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Youkai Apartment no Yuuga na Nichijou beggins as a cozy story about a teenage boy struggling with family affairs. It follows a nice pace, with an overall wholesome story filled with supernatural events (which adds some flair, although it never gets too scary). It does, though, at some point, mixed with the usefull life advices destined for a young audience, mix in some honestly full blown boomer logic that feels a bit odd. If you can enjoy some wholesome spirits guiding a teen's self reflection path then go on, to me it felt like the author wanted to rant about "the good old times" and ... just went ahead, pretty closeminded and sometimes even contradictory. In that sense, do not expect great female characters. The male characters, for their part, seem also pretty much copy-and-pasted (whith different looks, they are basically all just good, hard-working, honest men, which is what the author seems to want to get across: "this is how you should be to succeed in life").
All in all, up to chapter 100 and so, I would say it's an okay story to read if you're bored and young (or very old, too); but the story could (and shoul have) ended by then. These last chapters continue the story by covering a time skip for which we already know the resolution so it's getting pretty formulaic.

I have mixed feelings for the art as well, a lot of effort is put on the male characters and making certain things look luxurious, but i don't know. It's not my style but i get that's a personal viewpoint. It's not bad though.

Overall, I could say I enojoyed this up to chapter 50 or so, then it started to get repetitive and more blunt about certain let's say "old school" viewpoints that could be thinked of differently. If you don't mind this or know a kid who is looking up something nice to read, go ahead.

I just binge-read this and I made the effort not to drop this just so I could make a proper review.

This was a terrible horror manga. You could put together a random series of gore images and get a better result that the whole 7 volumes of Shokuryou Jinrui. Why? Because the plot is an absolute mess and the characters are a joke.
It's pretty common to read people complaining about plots and disregarding it because, well, yeah, sometimes some mangas don't have good plots but they're still enjoyable. This is not the case. I will not spoil anything so more people can feel inclined to ... read this review, but basically nothing matters. There's so many jumps, inconsistencies, contradictions that the whole possible story loses any meaning. The plot doesn't make sense to such an extent that you just can't care about the story not the characters even a bit. It's so bad it makes you wonder if you skipped a "comedy" tag when reading the plot summary.

(And I'm not even mentioning the many moments that take your suspension of disbelief and just go the extra mile, so anything you read feels downright dumb; nor the cliches that feel absolutely outdated for this day and age).

The characters are build just like the plot that holds them, so all you have left is some kinda cool looking art that you could easily enjoy with a simple google search and call it a day. No one, absolutely no one, needs over 60 chapters of cringy storytelling just for a couple cool shots.

This is a random collection of images trying to disrespect your intellect for 7 volumes. Anyone trying to figure out if it's worth the read should take my word for it and skip this one.

This is the review I wish I had read before going all into this manga: DO NOT READ THIS, THIS ISN'T TECHNICALLY A STORY ON ITS OWN.

I will give a full review but firt I'll try to explain what I mean: the ending killed this manga.

(from here on, I do not consider this to be a spolier nor it be formulated as one, but just to play it safe I'll warn for POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
The story hooks you up for 138 chapters only to throw, at the very last one, a "oh actually this is kind of a SEQUEL to another very long and convoluted manga ... from the same author and you won't understand A THING if you haven't read that one". 138 chapters mate, 138. Not only that, but the ending doesn't... really happen? You're told what happens but you don't see it play into action, so double bummer.

