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Well, damn, I just finished reading the manga and while the ending was great, was a little underwhelmed by the beginning compared to the reviews I had read.

Turns out I had glimpsed the reviews for the anime, and not the manga!

The beginning is real confusing, scenes honestly make no sense and the conversations would be a bit jarring. Plus the obvious boob and crotch shots and then random yuri sex scene out of nowhere got me laughing out "what the f-"

I guess it was meant to be more of a romantic moment, when later on you hear more about one of the ... twos feelings, but still, it was SO out of place. I assume the anime wasnt like that? I should've just watched the anime.

I liked the story but I felt like it was clumsily handled. The ending however, was pretty great.


tl;dr: Ignore the manga, watch the anime? Maybe I'll follow my own advice at some point

I watched Naruto during the time I was fourteen and dropped it when I was sixteen shortly after watching Shippuuden. Roughly. I can't remember for sure, seeing as this was nearly a decade ago. It was one of the first animes I ever watched and it was easily one of the longest; I had picked it up as a show to watch as it was the most popular one out there during the time.

Naruto was the anime that made me realise that just because something is popular, it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll like it.


Story: 6/10:

I really enjoyed the premise of the ... show. A boy who is an outcast because he has a demon trapped inside of him, and because he gets no attention he's a bit of a prankster? Cool. It makes sense. He also wants to be the Hokage and get some recognition and respect when he makes it.

This is fine - I don't mind this. It's essentially the same as Ash trying to become a Pokemon Master. I also really enjoyed the beginning when Naruto and his two companions (more on these three later) train together with their teacher and one of the other instructors would take Naruto out for ramen every now and then. It was a nice element of realisim and added to the character building which was pretty nice.


When it all really falls apart, is after the Chunin Exam arc. Aka Naurto's class taking part in an official "to become a Ninja you must pass this test" exam. The chunin exam is great as you get to see a variety of characters with their own different skills and mindsets and then after that the story kind of... dwindles into boring.

The arcs are split up into "someone has a problem-the team agree to fix that problem-fight scene-fight scene-fight scene-backstory-fight scene-fight scene-resolution." Then near the end Sasuke goes and drowns in the "emo-angsting-teenager" pool and runs away with one of the snake villains. YUP. Why they called the next series Naruto:Shippuuden and not just plain Sasuke baffles me.

A romance element is also added, which really shouldn't have been there. It's kind of like Misty in Pokemon, after a while it becomes painful to watch. They really should've done what they did in One Piece and had No Romance Whatsoever. Friendship between these threewould've been much better. I actively enjoyed Sakura's friendship with Naruto over shipping her with either of her companions.

Art: 7/10

The art was pretty good from what I remember, at least it is for something that is more than ten years old. There were no weird gammy faces and the animiation seemed pretty smooth to me. This is from my recollections as a teenager though, so take this with a pinch of salt.


Sound: 8/10

Biased on this as I really enjoyed the opening and closing tunes, to the point that I downloaded them and put them on my MP3 player. I doubt I would do the same thing now if I heard these songs for the first time, but at the time they were good. The soundtrack worked pretty well for me.


Character: 3/10

What really lets Naruto down as a series is its characters. I've touched on the Chunin Arc already, but what was really great about that arc was the fact that we saw other members of Naruto's class and saw their skills which was really fun. Then when they leave, you remember how mediocre our main cast is and you just want them to come back again.

Naruto - Naruto is the typical main character who TRIES HIS BEST and SACRIFICES HIS OWN HEALTH to help his friends and he will do anything to become a hokage except, well, he's really stupid. Like, stupid anime stupid. He is only supposed to be a pre-teen so we can let him get away with it, but argh it is not fun to watch.


Sasuke: Sasuke is great at everything and everyone loves him *swoon*, oh look he glared in my direction I think im in love! Sasuke is one of the reasons I stopped watching this show. Just imagine an emo-teen who thinks the world is out to get him and because of this, takes it out on his friends and people who care about him. This is Sasuke's character.


