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Feb 10, 2022
First and foremost, ignore any review before Chapter 175. Chapter 175 is a gamechanger, and for the worse. I'll go into why later.
First thing you need to know is that this is basically 3 different mangas, and they aren't connected very well. At the beginning, this is an action manga with hints of ecchi here and there. At the midpoint, this is Mahou Sensei Negima 2.0, in that it's all ecchi and harem. At the end, it turns into a dragonball-like manga. As far as stories go, the beginning is quite good all around. The middle is less story focused, but still well written. If
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you like ecchi harem, the stories adds to the experience rather than hurts it.
But the end... after chapter 175, the whole thing changes drastically for the worst. The author tries to pull a "plot twist", but that plot twist consists of utterly destroying everything they'd built up to up until that point. All the relationships, all the character development, all the romance... it's all down the drain. Heck, several of the powers they'd built up to are completely disregarded for the rest of the story, and some characters are all but eliminated entirely.
It's frankly one of the worst things I've ever had happen. I was invested in the story, in the characters. And for the sake of a "gotcha" moment, the author destroyed ALL of it. It was so bad I kept expecting a "but it was all an illusion" or "we will reset time" twist (which they had the means to do easily). But they didn't.
It didn't improve the story, it soured the entire experience. I was enjoying it up until that point. Afterwards, no matter how many Negima cameos or how good the action was, it was all dead to me, because my 175 chapters worth of reading was dead to the story. Prior to that, I would have given it a 7 for story, 8 for character, 8 for enjoyment, and 8 overall. After? 3 for all of those.
3/10, don't get invested, this is a trap of a manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Feb 6, 2022
I'm gonna be honest. I think I hated this.
Not because it was bad. If it was all bad, it wouldn't have even a 5. But I hated it because it was so close to my strike zone while being the complete opposite of my strike zone.
I enjoy ecchi rom-com harems with strong and motivated protagonists. So you'd think I'd like this. But on every one of those checkboxes it misses the mark entirely.
When it comes to ecchi, the whole "girls are instantly 100% horny" removes any foreplay and honestly made it a bit unattractive to me. If there is no effort to get the girls,
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the whole ecchi just feels flat and bland.
Then, it's not a rom-com. It is lacking in both romance and humor. The girls "fall" for him, but in a sense of lust, not love, and they do so not because he did anything, but because they're automatically made horny when they touch him. As for comedy, don't make me laugh. Actually, please do; it would be a nice change of pace from this dreary story filled with rape and death.
Then, it's technically a harem, but none of the girls really have any time to develop. Due to the auto-horny, there isn't really any actual intimacy. They don't grow to know the main character, and he doesn't really grow to know them. Many of the girls are basically tropes with a half-paragraph backstory.
Honestly, it feels weird saying this when my list of top mangas include super ecchi titles like To Love Ru and Minamoto Kun Monogatari, but... I think this would be way more interesting to me if they removed the whole "auto-horniness" and "mate to save lives" bits. A world where he is the only guy and girls die at the age of 20 could be interesting without that, and it would make the relationships more meaningful.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 8, 2019
If you've ever wanted to read a manga about a young otaku in highschool with no social life getting powers from a girl from hell who is collecting a resource that comes from the negative aspects of girls' lives and the otaku must assist her by solving their emotional issues and gather this resource or else he'll suffer extreme physical harm, with each girl being tossed aside after being "conquered", have I ever got the manga for you:
Kami Nomi Zo Shiru Sekai.
Oh and also this blatant derivative which isn't quite as good but holds up alright.
To highlight the quick differences: Kaminomi is romance. This is
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Ecchi BDSM. Both focus on the emotional stories, but Kaminomi focuses more on real world issues like depression whereas this focuses on traumas that led to girls becoming "bad girls" and criminals. As such, kaminomi has the edge in terms of realism (heh) and relatable stories, whereas this one is more ecchi. Neither abandon story, but Kaminomi is definitely better. Meanwhile in terms of art, they are both great.
Kaminomi wins in terms of characters as well; having to make the villains clearly bad girls immediately after you meet them hurts Oshioki considerably, as the introduction of all the characters is very black and white before it gets into their root problems later on. Pacing in Oshioki is also an issue; it has been quite fast so far with not enough time devoted to the investigation part wherein he discovers the problems; instead it opts for a more mystery-novel-like "tada!" moment wherein he exposes it to the audience.
All in all, if you haven't read Kami Nomi, read that. If you have, this is a worse version, but considering Kami Nomi is a manga I'd give a 9/10 to, that's not saying a ton, and I'd still recommend this, assuming you can stomach over the top ecchi fanservice.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 26, 2019
Man. I'm sad.
I loved the books. They are some of my favorite light novels, because they have no pretenses of being anything but an isekai slice of life, and they manage to do it in such an absurdly over-the-top way that it's funny.
The anime... fails to live up to any of my expectations. The plot is conveyed badly, the art and sound design is just passable, the characters aren't done well, and as a result my enjoyment suffered.
