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Mar 28, 2023
Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands or even millions already that with the theme named "reincarnation"? "Time travel" is also growing in number also, with mahua from Chinese and mahwa from Korea is starting to taking more and more chunks of this market of manga with their version, Japan may still hold their prime right now but it won't last long considering their population downfall and most good mangas are from senior people that is already 40 to even 70 already, at one point, they will be gone and with that may mark the end of their domination.
Even though saying like that
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seems like this market is blooming with so many works, the amount of true good works to read seems never increase its percentage from the dawn of manga booming of the 70s and 80s which is literally 50 years ago already, the amount of crap this industry, especially in these 3 countries, pumping out daily (not monthly!) is insane, like they have been using AI writing mimic works of literature from human since its invention or something, like I doubt that some of those works are really written by human.
So, with that said, is this just another pile of garbage that being pumped like every other trash beside it? Well, the first few chapters literally feel like that. I would say that a third of it feels like that I almost get betrayed again, just like many mahwas before it if it is not because of a little "twist" it throws in, cutting short the progress of the life of a certain important character whom I won't spoil the name.
This mahwa is not like those superpowers, op, cheat, hack, leveling up like this garbage kind of mahwas (Yea, I said it, Solo Leveling is bad). It is not like those light heart romances or villainous bullcrap that being thrown in the market daily. No, this is a serious mahwa like those few that I have read before, like the legendary Annarasumanara which I would call the golden standard of reality surrealism piece of art than a mahwa (Will write a review on it one day).
This mahwa is not as deep as that, but with such a unique story that I haven't seen yet until now, they dealt it in with the moral, the thought of suicide, Is killing a person truly bad? Is life meaningless when one day you can just die? The regret, the learning, the growing, the acceptance with the silliness of the art style that gives me way more valuable knowledge about what life is, answering or not really, it is just opening for me a new perspective of life, a perspective of a maniac whom has the rationality to maintain the discretion and to not scared by the fear of losing one's life, the will of standing straight and the courage to protect someone, because in the end, we are all humans and after all the things that have happened, we can't stray away but have to show some of our own humanity to other people...
The art style like I said above is kind of silly, nothing new, not unique, It is like those normal mahwa that you have read. But the story is what it sells out to the audience, with a somewhat normal way of leading the story, it is enough to shine the hidden genius of how creative the author on using the theme of reincarnation and supernature but makes it a true life experience that can help you learn more than you are high when you are reading other stuff. The characters are also quite cool in their own, probably because of the story has done a heavy lifting, otherwise, this would be such a boring mahwa.
Anyway, here is the scoresheet :
Art : 7/10
Character : 8/10
Story : 11/10
Writing : 7.5/10
Enjoyment : 9/10 (never get a new high of emotion while reading through, but never get bored when reading through the whole mahwa, which is an astounding achievement on itself already, keep your audience focus on your story from start to finish is very good)
Overall : It is a 9/10, close to it, may change the score when revisiting it one day or finding a much better version of the mahwa .
Anyway, peace!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Nov 26, 2021
Spoiler alert , be alerted to alert :3 !!!!!
Don't lie , right at the title which is relating to dead :"funeral" , u already know that this manga is unusual compares to other "isekai" mangas.
A lifespan of a creature is sometimes determining what personality that creature is and what it is spending its time in . And since the lifespan of every kinds if humanoid are different , usually all have different opinion and argument and have their own different mindset , and that is why , there is rarely a counter react to each other kind and they rarely meet other kinds other than
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their own kind .
Luckily ( for now) , humans are the only creature right now on Earth that have enough intelligence to survive and to stand at the top of the food chain , to beat nature and can even destroy all the progress of life in this planet for the past 3 billion years by just 1 button . Imagine many kinds living being all have their own intelligence living in this planet... war , war , war and disagreement everywhere , humans will turn from racist themselves to racist other kind , trying to prove their own kind is supreme and others are lowly beings , selfishness is the sin that has been forced in every single beings that can think , because to survive , u need to make crucial decision and that is when , u have to put ur priority above all else , u have to be selfish . It is just like that.
The story is not some ordinary journey that u usually see in garbage "isekai" genre mangas when u can just go in a dungeon , beat it and become top of everyone , and the story goes downfail in 2 chapters after that and the end , those stories , i throw a 5 and below and just move on. But this? This is like a journey just to experience something u have experienced before... The story is cohesive , it marks it's main point every time we reach a destination , we know what we will see in that destination , we will learn something from that destination or maybe , we may not learn anything at all and it is just another experience that u have seen before... that is how a creature that has so long of life span feel... u will see that again and again soon... to the point ur emotion will get dull and hardly express that much .
