Yukarism

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Seeing as this series lacks a review here, I decided to write my little thing on Yukarism. This won't be the most comprehensive review as I feel that giving people an understanding of the series is more important than presenting my own opinions
Yukarism begins in modern-day Japan with our eccentric and wondering male protagonist, Yukari Kobayakawa. He's a 17 year old author who writes novels about the Edo Period. The curious thing is, he doesn't research the period. He's lived in. The theme of reincarnation is used well in this manga and you'll see numerous crossovers and parallels to the Edo period as Yukari is ... thrown into the period as his past self. Now this is where the Gender Bender element is introduced. Yukari's past self works in the Red Light District so there's some hilarious scenes when he's in his past self. Added to this is the addition of other characters who share Yukari's memories of a past life except theirs are more instinctually based then memory based. The story presents these characters and there's an element of mysery as Yukari tries to connect the characters of his past life to those that have been reincarnated. There's a few twists here and there but it's fairly easy to follow.
Yukarism's art is good and the scenes that contain comedy are especially good with plenty of hilarious faces to accompany Yukari's bemused attitude. The area that the art falls down on is the more detailed drawings and especially far-away shots of characters. The characters themselves might look fine close up but they look almost unnatural when they're further away.
I quite enjoyed this manga and although the English translations haven't yet caught up and are quite outdated it's still worht a read. If you like Gender bending and a simple, unique and interesting story with plenty of comedy added in then Yukarism is definitely worth a try.

While not amazing it's not bad either and i found myself very much enjoying this.

The MC is a pretty boring character usually. But when he falls asleep and ends up as his past incarnation is when he is actually fun to have on screen.

The Love interest is the only interesting character all the time. She is pretty good character. Not as good as when the MC is his past self.

The butler dude ( I can't remember these names) Is one of the more unlikable characters. Just not fun when he is getting all the attention.

Story kind of suffers from it's short length imo. ... Only was able to read up to the 12 chapter mark and i can tell that this is too short so we are getting rushed feeling plots.

Near the halfway point of the story we get a change in tone of story. Were at first it seemed to take it self more serious we are now getting a more light type of story. I do prefer the more jokes side of the seriousness of the start.

Some of the reactions are kind of muted i feel. How easily he accepts stuff and people around him.

Kind of makes me wish the MC was still a female in the end. Even if they did something with the MC turning into his past self instead of going back in time to his past self.It just feels a little sad. But they could keep the love interest a female. I never can say no to Yuri.

Overall a fun and pretty good story that is too short.

The past comes back to haunt you. In the cases of the folks in this story, it does literally. Speaking of the past, Yukarism was one of the earliest manga I read, so it was sensible I returned to finish it after all these years.

Our protagonist is an aloof and reclusive young novelist who writes about the Japanese Edo Period whenever the urge strikes him, but he doesn’t know why or even care much about the stories. He lives life without worrying too much about school or ambitions. That is, until, he’s forced to confront his past. Things start changing around him and he ... starts having strange visions about a previous life. It’s not too long before the threads of fate start pulling in others who were previously connected.

The premise of this reincarnation manga is pretty cool, and I think it mostly delivers on that end. The writing here is very mushy, sentimental and maybe a bit cliche. But that’s as you would expect from a period piece and its target shoujo demographic. In its favor, the historical setting is fun to read along with and you can get what the author is presenting without any prior historical knowledge of this period or knowledge about reincarnation. You even learn some stuff as you read. And, the highlight is the historical side of the drama in this manga. Our characters past selves are intriguing and tragic, but sadly you can’t say the same about how they are currently. I didn’t like very much about their reincarnations, but it’s OK since they’re tolerable.

There are unfortunate points where the plot plods or becomes a bit hard to comprehend, but the ending volume does tie it all together nicely. The reincarnation and various other elements are used in a plot devicey fantasy context, but they contribute to the themes of moving on from the past rather than obfuscating the storytelling of this brief manga’s 17 chapters.