QQ Sweeper

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QQ Sweeper is about a family of cleaners who go out and keep the world clean, not just in the physical world, but also people's minds. Fumi is a girl with no family and nowhere to go, after searching desperately for a live-in job she finally (through a weird turn of events) ends up working for the family as a cleaner in training.
As a disclaimer, I read volume 1 of Queen's Quality before I read QQ Sweeper. I was unaware of these volumes until midway through volume 1. From what I've gathered, QQ Sweeper is considered a sequel to the series, but also not really. ... TLDR; for some reason, the manga's name had to be changed, though it's not clear because even the author herself is unsure of the reason why.

Pros:
· All the main cast is very likeable, and even the antagonist are to some degree likeable. No one really feels like a one dimensional character, they all have their uniqueness, but aren't solely defined by it. Fumi often makes mistakes and tries to learn from them, sometimes she slips back into her old habits, which feel very real for your everyday person.
· The issues going on in the manga are a parallel to real life mental health issues and with Japanese notorious problems with how they treat mental health I am all for a series that attempts to tackle this in a way that is knowledgeable to the average reader.
· The art is very charming, and I love some of the more simple facial expressions. The art improves a lot in Queen's Quality, but even in QQ Sweeper, the art is something I look at fondly.

Cons:
· Too short, I know this is kind of odd to say considering Queen's Quality exist but standing on its own it's way too short and leaves things unresolved.
· Sometimes things can be a bit complicated to follow because they are trying to explain it at the moment at the best of their abilities while not taking away from what is currently going on.

Overall, I am more excited to jump back into Queen's Quality after reading QQ Sweeper. Reading Motomi's side panels about things that were going on around her while working on the manga filled me with joy. I love the duo of Fumi and Kyuutarou and I want to see where there journey leads to!

Oh wow, I did not expect to like this series as much as I ended up doing!

Frankly speaking, when l started this series l kinda dreaded trying to read it because l quickly just wanted to get into Queen’s Quality. l read the 1st chp & then put it on hold for a while because l got distracted & became uninterested.
HOWEVER, this series - IT WAS REALLY GOOD.

The artwork is quite pretty, & I’m grateful to the author for putting so much effort in the panels, I appreciate their hardwork.
As for the world, it was really interesting. The characters too were lovable and I ... easily found myself curious over how the author might develop them & their story. All the while being invested in what was going on currently too of-course. Call it overreacting on my part but chp 15 made me literally tear up.

Idk, l just rlly ended up enjoying the series. It did a good job at setting up stuff for Queen’s Quality. I’m quite interested in stuff related to the Queen, Fumi’s memories, both Fumi’s & Kyutaro’s past,.
If you’re thinking of reading this but are still unsure l say go for it! These 15 chps were incredibly engaging & fun to read!!

QQ Sweeper is a series that looks, at first glance, to be a lot shorter than it actually is. The manga abruptly stops at the end of its first act and then continues onward as a different manga called Queen's Quality. This makes QQ Sweeper kind of hard to do a full review on as all I'm really reviewing is a beginning, and usually when it comes to storytelling you have to see a middle and end to really know if the set-up panned out like it should have, or at the least have gotten more than what equates to 3 out of 8 volumes ... into the plot. Thus, when I say that QQ Sweeper is a decent series, I have to say "QQ Sweeper is a decent series under the provisio that it continues to not be horrible as Queen's Quality, which I have yet to read."

Anyways, QQ Sweeper is about a girl who has been told throughout her life that she's cursed for some reason. One day, she meets a handsome boy who takes her under his wing to perform the duties of a sweeper - a person who goes into the minds of troubled people and quite literally cleanses their souls. What keeps this series from rating higher than a 7/10 for me is that we spend more time hearing about sweeping than actually doing it. A lot of time is spent talking about sweeping, alluding to previous sweeping, and having existential crisis about sweeping and so by the "end" of the series we've done actually sweeping only about once per volume.

Now, I'm far from the kind of person to complain about a lot of time being put aside for the romantic subplot, especially in a shoujo manga, but none of the things that distract the characters from doing the actual sweeping seem to make much progress in a way that feels natural either. Our hero, Fumi, spends the first two volumes dealing with angst about her status as a cursed girl. In the third volume, she suddenly grows into a character who can deal with the name calling without much rhyme or reason, and then just as suddenly a new villain shows up with no forshadowing and little explanation. There are so many aspects of QQ Sweeper that felt like they could have been consolidated into 1 or 2 chapters that take the entirety of the run to... sort of resolve.

That said, QQ Sweeper is still enjoyable despite its flaws and does a good job of making me want to go ahead with reading its sequel. It just takes longer than it needs to get to each plot element. If Queen's Quality continues at this slow a pace, it will end feeling like the entire story could have been told in those first 3 volumes.