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Mar 30, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (16/? chp)
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This manga starts out perfectly fine. It's about some anxious loser guy and a girl who likes to mess around with him. It's not a new formula and it doesn't do much to make itself stand out, but it's gimmicks function on a basic level. It generates enough cute and entertaining content to leave the reader with a pleasant aftertaste, even if there's not a lot of actual meat on its bones. The plot is practically non-existent, it's mostly just characters going on outings together, but one doesn't come to a story like this for a strong plot. The characters are okay, the guy's self ...
Nov 19, 2023
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This manga is an amazing fluffy slow burn romance that I think everyone should read.

But it won't be for everyone, as the manga is EXTREMELY slow burn and VERY fluffy. It's 144 chapters long and the characters don't confess until the end, it's actually funny trying to see the author use the themes in-story to justify the agonizing pace. There is little serious conflict to speak of. Not in the way where everything is unrealistically sappy and Brady Bunch-y, but in the way that it's often very mundane and so wholesome it's injectable type 2 diabetes. I personally prefer it this way, but to someone ...
Oct 22, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (217/? chp)
Spoiler
I might have rated it an 8 but I am somewhat mixed on my feelings about this manga.

The pros are that for the first 130 chapters, it's pretty great. It's wholesome and sweet and the 3 main characters are entertaining. The art is very pretty (although I'm not sure how to feel about the art from the newest volumes). There aren't as many characters for the story to trip over and it focuses on Tadano and Komi's relationship a lot more.

The cons are, however, that they must have put something in the waters of this manga because after volume 9 it starts to fall off ...
Mar 25, 2023
Mixed Feelings
This manga is highly disappointing. The art is really great but that's the only thing I like aside from the concept. I find Shikimori to be a very boring character and her gimmick is not as great as it sounds on paper. Izumi isn't as bad as her but I still don't care about him either. The romance is either kind of cringe or insufferably tepid. Usually I'm fine with stories where nothing happens as long as the characters are likable, but these are not. Their chemistry falls flat and it's kind of repetitive. I also don't mind repetitive stories, as long as it's a ...
Jan 3, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Spoiler
This disappointed me as I was really hyped for the concept and the first 4 episodes. It really had the potential to be something great or at least simple and fun but it kind of went on a downward tilt as it went on. TDLR because this is basically an essay: The show has good points but a very confused plot that drags it down a lot.

The characters were barely just strong enough to carry an episode and its momentum on a moment to moment basis. The ghosts and horror elements were cool, and the concept was interesting. But that's about all the positives I ...
Jul 20, 2022
The story is kind of interesting. A cross dressing teacher at a sexist school could maybe provide interesting commentary. But it doesn't bother and instead just has the most basic messages that could've been done. Even by 2001 standards it's downright primitive.

Also that stuff takes a backseat in the mess of a love square that eventually ties back into another message about true love or something. The romantic subplot also has hilariously little interesting things to say despite trying it's hardest to be inspirational.

The art was not very pleasant to look at. It almost gave a cursed feeling. I don't know how many ...
May 31, 2022
Mixed Feelings
The premise is really interesting but in execution it's so ungodly boring.

It's very much not funny and my face was :| the whole time. It feels like the writers pulled random unfunny scenarios from behind their backs and filling in the blanks with stale jokes and called it a day. A tip for this anime, you can't have toilet humor and ecchi this closely laced together, the former will always cancel out the latter in terms of effectiveness. Also toilet humor is for infants.

The premise is silly but that's not an issue for me.
The whole thing just feels like they do random stuff sometimes while ...
May 31, 2022
Splatoon (Manga) add
Preliminary (65/? chp)
Let me be clear. This isn't a good manga by almost any means.

Story: It's pretty confusing with the characters just seeming to zip around doing whatever they feel like whenever they feel like and winning most battles purely off of being too stupid to function.
They'll go through things in the game although very out of order and the manga does cross over to both games.
Arcs often end in just a few chapters and can be hard to follow due to the frenetic pace. I will compliment the Emperor arc for having some nice character drama and dramatic tension (even if the motivations following said drama ...
Mar 18, 2022
Petit Seka (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (7/10 eps)
I came to this anime expecting Vocaloid but they're barely in it??? Instead it's just the other Project Sekai characters and it's mostly boring and uninteresting.

Zero understandable plot here. Looks like I would have had to play the game to understand what they're doing or how anything works. Pretty sure anime adaptations should be accessible to everyone, but okay.

It's not like what's happening is even that interesting, it's just a music group doing things vaguely related to music but not music itself, preparing for it as if they're actually going to play something. You'd think it would be carried by the characters but I wouldn't ...


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