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Battle royal with human-animal hybrids fighting to death for people's entertainment, sounds fun, doesn't it? This manga has interesting idea, but it fails at excision. If you read it brain turned off, you will still see its flaws.

Story
When you read this type of manga you expect that some characters die, right? Doesn't happen here. I can name you two more
important characters that die. It is amazing how much plot armour can some of them have. Main girl (honey badger) is basically
immortal. She lost her arm, no problem it will regrow. She might die? Don't worry she ... will unlock new power and win. Plus you
expect for her to be focus of the story, but she gets switched after first bigger battle and only appears here and there.

Characters
Calling some characters one dimensional is compliment. Most of them exist for fan service only or have very very simple motives
that can be told in one sentence. I know this ecchi manga, but it is ridiculous how female characters only get their clothes
destroyed, but male characters can get torn from limb to limb.

Art
It's ok. Nothing special. For this manga it does the job.

Overall
Not recommend, wasted time. I believe that there are much better done manga.

Blue Lock isn't realistic. It's over the top. But it's not bad because of it. But I fund it its "edgyness" funny.
Blue Lock is football with fantastically elements. It's a story about ego and becoming the best.

Story is simple. Become best striker no matter what. Manipulate other players, betray one another, BE SELFISH, BE EGOIST.
It mostly follows Isagi who kinda has a plot armor . After sometime you notice that Isagi's team wins most of time and that match isn't really interesting if you know who will win. This becomes bigger problem in later arcs (looking at you Neo-egoist league). Another problem is ... it gets bit repetitive. Team Isagi almost loses, but they win with power of plot armor and ego.

Art is amazing and has some beautiful panels. It complements story nicely.

Characters are.....unique. The characters we meet are diverse but a lot of them don't get a lot of screen time and fall bit flat. Some of original team Z would be more interesting if they had more time to shine, but story focuses so much on Isagi. I know lot of them are mean and edgy but that's what you get when you lock bunch of high-schoolers in big building and tell them that ego and winning are most important.

But regardless of my problems with Blue Lock, I find my self enjoying it for most of the time. It is turn your brain off and read.

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Story: 3.5/5
Art:5/5
Characters: 3.5/5
Enjoyment 4/5

Overall: 4/5Blue Lock isn't realistic. It's over the top. But it's not bad because of it. But I fund it its "edgyness" funny.

Blue Lock is football with fantastically elements. It's a story about becoming the best and being egoist.

Story is simple. Become best striker no matter what. Manipulate other players, betray one another, BE SELFISH, BE EGOIST.
It mostly follows Isagi who kinda has a plot armor . After sometime you notice that Isagi's team wins most of time and that match isn't really interesting if you know who will win. This becomes bigger problem in later arcs (looking at you Neo-egoist league). Another problem is it gets bit repetitive. Team Isagi almost loses, but they win with power of plot armor and ego.

Art is amazing and has some beautiful panels. It complements story nicely.

Characters are.....unique. The characters we meet are diverse but a lot of them don't get a lot of screen time and fall bit flat. Some of original team Z would be more interesting if they had more time to shine, but story focuses so much on Isagi. I know lot of them are mean and edgy but that's what you get when you lock bunch of high-schoolers in big building and tell them that ego and winning are most important.

But regardless of my problems with Blue Lock, I find my self enjoying it for most of the time. It is turn your brain off and read.

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Story: 3.5/5
Art:5/5
Characters: 3.5/5
Enjoyment 4/5

Overall: 4/5

Let's put memes aside, Kagurabachi is just ok, but it has potential.

Kagurabachi is, for now, solid manga. We got bit of world building, bit of power system and important characters for the story and main goal for MC. But it didn't do anything groundbreaking.

Art isn't really detailed and some faces look bit bland, but few action panels look good. Characters are ok, bit plain but manga is still new so it's excusable. Power system is combination of jujutsu kaisen and demon slayer. But I have a felling that it brings nothing new to the table. If it doesn't make itself stand out it might ... get axed and only remembered for memes.

Yes, it has potential for growth. We will see more fights and get info about blades. I hope we will know more about war that happened in past, where MC's dad helped with enchanted blades. It looks like we are entering first bigger arc so let's hope for the best.