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My general notion on short pieces is that of caution. The very reason on why caution seems appropriate is explainable by the way that short stories have certain qualities and quantities that encompass them. The very fabric of this pros and cons can be, in my opinion, summarized by the very fact on how much you can present on the canvas. Having no breathing room with the written word or the artistic depiction of the written, in the case of manga, can be a daunting task. You can hear those hardships from writers who try to transition from a long narrative structure to the above ... mentioned. In the case of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, a writer and even more so an artist, who through his early carrier has become known for partially creating one of the longest running anime franchises; decides similarly to the titular character of this manga, to transition his life in a different direction. Through his later career, Yasuhiko takes it to himself to adapt history to the manga world, and by doing so he creates his own fantastical depictions of people and their past.
In the case of this particular manga, its very strength is how balanced it is. The usual method in which I see short stories is a tight focus in a particular area. One can be focused on the artistic depiction or the story, the characters and so on…By ultimately focusing on one certain area, there can be an occurrence of neglect in another. Or a different case can be a too tight focus in a lot of areas, which can create a feeling of suffocation. The most important thing about this manga that separates it from such stories is the way in which the story, characters and art are portrayed. For one, the story of Jesus is told in a simple manner. Being just a story about a leader and his companions, as they travel from place to place. In it we have the traditional account of Jesus, mixed with a very modern depiction of his disciples, detractors, and society. Second, the art retains a sense of complexity but still isn’t over reliant on neither line dependency nor tone, in this case color, making it not a straining read. Also his fantastic character designs are a joy to behold. Although, in the case of Jesus, the bad scanlations are a sight not to behold. And the final category and most important one, the characters. The very depiction of Jesus is a hint to what I mean. Maybe it was a natural conclusion to depict Jesus the way Yasuhiko did. I guess a lot of people know, but the artistic depiction of Jesus is fictious. Drawing him with long hair, a beard and so on and so forth is the idealistic depiction of Jesus. And that is what Yasuhiko retains through not just his image but also through the very actions that we see through the traditional accounts of him. This depictions stands as a point of familiarity for us readers, as we all have our very own view point on the time period, on the actions of the historical personas and on the very man himself. But it is not just our very own view point that is important, but also the way the characters see that idealist depiction of Jesus.
Through reading one interview on the topic of war that Yasuhiko gave, I could see that he didn’t have a bias to either the pros or cons on war itself. Rather he showed a balanced and logical view point on the matter, and this is retained through the characters in this manga. Everyone has believable reasons to why they do what they do, think what they think. There is no ultimate evil or ultimate good. There are just characters that act and react to what their prior life taught them. It’s the collective that makes reading this manga interesting not the individual pieces.


With that, I leave my virtual pen on my dirty desk; I hope you liked this review and thanks for reading!

"Beware that, when cutting onions, you yourself do not get cut... for when you gaze long into the onion. The onion will make you cry like a bitch."
-Friedrich Nietzsche while cutting onions.

Through the years of reading manga you accumulate experience that will probably lead you in despising generic, plot holed and genuinely boring stories that were once to your preference. You move on to something you think is more appropriate for the mileage you got from reading such stories. You want stories that are perfectly coherent to the narrative, you want flawed human beings, you want stories that you can look back at and think ... that they were not completely shit. But once in a while there are stories that work the complete opposite. Such mangas are the ones that Go Nagai writes.
Go Nagai is a legend in the business as much as Rumiko Takahashi, Moto Hagio and many more of those who shaped the industry as we know it today. He is mostly known for inventing two genres, that being the ecchi and super robot genre respectively. And while those are big innovations at the time, I think that the stamp of Nagai is the high brutality that is involved in a lot of his works. Among them the best and most known one is Devilman. Shocking the readers at the time of its publication and somehow pulling it off to this day, it is to many regarded as a classic and it has inspired many popular works such as Parasyte, Berserk and many more. But there is more to it than just being a work of inspiration as it represents Go Nagai himself quite well.
What do I mean? While pioneering the manga world, you quickly notice that contrary to his famous colleagues, he isn’t regarded as an iconic writer. In fact he is known for doing a lot of shitty series and even those that are regarded as his masterpieces are genuinely shit. His stories are so heavily plot holed, they are not subtle at all, and his characters are bat shit insane. But there needs to be a reason to why people regard his works as classics. Not because of historical value but rather, and I was pretty shocked myself, they are a ton of fun to read. Especially Devilman which is as much a train wreck as Nagais carrier itself. Now that we cleared the context in regards to Devilman, let us tackle the actual characters and story.

