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Please do not consider my thoughts on Sun-Ken Rock as representative towards the entirety of the story, as I dropped it before 10 volumes. With that said, from what I've read, I've seen enough to know that I probably wouldn't enjoy the rest of the series. TLDR at the end.

Sun-Ken Rock details the compelling world of gangs. The rise, the fall, the struggles, etc. Boichi crafts scenes of action and growth that are impactful.

The artwork is excellent. Hyper-realisitc and highly detailed, the action and the intense sequences are always a treat.

The characters can be very funny. Fans of Dr. Stone can draw similarities between that ... series and Sun-Ken Rock, as it not only shares the same illustrator, but it also shares a balance of tones from very comedic to very serious, and most of the characters are just as convincing as just young deliquents having fun, as well as some serious people in the suits.

My problem: Sun-Ken Rock is very sexualized. Too sexualized for my taste. Every woman in this manga has to have a panel dedicated to their boobs and panties in almost every scene, as well as be involved in MULTIPLE situations and scenarios that results in them getting their clothes taken off, both the "good" and "bad" scenarious alike. Most of the characteristics of the women in Sun-Ken Rock involves either wanting to have sex with Ken, their promiscuous nature, or an object of sexual gratification for others. And if it's neither, they'll still end up naked at some point for whatever reason.

I'm not critiquing SKR for having sexual content, but in the case of this series, the excessive sexual content serves to its detriment. By the time I dropped SKR, the last two or so volumes were dedicated to introducing female characters, all for the sake of building up a scenario where the end up naked, either by an attempt to be assaulted, or to want to have sex with Ken. I found that these sexualized events deviated from the compelling part sof the story that it had interrupted.

Once again, there is no problem with a manga being sexualized, but if you were engrossed in Sun-Ken Rock through its scenes of serious drama and its profound journey of growth, you may find these "sexual detours" bring the story to a screeching halt, as I found them to be.

When I compare Sun-Ken Rock to another series with graphic content like Berserk, in Berserk, even though the sexual content and the "negative" sexual scenarios such as assault depicted in Berserk I still found excessive, at least in Berserk I didn't feel like these scenes were detours from the compelling story, but rather went on to illustrate the dark world Berserk lived in. With Sun-Ken Rock, while the over-sexualization of women also serves that same purpose to some extent, the comedic tones of the manga also had sexualization that was detrimental to SKR and excessive.

TLDR: The prevalent problem of over-sexualization is frequent in the early volumes of Sun-Ken Rock, to the point of detrimenting from the story as well as the female characters. This problem could have very well improved throughout the following volumes, but I can't say if it does or not because I' dropped it. The sexual conent is frequent and excessive. For the final time, SKR being hyper-sexualized doesn't make it inherently bad, it just made it a manga I MYSELF couldn't see finishing. Even though I didn't enjoy my SKR experience, I'm sure plently of people will, with the manga's fantastic artwork, great fight scenes, and hell, if you enjoy your sexual content then this manga should be a good time. It's just that for myself and my reading preferences, my motivation to finish this fizzled out.

I feel really out of place rating this as low. Holyland is compelling in the areas it sets out to excel in. The fights are well grounded in realism and are quite convincing. Despite not being the necessarily high octane fights with explosive energy, the realisticness of the fights carry a decent amount of engagement. it's convincing that our main character, Yuu, can take on these opponents because the author does a great job articulating the dynamics of a street fight.

But when there aren't fights happening in Holyland, I am bored. While there are quite compelling characters such as our protagonist as well as ... Masaki, I found the dialogue losing my attention time and time again. i think holyland has some great aspects in story and character development, but it's masked by what feels to me as mundane dialogue. I'm reading all of these positive reviews and i feel like i too am seeing the great elements of holyland, but through my eyes I'm only recieving that experience in crumbs, piecing these elements myself past the messy dialogue.

Take a story like Teppu. I am only a few chapters in, and i find a similar amount of "compell-ness" in regards to its characters and it's story. Yet I am far more engaged towards Teppu that contains less fights. Why? The dialogue outside of fights in Teppu sells the story in a cleaner coherent presentation.

I will acknowledge once more that Holyland has some great things going for it, and that it's just me missing out on it as I've read. I recommend anyone to read Holyland for themselves, as while this is an honest review of me disliking it, I can attribute my dislike to this manga more as a visceral feeling that leads me to be distracted. I acknowledge the author is very good at crafting and articulating a fight scene, but when it comes to outside of fights, I'm just skimming through.

Think of it like this: A big MMA pay-per-view fight with many people watching. The fight is great, with the commentators enhancing it even further. But for me, my signal is bad. My Tv goes in and out with the fight coverage, and it's hard to watch. Even though it's a great fight, I'm not getting the best experience. This experience isn't reflected for everyone, as everyone else's TV's are good, and it's not for me to blame on the event itself. Holyland has some great things going for it, but it just didn't resonate my attention for long.

To display my feelings towards the 2nd season of assassination classroom along with the series as a whole, I'll present a series of questions.