Humans tend to have short lifespan , surely they will enjoy life the most out of all other creature and their life usually a hanabi that blowing up in the sky , it comes fast and it also disappear fast but it is the brightest in the sky. This manga throughout story , u will see many people , many different thinking , many different goals and compares that to other creatures , it is almost too many beyond the point toward infinite , they are still burning despite of their age , they want to leave their mark in the history as fast as they can because their life is short , they are radical in thinking and developing every single kinds of different magic and technology , they are excited , they are fun , they are great , they are sacrficing for their own goal , they know how to their life fullest , they have emotions , better than demons , they are exalted , fermentation to its max compares to elves , they didn't have a century to train like others so of course , they will always find ways to grind their skills as fast as they can , they are getting old faster so the years that they can do something are even lesser.
That is why , this manga is like an autobiography of humans lol , a mirror for us to see ourselves and what we are doing for the past years and how much years we have spent in this short mortal life , have we lived the fullest? Probably not , haha.
An aspect which I really like about is the amount of panels that doesn't have a single letter in it , it is just art , that is all , but it still describes perfectly what the characters are doing , what the scenes look like and what are the real emotions they have in their face , sometimes , u don't need a single word to describe , u just need art , because art is a form of communication , we are intelligence enough to understand art even if it is abstract , cubism or sth... so why don't use it instead ?
"Magic is all about visualization"
This marks the beginning of what truly is magic in our imagination and what it is should look like... because before this manga , "magic" in a manga tends to be different opinions and they are having so many different shapes and forms in so many mangas that i usually just ignore it because the author took so long to explain , manga , not a paper for u to write an essay and others just "boom" the magic without further explanation... I honestly think that visualization is the important factor in magic because we are imagining so of course we need to use our visualization to use that , so why not using visual as a factor for magic just like using it for imagination . Radical ,revolutionary sometimes not bad , don't u think ? This is just an idea of mine , I just support how the author of this manga thinks about "magic" so don't oppose me , humans tend to revolutionize after all , focus in our laziness , we tend to create magic after all.
Learning new things , understanding new things are sometimes took u the whole life... or even more... Understanding other's emotion tend to be really hard but never impossible , just don't take too long... don't just wait till they are already done from ur life , u finally understand... that is just sad and tragic than their own dead , an almost immortal being thinking about emotion of short lifespan humans... they usually tend to waste alot of time in that because they have so long of a lifespan and when they understand... the humans are already 3 feets underground , all u have left is memory and a lesson .
A lesson about ur ownself and how ignorance u are to others , hope u a great later days when u meet a person just like me but because u already know... u can easily have fun with that person , hope u the greatest luck , it is not ur fault , it is just how the world works on making different creatures , the unfairness always exist and there is no such thing as perfect justice , so don't blame urself , I'm happy that u finally understand everything I have said... I'm surely love ranting.
Art is a key aspect of manga , everyone knows that and so of course , this manga does a good job in it , it does have a flaw which is the characters sometimes have so similar design with each others and their action and expressing sometimes.. dull , about the expressing part , I won't say that this is a good thing or not because this is only my thinking but if u look at gen z , gen y these days.. they are kinda depressed or really having fun , they rarely showing their own emotions and that is why their faces are usually like the face the characters are making 70% of the time... it is dull , it is boring but for me , it is somewhat realism , this manga comes out in the early 20's era , where z and y are becoming the owner of this whole world so of course , it focus in those readers . Funny how my face also expressing just like them most of the time reading , anyway , the art is passed.
Every characters have their own story , their own voice , their own journey and their own expression , their own ideas , no characters wasted , big big big plus right there for this whole manga , this aspect of the manga literally carrying the whole manga to perfection , characters are having their own time and progressing throughout the time , u will meet that character again and maybe even again and again... there will always be a time where it is necessary to bring back characters in order to progress the story or focusing in character arc of 1 of the main characters .
Frieren has learned so much throughout this journey and when the manga progress , she will definitely learn more and more about the meaning of life , about humans and also about magic :))) , I also smell a big arc is coming soon... right after writing this.
