 10 or 20 chapters it makes you hooked on the manga because of the great curiosity it generates in you. The development of this is slow but thanks to this ... they generate many questions that are gradually answered, hooking us even more if possible to the work. The end of the story is not to my liking going into the personal, I don't understand what Urusawa wanted to do and it seems to me a very sudden ending, but this is fixed with the sequel, 21st Century Boys. 08/10

Characters: The group of main characters is very charismatic, and they show us when they were children, in the year 2000 and in 2013 it is a very good point since we see a great change and development in them. I want to highlight Otcho, Kanna, Yoshitsune and Kenji, who I put a little below the other 3 since they could have killed him many times but because he is the protagonist he seems immortal. As for the secondary ones, both heroes and villains, they also all have a small development, except for a small part that has a GREAT development, highlighting Manjome or God. What has surprised me is that they all have a remarkable development, even some simple policemen who appear in three chapters or Kanna's mangaka neighbors, absolutely all of them, and that seems superb to me. The interactions between them are very realistic and each one has their own mentality, which makes some like Kenji memorable. To finish with the character section, Amigo, the main antagonist, is incredible, insane and worthy of study, one of the best villains written. 09/10

Design/Drawing: Naoki Urusawa, creator of this manga, has some simple designs in my opinion, and I couldn't help but compare these characters with those of Monster or Pluto, mangas also created by him. Although Urusawa stands out much more for writing than for drawing, he does not usually make very detailed characters, highlighting in design Amigo that I love that mask and that costume that he wears from the middle of the work. Of course, there are many panels in this manga that are incredible, such as when they come face to face with the robot for the first time or when a friend "dies" and expose their body so that the population can say goodbye to them. Characters with a simple design but not bad at all and pretty nice backgrounds. The inking is also very good and clean and the few color panels are very beautiful. With all this, the quality of the drawing is good with some remarkable parts but it is not impressive either, that's why for me it is a 08/10

Entertainment: To end this review, I want to emphasize how entertaining the play is. This one gets you hooked thanks to its principle, where we are presented with, as I said before, 10 or 20 chapters the problem, a big problem that you will want to know if they will be able to fix it and how. The way of telling you the story, that at one point you are in the childhood of the characters, then in 2000 and then in 2013, is very interesting and made me stay stuck for a week to find out everything (that almost a month after having finished it I still have doubts) and read me up to 3 volumes or more in a day. The thing is that the hook I had was so much that I bought the last volume because I read the rest digitally and I wanted to finish it properly, on paper. Very entertaining, I assure you that it will hook you and that you will fall in love with it. For my part, in the future I should read it again to clarify those doubts that I still have about the work, so for me, this section in a 10/10

Finally, if I add up all the notes of all the points that I have been analyzing, the work remains at an 8.75, but I want to increase it to a 9 since it is my favorite heat. If this work has not taken a 10, I don't think it will be put to another one hehehe... well, maybe Monster.