(minor possible spoilers OVER)

All in all I have really conflicting feelings over this manga (I actually put off reading it for years, only to read it as a celebration for graduating college):
( I will not discuss incest, rape and such because it has already been mentioned and many people don't care so read the following as "I'm conflicted even if there wasn't none of that stuff")

The art is very nice and has a bit of an unique feeling; while some say it's odd at times, I think it's part of the author's style, so there's that on one hand. I liked the characters, most are well executed (except the ones that the mangaka takes from previous works...) and their actions make sense for them, even the gruesome parts or the slurs.The story is... a whole different thing. I loved it at first, and I wanted to believe in it even when it had just a few chapters left and multiple plot points left untouched. I truly did, believe me when I say I was truly rooting for the story, no matter how simple, straight-foward or overly complicated (paradoxically) it was. But ripping us all out of an ending, just being told what supossedly happen honestly killed anything the story could,ve possibly had for it and saddened me to no end (it also ruined the characters, because they were left with no further development and things were taken into... other characters' hands). I literally had to check here on MAL if I had accidentally skipped any chapters or was being trolled. I was not, that the story, that was the ending.

I hope I wrote this thing right this time and I hope whoever is behind the screen, thinking "oh this could be a nice, rewarding read, I should dedicate my very last moments of free time before entering the work force to this" gets saved of the sadness I have been experiencing ever since I read that last chapter.
All in all, it could have been a very good manga but it woke up and chose murder.

The synopsis literally tells you the whole story. Everything. There isn't a single piece of information you're missing.
What you read is what you get, although the art style did fill a bit... Ugly? More like, rushed? maybe.
It could have been a bit creepier with a better art style, and maybe without the shoujo tag on.
I feel like this review is longer than the one-shot itself but MAL won't let me post this otherwise and I always write reviews that I feel like I would have liked to check before deciding to read the manga.
Even if it's not so good it takes no time to ... read so I would suggest to go on anyway, but maybe don't expect the art style to go with the horror tag because it won't.

This is probably not a fair review but I'm aiming for a neccesary one.
Kono yo no owari e no tabi's story can be summed as a repeating dream (hence the surrealism) of an apathetic man. Nothing else. It's not one of those weird and kinda interesting dreams we all have every now and then, but one of those you have when you went to bed late and you gotta wake up early to go to work: not good, a bit boring, almost wishing you could just wake up already, go to work and be over with it so you can go to bed earlier the ... next day and maybe then have a decent dream.
If this is your first time reading the Nishioka kyoudai then you'll think the art style is interesting but it's actually pretty lazy considering other works.
Overall, this manga is a looks over substance kind of story, don't let the "deep" themes fool you (because they're just there, in the surface and nothing else), and even then the "looks" part is not the best this duo could offer.
If you were looking for entertainment, don't read this. If you're just into the aesthetics and surrealism, hit it.

This probably won't be a fair nor deep review, but it's the kind of review I needed when I was considering reading this manga.
Gamurakan is... quite the horror manga. The synopsis really doesn't tell you a thing about the story but there's no synopsis that could ever do so.
If I try my best to express my experience reading Gamurakan without spoiling anything, I'd have to say it was... Boring. I found it boring. I can trace scenes and images that would be very interesting for people who are into lovecraftian horror or brainstorming solutions to unanswered questions, but personally it just wasn't my cup of ... tea. What makes me have fun with horror is how interesting the plot is and the tension the story can build. Gamurakan doesn't have that, which doesn't make it straight up bad, but simply not everyone's style.
Gamurakan is a strange bowl of body snatchers mixed with cosmis horror maybe? A lot of sexual content and just a very (very) few Junji Ito-ian styled images. You won't really know what happened, how is Gamurakan's world built, nor probably remember any characters. If you're in for weird horror, go on. If you were expecting an interesting plot with creepy looking girls, this isn't it, chief.

Ther moment I finished this series I ran to MAL expecting to find a review that could put into words the absolute MESS this anime was, but I was surprised to find overall positive reviews so here goes my pessimist review, for those not willing to lost their valuable time.