The focusing , the determination throughout every single chapters , explaining complex idea of "magic" by using "visualization" is a great spot on idea , didn't fall in making it alienated like many other "garbage isekai" manga but I'm not surprised because right at the title , u already know this is depending alot in slice of life so of course , they will use "Humans" as their base and progressing from that on. Many mangas fail just because they didn't use the "human" as their base , that is all , their story become a vortex of mess without even a single light of wat the meaning is... maybe.
Love this or hate this , ur own choice , i'm not ur father but don't be childish and throw a 1 right after 2 chapters just because it doesn't fit ur taste which is shockingly silly but also doesn't make sense because this isn't hentai , no FAN SERVICE , so if u don't like the art , just press "on-hold" and years later , come back and read again or just never come back , that is all . My score says it all btw , don't ask about my enjoyment.
If u are a serious but also chill person like me who just wants to read a good mangas like me , make sure to check this out .
Peace , thx for reading.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 24, 2021
Spoiler alert~~~
Well , here I am . Again , reading manga wasting my resting time , cool.
Anyway , this manga is another slap , like come on , the art is so wonderful , it is like water flowing right around u , but instead drowning , u are swimming in that big pool of water , enjoying the scene . Surreal , cute , realism , they are working so well together . It is not overdone at all , they are just right enough , a perfect medium rare , delicious for both ur eyes and ur mind , this art is like
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a combination between modern manga art and classical japanese art , that is y , I'm hooked , I would have given the art a 100 but max score is 10 so i will give it an eleven.
The story is very good , the writing and the art is so helpful in this , if i read light novel , i wouldn't give it a high score like 8 just for a simple reason... the story in its core not new . It is influenced by many other mangas , the story cuts out in small parts can be seen as a takeaway from other mangas and manage make all of them into a story , into an art , that is what making the story unique , not because of the materials it takes but because of how it is doing with those materials . I'm happy because of it , because in this era , mangas have become mediocre compares to the golden age of 2000s and 1990s , the story just copied and paste without a single unique idea in it , fan service to the point i want to puke myself every time reading a recommendation , it is 2020s era now and the new mangas still make me want to die .
U will sometimes feel the like u are in the story , observing the characters through this sur-real-real world , complex but also very simple because in the end , every mangas are based of humans and if u read it and see nothing 'human" at all , that manga has failed.
Character development is good , that is all I say , 84 chapters rn and it is like a bi arc of characters , it is still growing . But I also already smell the end is near... The point I don't like much is not taking care of all the characters , some characters may grow beyond expectation but some also just be forgotten behind the scene and rarely saw again , unfair treating but oh well , who am I judging , the world is imperfect anyway , supporting will only be supporting...
Anyway , another solid manga , can't wait for new chapter so i can fix this review and maybe up the score.
-Short review , wow.... Bye
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 22, 2021
MAY HAVE SPOLIERS , BE AWARED !
Passion is something that can either change ur life for the great and good or lead u down into the destruction of life , a dead-end , a scary world that even worse than hell , a "homonuclus".
Nuture vs nature , a debate which has been delivered throughout this manga , that in the end , there is still not a clear answer . But there is one thing u know , that is "hard-working" because , if u don't practice , u don't learn , ur talent , ur passion will just die... that is why in the
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professional world , the players always have to trained all the time , otherwise , their skill will just... disappear.
This is of course , not ur ordinary slice of life , sport manga , this is not some kinds of cute stories about love , NO .
This is a journey of hardworking swordmanship , a trip where each characters exploring themselves from the past through the future , from having fun while doing passion to sacrificing for it , being serious about it but it the end... u need to really have fun in order to continue .
I feel happy when they are talking happily while training , i feel excited about every matches , i feel depressed when someone has to give up on their passion bc of the "limit" they have reached , because of harsh the world is to treating these players , they were once innocent kids , it is sad , it is haunted... especially when I read the last match , I'm hit... "yes , fly high" , after all , u play ping pong not because of ur TALENT , not because of ur PASSION but because FUN , U NEED TO HAVE FUN . I shed a tear reading that....
Deep-diving inrto the ocean of thoughts , feel lost in while a time is what our mc has tried... he has talent , yea , for sure , but he suddenly feel lost , and sad... because of his friend , because of the sport , he suddenly sees everyone becomes serious and no longer having fun on ping pong... they play just to "waste time" , they play just for "titles" , they play just for "money" , to "prove themselves" without having fun , they are killing their emotion , they are becoming "robots"... Throughout 55 chapters of the manga , u will see the mc is always trying to be happy because he surely plays ping pong because he finds FUN in it... and when he feels that , he just "lost" , grow hairs , smoking... and even trying to sucide... but when he gets rescued... he suddenly starts to notice... and he comes back the sport he has abandoned months ago.... he will teach every other players how to have FUN in sport through his gifted talent.