Have you ever walked into a classroom at the beginning of the (term, sememster, trimester, year, whichever), not knowing what to expect. When you walked into the class, did you maybe know a few names, but otherwise had that similar feeling of unfamiliarity when starting a new class?

Did attending that class eventually grow out of that feeling of unfamilarity to something that was rather familiar? Did that class eventually come together for the sake of learning? Did the teacher not ... only facilitate engaging studies but also encourage positive interaction, even if it wasn't about the class material itself?

Did the students in the class not only come to interact postively for the sake of succeeding in the class, but to make memories with one another? Did the teacher encourage this atmosphere and allowed it, even if it felt like you were getting away from the topic of the class?

Did that class end up being the classroom that you looked forward to the most each time you went to school?

And at the end of the semester, trimester, class, whichever, did you leave that classroom not only now knowing everyone's names, but even bonded with them and learned a lot about them, including the teacher? Did the class end up being an atmosphere where everyone became friends with one another? Did this class end up being one you looked back on positively over the many other classes you may have attended?

I've had only a few classroom experiences like this, and for the ones that I have experienced this with I look back and treasure the few special classes that I've been apart of.

It's this visceral feeling that is so well replicated in Assassination Classroom.

Koro-sensei displays the attributes that make up the best teachers we've all had through school. These attributes consist of being hardworking, caring more about learning than grades, facilitating the opportunities to make one of a kind memories in the class, and so many more. Despite being this organism capable of such extreme things such as flying at Mach 20 or being able to teach 28 students one-on-one at the same time, he's flawed, and at least from the standard of what makes a good person, he makes it known that's it's very well possible to become as great of a person koro-sensei is.

As I look back to the best of the best classroom experiences I've had, I'll also look back on Assassination Classroom in that similar, nostalgic manner. The memories that the students and teachers created are amplified in the absurdity of the premise, but remain genuine as if it was a real life classroom and someone happened to press record. Where in the real world a certain classroom subject can reveal a bit about someone, AC takes it a step further in having us to get to know the characters along with their past and quirks through learning assassination. To see their growth not only be demonstrated through their assassination tehniques and methods, we watch the students, as well as teachers, utilize their growth in the real world. AC is constantly endearing, funny, and reminds me of the best parts of attending school.

Because the feeling I recieved while watching this series from start to finish was so visceral, I have a hard time rating it objectively.

In conclusion, I love this series a lot.

Right so..

Jojo's is creative at times I'll give it that. The utilization of stands, how they operate, and the dyanmics of battles that can occur through stands covered the high points of the anime.

With that said, that's about all I can PERSONALLY give it with creativity alongside it's art style. As for characters, while Jotaro is cool and cold, Joeseph and Polnareff are pretty funny, and pretty much everyone is smart and resourceful, I realized as i was 2/3's finished with the 2nd season of part 3 that i didn't care if any of the characters met their demise, and I had no ... feeling of urgency towards the villain because Dio, the main villain and the reason this adventure even occured, has no presence throughout most 3. Villains occupying each of the different tarot cards are given around two episodes each to shine, but each villian I felt only had a limited charm. Some of them we get a glimpse of their loyalty through Dio, but because I didn't feel much for Dio at all as an antagonist I couldn't feel for those who followed him as well.

The battles with the Stands are like I said, at times creative, and it was really interesting how each of the battles flowed with the constant thought of "which move will help which person come out on top?"always lingering. Anime follows a format where we get a glimpse inside the inner commentary of the characters so we know what they are thinking, but as for all 3 parts that I've seen, it made the outcomes of the battles extremely predictable based on the overexaggerated tone of the characters thoughts. For example, I could tell when either the protangonists or antongists make a move, and they are already saying to themselves they are gonna win, that it'll obviously not be over. The flow or the tide of the battle was always predictable. As a result, while creativity is shown, the intesity of the fights generally suffers.

As for art, I do like the style, as it pops out and was immediately unique since the first two parts. The placement of words through close ups and the "menacing" texts always grabs attention. The switches or contrasts in color also maintained high-staked scene structure. No complaints about art once.

I really wanted to push to watch the Dio fight as I've heard it's one of the best fights in the series. However, I had realized it had become a chore to watch and I was spending more time wondering if the fight will be worth it than actually taking the energy to watch it and finish the season. So consider the factor that I haven't finished this into the review, as maybe I'd look back more positively on the season if I completely finished. But, with everything that I saw prior, I decided it wasn't worth it for my tastes.

All in all, while as for enjoyment I give it a 5, I would rate it a 7 because it has a charm in here that maybe wasn't for my tastes, and I can see anyone else really enjoying this. While I don't feel too hot about Jojo's overall, I can acknowledge that it maybe isn't my thing. I probably won't watch parts 4 or 5 even if they are rated better because maybe it might not end up being my thing either. i do implore anyone who is interested to watch and decide, as like I said, this does have an accessible charm that has resonated with audiences and has allowed Jojo's to become one of the best selling manga series for a reason.

Overall: 7