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I've finished reading it again and thought I might as well write a review.

I enjoyed reading it and never felt like dropping it (any time I've read it), but it never felt like a masterpiece either so I don't get all these 9 or 10 reviews.

The best part of the manga to me? Lambo-san, I just love that little guy, and so almost every page he's in gets a 10 from me. I'm sure many must have been annoyed by him.

The worst part for me? It just tried to be too much and doesn't manage any right. For close to 70 chapters it's a slice ... of life comic manga without much plot. This is definitely not my style, but I'm sure it could please many. After that it becomes a nekketsu, with powerups falling just when they're needed with no interesting reason behind them. Powerups even change some characters' weapons back and forth with again no good explanation (SPOILER a guy trains and goes from wielding 1 sword to 4, to then train to wield 2...SPOILER awesome logic!).


Let's not skip how annoying the main guy is. Yes he has to be for the story to work, but it's not best for the reader's enjoyment... To me, his battles were the most boring out of all.

There are many characters that are pretty cool but unfortunately they get little time, instead we have to read "To The Extreme" over and over again...That one character is so clumsy that he can't go down stairs without falling yet is one of the strongest in the story, that would work greatly in a comedy manga, but in a fighting one it feels too weird...

It also forces too many things to happen for the sake of enjoyment of the story, but it doesn't feel that good when it is so forced so it's difficult to enjoy...

SPOILERTsuna and his family pretty much being copies from the 1st family...Them also getting a brother family, that is so similar to them, and oh so strangely, the ones that get along the best between the families are the ones fighting against each other...SPOILER

I came to read Ouroboros as it was suggested on the Sanctuary page, and all in all it was a great recommendation.

Overall I enjoy reading Ouroboros, but reading it right after Sanctuary is unfortunately making me see it as weaker manga... They both have the very interesting light and shadow theme, but in Ouroboros the Shadow one (Tat-chan) seems to have not much more to do in his daily life than rescue his baby brother... I wish the story would portray both characters equally and not make one a side character with a weak background... plus the fact that help goes only one way makes ... the main character looks weaker, whereas he might not be..

The overall plot is quite interesting, but since the author keeps adding somewhat unrelated stories in between the advancement of the main plot, we could be there till the end of the century.. I understand that these stories are not completely unrelated and help to depict the world of Ouroboros but it slows down the main story too much in my book (I like short, intensive stories more than longer ones).