Sakura: the girl. She is the girl. This is it to Sakura, which broke my naiive heart a little at fourteen as I was really expecting great things. At the beginning she has the best control over her chakra (essentially what ninjas use to do ninjitsu) and she has high marks in her tests and then.... we find out actually, lol she's just a girl. Let's make her wildly in love with Sasuke and make Naruto in love with her. Even when Sasuke and Naruto get better later on, she'll have a cry about it and then learn the Girl Ninjitsu of Healing. Even though she has super strength, sure she can just heal instead, ok


The rest of the characters aren't worth mentioning. One of the Hokages is a pervert, one of the hokages has big breasts. Hilarious. Shizune is pretty great, from what I remember though.



Enjoyment: 4/10

Sakura being Sakura and Sasuke being Sasuke kills most of the enjoyment from me during this. The beginning of Naruto is great when they work together and beat up small-time criminals but when actual plot happens (and then more importantly the Almighty Terrible Filler Arc happens) it just tumbles further and further downhill and when I watched it, I hoped it would get better. It didn't.

Though, on the plus side, it is at least better than its sequel!

I remember on a forum thread somewhere, someone posted about how they wanted to see a anime based around someone being born with pink hair and tries to go through life day after day, narrowly avoiding being the main character in whatever anime cliche is thrown at them (ignore the person falling from the sky! ignore the popular girl/boy talking to you! im never late for school, my alarm always goes off in time!), and Saiki is as close to that anime dream as we will ever get.


Saiki is born with ridiculously powerful psychic abilities, to the point that he has to restrain them ... in order to live an every day life. This is as much plot as you get, because a plot would ruin the feel of this anime, which is essentially a slice of life if you were an All Powerful Psychic Highschooler. Except he doesnt want any friends and will go out of his way to avoid anything that sounds like it would be a nuisance, unless it will benefit him in some way.

Each episode is 5 minutes, until a little later on when they are 20. 5 minutes seems short, but it really fits in with the format of the show well. Plus most episodes are outright hilarious. I laughed outright on the first and second eps and that was enough to get me hooked.

All the characters that Saiki interact with are great. They are all the anime cliches (the idiot, the PUMPED UP SPORTS GUY, the beautiful popular girl, etc, etc) but they are played around with so well. The anime really doesn't take itself seriously at all, so later on the 4th wall breaking jokes feel pretty natural instead of being way out of place. Sometimes 4th wall breaking can kill off a joke, but here its done pretty well.


The animation is nice, the art is good and the enjoyment is easily a solid 10 just for the Teruhashi episodes alone! I'm just gutted that I've now finished them all!

I would sum up "Kiss Him, Not Me!" as silly yet fun shoujo that doesn't take itself too seriously. If you're in the mood for something that you don't have to think about too much, (which is what I sometimes need!), this ones a pretty safe bet to give you a smile.

The plot is pretty silly, its basically a harem revolving around a female fujoshi who *magically* loses weight after a week from being depressed over her favourite anime character dying. Except, what really kind of makes me laugh is the fact that she really doesn't enjoy that so much and ships each of ... her male fans with each other (lol).

This is kind of what sold it for me and while I think it could focus more on the MC shipping the guys together (instead its more all of the guys fighting for her attention, which isn't nearly as fun) it's still pretty great.


Minor spoilers ahead! From this post I've read up to 15 chapters.

Story: 6/10 - apart from the obvious twist on the story, the rest is pretty standard. There's a beach arc, a school festival, bla bla bla. Nothing all too new

Art: 7/10 - Again, art is very standard shoujo - it's not going to take your breath away, but it's not badly drawn either.

Character: 8/10 - Something I never thought I would say on a *shoujo romance* but *damn* I actually really love the friendship between the MC and her BFF. The author completely ignores going down the drama route of the best friend being potentially jealous of the MC's new harem following and instead she just finds it hilarious and joins in with shipping the guys. Both of their interactions as best mates are really natural and I kind of love them a little bit. (A-chan is the besttt)

In terms of the guys, they are allriiiight. They develop a little, or at least they develop in the way you expect them to in a shoujo. I do love the fact that a lesbian (or potentially bi, I guess?) girl turns up at one point and ends up joining the harem. I wasn't expecting that and (unfortunately?) im now totally going to ship those two together, though I know they won't be the end ship. It would be great if all the guys got together and left the girls to get together, though.


