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Just to be clear, this is not an adaption of the games, but rather, brand new cases. Now, reading this a while back as someone who has only heard of the franchise, but never played the games, the manga was a tad confusing to start off with. I say this only because it seemed to skip over the entire background of any of the characters, and left me wondering who many of them were, why they were there, and wondering if I had missed something. However, if you can piece together the big picture, it's a few thoroughly entertaining cases.

After reading the manga, I went ... out and played through the Gyakuten Saiban series, and the first game of the Gyakuten Kenji series, and it changed my opinion of the manga a bit- so if you have already played the games, this part might be a bit more valuable to you.

The cases are short and simple. None of them are incredibly perplexing or s never continued. The characters you've grown to love come back very...mind boggling compared to the game. That would most likely be my largest complaint here, but understandable, seeing as how the series wa well... in character, if not a bit more developed, thanks to them moving out of the very static visual novel format. Nothing of the story itself seems to stray out of place compared to the games. The art style is a bit different, but everyone is still easily identifiable.

I might not suggest this to people who have never played, at the very least, a Phoenix Wright game, but otherwise, I think it's an entertaining read- especially once you've run out of games to play.