Olimpos
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Art- 9/10
This manga would catch people's attention with its beautiful art. It's very consistent and gorgeous. Hands down, it's definitely a 9, if not 10. I love the way the Gods are drawn, especially Zeus.

Story- 8/10
For the story, indeed if it's your first time to read sensei's work, then you'd be confuse. It's kinda deep, you see. The questions that arise from the story is quite challenging to understand. Sometimes you can't understand what they are talking about. You have to really concentrate to get what's happening.

I also feel that the manga lacks a proper ending. Maybe it's because it's my first time reading ... sensei's work or maybe it's just the way the manga is. But the ending isn't satisfying.

Characters- 8/10
Though it's only two volumes, I feel that I understand the characters and they were developed quite well. But I would like to see more of the first guy who suddenly appeared. It would be really interesting.

Over all, it's a great manga for those who love Greek Mythology and deep psychological thinking. But the art is really good that I don't think you'd mind reading the manga just for the art.

Well no one wrote a review yet, obviously as i am the only one so far. This is also my first review, i just thought i should mention that.
Hmm well to tell you the truth at times when i was reading Olimpos i was wondering if perhaps i was reading it wrong. Maybe i was. But there were some confusing parts with dialouge and frankly, with what the heck was going on. Well you can figure out the basics, that its about Ganymedes who was stolen away to a Minature Garden by Apollo. Where then Apollo visits him often to converse in ambigious conversations about ... what is true and how Ganymedes can escape. There are a few other greek gods added as characters as well.
But besides a few misunderstandings here and there, the story was interesting (if you can wait to the end to really get the idea of its meaning). The artwork overall was very good, characters were detailed, the setting was a little minimal, but what the setting lacks in detail the story doesn't. XD There is suttle humor and moments that leave you curious to read more, so its not bland.
I have mixed feelings about this manga though. It wasn't that it was horrible and its not really to the point that i could of cared not to read it, but as Aki said in a author note at the end "its light reading".
So if your looking for a manga that still makes you think, has beautiful characters, and is light/quick reading, Olimpos is a good choice.
Plus, if you liked Olimpos, Aki has other mangas she wrote.

This manga could've just as easily been an artbook and it would be just as good or better. I believe that before adequately judging the work you should identify what it's trying to achieve and then conclude whether it succeeds but there's also something to be said about how valuable the goal is to begin with.

In case of Olimpos, author's goal (judging from afterwords) was to just draw a bunch of cute boys in elaborate outfits. The goal is clearly achieved as one again stated by author themselves but is there anything else of interest to the manga? Not really, the story is completely pointless ... and ties to mythology are even less than superficial. The only reason you might want to check this out is an elaborate bishounen art style. The illustrations really are gorgeous but personally I grew tired of seeing same few characters in same outfits and same poses for hundreds of pages. Even nice looking drawings don't excuse for lack of variety and noticeable lack of backgrounds. The only place the viewer properly gets a feel for is the miniature garden we spend a lot of time in. This is a bit of a shame cause given the characters there was opportunity to show off a lot more.

In the end, it's a pretty inoffensive quick read with a skippable story and some nice art, if that sounds like your thing then give it a try.