The story is of epic proportions but not initially. We start of by meeting the main character Fudou Akira who lends a helping hand to his friend Ryou Asuka. But quickly complications occur. As we have seen from the first chapter, demons exist in this world, and our main character quickly becomes aware of that. Anyway, demons have reemerged from their slumber and are out to conquer the world, and now it is to our protagonist to face evil by becoming one of them as well, as he becomes Devilman. From than on we have a monster of the week story that while not per se bad, it is not as entertaining as the later parts. And now if you lasted this long you are going to get a payoff. The pay off is a crude, brutal, and probably one of the better anti-war stories I have read on shear impact alone. As it is a story about who the real monsters are. It is about humanity and the loss of humanity. The characters are quite hard to pin-point as they are not human at all and then again they are. Why? Because they really are not so well characterized nor developed to call them human. They are rather shallowly written and that certainly isn’t a good thing. But they can be looked more as symbols, as hollow containers where we can project our humanity into them, or have we lost it as well through reading this story? The demons on the other hand are not developed in a particular way either, besides a certain character who one could say is the star of this work. The manga in itself is as mentioned before really badly written. Nagai introduced elements into the story that later on don’t make any sense as either they are regarded as non existent or they are just disregarded as not important. Which creates a lot of problems as we move on and screech our heads and think what happened with that part of the story? Additionally it has pacing problems as there are a lot of times you ask yourself why particular scenes are dragged out and why some are skipped through. We have plot conveniences as characters either win or loss not through their ability but rather because Nagai pulled something out of his arss. I have to mention the ending as well, since quite a bunch don’t like it at all. I think it is perfect for what the author tried to convey with this manga. People disregard it as not well done because of the way it was paced; I think it worked very well because of that very aspect, as the ending would not be as impact full as it was if it was shown in a conventional way. Moving on to the art.

As far as I have read, and that is not really much in regards to his other works, they usually start with passable art to attract attention. But as you move on you get what the art of Nagai is about. Honestly, it is pretty bad, especially if you are not familiar to the cartoon-ish side of manga in that time. Anyway, as you move on it improves in various ways but it never does so in a big way. Although you get used to it, and I personally got attached to the style as I checked other Devilman related work that aesthetically are more pleasing than the original, but I just couldn’t get attached to the artwork as I did in this installment.

And finally we arrived to the end of this review. In all honesty, Devilman is a work I expected nothing of, and at the end I got so much. It is a manga about the loss of humanity but it actually did something different for me, as it restored faith in my own humanity, for I have been an elitist prick who couldn’t enjoy anything as Devilman without tearing it a new one. This manga is one who a lot of people will not enjoy for many reasons, but if you stick with it for a while and find yourself get into it, you will certainly have a fun time.

This is "MANGA"! This is "IWAAKI"!



Iwaaki Hitoshi is mostly known for his series Parasyte, but only recently it got the popularity that the fans sought for the series. It was by most positively received, because it offered something both for veterans and new faces regarding this medium. Be it from the ideas, to its theme exploration, to body horror, to high paced fights, but what was most important was its revival and how positively it was received overall in the industry. As such I was really looking forward to watching the series, and the most important question was if it will meet my expectations. ... To say it lightly, I was rather disappointed. There where many problems, which led me to be distanced to the author but curiosity got the better of me. This led me to reading his ongoing series, Historie. What really got me curious about Historie was its premise, which interested me mostly because of the involvement of The Great Alexander. However, Iwaaki wouldn’t be Iwaaki if he wouldn’t add some spice to the story with his unique ideas, that where so apparent in Parasyte. To my surprise Alexander wasn’t the primal focus of the story, or at the very least wasn’t at the moment, but rather it is about the life of the one who shall become his secretary, Eumenes.

