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Apr 7, 2025
I'll keep this brief. The art is good and it shows. The action is great. The characters are boring and one dimensional. Some of the emotional moments fall flat. After a few chapters this manga strays away from the cryptid formula, which was charming. There are so many cool monsters and yokai in Japan which could have been showcased. The alien designs are uninspired. The humour was hit or miss. The biggest problem of this manga is that THERE IS NO STORY. The mangaka just strings together a bunch of cool looking scenes. There is no moral, no overarching plot. The 'this world is an
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effed up place' meme is just plain overused and it's false to boot. I couldn't be bothered to be invested in anything past the space globalists arc. There is a lot of material that is ripped off from other manga. Plus the MCs have ridiculous plot armour. About the only thing I can say is that it's definitely better than the anime. Overall, it was a disappointing experience. It could have been so much better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 30, 2025
The show starts off very good, then starts dragging around the 10th episode. The author injects a lot of (what I believe is) propaganda and fake stories instead of progressing the plot. Just for an example, we are supposed to believe that it is normal for an interviewer to sit without any protection in the same room as a serial killer, without him immediately getting murdered. This is stupid. Same for Tenma never assuming a fake identity or changing his look. He is a wanted man and just prances around without a care going wherever he pleases. Talk about plot armour. Some of the dialog
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is so stupid as well. 'I will sever your cranial nerve if I fire from this distance'- Ok. Who says such things in a life or death situation?
Since the author chooses to insult your intelligence, I do not feel the need to waste my time with this show any longer. Whatever violence is shown is very tame and not disturbing(except for one scene where two adults have sex infront of a kid, but that's so over the top it's hard to take seriously), and johan is not scary at all. The musical cues and scared looks of others don't help. Aside from the 4th episode he doesn't murder anyone on screen, so far as I remember. One of the golden rules of screenplay writing is SHOW DON'T TELL. All this series does is tell you about what johan does and tells you to be scared. That's terrible writing. Show us, please. Show him charming and brainwashing these people. It never happens. Moreover, this show has a comical representation of morality, with only good guys and bad guys. Oh, and some of the good guys are bad guys who repented of their early ways. That's it. Such depth of character!
I've read the manga, and I have many MANY more problems I could quote, but I think I'll rest my case here. As a final nail in the coffin, the last panel of the manga is the ultimate middle finger to the reader. You just wasted your time, is basically what the author is saying with that. There's no other deeper meaning to be found there. If you want a better analysis of an actually disturbing psychopathic villain, check out Psycho Pass.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 25, 2025
I just can't take the cringe of this series. Aliens trying to rape an underage girl? MC has no balls? I guess the youth of today are emasculated and maybe like getting bossed around by some annoying chick? It's not worth it, neither in anime not in real life. I get that the idea is that he has to grow and be a man thereby get some balls in the process. But nobody who tries to make themselves more masculine literally LOSES their balls at the start. It just fits into the current de-sexing agenda happening worldwide. And don't get me started on the fanservice
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for the granny character. Shameless and disgusting. MC is a downer when he goes demon mode, wow that's original. There is a SUPREMELY gross scene where the MC bites the boobs of a dried out old hag. Who finds this funny?
I would have liked the series if the MCs both delved into their hobbies more. It's how they met after all. As it is it's just a sidenote. Just a tack on rather than an actual part of their characters, which is anyway paper thin. Don't waste time with this one.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Mar 9, 2025
There's nothing special or unique about this manga. You've probably seen all the scenes in this a hundred times before. I kept waiting for something unique to happen, but nothing did. It should have been a dating sim instead. Because, no way in real life is a cute girl going to just fall onto an unremarkable guy. It just doesn't happen. This is just neurotic self-insert wish fulfilment posing as a wholesome romantic comedy. The character designs are bland, the paneling boring and uninspired. It's played straight, there is no catch. What you see is what you get. I didn't like what I saw.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Sep 29, 2024
Terrible story that pretends it has something to do with Nietzsche sometimes. Well, it doesn't. It would have if the MC turned evil partway through and his father or GF had to finish him off, you know, with the abyss corrupting him or something, but we never got that. We're reading a shitty power fantasy, why would anything interesting like that happen?
Art: possibly the best I've seen in any manhwa. It approaches the quality and detail of western comics consistently.
