Tokyo Crazy Paradise

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Japanese: 東京クレイジーパラダイス

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 19

Chapters: 111

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 25, 1996 to Apr 25, 2002

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Themes: Crossdressing, Organized Crime

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Hana to Yume

Authors: Nakamura, Yoshiki (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #332²

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Popularity: #1019

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Ranked #332Popularity #1019Members 18,646

MangaHana to YumeNakamura, Yoshiki (Story & Art)

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Chapters: /111

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Life in the year 2020 in Tokyo is tough, as crime rates are high, and crimes against women rank second only to murders. To prevent their daughter from being exposed to these crimes, Tsukasa's parents raised her to be a male. Tsukasa aspires to be a policeman fighting against the yakuza, just like her parents. However, her parents died in the line of work, leaving behind Tsukasa and her 3 brothers to fend for themselves. Tsukasa must thus work as a bodyguard for her classmate, Ryuji, who happens to be the leader of the most powerful yakuza group in Tokyo, to pay off the family's debts.

(Source: ANN, edited)

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Kozuki, Tsukasa

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Shirogami, Ryuuji

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Sumon, Asago

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Kamojima, Toshiyuki

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Kise, Akira

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Mikaido, Shiva

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Munakata, Kai

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Kozuki, Takuma

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Meiko

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Shibuya, Ryoko

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Jan 12, 2023

TimmyMcAwsome

Recommended

Just pretend that the 3 main characters are 17/18 and it's a great Yakuza/Action/Romance with great pacing.

Not perfect by any means and you can definitely tell it's age in the art, characters, and themes (Would probably get canceled if released today)

Got some nudity, which is whatever, but makes you kind of concerned when you remember that she's 14... So I just make her 18 and move on.

Setting is very interesting, quazi futuristics Japan. But its never to outlandish, and always added to the plot instead of subtracting.

Chapters are nice and long so you feel satisfied with the story and all the characters.

Ending is a ...

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Dec 11, 2014

Evionth

Mixed Feelings

Man, this is hard to write, because I love this kind of formula, and the action and the people and everything is pretty darn good. The whole girl getting dressed up in disguise and is gorgeous and super cool is one of my favorite tropes. Genderbender too? SO AMAZING. I love Tsukasa a lot, she's kind of dumb at times, but she has a nice heart and a strong will and she's great, so great.

As I read the manga, however, I just couldn't make myself like Ryuuji. Given that he's literally one of the most important parts of the manga, a love interest and everything, ...

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May 27, 2020

abystoma2

Not Recommended

I'll be honest right from the start: this review is biased. It focuses too much on only one aspect of the manga. That said, it is an aspect I consider very important and that could be even a deal breaker, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Yes, it is about the art. To say sucks would be an understatement. It's absolutely horrendous. It makes the manga practically unbearable. The illustrations are worse than bad fanarts posted by a 13 years old teen on a deviantart. The anatomy is worse than that of bad yaoi manga, and that's something. The characters are constantly offmodel with ... plenty of tiny heads, unnaturally huge shoulders and grasshopper legs. If you're into some tall characters than this might be for you, as the characters in the manga experience some serious growth. Not as a development, but as a literal growth. Through the series the main characters are more and more often portrayed as someone with legs three times the length of their torso. It goes to such extremes that random unnamed characters in background are considerable better drawn than the protagonists.

I'm a fan of stylized manga art like for example works of Yuuichi Yokoyama or Hayashi Seiichi. I can enjoy goofy illustration like ONE's Mob Psycho 100. But this, this isn't excusable by "an artstyle". This isn't goofing around. This is just plain bad art. It's that sort of illustrations that would make art professors shriek with terror when approached with it, like trying to hand the Bible to a demon. This manga took a look at the already low standard for shoujo manga and told to itself "boi I can sure do it even worse while still avoiding being axed". It's so awful I have to question whether there even were editors in the times this was made, as it looks like literally nobody except the author has seen the pages before they went to the print. The characters are often abominations and the final product looks like there was zero quality control involved.

Of course, this work also falls into the pitfall that usually ensnares shoujo manga - bad backgrounds. Or to be more specific, no backgrounds. This manga can go PAGES without having a properly drawn background for a single panel. This combined with the already horrid art makes for a comic that is quite hard to orient in and to gather what and where is happening, adding to the enjoyableness. But this manga takes it even further - not just backgrounds, it can go without using even the already easy to add filters, making the panels just ugly drawn characters on a blank white background. Such a low-effort product. Sometimes I got baited by one or two pages being passable, thinking that the author finally improved, but this was always just a false hope as the art quickly got back to its usual state of being poor, sometimes even worse than previously.

The panel composition itself is also unsurprisingly a failure, with no reason and rhyme put into it most of the time. Often there is just wall of a text on a page with smaller illustrations, making it seem like that larger amount of text is there just so the author doesn't have to draw more. Sometimes only half of the page is filled with some small cringy chibi drawing on rest of the page. Honestly this manga might have worked better as a novel. I'm sure some established and respected publishers such as Harlequin would be happy to take upon themselves to publish it.

Which gets us to the story itself. Not gonna lie, I wasn't able to focus on it much, spending most of the time either snickering or facepalming to the the hideous art. When I was trying to find out why do people even like this manga, what I got was basically "it features adult themes like mafia and drugs even though it's a shoujo, so it's good", which is just plain faulty reasoning. It's not the themes alone that make a work good, it's how they are portrayed in the work. "Iz gud coz for adults" is just an Elfen Lied/Another/etc. mentality all over again. What I can say after reading this manga that no matter how serious your plot might sound on a paper, craftily added shoujo elements such as "le random xddd" super deformed facial expressions and badly timed comic reliefs are perfectly capable of destroying the overall atmosphere.

I wanted to say that this work didn't age well, but it's actually bad even when compared with its contemporary works. This is among one of the worst drawn manga I've ever read, and I've read my deal of bad manga. Definitely a waste of time.

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