The story starts out bizarrely with the introduction of Eumenes and many historical figures be it Antigunus, King Philip or Aristotle, who meet by chance. It was a bit off putting how it started out, but the story really starts kicking in when we get introduced to the life of our protagonist. From his childhood, to the very premise, that being the secretary of Alexander. The story moves surprisingly fast, especially when you take in account its slice of life feeling or at the very least that’s how I see this manga. Well, as mentioned the story moves fast, it has a variety of stories which are longer or shorter depending on how important the content of the arc is, however what really makes the stories move so fast might really be the combination of Iwaakis story telling abilities and his simplistic yet easy for the eye art. For that very reason his thematic use in this work is not entirely explored the way I hoped for, although you might say that it might be more of an don’t tell but show thing. On another hand the story is not really presented well. What do I mean? First it doesn’t have a sense of direction. Is the story about the life of Eumenes? Or the life of Alexander? The show doesn’t tell us what the ending point might be. Will the story end with Eumenes death? Or will it be Alexander’s? That might be one component you might take in account especially when you think about the scope of the story. Secondly the story has that absurd feeling of being way too convenient for Eumenes. It feels sometimes like a school oriented show, where the protagonist doesn’t need to do anything and something will happen anyway, but that is only a minor problem to me. On another hand I ask myself, how historically accurate this manga is. It says that History is made by winners but it is done the same way by the losers. As such a lie can have a bit of truth, and truth can be based on lies. As such historical shows have the luxury of interpretation. It can be historically accurate yet very differently presented. Such thing for me is Historie. Sadly I don’t have any knowledge regarding that time period or especially Alexander’s life, or even more so of Eumenes particular life. But I do see Iwaakis writing style being used, which leads me to the last story component I want to talk about, that being the plot twists. For one the twists in this show aren’t shocking or come out of nowhere, they seem all predictable but what I really like about them is the way it questions me. Has that really happened or is it fiction be it from Iwaaki or any other author? Which leads me to the conclusion of how awesome historical tales really are, but that certainly depend on the author and not the historical facts.

Let’s move on to the characters.

You know how Macedonia’s and Greeks tend to argue about which state Alexander’s is from? Which I found really funny, but sadly there is no real dispute to what character might become your favorite in this series, of course at the moment it would probably be Eumenes. For me the characters merits aren’t really their development, which is not really well handled by the way, but rather is the way they are characterized. Eumenes is an eccentric character, with a passion for reading. From that very trait almost his whole character is made of. It shows how a single passion may change your very life. From that point on we see his younger life, to his origin, to him using odysseys journeys as a way to look at his very own adventure, to his later days in Macedonia. However, as mentioned development in form of aging or rather getting experienced through out his aging, isn’t very well handled, or at the very least isn’t at the chapters I am currently at. His characters origin seems to don’t have a big role with his later years, and so do his initial traits change through out time, which realistically looked aren’t that important, but for me they are in such a medium. Another think I liked about him is that while clever, he isn’t the most intelligent individual in the series, despite that he is certainly portrayed as such, as he is the protagonist right, right? None the less he stays for me on a positive note. Other characters aren’t developed or presented as much as he neither is, nor is Alexander as he is currently still in his childhood, but he starts out interestingly as well. We shall see how Iwaaki will handle his character.

Moving on to the art.

When I looked at he art of Parasyte I wasn’t fond of his art style, as such other as well have mentioned how bad he is, but you grow on it. His style is very simplistic. The art quality ranges depending on what scans you read. Either they are taken from the magazine or from the tankoban volumes, or the quality changes depending on it. His panels are usually composed of primarily character movement and a lot of white space, which as mentioned is simple and easy going, maybe even bad if you are really want to call out his art, but as mentioned it somehow works with his writing style. I wasn’t really paying that much attention to his art in general as I was more focused on the story but I still want to call out one thing I particularly didn’t like, that being his portrayal of emotion. It sadly doesn’t work. I strangely feel distanced more to the characters because of the art. The reason isn’t because the characters are emotional bricks like Rey or other what was it called...maybe kuderes or the like , but how not much attention was put on the faces. Oh, and the comedic moments on the most part don’t even make me smirk.

Lastly I wanted to say, despite all the negative things I mentioned Historie still works. I readied around 70 chapters in a couple of days. It never gets really boring, but I think the fans surely are agonized how the story might move slowly when you wait every month for a chapter release.
So don’t read it all at one go and take your time with it.

“In the end, conspiracies or terrorism cannot reverse the flow of history. But they can make it stagnant.”
–Yang Wenli.


