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This manga is example of that writing a review before reading complete manga is a bad idea. To me, this manga is great, but i have one problem with it , at the beginning it's very good and interesting but near the end it's just mediocre and boring.

This is a martial arts manga with a little bit of romance and comedy. The story is about Kenichi Shirahama - a teenage kid who learns martial arts and being inspired by Miu Furinji to become stronger and be able to protect her. The story plot is great but later from good martial arts manga it ... becomes very dull battle manga, with very flashy fights and very pathos speeches which makes no sense at all. Same problem with characters. There are a lot of really memorable and interesting characters, but at the end author throws so many new characters which appears only in couple of frames, which makes them looks unnecessary in story.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a really good manga. It is just a little bit disappointing to me how manga changed in long period of publishing. I still will recommend this to read, just don't expect to much from it.

I can't say exactly that kind of manga it is. It looks like romance-comedy, but it's lacking in both of this categories, or i may say all romance and comedy moments are kinda weak and generic. As so is manga itself looks very generic and all characters are just boring. One thing i found funny, that all lead characters have really stupid back story. The main plot of the story is that two people trying to help each over with their common problem, because they both has traumatized in past. But the reasons of those problems to me sounds just retarded. Some parts of story(especially ... of back story) makes no sense to me. It's looks like author himself can't decide that should it be: a serious story about relationships or just silly comedy with no logic.

I know that there is a lot of rage about ending, and i know that i am gonna be in minority here but i actually like the ending. More to the point, ending is best thing in that story. If you think about it, the whole story is just a mess and last chapter have more sense than whole manga itself. And the ending actually changed my opinion to more positive ones.

So in conclusion i still recommend this to read. Because it is short story and it will not take to much time to finish it.

When I read the description, I was thinking that this is some kind of "gender bender" type manga, but then I read into it, i was happily surprised that it is not like that. Most "Gender Bender" manga focusing on the idea that main character transforming from boy to girl or from girl to boy, in most awkward moments for comedy sake. And later on, those moments become very repetitive and boring. But this manga is different.

This manga is about girl named Megumi who wants to be boy because she was a boy long ago but evil spirit turn her into girl, so years ... after her transformation she still wants to become a male again. Even if she act like girl she still likes all boyish stuff(like fishing) and so she has no interest in opposite sex, but problem is that she became very beautiful and attractive. And so she starts to getting attention from all sorts of fellows.

I would describe it as "harem manga in reverse". So it is not about one worthless guy and many cute girls, its about one cute girl and many worthless guys. Megumi herself is very interesting character, so you cant clearly say is she really a man in female form, or she just a girl which trying to be a guy. The story is very good, but i have a couple of complaints. First of all it is still technically a comedy manga, and i found most of jokes and humor in general kinda weak. I also love Nishimori Hiroyuki art, he got his own unique style, but i found it a little bit lack in detail, so that some characters may looks very similar to others.

Overall it is very good manga, give it a try.

Before I start to describe my thoughts, I want to point out that this manga is 25 years of one author work. So regardless of what I write, give this comic a try if you have some interest in genre.
This is one of those Harem-Comedy style comic books. There is one boring protagonist and lot of beauties that want to get his attention. Someone may say that, there are thousand mangas with same plot and some of them might have better story or more interesting art style. This all true, this manga have nothing unique or special but i still think this one ... is the best one in genre. Author have really big attention to small details in everything including art, story, character design. Characters are the most strongest part of this manga, they all have very vibrant visual style, and also deep personalities. Later on, from comedy-romance story with a little bit fantasy, manga will evolve into fantasy-adventure story with a little bit of romance. Art style also will be improved. But Belldandy still be the most gorgeous and kindest goddess.(Also i think her name sounds very stupid)

This manga is really depressing. But it doesn't have any drama or tragic story. It's depressing, because of how boring those characters life are.

I was reading from start to the end of this manga just in case that something interesting might be happened at near the end of story. And that was worthless, because nothing happens, nothing remotely interesting. This manga is about "real" life, so real, that everything in it is average at best. The story is average and characters are so "real" they got zero personality. And all those jokes, that author trying to pull, are useless, they just bad and uninspired. ... I think that if author trying to tell us "real" story, that the story itself should more "serious" and should have less silly humor and nudity which is plenty of here.

I personally don't think its a bad manga. I think that it is trying to be serious love story and comedy harem-manga in one time. But problem, is it fails in both categories.

If you want to read good love story manga, I would recommend comics like I"s or Bitter Virgin. This one - over-hyped.

The story started at animal land, place where was never seen a single human. Lonely tanuki named Monoko find a human baby Tarouza, and become his mother. Later Tarouza realize that he can understand other animals cry, so he decided to make world there plant-eating and meat-eating animals can live together.

We can split whole manga in two parts, first then Tarouza is growing and acknowledge all sides of wild world of animal land. And the first problem i have is in how Doubutsu no Kuni looks. Its has it "cute and funny" style to it, and even trying to throw couple of jokes ... here and there. But on the over hand it always shows the brutal reality of animal world, and Tarouza which is struggling to create its own world where everyone can live together. I don't think that the art style is really fit that story. The design is very good and detailed, also its very unique in its own way, but i might say that it should have more realistic looks to it.

So the second part of manga is then Tarouza already grown up. And this part is just battles, battles, battles, battles and to the end its BATTLES. Good guy beating bad guy over and over.... And it was kinda disappointing to me. The battles is really good, but it's all whats happens in second part. There is a lot back story in second part, but problem is, that it is so generic and just boring.

Overall I think it is a good manga. Personally i want it to be more then just battle manga later on, but thats just my personal preference. I highly recommend this one to read, because its not trying to be genius but still it has its moments.