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Oct 15, 2024
A child has an extremely rare disease and can therefore only use one of the weakest and most uncontrollable spells in a world full of magic: Blink. His life should be ruined, but as he is a video game character, some players latch onto him - including our protagonist, who ends up being the only one to get the avatar's abilities under control and quickly becomes one of the stronger players! Of course, he ends up in the video game world shortly afterwards...
“Magic Academy's Genius Blinker” offers some interesting approaches in its concept, which could perhaps go beyond the generic 'I was reborn into a
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game world I know'. For example, in the lore of the world there is someone who had read a book and came into the world, which was then turned into a game, or the game is actually a dating sim, which soon became a competitive RP.
Not only does the manhwa not really do much with it, but all these ideas raise many problems that are not solved. For instance, the premise often doesn't make sense - I mean, a dating sim that became an RPG? A competitive RPG that only has a handful of playable characters? How? Huh?
So you end up with a generic work that I've seen like this, better or worse, many times before. However, it only has 38 chapters so far, so maybe something else is coming?
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 15, 2024
I don't need to drag this out artificially, after all “Chew the Academy With a Sashimi Stick” only delivers 13 chapters so far.
Having lost his parents as a child, the protagonist becomes such a talented chef that he is soon known as a sword master! Coincidentally, he is drawn into a game shortly afterwards and is given the ability to cut anything as long as he uses a fish knife...
Across its 13 chapters, “Chew the Academy With a Sashimi Stick” offers a fairly generic, but by no means bad, 'Isekai / I got pulled into a game I know' story and characters so far.
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features are probably the somewhat unusual art style and the somewhat gloomy mood that clings to almost everything - for example, the protagonist's sword-god blessing soon turns out to be a kind of curse. However, the manga doesn't make much of it in 13 chapters, which I can't hold against it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 13, 2024
Here you get:
1. a trap - I was hoping more for a female vampire.
2. a generic run-of-the-mill story.
3. 8 chapters, 7 of which came out right after each other and an 8th after a year, only for the manga not to get any content since January 24.
Don't read this.
With 8 chapters and the well-known concept of “person in video game uses despised build and becomes strong”, there's really not much more to say, but MyAnimeList doesn't allow such a short review, so I'll write these lines. Maybe I can also mention that I found the protagonist really pretty and his comrades cute at first glance,
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which is why this still gets 2 stars. But to say more would be a spoiler with only 8 chapters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Oct 5, 2024
I was introduced to “Ougon No Keikenchi” as an Overlord manga BUT with a female protagonist. Even though it's not quite true - it's more about the protagonist Rare starting a game and building a kingdom instead of the sad backstory that Overlord starts - the first few chapters of the manga are fantastic and quite reminiscent of later parts of Overlord, although not as detailed (although the Overlord manga also leaves out a lot of details compared to the light novel - maybe it's similar here?).
Unfortunately, the manga only has 10 chapters and I hate it when I have to stop after so few
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chapters. That's why so far I can only say that it seems a bit too fast, but how bad it is remains to be seen.
As it has so few chapters, my rating of 7 stars is cautious.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Oct 4, 2024
Since I finally have reasonably acceptable internet again, I'm currently stuffing myself with all the anime I missed. “Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells” is one of the first in a long line of series I plan to watch and count it lucky, because if I hadn't been absolutely ravenous after my break, I would have abandoned it pretty much immediately.
In “Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells”, a group of students are thrown into a new world in which they are supposed to act as heroes. The special thing is that almost every
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character tries to be the biggest bastard in human history. So our protagonist is even thrown into an extremely difficult dungeon because he is supposedly too weak - SURPRISE, his abilities have clear limits and must therefore be used extremely strategically, but otherwise it's a series of on-hit kill spells. Understandably enraged, the protagonist embarks on a journey to make the goddess who did all this to him disappear...
Before we start, I have to mention that I read the manga once and stopped after a few dozen chapters because the pacing was getting on my nerves. Seemingly pointless scenes - especially those involving the classmates - dragged on endlessly and ruined any fun I was having with the strategic, cold scenes involving the protagonist.
The anime seems to have read my criticism, because it speeds up the plot. However, this creates a new problem: not only do moments seem to keep missing, but the series also reaches a pace that just feels strange.
I would also like to talk about this pace, because it runs through the entire series and always left me puzzled. In addition to a 'strange feeling', this results in the fact that it becomes clear very quickly that there will be no real finale. As expected, this is the case and it seems as if the anime just stops in the middle of the plot.
