Mato Seihei no Slave
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“Definitely Not” a fanservice type of manga(no guarantees)/ Fighting with abilities/ HAREM OMG / Sadomasochism (LMAO)

I felt jebaited by this manga. IN A GOOD WAY THOUGH!
Considering myself a huge “Akame ga Kill” fan, I am excited for Takahiro san’s new work. Without much thought, I proceeded to read and was expecting a similar “Akame ga Kill” story style with some gory fights. BUT!! As I flipped pages through pages, I started to laugh harder and shake my head in disbelief. Upon reaching chapter 15, I came with a conclusion. Takahiro san is not only good at writing out stories, but also he is an ... excellent pervy story maker ;) God damn

Story: 9.5
If I have to be honest, this manga is creative as f**k. Lending more power to girls equals to more ecchiness. I LUV this story setup already. Blending the style of “Akame ga Kill” and “To Love Ru Darkness” (my two fav mangas) is simply too much for me to bear. Takahiro san, keep it up man!! (-0.5 for potential error because it is still relatively early)

Art: 10
Despite of having a different artist (Takemura San), the art quality is definitely still top tier. In the first chapter, when they show the illustrations of “Mato”, which means magic city, and fighting scenes against monsters, I instantly knew that I am going to enjoy the aesthetic of this manga; however, deep inside a man’s mind, I am not satistified. I need to see good drawing of ecchiness. Soon, Takemura san gave me the pics I want to see. Easy 10 for good drawings of backgrounds and ECCHI stuffs~~

The art style still slightly reminds me of “Akame ga Kill”. Especially, the moment when Kyouka, the female MC, shows up. She reminds me of Esdeath~~


Characters: 10
Whenever there is a tsundere girl, I give it a thumbs up; however, when there are a ton of tsundere girls, I GIVE IT A 10!!!!!!!! No arguments in this category!!!


Enjoyment: 10
15 chapters? I killed it immediately…Pretty much addicted to this manga right now… WHERE IS CHAPTER 16??!!!!


Overall: 9.5
I love this manga as it has a HUGE POTENTIAL AHEAD. If you are excited for a blend of "Akame ga Kill" and "To Love Ru- Darkness", you should dive into this manga! (-0.5 for potential error since it is only till chapter 15)


Dear Kyouka, if you are reading this. I will allow you to make me become your slave, but you have to whip me hard if you want more power from me!!! (╯✧∇✧)╯

It's really hard to kill characters early when you are published in Shonen Jump even if the author is Takahiro... haha 😄

Nonetheless 9/10 for me.

Unique story. The story is really designed for a balance between the progression and the 'Jump-service' onto the readers.

Great MC character development, the MC develops as the story progresses even if there are 'service' panels,

Nice female characters' personalities, they have good character developments especially (Tenka-sama).

... Kinda cliche battle arcs especially when positioning who will fight against who.

Great art, fit for publishing in Shonen Jump+

P. S. Unlike others, this manga shows the right way on how to do 'fanservice' for fans like me😊

Simplicity and entertainment is what defines this series of Takahiro (writer) and Youhei Takemura (illustrator). With these characterizations it can be beneficial but also the opposite for the reader, being simple makes it easy to read by not having any complexity in the story, thus focusing more on the developments and relationships of the protagonists. Depending on how the authors want to progress the characters, it can fall into the category of remarkable to generic. In my point of view it is better than generic but it’s not so high as to consider it remarkable, some main characters do not have enough attractive personality because ... of using the classic archetypes that are in the manga/anime, producing a reading with low and high. The low ones are some characters, the structure of the world, and the fanservice. While the high ones are some characters, the illustrator's drawing style, and the fanservice.