"How can the plot be conveyed badly?" I hear you ask. "There was never much plot to begin with!" You would be correct. The reason its conveyed badly
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is because Satou's inner monologue is the key element in how the story is conveyed.
The anime doesn't give you the funny lines where Satou thinks things like "The demon looked like it might cause issues if I left it around, so I killed it on my way to get lunch." The books are full of stuff like that, where you have a "wait, what?" moment because of how casually and offhand satou mentions absurd things. When you take out the inner monologue, it just becomes a classic Mary Sue, and you miss out on the humor intended by the conflict of his casual attitude with his over the top actions.
Not only that, but a large portion of the plot revolves around Satou using his system to learn and max out skills at absurd speed. But in the anime they didn't even bother to translate the on screen text which tells you when he acquires skills, which was another thing that was humorous, having situations where satou does really minor things to get absurd skills.
All in all, it takes a pure absurd comedy and turns it into a generic isekai plot, losing 90% of its charm.
All in all, I am very disappointed. I have to give it a 5, and that's generous. I want to give it more but I can't. Pass on the anime.
But read the books. They're good.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 4, 2018
So, Change 123 was a good manga, and I enjoyed it. But I can't say it's a great manga. A lot of people seem to like the ending, but it just ruined the whole thing for me. I am going to spoil a major part of the ending, so if you are afraid of spoilers, stop reading here. I've tried to make it incredibly obvious it's coming up; it has 4 lines of warning in all caps; it's in the story section. By categories:
Art - 6/10: Don't take my 6 as a bad rating. In fact, in terms of quality, it's rather good. That being
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said... it's not memorable. At all. The ecchi scenes are mediocre for the genre, the fighting scenes are up to par but not remarkable, and the characters are distinguishable but not groundbreaking. It did such a good job of meeting the standard for "good", but it did it in the most boring "check-off-another-box" kinda way.
Character 8/10: I really liked the characters. The cast was remarkable, and didn't become cardboard cutouts as they often do in rom-com animes, which is what this really is under its guise of a fighting one.
The interactions between the characters seemed genuine, except for the male lead, who is mysteriously liked despite having no redeeming qualities other than being brave. But that being said, no one seems to praise him for anything but bravery, so I'm not troubled by it that much. I wish he had had more (and better) character development, as he kinda didn't pull his weight.
Meanwhile, the female lead and her multiple personalities were the highlight of the characters, drawing the score up to its 8. Specifically, their interactions were interesting and fun and explored in interesting ways that didn't get tiring. It was fun watching them have fun. That being said, I have a massive gripe with how the ending treated them, which will be addressed in the spoiler in the next tab. I'll try to make it real obvious when it comes up.
Story 6/10: Each arc held its own. When new characters were introduced, they were interesting. That being said, it does suffer from a bit of the ol' Rosario + Vampire part 1 thing where each arc seems to have next to no foreshadowing before that arc shows up, and it lacks an overarching plot. Fights are good, character are good, story doesn't have too many plot holes. It'd be a 7 if I didn't dislike the ending so much.
===============[[SPOILERS START HERE]]===============
============[[NO SERIOUSLY, MAJOR SPOILERS]]===========
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==========[[I TRIED TO WARN YOU BEST AS I COULD]]==========
The show ends with Motoko's personalities being unified into a single personality with aspects of each of them. It's a triumph for her ordinary life and a sign of her moving past her past traumas. Everyone in the manga is happy for her, and she starts a serious romance with the male lead. It's supposed to be a happy event.
But it's a calamity for the part I felt interested in this manga for: the characters. With only 1 personality, she's only 1 person. Where this manga shines was in the interaction between the 4 personalities. By squashing them into one, it feels like telling me that merging Gimli, Aragorn, and Legolas into a single super-warrior would be superior than having them separate. It just felt wrong, and left me with a sour taste in my mouth.
==========[[OK GUYS THAT'S ALL FOR THE SPOILERS]]==========
==========[[I HOPE I HAVEN'T RUINED YOUR LIFE]]==========
Enjoyment 5/10: So, if you somehow got here without reading the above, I'll suffice it to say that the note it went out on utterly ruined all enjoyment I had had in the manga; it would have been a solid 7, bordering 8. And the end dropped it to a 5, leaving me disappointed and unsatisfied.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Feb 17, 2018
So, the Breaker Part 2. I binged the first one and this one in a week. That alone should tell you it is good. But it annoyed me a lot as well. Let's get into things:
Story (8): The story is well written, suspenseful, intense, dramatic, and overall well done. But it only gets a 8, because I didn't enjoy the story it told. To elaborate, Breaker 1 was fun action and drama, and really intense. But New Waves forgot to include one of those: the fun.
The main character grows as a character, beats villains, and occasionally you get a good rush of fun from a
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villain getting punched... but it almost completely lacks the comedy and all the light hearted elements that made the first one so great. Instead, it wears down on you with constant tragedy, cliffhangers, and dark tones. I entered it expecting to have a fun time... but by the end, while I still wanted more, I left more tense than I entered the story. Their is no resolution, just constant buildup.