Apart from that, the characters are all rather mediocre. Normally the cold, cruel, strategically acting protagonist would probably be the reason to watch this and not abandon it, but compared to many other 'cruel' protagonists he seems rather soft-spoken. Even compared to Hajime from Arifureta he doesn't come close in terms of cruelty and I know some 'heroes' from different manhwa/manga, compared to which Hajime looks like the nicest person ever. The 'strategy' doesn't really come across either, maybe because it's only ever dealt with very briefly? Overall, the protagonist is very mediocre.
But I can't say the same about the other characters, 99% of whom are just the worst people who can populate a planet. The main exceptions are the comrades - all women, of course - of Touka (the protagonist), they at least get a bit of backstory, but they are not much more than victims of cruel humans, which is why Touka helps them.
So far, everything mentioned here has been rather mediocre - I can't say the same about the appearance. While I was still amazed at the rather unusual, pretty and high quality art style in the first episode, from episode 2 onwards more and more veins burst in my eyes as I had to watch one disastrous CGI scene after another. And it's not just the monsters that are CGI - which is bad enough - but also the protagonist and other characters, which just looked bad and cheap. The pretty scenes, which actually occur from time to time, look as if the anime wants to show off and annoy the viewer. Along the lines of “you could have this, but you're trapped with this ugly garbage”!
Since everything apart from the animation/look is really mediocre, I'll just give the anime 5 stars. They're probably a bit undeserved because I was just really starved for anime, but at least I watched it through.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 5, 2024
Who doesn't like reading about debts.... Normally the debt collectors in manga tend to be the bad guys, but here it's all about a good guy who collects old debts: The protagonist of "Gikou Taiyo <Skill Lender> no Torikaeshi: Toichi tte Saisho ni Itta yo na?" can actually lend skills, but only for a price! So when his group wants to throw him to the monsters, he decides to collect their accumulated debts and soak up their massive credit mountain.
Honestly, the idea works surprisingly well - it's also the only thing that halfway works in the manga. It's always about fair payments, yields, debts and
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how to calculate them and much more. And every time the manga talks about it, my interest was definitely piqued. What is fair, how are debts calculated or even just our protagonist collecting debts by beating someone up - the unique twist made the manga worth reading again and again.
Unfortunately, the rest of the manga is nothing more than a very generic, mediocre slop, which I wouldn't recommend precisely because it opens up all the generic themes from revenge to nation-building in 37 chapters, but doesn't go anywhere and so couldn't convince me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Aug 5, 2024
When I read a manga after watching the anime, I do so because I want more of the characters, the world or the story. Whether it's because it's more detailed or simply because it's longer - I don't care, I just want MORE. So it's quite frustrating when the manga has hardly any more detail and is even shorter than the anime...
That’s exactly what happened to me when I read “Arifureta.” It's worth mentioning that both the manga and the anime are adaptations of the light novel, but since the light novel is completed and even apparently got a pretty substantial epilogue, I assumed that
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the manga would at least go a bit further than the anime.
Surprise – no, it doesn’t. It ends right where episode 11/12 of the second anime season begins. Additionally, it offers very few extra details; at least I didn’t notice anything significant. Consequently, the manga closely resembles the anime, except that the anime also has moving pictures and sound. So, I can’t really recommend the manga, at least not if you’ve seen or can watch the anime.
However, if you’re thinking that you’d still like a bit more of a review than “it’s like the anime, just shorter and without sound and moving pictures,” here is a revised version of my reviews for seasons 1 and 2 of the anime:
The biggest criticism of the story is probably that the introduction is completely different from the rest. It’s almost like two different stories are being told, but many stories do this. A story has to start somehow; it would be difficult to jump straight into the main events when nothing about the world or the characters has been explained yet. While the difference between the introduction and the main story is immense, in my opinion, it’s manageable because the transition is well done. What bothers me more is that very little is explained. Background stories, in particular, are mentioned but never thoroughly explored – take Yue’s story, for example.
I also want to mention that Arifureta is often criticized for being quite different from its source material. The original is said to be much more mature; for example, I’ve heard about frequent sex scenes that aren’t present in the anime or manga, though there were significantly more hints in the manga.
I like the characters. They’re not particularly deep or complex, but that doesn’t bother me at all. In my opinion, this is because the story doesn’t even try to make them deep. They’re supposed to be funny and entertaining, which they are. The focus is simply on the strengths of the characters, which is definitely pure entertainment. One could criticize that Arifureta started off dark and deep, but as I already criticized, the introduction is too different from the actual story.
