Kagerou Daze

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Synonyms: Heat-Haze Days, Kagerou Days

Japanese: カゲロウデイズ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 13

Chapters: 70

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 15, 2012 to Feb 15, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Supernatural

Demographic: Josei

Serialization: Comic Gene

Authors: Satou, Mahiro (Art), Jin (Story)

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Ranked: #967²

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Apr 20, 2015

rowhan

Recommended

Preliminary (70/70 chp)

EDIT: This manga is the sequel to the Kagerou Project songs and prequel to the Novels and Anime.

Kagerou Daze is a manga route of Jin (Shizen no Teki-P)'s series "Kagerou Project". It's written by Jin and illustrated by Mahiro Satou.

STORY: 7/10
Kagerou Daze is the story set mostly on August 14th and 15th and is centered around the Mekakushi Dan, a gang of teenagers with strange eye abilities, the Kagerou Daze, and timeloops.

I would like to note Jin has stated the manga is not intended to be an adaption of the light novel, but another timeline in the series. According to his placement, this route is ...

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Aug 10, 2013

cookieme

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Preliminary (Unknown/70 chp)

I always find it creative when mangakas find their different ways of tying a lot of different people in together in realistic ways, well of course it wasn't all that realistic, but you still find yourself amazed when you begin to peace everything together as you go along. This review is only for like the first 15 chapters that are there so far and I can't even explain how hard it is to judge it off of that, but I'll give it a try.

Story 8
I give the story a 8 because it hasn't all been released for me to really piece everything together, but ... even without the pieces everything is so well put together that you can still rate it high. I don't read much seinen so I can't really tell you how unique it is, but I think the story definitely has the ability to draw you in. The main character that it follows is a neet named Shintarou who's been shacked up in the house for two whole years. He has a relatively bad attitude and he's a weakling who still has a backbone. So far the reason why he has isn't in the manga, but if you look up the songs that the stories based off of you'll definitely know, but I won't spoil it ^_^. Somewhere between the two years he stays in the house a girl named Ene invades his computer and terrorizes him and ends up making him have to go outside and from there the story begins on a humorous path and a very confusing one. To my knowledge the group that forms between the main character all have an eye ability and it hasn't yet clearly been shown why.

characters 8
I actually like the characters with Kano being one of the most interesting to me. His ability makes it hard to understand his true nature, but overall he's the humor of the manga. You'll definitely find that a lot of character have pasts that aren't so favorable and heart warming, but it reflects on who they are and how they deal with situations. I can't really judge the dimension of the characters cause the whole having special abilities thing throws off any realism it can have in my head, but I think that they've got depth and that's well done.

art 8
I like the art and it fits the story it's telling very well, but I actually think I'd might like it better in the anime because the only thing I don't like is all the black haired people kinda look the same with the exception of Shintarou since he has dark outlines around his eyes. I like how their clothes are designed especially Kido's jacket so I think that's especially something good about it. There really isn't much shadin or any realistic characteristics or detail out into their faces, but I don't think it'd match the story well if they did.

Enjoyment 9
I really have fun reading it and I love when a story can make me laugh literally out loud and I think it's something that any audience would be able to enjoy, but everyone is different and has their different outlooks on enjoyment and humor and such so how much you enjoy it really depends on you and what you like.

Overall 8
and I must remind you this is only like the first fifteen chapters but I found it necessary for it to have a reasonable review that actually gives you the story properly and after a while if I change my mind about how I feel, I'll come back and change it, but so far I give it a 8.5 for awesomeness and I really suggest you look up the songs because the songs just make it ten times better for me. If you can't find any try Jin or IA transparent answer and it is sung by a vocaloid just a heads up.

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Dec 31, 2021

abystoma2

Mixed Feelings

Kagerou Project is an interesting multi-media franchise. Yes, let me start with stating this is a multi-media project. The other media aren't optional - this is just one part of the overall story. It isn't "alternative version" in a stand-alone way, no, it's all just a part of one large complicated storyline with multiple routes.

The manga is one of such route(s). The novel is another one. The anime is sort of a finale (or at least at the point in time this review is being written, with a sequel to that finale planned). The music and music videos are... chaotic pieces of information that ... you will have to put together somehow, good luck with that - no, really, the franchise isn't going to make it easy, considering some short manga are included only with a limited edition of the cds. Yep, specifically only with the limited editions. You want to get the whole picture? Better pay up.

The fact that I even had to explain the basic structure of the franchise before getting to the actual review might leave you wondering where should you even start. My recommendation would be music - manga - novel - anime, but asking the nearest KagePro fanboy will probably get you more detailed and reliable explanation.

Now, for the manga itself - it starts with the classic scene of terrorist takeover of a shopping mall - one that is present in almost every part of this franchise. You might be even wondering if the manga is actually going to be any different. It is, but it gets a while to really get going. For me, I wasn't really interested in the story until the later half of this manga. Until then, the characters didn't feel exactly interesting or relatable. In other words, it the story struggles with making you actually care about what happens to the characters - it just plainly introduces them, almost like it expects you to already be a fan. Well, it probably does hope you already are a fan.

If, like me, you would not exactly call yourself a fan, I would still recommend to not drop this manga before it gets to the part about Azami's backstory - as mentioned, the part where it gets interesting. Sure, that means you might endure the somewhat boring first part, but I'd say it's still worth sticking with it, especially if you want to see what is all this hype about. While I don't want to spoil the content, I would definitely not recommend picking up the novel or the anime without finishing this manga, as finishing this manga might be the point at which you might start being more invested in the characters - something that lot of this franchises unfortunately builds upon a lot, the expectations of you already being invested from some other parts of the franchise. Similar how the cryptic and scattered format of the music videos might make you interested into seeking out more complete version of the story.

The art is fine, most of the time it's somewhat average (not bad, but also not breathtaking), but it does have some cool spreads. At the very least, the art doesn't deteriorate the experience.

Overall, while it might not be as amazing as the fanbase wants you to believe, it's still worth checking out.

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Oct 23, 2021

Pochitasnu1fan

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Who am I gonna lie to, I’ve been a fan of Kagepro since I can recall, this is the franchise that I have always loved n matter what, maybe the anime was a bit of disappointment, but that is not the topic.

This is the only manga I’ve ever read that I started and finished in the same day (I don’t know how honestly).

I’d only recommend this manga if you have some basic knowledge on the project, itself, you may get confused about it, and I recommend too reading this manga first, and later on watching the anime (Mekakucity actors by the way.)

Story: 9/10
The plot ...

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