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Mar 21, 2025
Imagine if you took a good manhwa like Tower of God and made it Solo Leveling, ORV, or whatever, this is basically Player.
Everything is extremely fast paced, only one thing is allowed to happen per chapter, everybody is extremely fickle and over the top. I guess it isn't the worst, it's better than a lot of throw away Isekais, but you shouldn't torture yourself with it, even if you are that bored.
The art reminded me a bit of Ember Knight which is a few leagues above this but it really doesn't make up for the story. Also the clear KonoSuba reference in the Isekai was
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particularly jarring.
I guess it isn't that much worse than Skeleton Soldier or Latna Saga, but still unreadable for me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Mar 7, 2025
The other reviewer is confused, this manhwa was indeed axed at 29, with the reboot being currently in progress at the time of this writing.
This manhwa had so much going for it, it's a mix of A Man's Man with your average dungeon manhwa, but they go into a lot more detail about the stock market and a general overview the main events in economical history past the 90s, the art style was really good as well. I think they axed it because it was slow paced, I can imagine the author must be overjoyed that they destroyed the story in the reboot, you can
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even see that they added one extra writer, he must be like a kortrash assassin, going to awesome series and poisoning them with generic-ness.
Long story short, don't read this, it was too good to have been axed so early (at least for it's standards) so you'll try to read the reboot and mistakenly think that you've opened instead THE HEAVENLY SOLO RETURNER'S CHEAT CODE LEGENDARY LEVELING DUNGEON CULTIVATION CHEAT CODE REGRESSOR and want to gauge your eyes out with a rusty spoon.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Nov 14, 2024
Although Diamond no Kouzai's plot is about the best pitcher in the world, it's actually a manga about losing, and especially, the losers, the feeling of hopeless, of jealousy. It perfectly portrays, even to the level of excess, that mostly untouched topic in sports manga.
When Kou, from Cross Game, throws a perfect game and we get to see the reaction's of the losers, or the teammates that didn't make the cut, we see them, although sad, at least in someway also glad, they realize that the nature of sports is winning or losing, and even if they are jealous, or angry, they never let that
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get the best of them, and especially never lash out, the one's that do are always the villain. Diamond no Kouzai does the opposite.
We've all felt it, the jealousy, when someone is so good that it seems unfair, like something should happen, maybe even to that person, to balance it out, we even get angry when that person complains about something, because he has it too good to complain, we get angry when he tries to help the less perfect ones, because he would never understand, but we are also self-aware of that feeling, that the person hasn't done anything wrong, and that, at the end of the day, it's our own fault. Kouzai portrays that exact feeling in every chapter, it's gut-wrenching, I actually even felt sick reading it, but that's why it's so good.
This is an incredibly unique manga in the world of baseball mangas, it makes you feel some many things that you can't decide in either stop or continue reading, and I couldn't recommend it more.
This is my first positive review, I simply couldn't let this incredible manga only have negative reviews.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 24, 2024
Have you ever wanted to read a yankii manga like Crows, but instead of depth, the characters have pinterest fashion? Maybe you thought that Tokyo Revengers didn't suck enough ass, and you were craving something that disgraced the bosozuku genre even more? Well, this is it, this is the manga you've been waiting for, it really doesn't get any worse.
This is what OG shounen manga readers, from the times of Dragon Ball or City Hunter or even the Fist of the North Star would've felt like if they read Black Cover. This is the old Beatles' fan Imagine Dragons. This is the new MacDonald's
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french fries.
Go read Worst, or Crows, or QP, or Clover, or any yankii manga that would've passed the Turing Test if it were a computer. Please, especially if this and Tokyo Revengers are your only experience with the delinquent/bosozuku/yankii genre.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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May 4, 2024
This manhwa is the kortrash degeneration of the classic yanki delinquent troupe. Where legendary mangas like Crows, Worst, Good-for-Nothing Blues and even Young GTO (which this manhwa pays homage to!) plus many, many others, became classics representing 80s style delinquents, their friendships, fights and gangs, this manhwa walks the same path just to jerk itself off into an over-the-top, bland and overplayed korean shounen.
Up until the end of the first season, this manhwa was keeping itself together well, the main character becoming entangled with gang life, starting as a loser who lost it all and slowly becoming a hard-working loser who's starting to earn his
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life, making friends, training, protecting who he holds dearly and earning his pay.
Unlike most Japanese mangas, this manhwa established itself focusing more on the youth gangs, rather than the school, comparable to either the Tong/Blood Rain series or Bakuon Rettou, however, unlike, for example, the aforementioned Tong, which is also korean, To Not Die completely blundered it's switch to the more serious aspects of gang-life in the second season.
Instead of actually establishing the gang as an entity, it became just the background character for the main-characters and their hero friends. Their gang, even if more of a "companionship of homeless kids" (what small local gang isn't) than a part of the mafia, is the front line of goodness, always protecting their kids and their community against the comically evil villain gangs, which, if you hadn't notice how evil they are, love kidnapping old ladies, promoting prostitution, redistributing drugs and being sadistic for the sake of it. The main character, the lovable hardworking loser, suddenly becomes a jacked calculating monster, as if all the korean cultivation, cheat code, OP character manhwas slowly poisoned this work, becoming no different from all the kortrash you've ever read. The fights are boring, the villains are awfully written, the friendships bland, and the setting is uncreative.
Finishing up, as you can see, I do not like this manhwa, especially as a lover of the delinquent troupe, and To Not Die started very well, which made all the more sad, not to say that koreans can't do delinquent works, the whole Dokgo/Tong/Blood Rain series are one of my favorite manhwas ever, and Bal Jak is a classic of the genre, however, this one, just ain't it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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