Ranked #7453

Pichi Pichi Pitch - Mermaid Melody (Manga)

After I saw the anime I felt I had to read the manga. I love cheesy stories with mermaids and such in it. And so I came to like the story in the manga as much as the storyline in the anime. The anime is better though, despite the numerous fillers I enjoyed it far more.

The art was fairly good, not the best I've seen but certainly not the worst, the character development was bad. I find that the author wasn't able to properly develop them, all Luchia was in my eyes, was a stupid girl who can only think of Kaito, no personality what so ever. Hanon was a little better developed and so was Lina. They had a little more story to themselves but it still seemed quite superficial.
In my opinion this manga is nothing more than mediocre, the story itself though I liked the idea got a bit annoying because the author seemed to skip some parts so that the characters were suddenly in a whole different place, doing a whole different thing, this was confusing it times.

So overall this manga is mediocre with no high reread rate, I would not recommend it to people but I wouldn't tell them to not read it either. It's something you pick up when you have nothing better to do. read more

In personal response, this is just about the worst manga I have read. It wasn't awfully terrible per se, but I did find it troubling to finish as the storyline continuously chased itself by repeating and repeating the same idea. As for the main couple, I wouldn't bet on their "love" as it seemed too artificial to surpass realities. :/ I believe they were only 12 or 14? Much too young (for..uh.. _____).
I suppose you could even call it a Sailor Moon knock-off? Same endings to the same battles with mildly different villains.
All-in-all, my opinion of the story resulted in boredom, dissatisfaction and a tad torturing to be dragged through. read more