Tensei Kyuuketsuki-san wa Ohirune ga Shitai: Please Take Care of Me.

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So after realizing that i'v accidentally given my Manga review to the Light Novel version i have decided to come back here and wright the review. I made my first review all the way back in Oct. 22 of 2017 and it's now March 26 of 2018.

When i have to compare this to the Light novel version i'd say this is the better version.

The main character "Arge" Is a better character in this then the Light Novel version with just how she acts and views the world.
We also get character like Felnote that is feel are also better in this then the ... LN.

The manga is also better paced. Normally the Manga will always be better paced then the Light novel so that the artist doesn't have to design every small thing. Sometimes you don't notice and other times you get the story to be badly paced with everything happening to fast. But this has the best type of pacing you could ask for.

In the manga we are just meeting the fox girl and we are only at chapter 10, But in the Light novel it takes i believe around 30 or 40 chapters

I still wish they did more with Felnote being blind and had that last over a couple chapters instead of being fixed in one.

I also find characters to just be overly better then in the LN. Perfect example being the lord of the land. In the Light Novel he's more eh and not really that interesting. But in this he's more entertaining to have on screen. Another example being Oswald. In the LN he's more just there to progress the story but in this he seems like an actual character with a purpose.

Overall i feel this is a better version then the Light Novel. I mean that is good cause adaptation are meant to improve upon their predecessor. I just wish the Manga was caught up with the Light novel in terms of chapters.

I still ship Felnote and Arge though...

Reincarnating as a gender bent daywalker vampire is a good concept. There's so many possibilities to explore! You could have a serious take about the situation and weave a heart-wrenching tale about the seemingly impossible task of adapting to an entirely new world with an entirely new body and the identity crisis and/or trauma that may ensue.

Or you could spin this scenario into a story with a much lighter tone, emphasizing the zaniness of our protagonist's plight and/or making a commentary of how quick authors are to slap as many popular tropes together as possible in a vain attempt to please as many degenerates as ... you can and make up for your lack of imagination and poor storytelling.

All of this has pretty much been done before, but it wouldn't hurt to enrich the scene with more of these types of stories. However, this manga has elected to do none of the above and instead...actually, now that I think about it, I have no idea what the author was trying to accomplish with this manga besides earn a quick buck by appealing to degenerates. Overpowered protagonist? Check. "Relatable" personality? Check. Loli bait? Check. Yuri bait? Check. Fox girl? Check. And so much more. Tropes galore.

Now the abuse of tropes by itself doesn't mean that the entire manga is discredited. If the execution of these tropes were to be at least somewhat decent, then maybe I would have something positive to say about this manga. Unfortunately, that's just not the case. First of all, there's a lot of loli fanservice but all of it is conveniently censored. That's a good thing in my book, but why go through the effort of contriving such weird scenes and stop halfway? It's not like there's anything else this manga has to offer.

Second, the humor boils down to silly names the protagonist gives to other characters (like calling a kraken "grandpa squid", calling a troupe of bandits by the dog breed they resemble, and calling a chief monkey "beef-san" as in chief of the beast; perhaps you can chalk this up to poor translation but this shit falls flat) and their exaggerated reactions. Some more hijinks are explored when the fox girl is introduced, but nothing actually funny along the likes of Kazuma's charming yet ridiculous antics in Konosuba. The moment you start comparing this manga with other series that are actually funny, you start to notice the difference in quality real quick.

Finally, there's no discernible motivation or end goal that the protagonist has in mind. I mean sure, a comedy doesn't necessarily need an end goal (look no further than Gintama, a masterpiece with little sense of direction most of the time), but to borrow the example of Konosuba again we have the goal of beating the Demon King which allows the author to work with interesting plot developments by introducing demon generals. An end goal lets you know where to go next in such a way where meaningful development can take place, something Gintama still manages to do that this manga on the other hand utterly fails at.

Ok, this review is going out of hand and turning into a long-winded, meandering word vomit.

Tl;dr this manga severely lacks in positive qualities despite having an interesting concept. Just go read Konosuba or Eminence in Shadow for funny isekai stuff.