Story: it begins as a generic MMO with portals and demons and raids, then shifts into a large scale war between two factions. The MC has
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no trouble with any conflict, or with any fight. All fights start off by some rando guys dying, the MC appears, the villain is confident, then dies in a few hits in an anti climactic way. That's all the fights, period. It ripps off AOT and HunterxHunter during some segments. The romance is annoying and without any warmth. The story starts dragging after the MC revives his mother, and gets very repetitive. The plan of the villains is laughably stupid. They dug their own grave, basically.
The MC has no weaknesses. How can a human kill gods or demons? It's nonsense. The only thing the angels do is send the MC's father with a power, with which he does nothing 95% of the story. It's shown that not all demons are bad, but the story goes nowhere with that idea. The number of asspulls are innumerable. The MC can't even be killed, he gets revived soon after, and to top it all of there's a TIMELOOP! So, infinite tries till the MC gets it right. What a joke. And no, don't tell me it was mentioned that the time travelling cup might break soon, so it's not as many tries as you want. That doesn't matter because the whole thing is an asspull with no indication that they were ever in a timeloop, with the MC experiencing deja vu or something.
Characters: generic and forgettable. They never have any serious internal conflicts. Jinwoo murders many people, but he never suffers any anguish for it. The female characters are the worst. They constantly fawn after the MC, and do nothing else. Is that your experience with your girlfriend or wife? Or any girl you've met? Some characters like the MCs father and the seven star Chinese hunter are hyped up for many chapters, but they do nothing major. Everyone talks in such a robotic fashion. There's attempts at comedy, but they all fail.
Now, for the 'development', it's bad. The MC just transforms into a chad overnight. His damn face and body are different, to the point his sister doesn't recognise him! I've got news for you: doing 100 pushups doesn't build that much muscle, not does it increase your height. Jinwoo is a joke and a fraud. He wasn't in the beginning, when he had to use his wits to survive and provide for his family, but he did become one at the author's behest. He's practically a god by the end, and no, none of the explanations excuse the fact that he is overpowered and has NO WEAKNESSES.
Verdict: it's entertaining in a crude way in the beginning, but then becomes increasingly repetitive and annoying as the MC never had any difficulty with any problem. It's made for the worst kind of security seekers, who wish they had cheat skills and time travel powers so that everyone would see how awesome they are!
Bonus: here's a theory: the MC died in the beginning and all the rest is just a dream till he reaches the afterlife. That's the only way all that crap makes sense.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Sep 20, 2024
This is going to be a review of all three films. The first one is good, the second is when things start to slip up, and the third is just plain bad. There is potential in the setup, but the writers are so bad that they screw it up in the plot department.
The characters are all unlikeable, with the exception of sabre, the teacher and Archer, who are taken out of the picture early. We get no backstory for rider, who takes up so much goddamn screentime. At first Ilya tries to kill the MCs but then she joins them for no reason. Shinji
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abusing his sister was just gratuitous. Shirou never asks any of the questions begged by all the infodumps he received from other characters frequently, instead being content with chilling in his harem house. Also, how did Ilya know that her brother was selected in the beginning? The fuck?There's so much unexplained stuff, like what that earring Sakura was wearing that one time was.
Why have servants if the mages can keep up with them in a fight anyway? Are you telling me even after 4 goddamn grail wars neither Gilgamesh not sabre ever figure out that the grail is actually satanic or some shit? There is a mages association and prominent mage families but THEY DO NOTHING. Every one of the characters is related in a pretty dumb way, like literally 4 of the participants are from the same school. Stupid porn game writing. Show don't tell is the rule, but this series shows too much and what it tells is irrelevant drivel.
Shirou has no plan, no motivation, no personality no nothing. Why isn't saber, rin or hell, Archer the MC? Because it's a porn game, that's why.
No amount of pretty visuals saves terrible writing or characters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Sep 14, 2024
The first 10 chapters are really good. All we know is that we have a group of friends, and the game organisers are trying to break up the friendship by showing doubts and offering money as a reward. Then there's a retcon I didn't really like regarding a certain character. The author repeats this throughout the story. What is established about a character gets thrown out in the next game, all for the sake of a subversion, a twist. Still, it's intriguing and entertaining, till chapter 50 or so, that is. Then the decline into absurdity begins.
There's only so much suspension of disbelief that
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is possible on the part of a reader, when in every new game it's like the characters memories get reset. They forget how yuuichi is a liar and a manipulator, and get fooled again and again. This gets very tiresome after a point, and it defeats the purpose of the twists in an ironic way, as the story has now become predictable. No matter what the situation is, yuuichi has planned everything from the first moment and will win anyway. But that can't possibly be true because he couldn't be prepared for every contingency, and I'm talking about that scene during the forest game where he falls off a cliff. How the hell did he know a branch would be there? Ridiculous. That is just one example.
