This manga inspired me to write a review because it's so close to being decent, but falls flat on a bunch of fundamental levels. It kept me reading almost out of sheer frustration.
The biggest sin this manga commits is massive exposition dumps in nearly every chapter. It feels like the manga is never finished explaining things to the audience; explaining who characters are, explaining the boring power system, explaining what some magic item or potion or whatever MacGuffin this issue revolves around. This is a flaw that pops up a lot in manga adapted from light novels, instead of portraying the details
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Feb 4, 2021
Juujika no Rokunin
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I found this while looking for a new horror manga to try, and the first chapter drew me in. It appeared to be setting up a compelling revenge story based around complex characters in a morally grey world.
My first impression was wrong. This is not horror, it's torture porn. The issue is not the violence and gore, I can enjoy that when the story calls for extreme imagery. The issue is every plot development unfolding in an incredibly contrived way to put a character in a situation where they are about to be raped or tortured. Events never unfold in ... 
Sep 22, 2011
Gun Frontier
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Gun Frontier is a manga you should check out if manly romance is far more important to you than art. Personally I liked the art, but it definitely takes some getting used to.
Gun Frontier is an adaption of the Space Pirate Harlock series, placing the badass space captain Harlock in the old American west as a badass cowboy type gunslinger. Along with him, as an equal rather than a sidekick, is his friend the small samurai Tochiro. Together they search for their people, a group of native Japanese settlers who had formed a tribe in tribal America only to have its people ... |
