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Aug 2, 2024
Summer Ghost (Manga) add
There is the ghost of a girl who killed herself on a railway track. Have you been able to see her?

Read this story to find out.

This manga was originally written as a novel by another of the Honkaku Mystery Writers of Japan, Otsuichi, well known for Goth (that also got a manga adaptation).

If you don’t know what the genre is let me explain it briefly. The honkaku genre is a subcategory of the mystery genre that was born in Japan, in a time when the mystery genre was no longer affluent and was dying out. It focuses on fair play and the journey ...
May 29, 2024
Theseus no Fune was a complexed and interesting read. It draws inspiration from the well known paradox of the Ship of Theseus and it makes it into a mystery thriller.

Originally thought about in Greece and expanded into modern times, the paradox of the Ship of Theseus has been talked about amongst philosophers and thinkers, but the concept has remained the same: is an object the same object after its components have been replaced over time? This is what the manga tries to analyze under different points of view.

However, at its core this manga is first and foremost a mystery thriller, as it tries to ...
May 6, 2024
Pink Heart Jam is a refreshing read from the usual dramatic BL that we are so used to read. In fact, there isn’t much drama to begin with. Just the story of two young adults falling in love and learning about themselves.

You have Haiga on one side, a freshman in university, who isn’t entirely convinced about his sexuality; and on the other you have Kanae, a senior in university, who knows very well who he is attracted to and would like to have a romantic partner.

They find themselves in a very interesting circumstance, and as their relationship progressed they realize that they truthfully care for ...
Jan 21, 2024
The Decagon House Murders:
An introduction to Honkaku Mystery

When Agatha Christie’s famous novel “And then there were none” came out it spawned a new kind of genre based on the popular whodunnit story.

This is the Honkaku Mystery, as I learnt reading this manga, a subgenre of mystery that focuses on fair play.

Characters were stuck all together in one place with no way of escape, and one by one they all died. So by logic the murdered was amongst them and the characters needed to find out who was the one that was murdering them all.

In Japan, the novel of the Decagon House Murders saved ...
Oct 11, 2023
This read was, for better words, truly unexpected. A lot of people went into this like myself, intrigued, confused. There are about 50 reviews of this mahnwa on this website as of now and most of them are positive. So it begs the question, why does it have such high ratings?

Everyone talks about how this was a beautifully written mahnwa, how it changed their perspective on life, how they enjoyed the art, the implications of the ending … You should read some of the reviews cause they are beautifully written and in my opinion also inspiring.

The story starts like this:
“Do you believe in magic?”

This is ...
Aug 18, 2023
After 15 years I decided to come back to Akuma de Soro out of pure nostalgia.

I had initially read it in high school, during a time when social media didn’t exist, and you had to use magazines to find people to talk about anything.

Going back to this manga felt like jumping back in time, and it reminded me of so many things, first and foremost Hyde, the famous celebrity that way too early took his life, which Takeru (one of the main characters) was inspired from. It’s weird how some of these incredible artists can live on in time through different media. Gone but ...
Jan 17, 2019
This was an overdue review. Sorry.

Love Love has done so much for so many people, despite what you might think of the franchise.

The story isn't something out of a masterpiece. It is bland and simplistic and the characters have one dimensional personalities. Too bland. Too simple. Sometimes a little too simple.

We were thought to believe that compelling stories have to be meaningful, cathartic. Just like life itself. But we sometimes forget that life does not have to be cathartic. It can be simple. It does not have to be convoluted or complicated in order for it to work. Sometimes it clicks. Just like ...
Nov 5, 2018
This is a review of the whole BNHA series so far.

Lets get something straight here: I really don't enjoy superhero movies or comics. It's really not my thing.

Yet. Marathoning this show was probably the most fun and and exasperating task ever.

As so many reviews have stated before this one, this show isn't innovative in any way whatsoever. It's a show about superheroes. Another show about evil fighting good. We have all seen that before. It is what it is. How many more shows can be made without them all looking the same? There was an actual TV show called Heroes. HEROES. Let's please be ...
Oct 11, 2018
BanG Dream! (Anime) add
As plenty of reviews have already stressed out, this is very much like an other idol show. It is not necessarily a bad thing. There are plenty of shows that became successful following a particular format, and those achievements should not be diminishes. Look at Kuroko no Basket. It just happens that Bang Dream falls in that specific genre. So, onto the review.

The story is very basic. A high school girl, Toyama Kasumi, looking for inspiration, follows a trail of star stickers to a pawn shop, where she finds a red star shaped guitar. She decides she wants to learn how to play the instrument ...
Oct 9, 2018
This is going to be a review for both Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai, since I literally watched them back to back and I have a lot to say about this series.

So before I start, if I were to rate Higurashi based on only the first season, I would have given this series a 9/10. No question, but Kai really didn't come through with me, so my rating went down to a 8/10. Still good, but let me explain.

The story is already well known.

A young boy named Keichi Maebara transfers to a small village close to ...


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