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Japanese: ボーンコレクション

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 16

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 27, 2020 to Aug 24, 2020

Genres: Action, Comedy, Supernatural, Ecchi

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Kirarazaka, Jun (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #21909²

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Popularity: #5320

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MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Kirarazaka, Jun (Story & Art)

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Although the Jinnai clan are well-renowned exorcists, the youngest son Kazami is nothing but an embarrassment to the family. Unable to wield basic spells or combat youkai adequately, Kazami is seen as a talentless exorcist. Despite possessing the powerful "Youkai Spell," a skill that temporarily utilizes any youkai's power, he has been banned by the exorcist society from using it as fraternization between the two races is strictly prohibited.

One night, Kazami fatefully encounters Paira, a strange yet cute girl from the youkai realm. In an attempt to protect her from another youkai, Kazami is faced with little choice and uses the forbidden spell to borrow her power. With overwhelming strength, he dispatches the foe with ease and learns that Paira is actually an SSS-class youkai known as "Gashadokuro." Having grown tired with the youkai world, Paira has always wished to become human, something that may be possible with Kazami's ability. Thus, she makes a deal with him: if he uses the "Youkai Spell" to help turn her human, she will marry him. Going along with the arrangement, Kazami can finally become a powerful exorcist who can protect people; but in turn, he must keep his uneasy relationship with Paira a secret from the prying eyes of the exorcists.

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Bone Collection was simulpub in English through MANGA Plus. The volumes were published digitally in English by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint on September 28, 2021.

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Aug 26, 2020

Nyron

Recommended

Today I'm breaking my review hiatus to talk about a series no one gives a shit about: Boner Collection. One of the only readable series running in the dying Shonen Jump magazine, it was the rare exorcist manga that had any merit at all. Sadly, it's canceled and dead now, and let these words be its epitaph.

Boner Collection is about some dingus who meets the best and most attractive girl in the universe, Paira. He's an exorcist, she's a demon. It's Romeo & Juliet. He gets powers from pulling weapons out of her bones, like swords, sniper rifles and Nintendo consoles. Once he pulls out ...

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Sep 20, 2023

hexashadow13

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tl;dr: A manga that’s awful in most regards but hilariously nonsensical in being so and thus worth the short amount of time it’d take to read.

Bone Collection is rated really low, and while I certainly wouldn’t call the manga great, especially as it clearly got axed and rushed into a forced ending, I had fun with it. The central premise of the manga is the protagonist, Kazami, using what’s known as the Youkai spell to channel the powers of the super high class youkai Paira, in order to fight other youkai. There’s also some romance between Kazami and Paira and some general themes about coexistence ... and getting along. None of that is really all that good however.

Paira is a Gashadokuro type youkai, a skeleton type youkai, though she takes the form of just a regular human. Her goal is to make this form her true form and just become a regular human, but in order for her to become human, she needs to lose the power in each one of her bones. Kazami uses the power of a specific bone of hers every time he uses the Youkai Spell and afterwards the bone loses power. Furthermore, each bone manifests as a different weapon or ability. I think the issues here are obvious. The protagonist has a wide variety of abilities, but can only use each ability once. As such there can be no depth to the combat because every fight will be full of things suddenly brought out that have never been seen before and will never be seen again. I think this would have worked a lot better if the manga didn’t focus on combat but instead using the abilities to deal with other issues. However, this clearly is a manga that was trying to turn into the standard shounen battle manga and thus as it continues to develop in that direction it gets weaker and weaker.

The romance is pretty weak too. Paira falls in love with Kazami immediately basically due to him not treating youkai any different from humans and professes that love very strongly. Kazami just brushes her off though for pretty much the entire manga, and that just makes him look really lame. I think the plan was that it was going to tie their relationship development to how powerful their abilities are, but the manga ends before it gets much chance to do so. But even then, even if the mangaka was determined to keep the relationship stagnate until plot events progressed it, it could have been written much better. The themes about coexistence between human youkai also fall kind of flat because it doesn’t do proper world building regarding the state of youkai in the world and their relationships with humans, and thus any changes in that regard don’t really land.

Why then did I enjoy the manga? Because it’s hilarious in the most unexpected of ways. I’ve read a lot of manga and tend to find most pretty predictable to a degree, not just in terms of the plot but also what kind of jokes they’ll try to make and such. However, this manga had things that were totally out there happening constantly. It has a very unique sense of humor that I haven’t seen in other manga. The jokes and twists are all utterly stupid, but they had me genuinely laughing at how bizarre they were. If the manga went on longer I have a feeling that the novelty of this absurdity would run out and it would cease to enjoyable whatsoever. However, the manga only went on two volumes and ended before this happened, and thus I felt those two volumes were worth reading.

I do wish the art was better though. The art in general is really amateurish in terms of quality and style. Designs of both humans and youkai are pretty weak too. The manga is listed as ecchi and it does decent at that when it tries, but it’s so rare that it isn’t really a boon to the manga at all.

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Feb 16, 2023

Ptok

Not Recommended

I struggle to find much I enjoyed from this series. Some okay action sequences aren't enough to make up for the many flaws Bone Collection faced. You follow Kazami, a yokai exorcist who is seen as a letdown by his famous family but has a powerful technique forbidden to use. In a jam, he breaks the rules to use his powers to gain control of the yokai Paira, letting him use her bones as weapons. None of the characters are interesting, you have a cliched protagonist who doesn’t have many points of interests to stand out.
All other characters fit this mold or are not really ...

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