Mori Koji is known as a one hit wonder by writing and illustrating the famous Holyland. With just one work he crated a fan base for him self. With his usage of the general thematic of escepism, realism, humanism, and combined it with his way of presentation be it his somewhat unique art, his fluid way of using dialog, to his pacing and his famous info dumping that surprisingly worked. However I for my self as a fan of Holyland , doubted that he can deliver something ... of equivalent standards and as such stayed away from his work till this day. Well the day has come to convey my latest read from him and I hope it can pick up your interest not just in this manga but even his other works as well and with that lets jump in.


-Story-
The story of Destroy and Revolution starts with the same subtle way of conveying Moris thematic that where present in his previous work, however in D&R the scale have widened from one boys personal life to the so popular theme of turning Japans society upside down. In that since we have the usual, two individuals meeting that have different personalities, different values, different moral vision but they have one goal that being to change their country and in the process maybe even the world. Well this has been done quite a lot of times in manga form, be it the famous Sanctuary or Akumetsu, however D&R is entirely different. It is a story far grayer, far from the usual absolute evil that the government is presented as. The characters are aware that the government is not evil. They know that it’s just their hate being projected in that direction. However they can’t help them selves, they demand change, but they are aware how incapable they are to provide answers for such changes. In that sense they search of those capable of providing the answers, thought out their path of destruction. That is the basic plot line, but there is more far more to it than just that, but than again I don’t want to spoil the fun. Anyway let’s mention some negative aspects of D&R. The beginning of D&R is very weak, not because of its ideas, but rather in how to convey those. The problem can be divided in many little parts. One being bad pacing, enhanced by bad flow of dialogue, than we have the problem of how to explain the origin of the super powers, which I will further convey in the characters section. Than we have various plot wholes, the biggest one being on how the heck the characters still haven’t bean caught by the authorities of a whole country and that’s just one bit of its problems, however as the story moves on it regains everything it has lost trough its early stages. The pacing of the story becomes great, the dialogue between the characters becomes more natural, and the plot holes become less apparent, as Mori moves his focus more on the inner workings of Yuukis and Makotos terrorist group, more so as a metaphor on how their group has the same problems as the very thing they want to change. I guess I must mentioned that Mori doesn’t use to much fan service through out the series, however when he does it sticks out a lot.



-Characters-
The main focus is centered around Makoto and Yuuki. Let’s focus on both more individually.

When I first saw Makoto, he seemed some what like a cowardly character, but you can’t really put any character in a box in this show (beside female characters). He is a character that has far more depth to him and what’s more awesome about his and Yuukis characterization is that they genuinely feel human. He had a very problematic life, from his youth, to his loss of family to his loss of the only person who cared about him. He just wanted to escape from that very troubled life, and when he meets an old man in the hospitals he may or may not actually archived that. You know when I mentioned the powers and the problem in how to explain them? We will focus now on that a bit and how it further enhances Makotos character. Lets just say the old mans entity is rather obscure, in how he just gives him the power and vanishes. The gives away some what the usual realistic approach to Moris shows, but than again the very existence of the power takes that away anyway. Which I personally don’t really like, however I can’t be denied how important that very power is for moving the plot forward. The very power opens up Makoto eyes that equality exists, not only between humans but to everything in the universe. However even as he realizes that, his escape mechanisms turn into hatred. His being can’t fully accept such thing as equality when human beings have robed him from his happiness. However, thought out the series he realizes how shallow his hate was. It was just that he didn’t have more options at the moment. He just had one way to convey his emotions that is destruction. This leads to some really interesting character development.

On the other hand we have the total opposite of Makoto. Yuuki is by most characters seen as a charismatic, good looking and intelligent individual. But he is more than that. He has different values than most people, even far different than the very people he trusts. He is not portrayed as a evil genius like for example Light Yagami but he is just a normal human, who finds meaning by not falling into the melancholy we call normal life, but instead he decides to fight.
For a better tomorrow, even if he needs to shed blood for that goal. What is even more interesting is the way he interacts with Makoto. He doesn’t think of him as just a tool to be used, but instead thinks of him as an individual of equal grounds. Or is he? What I additionally find interesting about him is that I don’t fully believe in what he is saying. He has that mysterious aura around him that makes me question him quite a lot through out the series. Add to that
the way Mori uses monologs to indicate how important those characters are, however Yuuki never has such inner thoughts, even in situations where you would expect him thinking, he instead speaks his thoughts out loud. I especially want to see where his character will move through out the story.


