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It's Sakamoto desu ga with more fights and action, hence the name of course. That's it

I am honestly impressed by how these authors/mangakas can blatantly rip off, i mean *take inspiration from* other popular or critically acclaimed works with the slightest shift and really be proud about their work. To be fair im a huge fan of the over-the-top stupid fun OP MC, like Parry Everything and Sakamoto as mentioned, but i would love it if they put in even a little effort in making their works stand out. I understand they are trends for a reason, and the top class works dictate the output ... for a while at least. That being said, I could wittle down 90% of anime or manga nowadays to "can i show a random two similar works and see if they can tell the difference?". The answer is often no. The same applies here.

Forgive me for ranting instead of actually doing a complete review. As i said though if you've seen even one of these types you've seen them all. It's not bad, but it could be so much more with a little bit of innovation.

I am very suprised this doesn't have the recognition of other fantasies like Frieren or Witch Hat Atelier. The story is absolutely incredible.

Simple premise of course, strong burley type who protects a witch outcasts, it also reminded me a lot of Unnamed Memory, only it's actually good. Firstly is the pacing. They don't beat around the bush with each event, bounty-rescue-bodyguard-adventuring-exploring. The story has essentially followed this progression while maintaining a sense of urgency that doesn't detract from the world building. Which is my next point. The world building by chapter 28 is so well layered it reminds me of Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy. ... For those who don't read fantasy much he basically executes character dynamics and a stricking world building style that blend very well.

But aside from that i just love the characters, the most impottant aspect of any story. Zig, the mercenary MC, reminds of various characters i've read. The stoic strong type but strangely caring isn't unique but i simply don't care. I always like them. Siasha, the outcast witch, is of course very curious of the world and cultures since she was mostly a recluse before their meeting. Plus the tropes balance out and rather than being over the top, again reminds me of Frieren's style. There also is a fair bit of action, but you probably expected that. I'll just say the intensity of the fights i wasn't fully prepared for and not in a bad way as a fan of grim-dark.

I always come across one of these every few months and go "how the hell do more people not talk about this?" but this one genuinely confuses me. As there's been isekai slop fed to people for years at this point, the few fantasy that are excellent do tend to stick out, and this is definetly one that should as well.
9/10 at the bare minimum for me.

Magakoro Scramble. Magakoro Scramble. Magakoro Scramble. Sorry, I could say that name all day. Rolls off the tongue and it sounds sick as hell, anyway.

Don’t let the “🤨” you’re about to see from this sway what you think of the manga itself. Im not sure about MAL, but the majority of threads I’ve seen elsewhere really hate chapter 6 specifically, but I’ll explain why it’s not a big deal (spoiler-free explanation) and why the premise and execution of this manga will determine how great it can be long term.

First though I’ll briefly cover the premise even though the summary does it pretty well. We have ... the MC Koharu Sanada; who has Telepathy, though emotions, and can basically read anyones true intentions. This has caused unpleasantness in past relationships (girlfriend) and he decides to shied himself from love going forward. Then you have Yuki Yatsutase who appears stone faced at first glance but underneath is your typical shoujo female protag. This will cause shoujo-like moments where she needs to be rescued every chapter, but it’s explained away in a not so meaningful way and as i'm not generally a fan of "damsels in distress" it does concern me what happens with her character development.

Second is the tone. It to me sits somewhere between goofy comedy and mysterious supernatural drama. That may seem vague but honestly we're about 6 chapters in and by this point in reading I usually have a good feeling for the vibe a manga gives. I really liked the interactions between the two MCs and even the small cast of side characters presented so far. The dynamic between them all has differed from carefree, or awkward, or protective, or silly.

Third is the art. I usually find this a poor attempt by manga reviewers to pad out length but it actually suprised me how much i liked the mix of the supernatural specific artstyles and base art of the manga. That is to say the art itself doesn't look jaw dropping or anything but how it was utilized was very impressive.

PSA: before i wrap this up, be aware that you might be tricked into thinking this manga contains "NTR" which is kryptonite for romance anime fans. However that's not accurate here. The supernatural abilities are not exclusive to MC Sunada and lets just say many use their abilities disgracefully. There is no shock value here, but I do see why what happened upset many who read it that way.