The art of this manga is realism , to use this art type , u really have to focus alot in developing story and characters , and ofc , they nail it by miles... this art reminds me of cubism , an abstract art type that was used frequently by Pablo Picasso , this art requires u need to dig deep in the objects that u are drawing , not only on the surface but also the materials while also expressing ur thought in it. This art surely so real that it captures the emotion of characters so good... it is so real that i feel like it is happening in my real life , it is so real that i feel hurt when the mc is "lost" in the "ocean of thought" ( in both meanings ), It feels so real that it is so fake... it makes right and wrong swapping each places all the time.. a vortex... a hurricane... a storm. Many predicts i have put while reading this manga are wrong and wrong again the longer the story goes.
This manga is either making people who loves will really love it and people hates it will hate it alot and mainly because of the art style which i find it silly , if u rate a manga just because of the art didn't fit ur taste , then sorry , u and I aren't in the same level and please avoiding me right away , people just really love "fake beautiful" art than "ugly truth" words , it is also the reason why art is considered as money laundering these days... Anyway , i'm in the "really love" it side because it cuts deep in humans , it cuts into Philosophy of different characters about what they are thinking while participating this so-called "passion".
In the end , every single great mangas are written base on human , every single things that humans are doing , behaving , expressing . Their emotions , their thinking ,their true nature... And if u forget that base , ur work is souless and deserve be thrown to an exhibition for alien , not humans . U will notice that once u read alot of works... it is all about humans , all about ourselves... I'm rating mangas mostly because of their story and characters , and humans are my base of rating , that is why , I adore this manga .
Anyway , I just want to say... I really , really , really suggest u guys who are interested in sport and slice of life gives it a try , u won't forget it , this experience may either becoming an unforgettable one or just a dust fly though ur face without u noticing it , It all depends in ur feeling so plz don't take my review too serious , take it as the small review at the last page of the novel.
Thx u for reading.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 21, 2021
SPOILER ALERT!
So , I have been very busy lately , I'm also not happy , That is why i have been reading manga lately while listening to music .
And i read this manga...
Right at the first few chapters , i'm already hooked by the art and especially by the story , telling a young teenager who is about to become a young adult , about to know wat is truly responsibility , wat is right , is wrong , wat u have to do and don't and this young teenager here have to choose to whether continue the passion or not.
After that , the
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story continue , that teenager graduated and get to a very good university that fit with his passion , but that also increase the number of challenges he has to overcome , the pacing is faster but also slower at the same time , the exploring into character of not only himself but also others around him . He feels happy , he feels sad , he is become "drowning" , becomes "too much" , becomes numb from doing passion... but he is a special (cause he is a main character) , or wat can i say , he has a special gift , he can read people , can learn from others and finally , can overcome those negative things.
Every chapter of this manga is not a waste but it is like a piece , a color , a main shape circle , triangle , line in a massive "painting" called "Blue period" , everything makes sense , everything is a new thing and everything is showing aspects of human's life.
I'm somewhat like main character , I'm also observing people alot , that is why , I sometimes feel just like him... But he beats me at the "confidence" and "hard-working" , I admire him , that is why , I have been focusing on my project lately , lazer-focusing.
The fact that Tsubasa-sensei can keep producing a challenge , a small story one after another one and they are all making sense , they are all organic , they are also never make me bored from reading , cause they are exploring more and more about human's emotion and the deep in it , especially children's emotion and thinking in later chapters .
The art is a key aspect of this manga , ofc , cause this manga is mainly focusing on art but , the way they are using art to explaining to readers are good and many new information that i didn't know before because I'm not into art , I know now and i'm proudly say that I have basic knowledge about oil panting :))) . Sometimes , when I look at a piece of art in this manga , I suddenly smile and feeling good again about what I am doing rn...
Every manga is main point mostly "Human" cause in the end , "power of friendship" is something that appearing clearly and u can't deny it , if u read , watching anything , u will see , the base of those are always be "human" because if no human's like emotion or ideas in those , It will be seen as "alien" and no one will be able to understand it. Same with art , it is like a way to communicate with others , u can send ur feelings through others by painting , and to truly do "art" , u need to be yourself , be happy , that is when ur true nature will be presented on art , don't be scared , let the purest of yourself come out and on the canvas.