-Art-

Mori Kojis art is more on the realistic side of the manga world. You know at first glance when you see a picture of his character designs, that it is him who illustrated it.
However I wouldn’t say that he is by all means as good as an artist as I thought he was when I first read Holy land, and it especially seems to be the case in D&R, as I guess he is more focusing on his other currently on going project. But let me explain my self. My biggest problem is that I can’t understand why he draws heads so big. The proportions just don’t match with the body and sometimes even the body isn’t exactly in proportion but the head is by all means the biggest problem. Or is it even a problem? I sometimes question Mori, on how many times he can miss the proportions, but it is, probably, more a stylistic decision. Other than that the background is drawn well, but a bit simplistic if you want. None the less the art is passable.





-Final Verdict and Enjoyment-

D&R is by no means a work you will like if you want just a fast read. If you do so, it will be just a shallow and distanced work for you. However, if you are ready to invest a bit of your brain mass into the story and the characters, than I guaranty you that it will at the very least be an entertaining read.

"I am the strongest man in the world" - Adlet


Hello, fellow myanimelist users. Today I present you the first review of Rokka no Yuusha and I hope it will encourage you in reading the source material and of course make you watch the upcoming anime adaptation and with that let’s jump in.


Ishio Yamagata is a rather unknown light novel author, despite him having fan translations and even more so because he has already an anime adaptation under his belt. You may know it as The Book of Bantora, and as such if you have watched or heard of it you might know how Ishio uses ... unique concepts to his works, be it world setting, characterization or motives. Especially when compared to most light novels who are centered on school and the problems of youth. As such he brings fresh air to the current stale demographic of light novels and of course Rokka is no exception to his previous works.



-Story-

Rokka starts out with fate choosing six heroes, who have a mission to defeated humanity’s mortal enemy the Majin. In that sense the story moves from point A. the human realm to point B. where they fight of the Majins minions and of course with the main objective of defeating him, as have the previous heroes. Kind of boring isn’t it? Well so taught the author too and added a little spice with mystery elements to it, with the biggest one being the 7th hero’s identity.
With that he has written a light novel with the usual heroes saving the world concept and added to it a smaller objective that being just to survive. And that’s just is the tip of the ice berg. Mix in the fantasy world, which subtly ask the question of environmentalism in form of the Majin and racism between those two factions. To the high paced fights, which aren’t too stretched, as such it makes them always fun to read. To the mystery of who is going to betray them? This gives a lot of pressure not just to the characters but to the readers themselves. It is a story of camaraderie, love, friendship, family, revenge and so on...





-Characters-

The characters are as mentioned a group of seven heroes and as such they need to have diverse personalities to them for shear entertainment value and they deliver that. They are all brought together as the six heroes of flowers and need to fight the Majin, if they want to or not, and as such they all have different motives to why they are doing what they do, which is further enhanced by their back stories and it seems like Ishio uses each volume to cover a different heroes story so far. And sadly I can’t cover each one as I may spoil the fun. Than again their summary spills a lot anyway. Although, I will mention my two favorites that being Adlet and Fremy. Adlet is for most people a clown, because of his quote "I am the strongest man in the world!!!" And as such he does have quite a lot of confidence, combined with his fighting style, cheerfulness, intellect and leader ship qualities he became my favorite character of this series. Even if he may be a bit to shonen-ish for most people I guess.
Fremy on the other hand is the total opposite of Adlet. She is a loner type of character, always having that cold aura around her, which she of course has reason to be but as the story unfolds she opens up more and more to the group, especialy to Adlet, despite in what danger they are. Well that was the Human side lets move to the Majins. The Majin is by most described as a creature without intelligence and as such it has only one point of living and that is devouring humanity. As it lost to the Hero of Single Flower and was sealed in a comma like state. The minions of the Majin are born from it and only have one objective that is reviving him. The minions are called Kyouma in it self are combination of different animals, only being different because of their
Horn on the forehead and their inner core. Although they are a lot of numbers to them, they are mostly unintelligent, although there are ones able to think, speak, just like humans. Amongst them the strongest and most intelligent are the Commanders. They are unlike the others, very humanly, and as such have their own personality to them that even go beyond their very existence...