Do I recommend this manga. Hell yes. Of course you can never tell how good something will be long term. You can read 10 volumes and think somethings sick then the rug is pulled out from under you when it goes to shit. I think the idea and premise is fun and with the right execution the elements of supernatural abilities won't hinder that otherwise goofy feeling this manga gives off.

The amount of times a romance manga starts with a strong first impression, then stalls in the expedition might have to be investigated.

I’ve read two body swap romcoms and this is by far the better of the two, but it’s still not great. To make a long story short, MC Sunao was dumped by cheating gf Lemon. Years later he falls in love with club-mate Natsumi. Before he can confess, he dumps into Lemon again and they somehow gain the condition of switching bodies every other day.
I’m not even going to try and sound smart in this review, it’s just disappointing to see ... a story with a, not unique, but fun premise be turned into a gag for the sake of maintaining the status quo. The protagonist by chapter 36 seems to inherit a bit of Kazuya from Rent a Girlfriend with his internal monologues that sound ridiculous to any functional person. If there’s one thing I can’t stand about a character, it’s that they progressively regress in character development. All other characters either have A. Tried to better themselves for one reason or another or B. Tried to make a positive impact on those around them. Sunao Akiyoshi (MC) does neither of these things and it’s becoming increasingly more infuriating to read.
I will say this, if you like side characters who take the burden off of watching drivel over and over, you might like what this manga has to offer from around chapter 16 onwards. Characters like Raika (Lemons friend) immediately have 10x the impact that the bland main cast. For what’s its worth, this manga actually made me laugh. There’s basically zero comedy in “romcoms”, even popular ones like Kaguya-sama and to the credit of this manga it’s so ridiculous at times I couldn’t help it. It could have benefitted more from this if there was more to root for, but about 60% of the last 15 chapters was contrived garbage. The equivalent of “Hey how’s it going” “I’m doing good how about you?” “I’m doing just fine thank you” in real life. Just filling the air with conversation, or in this case, text to fill out the pages

All in all it’s not that bad though. It’s worth reading weekly probably, if you have nothing better to do.

I’m might come off as a hater but I genuinely wanted to like this manga. That being said I had three insurmountable issues with its preface and just couldn’t get into it.
1. Inconsistent pacing
When you start any action oriented piece, I feel like most people expect a temporary build up, almost like instructions to the understand the tone and vibe to expect from the get-go. In chapter 1 its employs the “build and drop” technique twice in scenarios that should take place over a few chapters. It might just be me, but it’s like the author has already expected you to understand the style of ... chaotic writing that’s about to take place.
2. Incoherent universe rules
I expected the world to be brutal coming into it, but from the start of chapter 2 it told me a lot of decisions made by the government would make zero sense. The chapter starts off with a distraught man infected with Jinka being prepared for incineration. That’s fine. But he is incinerated alive. Why? Not explained. I’m to assume that Jinka takes over the life source of the affected entity but not the cognitive abilities? Why is that on the reader to infer and so early on? Also why would a possible victim of a “special variant Jinka” be surrounded by teams of people without any special fitted equipment? You get where I’m going with this. The rules makes no sense. Even if they’re explained later on that doesn’t excuse the miscommunication now between the scenes shown to the reader.
3. Plot contrivance
Everything I have mentioned is expected to be overlooked for one reason: the sweet and meek little sister whose older brother will stop at nothing to protect her. Please for the love of god save me from this preaching. I’ve seen it done dozens of times and exponentially better. I understand a lot of things are still a mystery and that’s not an issue, but I wouldn’t be shocked if the sister is deceiving the brother in some way because it all has been way to convenient so far.

I’d love to say this series just isn’t for me but truth be told it’s just not that good and has several problems in its structure and foundation.
Edit: The question of Jinka not infecting some who inhales the pollen is explained in chapter 12, which further strengthens my point. This is something we should know from chapter 2 where cases are presented.