The characters are easy to identify, as by their designs and also by their personalities. Starting with their personalities, some of the protagonists fall into the inescapable chasm that I call: the classic dere archetypes. As the cheerful and affectionate deredere, and the sadodere who likes to play with the emotions of others. Reading series that use a very similar formula from other successful series is no longer enjoyable after having to read several other series that use a very similar formula, just like eating the same food for weeks. When we get tired of it, we choose something different that we have not tried frequently or maintain the same base but mixing with other ingredients. Same thing they should do with the archetypes, select an archetype not widely used or create a hybrid between 2 deres to bring some freshness to the characters and perhaps creating a little more enjoyable reading. For example, the very himedere-tsunhun with an aggressive attitude and the ambition to be revered but causing herself uncomfortable for her toxic side of wanting to appear strong, and the utsudere-deredere who suffers from a despair of unleashing her other face of the coin caused by an incident that she cannot forgive while keeping optimistic in front of her comrade

But, as a buffer in case of a fall in interest by the reader, the authors make the decision to add an intense amount of fan services distributed mostly in specific situations such as when the protagonist is rewarded, while the rest of the fan services goes to some parts of some female character’s activities, although it is not as visually extravagant as when protagonist is rewarded, it is only there as leftovers from the food. But it is not as bothersome as "Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi", the duo of mangakas at least knows how to use it better. In Kenichi, the fanservice is dispersed in a disorganized manner that can cause a great distraction for our perverted mind, changing our approach to "What will happen to that character?" into "Please do not, my little friend from below, do not get up yet I still want to continue reading."

Moving on to the world structure of the serie. The protagonists live in a society in which males are much inferior than women, while living in a dimension called Mato, which is about the size of Tokyo and is separated by 8 regions, each having in the custody of an anti-demon body unit, where our protagonists belong to the seventh. Thus, structuring the basics of a fantasy world. But. This is where the author’s motivation ends. Mato's world is just a rocky area, with rocky mountains, with stupidly simple monsters in design. It feels like a copy and paste of the Kegare dimension of the serie written and drawn by Yoshiaki Sukeno called “Sousei no Onmyouji”, the 2 being a rocky world, with rocky mountains, and with a lot of generic monster designs that even make me doubt about the creativity of these mangakas. It would have been better if the story took the issue of feminism in that Japanese society and the rest of the countries with more relevance. Thus nurturing our curiosity about the society that the protagonist lives showing how the people who have embedded the ideology of the superiority of women towards men work. How does the hierarchy work? Have men not made protests against feminism? Why do those peaches only work with women? I bet $ 0 that we will never know the reason of the feminism there.

Youhei Takemura's drawing style resembles the Yoshiyuki Nishi;s illustrations, mangaka from "Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho", but more moe. Something similar to the "Eromanga-sensei" series. The designs of the characters are where they are similar, but especially the head/face, having a round head like a soccer ball, eyes that occupy ¼ of the face, a nose as thin as a hair, and a small mouth that it can even take up to half of the face when they open their mouths. In addition to having a facial relationship in characters with another mangaka, Youhei Takemura knows how to create characters that are easy to recognize by just using a feature of their designs, creating a character with a simple appearance and having 1 or 2 parts of the aspect that attracts attention making the character stand out more by not having a saturation with full-body accessories with dubious utility and depend on the colors to recognize the character, such as Sigurd from Fate Grand Order. Example would be Himari Azuma, who can be recognized for her butterfly-like ponytails, or Kyouka Uzen for her accessories in her ears that makes her look as if she had some horns, although they are wings of a bird. Apart from that, the neon colors used in the illustrations are very striking and bewitching to the mere mortals that we are, especially the covers of the volumes. Interestingly, the way Youhei Takemura uses neon colors is similar to the covers of the Ultimate Edition volumes of Hokuto no Ken.

Although it is a very ecchi fighting manga, at least some of the fights has strategies in them that could give the impression of "Well, at least the characters use their heads and not just only use their fists”, making the characters to looks airheads and straight forward mentality into more like people who can think during specific situations such as a fight in this case. Looking for a example will be in chapter 36, during the fight between the Azuma sisters and a Shuuki, where Yachiho Azuma uses her powers to go back in time to prevent the worst situations during the fight and locate the main enemy and then return in the past to make a surprise attack. Or as in chapter 34, where Shushu Sugura faces a Shuuki with great resistance, so she shrinks and enters the monster's interior to later enlarge and tear the enemy to pieces. These are not complex or surprising strategies, but at least the manga writer dedicated some of his/her time thinking about how to take advantage of the characters' abilities during confrontations, which is better than a fight between characters where the stronger will be always the winner.