-Art-

Hazuki Terui has archived what most illustrators don’t (lie), that being picking my interest into a series.
Just look and the covers and you might want to check out this light novel. They have really a high fantasy feeling to them, and what is really lovable about it is that they suit the characters and the combination of various styles, from the clothes, to the weapons, to the more earthy colors; it’s just an instant win.
On the other hand the manga design is just plain awful, god that moe art (although the original art is moe too I guess) just looked so bad and it was poorly made as a form of fan service. Thank god it got canceled.






-Enjoyment and Final Verdict-

Ishio Yamagata made a nicely put together story, with likable characters and interesting battles. However it isn’t perfect by all means. The Mystery aspect regarding the 7th isn’t a really as strong if you have been reading other mystery novels, and as such you might at some point find out who he/she is but I would
stick with it to the end, but only if you are able to appreciate the other aspects of the story. Second point, there might become ass pulls. It sometimes grabs just the intense moment that the story created at some point and leaves you hanging after it only to start again with the same formula. Although they are reasonable and you might think otherwise but that’s understandable. And as such it creates the impression that the author is prolonging the story so that he can stretch it as much as possible. But none the less the story is still quite good and I might have missed some important things that might be on its favor or not but I am only 2.5 half volumes in, but at the very least I can say that I don’t regret the time I spent on Rokka no Yuusha.

I give additional thanks to the NanoDesu translation and especially Zero Ender and his team for picking up the series, at a time when no one even bothered.

In the current media world I always asked myself what is better simplicity or originality? Specifically what I mean with the terms "simplicity" and "originality" is the problems that arises from the way anime and manga or any other entertainment medium has when it comes to this two subjects. For example most new artists tend to come up with original ideas on various subjects like story, characterization, world setting etc but what they lack is the experience to execute such works and they result to cancellation because they cant put up the hype that for example the first chapter created, however there of course are ... exception of this cases that might actually archive such a feat but still put stylization over actual substance to they works aka Hiro Mashima or Oh Great. On the other hand we have simplicity that might be described in the world of anime/manga best by the so love/hated slice of life genre.
Such series tend to not use original ides but use simple archetypes of stories, characters etc but still archive a big feat by the experience their writers gained and of course the vice versa is possible like the originality case. So why do I mention this two terms? Well that is because I will review a show that combines both originality and simplicity and archives a magnificent work and that is of course Oyaji!!!
First of all don't bother looking at the cover page because it might wrongly put you off the series, actually only look at the synopsis or even better just think about this "After a few years of absence a father returns to his family only to find that his children have become terrible persons" it only needed that to get my interest and yes it was quite worth it but lets get started with the actual review.


The story revolves around the main character Oyaji (in Japanese it means father) who returns to his family after years in prison but unlike the way I thought it would go it started quite strange. What I mean with that? Well Oyaji is manly as hell, he is not talkative, he drinks like there is no day tomorrow and he has muscles I didn't even know existed, well what I mean with the strange beginning isn't the way he is portrayed but all the negatives about him that reversibly to his actual character inspired his family to change. That is the main basis of the plot that goes on trough the whole manga and surprisingly is rather thin when you think about it but manages to be quite good at the same time. Moving on to the other characters...well I would like present them more as the shadow that makes the light even more shine but besides that I wasn't really fond of their characterization precisely because they didn't portray as much as they could have (might be because of the short span of chapters) but besides the main character I really did like his wife that made the story even more heartwarming and heartbreaking than the kids or other side character could have shown, or I might even go further and say it is the stability her character has that is unlike most of the character in this manga that make her so likeable. So how should I start the art paragraph....hmmm...I can only say MANLY!!! Oyaji was written and illustrated by Tsuru Moriyama in the 90s, 80s... I would like to say but no it was published from Jun 30, 2000 to Apr 26, 2001 and uses contrary from its time a rather shonen-ish masculine character design to it that become popular because of Tetsuo Hara and Hirohiko Araki. A lot of people might not like it but it actually makes a fine contrasts between how the people look and how they really are and that is by all means a good way of showing the emotions presented from the outside (outer actions) and the inside (inner thoughts), anyway even if it is a bit unorthodox for today’s manga industry you might give it a chance.
Besides the character design everything was quite alright on the screen toning, background designs etc, although I must admit some scenes are to manly for a lot of people so you might see only black mambas around the waist region so be warned!!!

-Final Verdict-
With only 23 chapters Moriyama Tsuru made a manga worth the little time you might invest into it and by all means I would say it deserves at least to be added in your to read list.