More and more characters are introduced, the games that were intricate and strategic become action packed shootouts. There's retcon after retcon, twist after twist(each more absurd than the last) till the final bell tolls, and we are left with an ending we don't care about so much because we stopped caring a long time ago.
The way the female characters are portrayed is also a joke, as it's either buttshots or boobshots, even when they are talking. The art starts out incredible, then slowly decreases in quality.
The games are well designed and some of the foreshadowing is great, ultimately it becomes too repetitive and predictable for its own good, which is ironic since this series is all about twists. The question that is begged towards the end, after all the reveals is, were the characters ever really friends even? That makes the central theme of the entire manga moot, and the ending scene pointless. It's still very entertaining, so give it a chance , maybe.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 12, 2024
The positives: the art, the animation. It's spectacular. The initial village setting was beautiful.
The mids: the music is overused in Instagram and YouTube, otherwise forgettable.
The negatives: some of the CGI was awful. We are expected to believe that the white cat was really leading the MCs to the doors. What about that scene where he threatens to destroy tokyo? How did the cat know that the male lead can be used as a keystone substitute? Nonsense. Initially he was supposed to be the keystone, but then we are told it's the black cat.
The characters are forgettable. It's the damsel and the hero, but gender swapped.
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The plot is the same old disaster prevention bull from weathering with you and your name. The romance was shoe horned and awful. The side characters had no roles except as plot devices. The abilities of the cats are nonsense. They can possess and send souls into objects? Okay. The MCs also bump into the white cat in the most contrived and convenient ways imaginable.
The white and black cat join the heroes for no reason, despite being portrayed as villains initially. The black cat incites a fight between the MC and her aunt for a forced and pointless reconciliation scene. The doors lead to the afterlife, but when you try to close them to prevent the worm from coming out, somehow the souls of the people who resided in now derelict areas help close it? Makes no sense. Why does the afterlife have a damn worm that causes earthquakes? Why aren't the souls already in the afterlife? Actually the afterlife looked pretty bare, where are all the souls that passed on? Maybe the worm ate them. Pretty terrible afterlife. How is the MC the only Closer around? There's like a million damn doors. The climax had an unnecessary time travel tack on. The MC's mother's fate is never made clear.
The narrative is a complete failure and pretty colours don't solve bad writing. The writer also belongs to the violet evergarden school of making people cry by showing people crying, which is a terrible way to invoke emotion. Waste of time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 5, 2024
A cute, heartwarming, sweet romance series with likeable characters, good art, animation and visuals. The MC is introduced as an edgelord but really he's a softie inside. The girl seems hoity toity but she's a simpleton with a good heart. It's funny, charming and totally worth a watch. The side characters are not really explored that well, but it's the interaction between the MCs that makes it fun to watch.
The setting is not really unique, as it's the done and dusted school setup, where the usual beats are met, like the school fest, tests, the track and field day etc etc. The MC's edgelord tendencies
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get more and more reduced the closer he gets to the girl. He is very protective of her, and his actions sometimes baffle himself. There is a hint of ecchi but no fanservice, which is a plus. The girls voice acting is done very well, the seiyuu has a unique voice, which was a pleasant departure from all the overly cute moe voices you usually hear. The comedy is tsukkomi-boke style, which never gets old and always works.
If you like slice of life romantic comedies then this one is definitely recommended!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Sep 5, 2024
Absolutely spellbinding animation, visuals and art. Girls armed with anime weapons beat up monsters in satisfying sakuga filled battles. Characters are forgettable, but cute and deadly. There is not much of a story, and it derails towards the end, anyway. The last 3-4 episodes really ruined the whole series by shifting it from mindless battles to edgy gore fest that comes out of nowhere, but barely an explanation. When you start to kill for shock the series gets ruined, folks. Even berserk is not exempt from that rule.
It could have been a charming action series where the MC fights to save her friend and
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gets to know the reason why she committed suicide, but not even that happens. At that point the side girl's ghost flies off without giving an explanation, a girl with a butterfly head comes out of nowhere, eats your Pokemon and menaces you in your dreams for no reason. Does that make any sense? There's no resolution to the plot. The sequel is even worse, I hear.
Tried to be madoka magica, ended up being school days. Not worth wasting time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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