The story is as common as it get: an edgy dude with some talent, a semi-loli girl and an apocaliptic world. The twist: oh, zombies? No, that's boring, the problem here are... Insects! Genius!
It was kinda simple but it caught my eye and I decided to give it a go even if the animation was awful, ... I thought maybe it could be worth it or, at the very least, it could be something to just have playing in the backround while I did the dishes.
It was not.
The story is completely senseless, and I will not spoil you here, but in case anyone can judge this a spoiler, I'll mark it:

(potential minor spoiler ahead)

Basically at a certain point the "plot" becames clear and so does the "enemy's plan". The thing is... The resources and time needed for said plan... could've just... solved the plot?? It just had no reason and it would be very, very hard to make a solid argument to really deffend that ""plan"".

The "twists" in the story are not twists at all, actually, it would have been weird if they didn't happen.

(potential minor spoiler ended)

Generally speaking, the characters are lousy, superficial, irrelevant and not fun nor even cute. Maybe Mario was okay but that's it. But don't worry, it won't really matter cause the desing and animation are so bad that you could HARDLY tell a couple characters apart. They also pull a "oh I bet you didn't think this person was gonna come back like this" and you're just there like.. "who?? I've never seen this person fr".
Random things happen for absolutely no reason just to force "emotional" moments and the romance is as forced as the attempted sexual intercourse depicted. It was awful. Let's just say it makes you guess why they never really tell you the age of certain character.

All in all, forced plot, forced characters, TW for sexual assault, boring, predictable, ugly. There's not a single redeemable quality for this absolute piece of trash.

I never do such negative reviews cause I'm an old lady who feels guilt and thinks that, even if it was very bad, there was a whole team behind that trash who did their best. But a friend once said "that just makes it worst! It means a WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE saw it was terrible and decided to go on anyway!".
So here I am, ranting, and hopefully saving you the time I will never, ever, get back.

Before I go on, someone has to state that this manga has been dropped by the author. It has an ending but if you don't like abrupt, rushed endings then don't go on with this one, chief.

I know I'm not supposed to write about the plot summary but since this one doesn't have one, I'll cover it up quickly: it's your good old "girl can see ghosts" trope, but add two dudes who can astral project and sometimes help her out.

The manga has some potential up there going, if you don't mind the author drawing unnecessary ecchi scenes/covers with a minor, but, as I said, ... it was dropped. At least it got some kind of ending but the potential is still so clear that it's a very frustrating read, I absolutely cannot recommend this one.

This is yet another entry to the Tomie universe, if you will. The description already covers most of it, honestly: A man falls for Tomie but not quite, he actually wants to steal her body, as in, posses her. It's an interesting twist for the story, but not much more lore-wise (is there even a lore? I feel like people elucubrate many theories about Tomie so forgive the term just this time). It is still a very enjoyable read if you are a Junji Ito fan.
I can't say much more not to spoil, but I recommend this, even if you have no clue ... who Tomie is.

I never considered bringing my real life into this site where I just check what new anime is out but HEAR ME OUT FOR A SECOND.
I'm a psychology student, 0,3% away from my degree (as you can see, I read manga late at night instead of writing my thesis), ans I was SHOCKED when I read this.
Nagata narrates experiencies, feelings and thoughts that people usually have an excruciatingly difficulty to put into words. She did not only WRITE those words but DREW THEM. I think this could help many people that are going through a therapeutic process but are stuck, unable to connect to ... some very, very early experiencies that mark all of us since we are born and exchange looks, words, smiles and touch with those arround us.
This manga is so important. You might read this and not understand why she suffers so much. I think that would be great, you don't lose anything if you can't relate, you simply spend a bit of time reading some very pink pages. But if you ever felt weird, lonely, disconnected from reality and never knew why, or thought what could be causing that, this is it. I'm not saying what happens to her is what happens to you, but the way she taps into something so deep and personal while allowing herself to express something so hard to even think about sometimes, will probably help you to re-think your own experiences.
This is an absolutely underestimated peace of art (and boy, do I wanna give a lecture about this manga someday).
10/10 recommend (gave it a 9 though, because, well, it's sad sometimes so it's not 100% a wonderfull experience)