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Nov 5, 2022
This is a very fun and light hearted piece of sci-fi historical fiction that feels like it was made with mountains of love at every step of the way. The author never fails to convey how much they love both Roman and Japanese cultures, and will often go on very long tangents at the end of each chapter to teach you a little bit of Roman history or Japanese culture to help give further context to the chapter you just read.
It's a cute, funny, and shockingly very educational, little read with a nice little bow to tie things off at the end. I highly
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recommend this series to lovers of history, or people who like the meme-y thought experiment of "what if we showed ____ to a medival peasent." except turned up to 11. It's an awesome series with lots of laughs. Many kudos to the author.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 5, 2022
I love this anime to my core, and it played a fundamental part in how my tastes in anime and manga developed. It's a dark (both narratively and physically, like, holy hell even with full screen brightness you're gonna be pressed to make-out fine details lol), gritty, avant garde, sci-fi seinen. Not anything new or ground breaking on the surface, but I believe it's an excellent beginner series for those who are interested in darker seinen content but don't know how to bridge the gap between Psycho-Pass and Angel's Egg. It's gritty and experimental enough to convey that you're not watching a normal anime, but
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still has some light-hearted moments to give you breathers while treading the dark sea that is this anime and it's mythos (although be warned, you will be treading in blindness for a VERY long time before some serious light is shone on to whats going on).
This series often get's a bad wrap for being "confussing," but I think anyone who calls it confusing are people who never actually bother to watch the entire series. Now I'm not talking in terms of "oh, well if you pay close attention to this scene you can see X is conveying blah blah blah" no, I mean straight up (light spoiler) there is an episode about 3/4 through the run where the ENTIRE plot, mythos, and lore are spelled out plain as day. Like, it's so on the nose with it. The character damn near outright look directely into the camera and tell you whats really going on. Now dont get me wrong, in the context of the series it makes *almost* perfect sense, but I think it demonstrates much unfair hate this series gets, and also demonstrates why I believe this is a good transition series for those wanting to venture into grittier seinen series. It gives you the pieces and knowledge to help you dredge through other series that aren't as graceful as to spell out their plots to you.
Overall I highly recommend this series to those looking to broaden their scope of anime genres into darker and more avant garde territories.
P.S Don't get excited over the fact that a Radiohead song is the outro, unless your're pirating, Paranoid Android has been removed from like, all, online syndications due to copyright. Fits so well too :(
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Nov 5, 2022
This manga was, for the most part, a breath of fresh air in the modern romcom manga scene. While most modern romance manga usually leave the big confession scene for a series closer, Kaguya Sama instead treated it as a mid-series break in narrative, and used a lot of the remaining runtime to develop the plethora of side characters, as well as detail how a relationship between a sheltered heiress and a low-caste genius would playout. The manga wears the badge of "romance" proudly and deservedly, but I think at it's core it's about friendship and coming-of-age, and in that right it's damn near a
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masterpiece.
This manga ranks high in my romance list, but that doesn't mean it's without fault. I think something the manga stumbled on a lot, especially in it's later run, was something a lot of long-running SOL-ish comedy manga encounter, which is too many side characters with their fingers dipped in the plot, not deep enough to be memorable, but just enough that it turned the manga into a "guess who" scenario anytime a non-main-cast character made an apperence. It wasn't rare to have a random side character from like 60 chapters ago pop up and talk colloquially with a main character for an entire chapter. While I can see the merit in giving "life" to background NPCs, it's really taxing on readers who've been consuming this story 1 chapter a week for years. Very often I'd find myself throwing the names in the wiki or peeling through my older volumes for these character's single apperence just to give me some context on who the hell they are and why this main chacter is shooting the breeze like theyre lifelong friends. This issue became largely apperent near the finale of the manga, where an entire volume's worth of content is dedicated to saying farewell to characters who's names and faces most long-time readers would be pressed to remember.
Overall, however, I think whatever shortcomings this manga had are vastely outweight by the positives it achieved by being so daring of a romance manga. In an age where you're lucky if your favorite romcom ends with a peck on the lips, it's a bucket of refreshingly cold water to see one go above and beyond while exploring all facets of what a relationship entails, both pre and post confession. This manga, while not a masterclass of romance manga in general, definately deserves a position up there with the greats, and I wish Aka Akasaka much luck and success with Oshi no Ko, a current series he writes with similar depth and dramaticism. I'll miss this series' presence in my life, but I'll always be greatful for the life lessons it taught me while also providing a compelling story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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