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Japanese: マージナル・オペレーション
English: Marginal Operation
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 16
Chapters: 88
Status: Finished
Published: May 25, 2013 to Jan 25, 2021
Genre: Action Action
Theme: Military Military
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Afternoon
Authors: Shibamura, Yuri (Story), Kimura, Daisuke (Art)

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Score: 7.471 (scored by 13221,322 users)
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Ranked: #32092
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Popularity: #4059
Members: 5,029
Favorites: 43

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Our hero Ryouta Arata is an otaku who's just lost his job after the dissolution of his company. Unwilling to return to his old NEET ways, he applies online to a private military security company, thinking the benefits to be promising. After what appears to be a baffling test, he's assigned to be an "operator of operators" and begins his training in a foreign country.

Little does he know, the life of a private mercenary is far more grueling than he could have ever imagined!

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Marginal Operation was published digitally in English by J-Novel Club from October 2, 2019 to January 4, 2023, and in print from December 3, 2019 to December 12, 2023. The series was also published digitally through K Manga.

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2 Recommended
1 Mixed Feelings
1 Not Recommended
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Nov 22, 2023
darkpixelftw
Recommended
Trigger Warning
Graphic Depiction of Rape, graphic violence (including against children), sexualisation of children, “romance” between child and adult

TL:DR
Gritty and realistic military-focused manga with a plot that will have you binge reading to the final chapter, a real page turner. Great protagonist and interesting side characters, but their potential is wasted and the author can't write women. Despite that, I fully recommend this manga, If you can get past the laundry list of TWs above.

Story: 8/10
The description actually undersells how interesting the premise of the manga actually is. The manga primarily focuses on Arata and his band of mercenaries almost exclusively composed of children. If that ...
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Jan 8, 2023
SpearShake
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (25/88 eps)
Reading this manga is almost like watching the news. In a country you've never heard of, women are kidnapped and sold. Children are trained to shoot guns and kill. And foreign people are fighting for financial gain. "The events recorded in this manga are based off of the state of the world in the time it was written."

Story: The protagonist works as a consultant at a mercenary company. He gives orders, and the fighters obey them. Honestly I thought it was gonna be boring. Because it's the real world, and in our time. But this story does a surprisingly good job by taking things ...
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Aug 5, 2023
Beatnik
Not Recommended
This is a profoundly disappointing manga, exhibiting the worst traits of the medium, namely the sexual 'male gaze' of children, a nauseating relationship between a young teen and an adult double her age, and depiction of women as simple-minded folk obsessed with getting into the protagonist's pants.

It's disappointing because the manga's premise is bold and its themes highly compelling, exploring the suffering and injustice of children during wartime, and the predicament the protagonist finds himself in. Using children as soldiers is obscene, and yet the protagonist believes the alternative for them is even worse (prostitution, death, etc). Their justification is to somehow make enough money ...
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is it true this manga changed genres or went to shit?
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