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As someone who’s of the younger generation and didn’t even play Magic The Gathering back then, I didn’t expect to like this manga so much. I’m sure if I did experience similar events and played Magic as well, then I’d probably even consider this as a 10/10.

However. despite me not being able to directly relate to many of the events in the story. I still felt very nostalgic over every single chapter. It just seems to portray this one time in the past so well, with so much love and appreciation that I can't help but feel the same melancholy as the characters might've felt ... looking into the past. It's as if I was transported back into that time and put in the shoes as someone who lived in that time and treasured the moments they made during that time.

It feels like such a 90s nostalgia feelstrip for nerds and otaku at that time. I could even feel it even if I barely knew anything about 90s otaku culture in Japan or even nerd culture anywhere in the world, I didn't live through it after all. And I think it's insane that it's able to make me feel so strongly about a time and generation I didn't even get to experience or interact with much.

The sheer passion and love both the author and characters in these moments just infect you and make you feel the same as they do. It comes through in every page and chapter of this manga and it's absolutely wonderful. If you've ever been passionate about something niche then you can easily relate to this story.

It isn't just a story about Japanese kids in the 90s playing Magic the Gathering. It's a story about otaku, whether they hide it to stay popular or revel in it despite being treated as an outcast. It's a story about how these people come together because of their niche interest and make unforgettable memories with each other because of it. It's about how their love for this niche thing that everyone considers weird and different causes unbreakable bonds to form.

This is Otaku. This is why the culture has survived and flourished for so long despite being so strange and bizarre to outsiders. It's because of the sheer love and passion people had and still have for all things niche. Whether it be Anime, Card Games, Fighting Games, Comics, or even Imageboards. They bring people together and these people eventually grow together with stories of their own to tell, stories of Love, Passion, Redemption, and Friendship. Stories like 'Destroy All of Humanity, It Can't be Regenerated.'