This manga has showed me another new vision of life that I have never known , even the colors like "red" , "yellow" and "blue" , in the end , they are just "names" , not ur "feeling" , u need to see colors by ur own eyes and ur feelings , not by others , not by the books. Only u have ur own vision , not others , be urself , don't be a "blur".
-First time "investing time"in writing a review , hope everyone atleast not hate it , thx u.
-I'm dying to read something quite like this .
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 31, 2021
Reading this manga sometimes makes me feel like i was drowning in the endless ocean of emotion and memory. A truth is sometimes being blocked by thousands waves of lies and only when u show all of ur true feelings , the ugly side of urself , u will may able to find it.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Homunculus is not just some of ur ordinary tragedy slice of life story , it cuts deep on many problems about this modern society like sexual harassment , bad parenting ,gender inequality , disorders , the dark face of capitalism... The main character is the result of this society... he is
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what society decides for him and in the end , he has been thrown away by it... and being hallucinated by "Homunculus"... A tragic story...
I love how wonderful the author is on conveying the ideas and contents behind every single page of story , the disorders of every single person has been drawn with both somewhat cartoonist but also realistic , the regret they have , the pain they are suffering... all translated wonderful through not only words but also art . I have always been interested in Surrealism and this manga is perfect for me , the real alternate with the surreal... the fake in front of the real , the ugly absorb the beauty , the lie destroys the the truth ,...
Everyone in the story all have their own voice and none of them are wasted , that is also a big point why i really like about the story . I really don't like nowadays manga at all , they are industrialized , they are just milking , they are not creative , they are just a big lie... and their authors are also lying while writing those cheap story for their manga , so i mostly read 2000s manga and before that , rarely read 2010s but when i do find 1 , they are surely unique or great.
U know why many people nowadays are feeling depressed and empty? This manga has explained some of the reasons why through its surreal voice... many people are like sand , they always change their shape to fit in different environments , and when u do that for so long... u start to lose ur own self and become "faceless"... that is what the society nowadays do to u , all lie , and the manga has criticized that fact throughout this whole manga , all above the problems is the finding ur real self....
Reading to this , u will probably guess my enjoyment , yea , my enjoyment is always 100% hooked throughout this whole manga... I have been learning about human and philosophy for 2 years now and i'm still shocked about the things author has described in his manga , i learn more things from this manga , about emotion , disorders and how someone can turn into a criminal... This manga is like a trailer for someone who wants to learn philosophy and human's mind .
Anyway , what do i think? I think this manga is amazing , it's not long , which is amazing , It's characters are almost flawless on their act... almost perfect to their blink... , It's art is surreal alternative with real , it's sometimes make u dream while reading it ( probably only me) . Another great manga i have found.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 9, 2021
"BuBu , CHACHA CHACHA , BuBu , CHACHA CHACHA!!!"
Every time i listen to that , my mind suddenly recall all of my childhood . Unlike many other people , my childhood is filled with Cardcapture Sakura , Conan , Crayon Shin-chan and this anime . Seem strange huh? y not also Doraemon , probably bc of how naive i see it is back then (said the one who loves BuBu ChaCha lol) but my opinion on it has changed now. Anyway , back to the review:
The story is very simple :"Bubu Chacha is about a dog who died due to a fateful accident and was
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resurrected as a toy car. Together, he and Randy learn many new things about the world and about friendship that never dies."
When i read that short line of synopsis , my tears drop a little bit , especially at this " about friendship that never dies" . So short yet so strong to leave anyone who has watched when they were young a nostalgia on anyone who reads it...
The anime is considered short compared to many of my childhood anime but it surely , definitely leaves a big impact on me same with others. 26 episodes are a big adventure that BuBu(Randy) and ChaCha are going , trying and learning many new things in around the world , many of which are happy but sometimes also sad but every time they overcome , the bond between them grow stronger , may sound weird for a 3 years old boy to understand that much but wat do u expect? this is a children anime, normal logic is already wrapped up and children logic gets added in.
The picture of BuBu riding on ChaCha moving on the streets , swimming on the ocean ,... has become one of my unforgotten memory and experience , even when i am becoming an old man , will still remember it , also the song... yea , the song
PS: Im not a native speaker so my English isn't good , hope everyone still acknowledge my review
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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