Bakegyamon
BakéGyamon

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Bakegyamon is a hidden gem that most people have never heard about and will never hear about due to its scarcity both online and physically, which is a shame given its quality. It's a shonen inspired by different manga like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, but it isn't derivative of them.

Bakegyamon manages to carve out its own identity among the "Creature Battling" sub-genre of shonen with a very enjoyable story.

The characters of the story have multiple dimensions with layers onto why they compete to win Bakegyamon, ranging from curing terminal illnesses to having a field, and you can't help but love each of them. ... They don't need a traumatic backstory to be memorable and relatable.

The story isn't groundbreaking, but it doesn't need to re-invent the wheel to be good. It executes its narrative very well and kept me engaged throughout its 5 volumes.

The art isn't Berserk/Sun-Ken rock levels of quality, but it is still of very good quality, even with this being the author's first completed series.

I highly recommend giving Bakegyamon a shot for anyone who's read/watched Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or similar.

Bakegyamon is a standard card battle manga that elevates itself with fun monster designs with unique powers as well as interesting gimmicks for "games" in the Bakegyamon tournament that the manga is based around.

I highly recommend this to people who are already interested in card-battle manga/anime like Yu-Gi-Oh and to readers who are neutral on this style of manga.

The manga has some glaring flaws, the story fumbles slightly in the end (mostly in volume 5) with a rushed, kind-of generic and slightly confusing conclusion. A weakness of the manga is the characters, Sanshiro is kind of a generic shounen manga hero type with ... not too many other outstanding characters

The mangas strengths are the really energetic artwork and the cool monsters and how they are untilized. I would compare the artworks style to the style of Eiichiro Oda, while Tamura's artwork is now where near a technically proficient as Oda's the comparison I draw is that Oda and Tamura both elevate their manga pages with a sense of energy thats hard to describe. The monsters in the series are very fun to read and experience with each having unique designs and different powers and strengths and weaknesses (like the ogre monster being scared of heights) basically, the fights are fun to watch because of the monsters.

This manga is best suited for younger readers around 9-14 but older readers can enjoy this if they are okay with the more campy and "shounen-ey" tone of the story