Overall I am really enjoying reading this so far, its not going to blow your mind with how deep it is (I mean, they only start crushing on the girl after she loses weight), but it's still really cute and it's worth a read just to have a laugh at the two friends freaking out over shipping the hot guys. It would just be a little better if they would stick to the title of kissing him and not her!

To sum up Shitsurakuen: girls are just objects, guys are dicks.


Just imagine a story based on this, but instead of the girls being used sexually, they are being used as "weapons" in some bizarre game. The guys collect girls in some sort of weapon harem and only the guys that "own" their "weapon" can touch them.


This is the premise and it doesn't get much better. The main character, despite being a girl somehow is one of the "knights" like the guys and isn't classed as a weapon. So she jumps in all SUPER GENGKI and saves the day by saving all the girls ... from their abusers. If this is something that appeals to you, then cool, all good. I would've been into this too, if the villains were like monsters or something instead of just.... guys. I've kind of had enough of seeing guys as being instantly bad in yuri mangas.


The storyline makes little to no sense and all the other girls apart from GENGKI GIRL are pitiful. The guys are all wankers and then you have the MC's childhood friend who just sits all aloof and makes aloof comments every so often.



This was as far as I got and I don't really have any inclination to go any further.

To clarify, before I start, I usually hate love-triangles. I feel like in many mangas they are a cheap plot device to create drama - you have the love triangle where you have the two main characters who are the obvious couple, and then that ex who won't leave/that unrequited love/the clingy other love interest who guilt trips one character to be with them.

Not in Nanashi no Asterism, though!

The three are all friends who all platonically care about each other a lot. Without spoiling too much, all I can say is that the love triangle is a *proper* love triangle. Not one of ... those two way love stories with that extra on the side. Oh no. Nanashi no Asterism likes to make these things as complicated and messed up as much as possible.


The characters are all great. Each have their own distinct personality and their own point of view on their respective situations. Theres a couple of side characters who I want to wind up being a yaoi couple (we'll see), though apart from that, I'm not really invested in anyone apart from the three mains.

Art's pretty good, very expressive faces which is important in these kind of angst ridden situations. On the whole, while it doesn't seem much on the outside - to me I was just expecting another cliched yuri story - this is really turning into a little gem of a story. It could easily change, of course, but as of right now this is one of my favourite yuri mangas out there.


tl;dr: Not your typical stupid love-triangle, it actually deals with the consequences and mess of being IN a love triangle and the struggles of what choices to make and what to give up. Though it still carries good comedic moments and the characters are all so cute and you end up cheering them on regardless of how hopeless it all seems to be. I would totally say it is worth a read!

Cute, funny, great and genuine characters - this pretty much sums up this manhua. I love this series so much, as of writing this review I'm on chapter 119 and it feels like not a lot has happened and yet I'm still enjoying it all the same.


The two mains are [b]adorable[/b]. I don't use this lightly, but each chapter with them in is ridiculously cute and the humour between them both is laugh out loud funny. Though this is also the case with the rest of the cast, all of them have a little place in my heart. The relationship between one of the ... main girls and her best friend mophead is just hilarious and I love seeing their banter.


This is one of my top 3 yuri mangas at this point in time, and seeing as I've read a [b] ridiculous [/b] amount of yuri manga, this is a big deal. If you are a fan of slice-of-life, yuri with actual characters that are real and warm - check out this manhua! You wont regret it.

Berserk is the best fantasy manga I've ever read. With that, I'm now going to start with the negatives. I love it, but it still has it's flaws.

- The first three volumes: before it gets to the hailed Golden Arc, the first 3 volumes are boring, edging onto cliched and while I was reading them, I was genuinely feeling disappointed throughout, as I had been given high expectations when reading some reviews on here. Thankfully, it gets better after those three volumes, but just be warned that they are not great.

- Nearly everyone is in love/is a fan of the protagonist. (That ol' ... cliche)

- Puck is irritating as comic relief (though he gets thankfully less and less screentime)

- Sometimes it feels like it's being unecessarily dark: you will see a *lot* of scenes where women are being raped by disgusting looking creatures and when scenes like this happen nearly every arc, it gets tiring and feels gross. This is more personal preference than anything else, it's not a thing I particularly enjoy reading about.

