Binbougami ga!

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A very fun manga, a great start for the author of Sousei no Onmyouji.

The characters are very good, very charismatic and have a great growth throughout the story.
This is what makes manga so good to follow, the charisma and the growth in relationships between them is something very nice to see.

The story is amazingly good. Starting slowly but progressively getting better and more epic. Full of good tense and funny moments, but it's a bit episodic that impairs the feeling of progress. That said, it has a great ending closing the growth and relationship of each character.

The protagonist, Sakura Ichiko, is very charismatic. She ... is have Strong a personality, in addition to being that grows the most throughout history.
Her growth is something very nice to see, especially when seeing the change in how she interacts with the other characters.

The art is ok, but it has evolved a lot throughout history. At the end of it, it's very beautiful and still gives a lot of power to the epic scenes of the final arc.

My only criticism would be that some arcs are boring (from Nadeshiko) or have several chapters that look like stuffed with sausage.

I'm not going to lie, I watched the anime back in 2014, and revisited the show and finished the manga just now, so of course I'm looking at the series with some nostalgia. Clearly, the series and show wasn't as polished as I remembered, and it fails in a few departments. That being said, I still enjoyed the series for the most part.

The star of the series is clearly the battles between Binbouda and Sakura. Their interactions and the scenarios that they face against each other is always entertaining to read, and I never really got bored of their battles against each other. Facial expressions, ... varied settings, and random events really make for a good slapstick comedy. That being said, the supporting cast is kind of weak. You got a perverted monk for fanservice scenes, masochistic guy for slapstick, and a rich ninja girl so the only characters that feel characterized and fleshed out among the supporting cast end up being Randou and Keita, and of course, Sakura and Binbouda.

Hey, a few character archetypes is fine, as long as they serve their role in the comedy. I get that, but the more pressing issue I have with this series is how focused it is on romance and action. Like, more than half, I'd say, of the manga is plot and action focused, veering away from the slapstick comedy. Add some romance in there, and you have Binbougami ga! I really don't understand why there is such a divergence in genre. You have episodic slapstick comedy, which is good, and then you just have a lot of serious/fighting arcs. Why? Barring the arcs with Sakura's personal/emotional development which was well made and important to her personality, I don't understand why there is so much fighting later on in the series. It's like it converted to a fighting manga halfway through. There's so much fighting, yet the fights themselves are pretty boring to read, since power levels are arbitrary. As it turns out, a comedy slapstick cast of characters don't have much training or techniques to speak of, so they usually power up or get beaten up in some fashion. And no, it's not a Medaka box, which manages to make this comedy/slapstick/action work.
It just seems like an unholy mixture of bad shounen arcs, mixed with some comedy. It doesn't really work out. I enjoy the comedy focused arcs, but more often than not, I'm being spoonfed some serious antogonists that are trying to kill Sakura's friends or steal her energy, and there's some massive plot arc that spans the course of tens of chapters. It just doesn't work, guys. When people get powered up by random "god items" that appear out of nowhere with little to no explanation, fights aren't interesting. If you're not equipped to create a fighting manga, just don't do it.
That's my biggest criticism of the show. While characters are archetypal and outdated by today's standards, it still is a pretty good comedy. Again, the battles between Binbouda and Sakura don't get old. However, I just can't stand the serious plot arcs that take over the series.

Aaah I don't like it, I hate when a comedy anime has a romance like this. Why don't it just focus on the comedy and the story.
Actually I like all things about this manga, I love reading it. But it broke my intention when I found that there a romance story between sakura and tsuwabuki, I think... Ahh it's not necessary to put a romance in the comedy manga like this. I mean... I have had an interest about sakura and momiji relationship (as a girl friendship), so why the hell it has that kind of romance story(it's not even fit with the genres) I ... prefer their friendship relation. And sakura, I think she's not the type of girls who will be interesting on something like romance and stuff. And for others than that, I like it. I love this manga

I should give this anime a score between 9/10 or even 10/10 if ichiko and tsuwabuki JUST BECOME A USUAL FRIEND NOT A LOVER.
that's it