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Oct 23, 2023
20th Century Boys, like most of Urasawa's works, has a lot of problems on a second read. There's tons of things which don't really make sense, or are just kinda dumped, but honestly, that doesn't matter. The scene with Yoshitsune in the VR game talking with his younger self made me cry. Listening to Bob Lennon while reading Sadakiyo made me fucking bawl my eyes out. Those scenes are what make 20th Century Boys great.
I'm assuming that if you're reading the review you've probably already read the story, but if you haven't, please do. I cannot express how much I love this manga, and
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I'd hope that every person who's interested in manga tries it, at the very least.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 23, 2023
Tower of God is a Manwha that makes me unironically angry. So many aspects of it are good, the world, for one, is one of the most interesting and detailed I've ever seen, every floor and culture feels unique and the world-building of ToG is really similar to One Piece in a lot of aspects. The fights are also pretty good, the art isn't amazing or anything but a lot of the fights in season 1 and early season 2 are actually pretty great, striking a nice balance between strategy and action. ToG also has some of the best side cast I've ever seen. From
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Gwangnam and his crew, to Urek, to villains like Hell Joe. The plot for at leas until the Floor of Death arc are really good, and certain scenes like Urek's whole fish analogy with Hell Joe were excellent.
Now you might've noticed a trend, in that everything I've praised so far doesn't relate to the main characters. That is for a very simple reason and that is because they are bad.
I fucking hate Bam, he is actually one of the most boring fucking characters to ever exist and every scene he is in is just dragged down by him. He is literally just a vehicle for fights, and that'd be fine if his friends (Khun and the raptor guy) weren't also boring and one-note. None of them are interesting, they feel like the main cast in a first draft of the story. Their characters from at least where I'm at feel incomplete and as if, despite the fact they are literally the main characters, are being shoved into the story for no reason.
ToG was at its peak in early season two when Bam barley existed and Gwangnam and his crew were the main characters. Gwangnam already has a more compelling character and motivation than Bam and his story even intertwines with the themes of rebellion that Bam's do, hell maybe even more than his. But no, the author sidelines all the interesting characters and just stuffs us with more useless fucking side characters and more time with the boring as hell main cast.
What makes me the angriest about ToG is not that its bad, its that it comes so close so often to being amazing, and sometimes even is, but constantly stumbles over itself with boring side characters and somehow even less-interesting main characters.
Overall I'd say ToG is maybe worth reading just for the lore and the occasional excellent moments, but for most people I think its better if you just watch lore videos on it or wait for the anime to adapt it, as they'll probably cut a lot of the useless time-wasting filler we get in the manwha.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jan 23, 2023
Hellper is so fucking amazing, in literally every aspect, from world to characters to plot. I don't even know how to begin this review other than to just tell you to read Hellper.
Starting with plot Hellper I think is damn near perfect, every scene and chapter feels so well crafted, and its pace is amazing, at no time in the series was I bored, every chapter had me hooked and the series is amazing at sprinkling in twists and comedy to break up the pace without halting it.
Character wise I think Hellper shines its brightest. Hellper doesn't have a lot of characters, but every single
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one is so uniquely designed and interesting that even those we only spend 3-4 chapters with have something that makes them fun to read.
Of course its world-building is also top-tier.Yes it doesn't compete with something like Tower of God or One Piece, but it still creates and interesting world that is both intriguing and interesting to learn about.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 23, 2023
Weak Hero is honestly all over the place quality-wise, and even that I go back and forth on. Weak Hero's greatest strength is its characters, and despite all I'm about to say on the plot, I fully stand-by that the random goofy side chapters are some of the best in any Manwha I've ever read
The first few arcs of WH are really good IMO, the cast is small and the stakes are low but the fights are entertaining and the novel way Gray fights really reminds me of the MC from early Holy Land. The problem lies not in the premise of Gray, but just
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how stagnate he becomes. The first half or so of WH is actually fairly decent the whole way through, of course it has dips in quality, but it slowly increases the cast and develops Gray from this hyper edgelord anti-social freak to a normal kid.
Then inevitably, like so many popular manwha and manga, it doesn't end. Gray's big final moment of character growth in my mind is the rooftop scene, where he faces his past trauma and overcomes it. From here I'd expect the rest of the major characters development to end, then for a final big battle to happen, and for a while that does seem like its gonna be the case. The Union has a big war, it feels like most of the villains are on the verge of turning against each other, at this point the plot-lines should cascade into each other and the story should end.
It does not end.
We actually now have to sit through like 50 more chapters of boring nothing, in where every character stagnates and the only focus is on vapid fights where the MC's just fucking trash the villains. This isn't an uncommon problem with Manwha, its just a shame when it happens with one that's decent.
The story and characters get thrown to the way-side while fights and powerscaling become top priority. Each MC fights some guy who's super tough, jobbers the guy, and that's it. This is all that happens for like 1/6 the manwha. At this point I'd just skim most the chapters, none of the villains were interesting cause it was obvious the author had no plans for them to be anything other than essentially video-game bosses, and every fight just goes through the same motions with zero stakes.
Overall, if WH was just the first 2/3's (up the the Union v Cheongang arc) and then just immediately transitioned into a big final arc, I'd give this a solid 5-6/10, nothing amazing or special, but a good 1 - 2 week read. But including the boring ass chapters you have to sit through for like 1/6 of this manwha, I really feel like its not worth it. Just wait for it to finish and then read until the end of the UvC arc and just skip to the final arc.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Dec 20, 2022
If you liked Chainsawman you'll almost certainly like this, there are still the hype fights mixed with existential melancholy. It has a very slow start, one which feels like an intentional smokescreen for the story. I hate to write a vague review on things, but I really feel that any badly-worded sentiments I could make would do injustice to Fire Punch, so if you at all like Chainsawman, or hell even just need something to read, please read Fire Punch.
If you want my opinion on the series: I don't even know how to articulate the feelings these drawings made me feel so all I can
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say is that they made me cry.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 20, 2022
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I both really hate and really love Kengan Omega. I enjoyed Kengan Ashura a lot and was really enjoying the about first 50 chapters of Omega until the Ohma reveal. When Ohma came back I almost immediately thought "Oh so this is gonna be bad". The half-assed reason they gave to just hand-wave the repercussions from Ashura, and the weird almost fanfic-like new life Ohma was leading was just all so baity. It felt like the author wasn't writing a story but just baiting fans, leaving breadcrumbs of fan service to keep them reading. This never stops either. The entire Purgatory arc was exemplary
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in this. The author brought back every major living character from Ashura, no matter how little sense it made or how lame their fights were, and then just threw random fucking jobbers at them with fights half as good-looking as Ashura, and only 1/8th as interesting. And who would've guessed the best fights were the ones where both sides were new characters!
The worst part is that beneath all the bad I can see an amazing manga. The new purgatory fighters are all super interesting and fun the watch, and after every backstory chapter, I was like, "OH FUCK YEAH, this guy's gonna kick ass", and then they'd inevitably just get jobberfied by their opponent. The new main cast was also amazing. I was really enjoying Koga's character and the mystery surrounding Ryuki. The new Worm villains were also pretty interesting and raised the stakes a lot. Then the Wu clan, the Chinese femboy from the worms, and all of the interesting villains we'd seen just die, get jobbered, and we speed along to less interesting villains.
Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe the series gets way better after purgatory, but if it does it has one of the most frustrating and longest starts to any series I've ever read, and I'm not willing to read more chapters to get there.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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