Psycho Busters

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The drawings are very clean and with a light stroke and not at all angular, Akinari Nao is still in her first experiences and is still immature for her stroke, we also begin to see how Ayano draws that we can glimpse a sketch of Lilith a character from Trinity seven.
The story is pure science fiction, with time, manipulations of it, paradoxes, parallel worlds and an explanation of what time is, the plot is very light and enjoyable from all points of view and you will reach the end of the manga, your brain will explode from the solutions of the end of the manga ... especially those who are fans of science fiction.
We also touch on an aspect that is very dear to us today, distrust of the different.
The moral of this manga is: "a person dies not when there is the physical death of the person but when they are forgotten"
Psycho Buster I recommend it to everyone who doesn't like science fiction stories because they will find a light and flowing story without too many commitments and who like science fiction because they will enjoy giving their interpretation to the ending (at least that's what happened to me).
Score: 8

Psycho Busters is a pretty straightforward shonen manga that doesn't do anything special or outstanding, but there's enough enjoyment to be had in its entertaining cast of characters, and it serves quite well as a palate cleanser or a easygoing read. The action scenes are decent, its mostly fun to see how the main character reacts to whatever is happening. The story doesn't take itself too seriously, but many of its best moments are directly tied to how it shifts into a more serious tone. There's a solid love relationship between the main two characters that does it job as the heartwarming part of the ... manga. Its nice to see the main cast of characters expand, as events transpire and allegiances shifts, giving way to most of the side characters showing a new side of themselves to us, although it does so in a quick, somewhat rushed way. The supernatural twist of the story is not too interesting. I don't quite like how it ends but its not exactly a bad ending, just a disappointing one.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

Psycho Busters, a series with potential that I feel did not live up to it.

I happen to come across this series while reverse image searching a friend's profile picture and came across this, which happened to have the same author as Getbackers, a series that I had enjoyed as a child. Despite the terrible summary online, it can be fairly easy to assume that it was going to be a battle comic involving psychics thanks to the name and the cover art for the first volume.

It starts with your typical wimpy protagonist (which others comment about during the series) but that ... is not where the problems begin to start.
The story is rather plain with a rather generic problem that our protagonist, Takeru, needs to solve. But that's fine, the actual problem is how it felt pretty rushed where we being flooded with new characters and abilities rather quickly. In some cases, we may learn about a character and they may get developed within that very same chapter, but because of the poor pacing, it can feel rather out of place.
The characters were actually rather lackluster and could definitely been improved upon if given more time to them.
The art was not that great which is even worse when they kept on shoving in whatever fanservice they could for their 'shounen' demographic, as well as with it not seeming to be consistent at times in my opinion. But in no way is Akinari a poor artist, it just did not seem that great for this work.
A rather big element that I thought was done rather poorly is the romance. Yes, it was very obvious from the first chapter with how the mc leads into it, but I could not really believe the progression of it given the last minute backstory of Ayano.
Overall, my enjoyment of it was from the interesting concepts they had despite how overused it may be and the cheesiness of certain scenes along with how nice some of them were. I personally am a big fan of those.
One thing to note though would be the ending, it can be rather hit or miss depending on the reader's preference, although I will not exactly say why.
4/10 It felt like it could've done better if they took more time to develop the story and characters along with making sure the art was not choppy at times. But even though I did not enjoy it that much, I can still see it as a series that people might like.