Skip! Yamada-kun

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Tsugumi Ohba used his dark humor again, and it worked.

Yamada is a boy obsessed with suspense shows on TV - it's the only thing he actually likes. When he discovers the ability to skip or stop time, he decides to live only to watch them...


Yamada is a character so real I'm sure you know someone like him. If you don't, YOU are like him. Lazy, uncompromised with life, just wants to watch series. The identification hit me so hard that I made this review.

I highly recommend Skip! Yamada-kun. The art is ok for a one-shot. Yamada is everyone of us. The story is very well ... conducted, and you'll have a good laugh at the end. Ohba's irony and faith on human selfishness will never cease to amaze me.

Great story that was packed into 50 pages. Unlike most painfully exaggerated main characters, Yamada is astonishingly normal and relatable. He isn't a superhero with unlimited courage and strength, nor is he a perverted sexually deviant social outcast like many "self-insert" characters are. He is a normal guy, with flaws, that wishes to have a normal life but is bored and tired of every day monotony. He is fed up with study and work which many of us can relate to. While unpopular and not wildly successful at school, he is a normal guy, he has friends, he eats, he sleeps, he acts like a ... real person, making the comic feel alive.

Ohba's skill in writing corruption due to new powers definitely shows in this story. Yamada changes realistically, but horrifyingly over time as he uses his new power. I was captivated as I flipped the pages, seeing how he progressed.

Overall, this is a really interesting story with a realistic and likeable MC. With only 50 pages it is definitely worth your time to read.

9/10

First off, this is my first review. Please treat it kindly. Also spoilers for the one-shot
Spoilers by the way




At the moment I'm trying to finish all of Obatas, and Moritas manga they have published.
So far all of the one-shots have been meh but this one really caught my attention.
Yamada is a basic protagonist but the skipping aspect and the way he uses it is extremely dark and caught me off guard!

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The panel that contains Yamada running across all the experiences he or comes across is very sad and depressing. Since he would've lived a happy life if he didn't use the timeskip remote like from that movie "Click" with Adam sandler. That movie was pretty bad, I remember Adam sandler making someones boobs bigger and making someones body turn green.

Anyways, the tombstone at the end said "and the total amount of suspense shows he has consciously viewed, is way below the average Japanese standard". What an ending and only 55 pages to boot. Wish there was more goddam.