While I was critical of the second anime season, mainly because I didn’t like the rather gentle Kaori, I didn’t have this issue with the manga. This could have various reasons – I didn’t have a break between the arcs, I’ve changed since the anime was released in 2022, or the manga simply does it better – but I want to highlight this as a positive here.
Conclusion: I would stick with my rating of the anime and give the manga 7 out of 10 stars. Even though it’s objectively worse—whether because of the medium, like the fact that it has no sound and you have to read it, or because it’s not as long—I only had problems with Kaori in the anime, which is why I want to give it the same rating as the first anime season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 2, 2024
I can summarize my review in one sentence: The BEST season of Demon Slayer yet, and by far.
Honestly, I want to keep this short because most of my praise or criticism - which there is hardly any here - would be nothing more than copies from my previous reviews.
So without further ado: Demon Slayer looks fantastic, no question. But the last few seasons have focused so much on impressive fights that they have felt stretched out. At the same time, the actual story and characters, which were also fantastic in the first half of the first season, were simply ignored from the second season onwards,
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which hurt the anime immensely. I was the only person in my circle of friends who still gave the anime a chance.
"Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Hashira Training Arc" now comes around the corner and delivers the full package, everything you could wish for from an anime. The best animations I've ever seen in an anime - yes, I even found Jujutsu Kaizen and Fate worse - and characters that are once again simply fantastic.
Once again, however, the anime fails to find the right mix of fights and story/characters/worldbuilding, but unlike in previous seasons, there are virtually no fights here. Since I was almost starving for anything but fights, I didn't find this as annoying as in the previous seasons, but I still can't approve of it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jun 28, 2024
"Ogami Tsumiki to Ki Nichijou." is a fairly new manga that immediately reminded me of "Interviews with Monster Girls", one of my favorite anime of all time. So I read it straight away...
"Ogami Tsumiki To Kinichijou." is about a boy who overthinks everything far too much. "How might other people react if I dare to put my arm on the table?" and similar thoughts plague him every day. So he decides to visit a school that is known for teaching a lot of "genjin" - i.e. non-humans such as arachnids, medusae or werewolves - because they must surely have an even harder time than he
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does! Here he meets the werewolf Tsumiki Ogami, who is far too unconcerned about how others might react. When he reveals to her what his problem is, she promises to "reveal his feelings together".
You can already tell that this is a romance story. Yet the manga provides three reasons why someone might read it.
First of all, it provides a big bunch of waifus. There is only one "Genjin", who is given greater treatment and is male. On top of that, all of these non-humans are very humanoid and if you want to see pretty, female monster anime or manga characters, you've come to the right place. Let's ignore the fact that they still go to school for a moment - I should say straight away that there's no ecchie or anything, but it still feels weird to read this manga because of the pretty schoolgirls.
Fortunately, I don't have to feel that way, because it honestly even bothered me that almost all of the monsters discussed are female. I started the manga for the second reason: The scenario is interesting in general. How could monsters live in our society, what do they eat, how do they suppress their powers, what laws would have to be introduced, how do they use their abilities - all interesting questions that come up sometimes more and sometimes less in this manga. In my opinion, unfortunately not often enough, which is why I only gave it six stars.
But there's a third reason: the romance story! I'm generally not a fan of romance and unfortunately the series doesn't offer much in this regard. After 30 chapters, both protagonists seem to slowly realize their feelings, but so far it's one of those generic "huhu why does it feel so weird to get so close to this girl" romance stories. Personally, I'm not a fan of such romance manga, however, "Ogami Tsumiki To Kinichijou." beautifully incorporates the quirks of werewolves into the rather dull romantic scenes. From licking as a greeting to plasters despite ultra-regeneration, everything is included here, which enhances the scenes a little.
Other than that, everything here is very generic, I only found the manga acceptable because I'm so fascinated by this "what if creature X really existed".
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jun 24, 2024
A fairly generic story about a guy who isn't even technically a necromancer.
Tower appears and people who climb it become gods. A human tries it and is betrayed. Luckily, he got the ability to be reborn from a hate-friendship with a "god". So he climbs the tower again to seek revenge and soon finds out that the 4 strongest races of the tower are behind his death - so a few more people on the "they must die" list.
As I said, a very generic and therefore almost dull story. Strong guy, reborn and wants revenge - there are stories like this a dime a dozen
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and "All-Master Necromancer" or "Absolute Necromancer" doesn't do anything special with it. If you set up a bingo card with generic manga tropes, you'd have bingo in 5 chapters: asshole protagonist? Yup. Harem? Yup. Op? Yup. etc.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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