I made a promise to myself to finish the next 5 manga I planned to read, that was a mistake. Blue Flame falls in the category of “absolutely vile insane drama I can’t stop reading, I just have to not start in the first place” and I’ve been trying to distance myself from that because they’re good reads once a year.

I really don’t need to go into the premise or story, for two reasons. One, if you seen one of these you’ve seen them all. Inu to Kuzu, Musume no Tomodachi, Oyasumi Punpun, Chi no Wadachi, and Shounen no Abyss just to name a few. ... Reason number two is you wouldn’t care anyways. I can’t even pretend to lie and say this has any redeemable factors that make it worth a read alone. I can’t even be critical about it like I can with more common drama plots. Every single character is a piece of shit, every possible action is a 180 from what a character should do, and by chapter 34 I found 11 serious plot holes that would make a fantasy author cringe in horror.

That being said you get the gist. I recommend this manhwa if you like any of the aforementioned ones I previously mentioned.

Edit: *Just finished it and I take back everything I said in this review, oh my god it’s so fucking bad. How do y’all do it?😂 I’ll keep the same review up though, it’s how I felt at the time*

This anime is at best a 5/10, you guys do too much I swear.

I read the manga well before this came out and it was the most 3/10 experience I had ever read. I don’t hate the characters, or story, or silly themes before anyone thinks that. It is just so goddamn boring it could replace melatonin. Now I will say the sfx and music of ... the anime combined with the incredible voice acting make it a more pleasant experience in anime form, but that’s really just the nature of romcoms/comedy shows.
There’s nothing special about this show. There’s been a lot of opportunities to expand on characters background and besides Alya we hardly get to see it in detail. I think if the story was more character driven it would be ten-fold more interesting, but I guess I’m in the minority there as well. You can like the show, hell you can love it, but to me it’s run of the mill stuff.

People like to hate I see.

I’m not sure how this is rated a 7, and My Dress Up Darling is almost a full number score higher when there’s almost already been more plot progression in just these 4 chapters than that. I guess I’ll begin with what it’s started well with so far. Pacing, character dynamics, humor (ous) moments and situations, light-hearted themes. Where it could be improved next, more comedy, art, and that’s about it.

These are personal observations and it’s still early, but you guys hate life I guess. It’s been genuinely good so far and I hope it maintains this quality throughout.

I’m going to be critical about one aspect of this story that might seem stupid, but they should’ve cut out the veranda bit.

Here’s the thing, slice of life is only fun for me when two requirements are met. 1, it basically has no story and 2, it focuses on an interesting topic. Neither of these requirements are met when I read this manga. Personally, I don’t find gardening on the veranda interesting enough to read for chapters on end but that is what the manga is about.
Why am I complaining then you might ask? It’s because there’s a genuinely interesting story here which again ... ruins the entire concept of slice of life. It’s either one or the other for me.
At times I felt like skipping entire chapters just to see more detail on both “Neighbor-san’s” lives that captivated me more than I was expecting. Then bam, hit with multiple chapters of planting and nothingness to kill the momentum. I’m not saying the pacing is bad or it wasn’t a well balanced attempt for the plot, but it just didn’t jive with me like I wanted it to.

Also I was baited by the Adult Cast tag because they act like middle schoolers, not even really. When I see that tag I expect characters to act their age (32 to be precise). I don’t care what arguments people have about maturity and whatnot, it’s an expectation I will not back down from and when school themed mangas seem more mature, we definitely have a problem.

Hey author, what the actual fuck?

As if Domestic Girlfriend and Good Ending wasn’t enough, we somehow have an even more lame ass coward who’s indecisiveness has him walked all over. The premise is as follows: Guy’s girlfriend cheats on him and breaks it off. Guy then has to find a place at a share house with all females. Guy helps females. Guy’s ex-girlfriend comes back and he falls right into her lap.
I’m not trying to be an asshole, but I genuinely don’t think the author has been in or seen a healthy, normal relationship without emotional manipulation, ever. Sad face this, crying in the ... rain that, do you really believe that nonsense works author-kun? It’s not even entertaining anymore it’s just straight up annoying, please stop.