Bloody Monday

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Ever watched the TV show 24? The one with Jack Bauer running across America being a double agent who stops terrorists who are gonna launch nukes or release bio weapons? This is that, but Japanese. If you have watched, and liked, 24 you will most certainly like this manga. If you haven't watched it, which I assume many of you haven't, let me explain further.
This manga focuses largely on making an intense, thrilling, situation where you have no idea what is going to happen next, who is going to be the traitor, or if the threat from the terrorists is just a bluff. ... Credit where credit is due, the person (or people, idk) who wrote this has a clear sense of how to keep a story going, even if some of the twists are out of left field. I had a hard time putting the series down, and when I had to, I picked right back up on the story whenever my schedule gave me a chance to. This is by far the strongest point of the series, even if you can see a lot of it's flaws and even if you are saying to yourself. "Come on. REALLY?" at some points, it has this sort of relentless attitude that keeps it going. Enough said about that.
I'm now going to begin to talk about some of the more negative aspects of the series. First off, the art. I will not be the first to say that the art here is not stellar. It isn't bad, just nothing that really captivated me. Most of the characters have very simplistic designs, which is ok from a writing standpoint, since the manga can take less time being drawn and more time being written (I hope that makes sense). The problem is when I can't really tell one secondary character from another without first waiting for them to be named, and this is a problem in a story where almost everyone is important in some way or another. This improves as the story progresses, and some panels near the end actually look pretty great, but getting into the series is a bit hard on the art standpoint.
The characters were fine. Not much fuss there. Most of them had one or two key personality traits, and that worked just fine since what we really care about is what they are doing rather than why they are doing. I may just be being a little too casual when saying this, and I'm sure someone who actually critiques stuff for a living could pick apart everyone in the cast as pretty 2 dimensional, but the characters served their purpose, if nothing else.
Finally, let's talk about the thing I most despised about the story: the plot twists. Not to say that the plot twists are bad, they usually aren't, but I feel a lot of them are unearned. I'm not going to fully detail any example from the series for obvious reasons, but the first "BIG" twist that is not the one which is obvious from chapter one comes out of nowhere. Minor spoiler warning due to vague-ish details about this twist. You kind of get a feeling that maybe this character is suspicious simply because you know this is a manga, but you are given no real reason to believe that further until the twist is revealed, and it is justified with two chapters of flat exposition, which is fine except that the smallest and most insignificant reasons are used to prove it, and then the MC turns out to be right about his hunch anyways and nothing is wrong with this. This problem happens again when- get this- the BIGGEST TWIST IN THE SERIES happens about 15 chapters before it ends, and there is no proper explanation as to why, even if there are clear hints towards it earlier. At least that's how I see it. I won't get into further explanations for obvious reasons, and also because this review is starting to look more like an essay.

Final thoughts: If you are willing to overlook the mediocre art, and the semi-infuriating plot problems, you have an immensely enjoyable and wildly engaging series, but otherwise this is not for you.

Sorry for the length of this, it probably isn't that helpful anyways, but I felt I needed to get all of this off my chest after my mixed emotions at the end of the series. Oh, also the third act is about as long and rushed as this last criticism. Bye.

In the world of Manga comes a time when you have seen everything that

can be seen the masterpieces that is. so you desperately begin

plan B.

Plan B is basically the continuous search off an exact amount of enjoyment

coming from two identical works , but there is nothing like that in Manga's

... world.

Ladies and gentlemen we all know why we are here and if you don't no

problem keep reading .

There is 90% chance you are a Death note , liar Game or any psychological

Manga fan , and maybe you are looking for psychological battles story twist

etc.....

If so then you have come to the right place but be aware that every work

you read has a totally different vibe from one another .

The story is basically dealing with terrorism idea combining it with a

shounen settings and little bit off death note element and boom we get

Bloody freaking Monday ! so it's a (7) for the story .

Art is very good , you can tell who is who in fact i like it ! so it's a (8) .

Characters : 7

It's your typical Shounen characters no big deal and until after a new

Shounen characters ideas come to us from Mars and shock us we will

always be like (-_-) if you know what I mean .

Enjoyment 8

Yes yes it's the kind of mind wars you are imaging right now , A : "take this

you (**** )" . B: "Oh no how did he do this !" . B :" Hahaha it's time for

my secret weapon" and finally after a long struggle justice prevails or

something like that .

Overall : 8

It was a good read but nothing like a masterpiece so if you are after arc

twists , cliffhangers, mind games ,psychological warfare , police shit

welcome to ( Bloody Monday ) ! .

Bloody Monday is a shounen mistery crap manga. And maybe a rip-off of 20th Century Boys.

So, there's this chick who works for a secret terrorist organization and she spread a deadly virus in Russia that apparently drains the blood out of a person. Hence the name Bloody Sunday (or maybe the author just likes U2, who knows.)

The main character, Fujimaru Takagi is a high-schooler with a great secret (of course). He is the person behind the internet alias 'Falcon', the greatest hacker in the world! And he actually hacked into a porn website when he was 12, so he's like, totally awesome...

Anyway, his father ... works in a secret government division that prevents ''terrorism and national uprisings''. And since Takagi is such an awesome guy (in real life we call them geeks), the government wants him to help with the investigation of a murdered agent. But one day Takagi's father is framed for murder and he has to go into hiding despite the fact that he works for the government that could free him anytime.

And one day, after Takagi hacked into his teacher's computer and downloaded porn and got him fired, that chick who spread the virus comes to his school disguised as a teacher, to monitor him. (even though they could've just killed him, I mean, he's just a kid and all... )
Than we se lots of fanservice and romantic-shounen-comedy-stuff, and a picture of a cute little girl puking blood (that one was nice, I'll give it that)...

Story: I don't know, 4?
Art: Nothing special, unoriginal and bland. Barely 6
Character: Pffft, hahaha... 2
Enjoyment: 10.
Overall: 4.

I heavily recommend that you DO read Bloody Monday to see that picture of a cute little girl with a teddy bear puking blood..