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Looks promising. A high energy manga. At first it seemed a bit amateurish, eight chapters in and he's improved at drawing women. If he can maintain the energy with the "monster of the week/ suspense mystery" format he's got between Matsumoto and the cop, it will be good. At this point, I have faith that he'll continue to think of new ways to make races exciting. The friendship between matsumoto and the cop is cool, somehow he makes cycling look interesting. Characters have understandable and interesting motives.

Matsumoto's "Zoom Zoom" catchphrase is annoying and feels forced, though maybe this is different in japanese. I hope he ... can re-implement this somehow or just stop doing it.

I haven't really done it justice with this review, it's really worth a read. You'll know if you like it or not from the first three chapters.

Good visuals and Audio hampered by terrible writing.

The first episode seemed good, every arc after that has extremely obvious or out of left field twist, the limited cast of characters are interesting at first, but shallow (this is a plot driven show so this is okay), despite this, concept is unique. It's annoying that the story doesn't seem to be able to deliver satisfying developments based on the premise, I assume this is not the fault of the studio, as this was based off a manga.

This is a product that could cater to the Agame Ga Kill/ High School of the Dead audience ... (that age bracket), despite not being as entertaining or over-the-top, it's a slower feel but there's some comedy/ character moments and it's not something as monotonous as Mars Red.

Pretty much everything (character design, animation, audio, no jarring inconsistencies etc) is good except the style of writing, but this really kills it for me.

This is an insult to life. The main character is a psychotic.


He values something pathetic like 'art' over human life, not in a edgy psychopath way either, the manchild un-existed his loving daughter so he could be eighteen for the third time and take university art classes again. He even seems to stop and consider this, crying while hugging his daughter seeing her and his wife lovingly send him off to work, there's no real reason why he should do this, no point or purpose. He just makes her cease to exist so he can 'relive those youthful days~~'. Burn in hell.

Despite looking at several ... different fields, the VN focus was the only one that provided insight, if you're keen on finding more about this, watch 16-bit sensation, likable characters, cool history, very fun show, but if you've already seen this and other game-making anime like New Game! and Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, I'd suggest skipping directly to the doujin creation arc (around episode 6) and then dropping once that's done (when they're celebrating the end of the project and he hears about the male writer friend doing X).

Art - 7
V/A / music - 7
Writing - 3 in general, 1 in respect to the overall narrative
Characters other than Mc - likable at first then bland 3 or 2

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Asshou is a slice of life college manga with some wish fulfillment romance aspects and a good moral. The chapters are pretty short (+quick to read) and it gets good after chapter 25.

{SPOILERS}

This entry looks like the first work of the mangaka and asshou reflects this. It starts as some boring otaku bait wish fulfillment trash and then switches the route of the story. This can be inferred by the way the characters change suddenly. Chapters 1-4 4-9 and 10 onward seem to be leading different directions and the story decisively changes to become more entertaining. The story turns from "otaku ... hangs out with busty (virgin) otaku girl???" to a relationship drama into a conspiracy mystery plot about serial murders/suicide AIDS. The story starts to shift frequently between characters and works on establishing and developing the motives of all the characters. The subversion of what had clearly originally been intended is very well appreciated and the development of the plot into a investigative mystery is pulled off extremely well, despite the fast movement of the plot, the story still seems grounded, the characters are likable and for the sake of their relationships you care about them.


( SCORES )
Art - 7 professional, clean, pretty standard but not soulless

Story/ characters - 6 Shallow but likable and entertaining

Enjoyment - 9

If you like trashy manga like tomodachi game or the good arc from dead tube you'll probably enjoy this.

Salman shines brightly and fiercely in a medium of unrealistic, infantilizing and childish stories, it is a shining star of effort and love in a medium of cash grabs and cheap appeals. It's good humor and consistent frame leaves you not associating with or putting yourself in place of but understanding and empathizing with the main character.

The crushing banality of everyday life is plainly shewn and the absence of a manic pixie type character pushing a social life on the unwilling aloof main character loser trying to relax on the clearly known japanese high-school roof, is refreshing in this modern age, Instead of caricatures you ... have characters living out their days some selfish or cruel at times but never truly evil.

The titular character Salman is a lost youth, searching for his father, meaning and a place in this world. Nervously trying to see if he can find life or will be ultimately despised and scourged by human society. He takes others at their word, unused to human treachery or cowardice, being used to the honest savagery of nature himself. The art is distinct and utilizes angles to make clear the seriousness of the story from the main characters perspective, you can take the trivialities of youth seriously through this frame. In this the manga doesn't flinch or rely on cheap comic gags to shy away from itself, 30 year old characters aren't given childish frames and the women aren't given ridiculous shapes set to draw lechery from the heart of the reader. The story so far is amazing and shows a new path forward for this stagnant industry known for popular titles these days as "Shishunki to Danshikou" and "Zenbu Kimi no sei" (filth). This manga will NEVER get an anime adaption ONLY because it bravely challenges all the rotten, feted archetypes of the medium and in doing what other manga rarely do these days it has won applause from me. As i have better things to do with my time so i won't be reading the rest of the manga, but from what i've seen so far, this kino, this masterpiece of artwork and writing will surely leave your favourite work ashamedly limping through an alley naked by comparison. I rate it 10/10