The last one is probably my main gripe with the series, the rest I can quite happily forgive because of the outweighing positives.


Story: The storyline is ridiculously engaging, and despite the manga being so long (a little less than 350 chapters as of this review), there are hardly any "filler" arcs. If an arc isn't focusing on Guts, it will be focusing on Griffith or it will be focusing on any other of the main characters. This is refreshing, compared to something like One Piece (which is a solid favourite of mine) which can easily dip into "filler" arcs every so often.

The world building is excellent and you feel like you understand the world that Guts lives in, without having to have a stupid amount of background context or story explaining everything. The reasons for the wars and the fighting makes sense and there isn't an overcomplicated political plot - politics are not hashed out constantly so the reader gets bored.


Art: The art isn't great at first - like with all mangakas - but it gets better and better. The recent chapters are beautiful to read and the amount of work that goes into complicated backgrounds shows. When things start to get fantastical, you get that coming through so clearly and magically in the manga and it is wonderful to read.


Character: Characters are really a strong point for me in Berserk, all of the main characters feel real and have their own distinct personalities and opinions, as well as their own flaws. To me, I would say that Berserk actually comes into its own not after the Golden Arc, but actually when Guts starts travelling with another group of characters later on in the story.



On the whole, Berserk is a wonderful fantasy manga that really grips you into reading. It plays around with the tropes of "light" and "darkness" a lot, but in a way different from most stories that I've read before and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of adventure/fantasy mangas. The way it deals with revenge is very refreshing and I have only praise for how it portrays such a vast and diverse group of characters.

Doubt. So, the premise is that there is a cell phone game where you have to figure out who the killer is, kind of like wink murder, except its with rabbits and a wolf. A wolf has blended in with the group of rabbits, and in this game the rabbits have to figure out who the wolf is before they all get eaten. Except our group of characters wake up to find themselves playing the game for real.

I've read various horror/thriller mangas with a gameshow gimmick, the idea isn't particularly new but I enjoy this kind of theme a lot, so I though what the ... heck, I'll give this a go.

Doubt in a word is... underwhelming. It rushes you through the plots and the backstory, making you feel like you shouldn't really care about whats going on, which, quite frankly, I didn't. The characters good time together when they meet for the first time doing karaoke seemed really forced and then bam thats as much context as you get with them as they wake up in a abandoned warehouse or something and have to play a game and can only open doors via barcodes on a part of their body. (999 it aint)

The characters are one dimensional and boring. You see a tiny piece of each persons backstory, but that's it. No one has any sense of personality and no one really shows that much emotion either. It's all very bland. The wolf is glaringly obvious until the very end when you get a what the fuck plot twist that makes no logical sense, but sure all right we'll roll with it. I didn't really care regardless, I just carried on, wanting to finish the thing.

I'll give it one thing, though. The ending was great. Fucking amazingly hilarious. I'm sure it was supposed to be clever, which it wasn't, but damn it was a great way to end this manga.

I'm still not quite sure how I feel about Punpun. There were times where I cried, where I felt disgusted and times where I just outright couldn't feel any ounce of of sympathy or empathy towards Punpun at all. I felt like he deserved all that came to him, though so did he, which gave no feeling of satisfaction at all. Then my emotions would flip and I would feel overwhelmingly bad for feeling that way in the first place and just wanted everything to turn out OK somehow.

Punpun is a dark, twisted, coming of age story that felt like it could've been prevented ... if Punpun wasn't himself. His struggles are frequently pointed out as not being the struggles they really need to be if he just sorted himself out. But he doesn't. Because he can't. Everything is his own fault, but at the same time, you feel like you can't blame him for it. It's a constant up and down.

I have been hooked on this manga and read it all in around 2 days. I can't say I enjoyed it and I'm not sure I'll ever read it again, but Punpun is an experience. You live this boys life all the way to his 20's and while he seems a mediocre, quiet character, we soon see that his life, and he himself isn't like that at all.