Overall, the story was 10/10 for writing, 10/10 for immersion, 10/10 for making me want to continue... but a mere 6/10 for actual enjoyment.
Art (10): Art is great, and unlike many action mangas, it manages to convey the motion fairly well, and you can picture how the scenes would look as an anime. Very good, perfect score from me.
Characters (8): The characters are more complex than in the Breaker 1, but they lose some interest when all humor is stripped from them. Everything is serious and dark, and that leads to a drop in how much I like the characters. It's hard to like people who have no fun in their lives.
Enjoyment (6): Pretty much as I said in Story. I didn't enjoy this, really. I put a 6, because it kept me reading, and I didn't leave it hating the author. But man, it is dreary.
Overall (8): Great story, great art, good characters, but completely dreary and draining.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 18, 2015
*This Review may contain Spoilers*
This was a classic case of good idea, terrible execution. It is a pseudo harem with 5 girls and the main character as the guy, but it doesn't get much into romance or ecchi.
Story (4/10): The story was spastic. It starts off with a fun harem promise of 1 guy trying to date 5 girls to stop their deaths and the death of his sister, and a interesting story gimmick of precognitive dreams. The MC is motivated and skilled, and rapidly gains the attention of the first girl, and they hint romantic interest. Similar case with the second and third one.
Then
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they rapidly drop 90% of the romantic part of the harem. Then the story proceeds to off the deep end, with murderous mascots with freddy powers to kill in dreams, mysterious dream doctors, robot suits, and magic dream powers. In the end, it is a happy ending, but a rushed ending, and feels like tying up loose ends by soaking them in superglue and bundling them together.
It loses all coherence and just goes for action, and characters and plot are just thrown aside. The third girl's plot arc is thrown aside for contrived intrigue, and has little romantic harem interest, and the 4th and fifth girl barely get a plot arc, and their characters are left undeveloped and shallow. The villains feel like they don't know what the f*** they want to do, either. Overall, after the second girl, the plot kicks in, and the story collapses.
Art (4/10): I mean, it was OK most of the time, but occasionally head sizes, body proportions, and facial quality were so inconsistent that sometimes I felt like the main character had a gag face during the normal parts of the story. This was especially true towards the end.
Character (4/10): Don't judge the initial characters as the standard, this manga is exemplary at the art of going downhill. The MC started off strong. He had a strong sense of justice, an interesting power to see the future, and didn't lack any confidence. The first girl was a rich girl, but spirited and fun (and decidedly not a tsundere, unlike the norm for rich girls), with a fun bad cooking gimmick to add more character to her, and she likes to help the MC. The second girl was fun, with a interesting transformation from a simple looking but hard to read girl to an energetic idol, and she could gather animals to her like a disney princess.
Now remember all those things I just told you? Get rid of half of them. The main character loses confidence, becomes less passionate, and his dream powers become less useful. The first girl rarely ever uses her money for anything from the end of her arc onward. She never cooks ever since the first time. She loses her energy and becomes a background character for the MC. The second girl only uses her disney gimmick like twice, and she never transforms into the idol version after her arc.
On top of that, all characters introduced after the second arc are shallow and undeveloped. You have a cut and paste yakuza daughter who can call for backup, and little to no personality, and she rarely uses her backup. You have a feisty mech using girl, whose powers are largely unexplained, and feisty is about all the personality she has to her name. And the fifth girl... WAIT THERE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE 5 GIRLS! WE'RE MISSING ONE! Yeah, the fifth girl never shows up in the story at all, which was very mysterious to me.
As for the other characters, we have the sister, who is pretty boring until she gets a twist... whereupon she's boring and unlikeable. Then we have a mysterious doctor, who can access dreams... and they reveal... she's a doctor who can intervene in dreams! Yeah, that's pretty much the plot twist. And then you have a girl who gives the MC things that intervene in dreams... and it's revealed... she made things to intervene in dreams! Yep. Advanced plot twists.
As for enjoyment... 4/10. It would be 5/10 for most of the story, but it would be 2/10 for the end. I'll compromise.
Overall, I bet you can't guess... I give it... 4/10, because that seemed to be the number of the day. Can't recommend, because it feels like watching dreams get crushed, almost the same feeling... as if your childhood idols died in a car crash.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 8, 2015
Kono Oneesan wa Fiction desu... It's a manga with great characters that started out strong, stalled for a bit, then went for a rushed and underdeveloped conclusion.
Let's start off with the one I feel most divided on - Story (beginning-middle 9/10, ending 4/10):
The story is pretty simple, it is just a slice of life with elements of harem and romance. The main character finds a passed out girl on the side of the road, gets in a ecchi situation, and learns later that she is his mother's (a mangaka) assistant. He teaches her about her job, she gets a crush on him, characters from his
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school are introduced... and that's about it for the story, with the exception of the ending.
The ending was a rushed ending, and I personally found it very unsatisfactory. Without spoiling it too much, I will say that relationships remain mostly unsolved, the canon pairing was weird, and it felt like they were trying to tie up loose ends by serving it as a sort of spaghetti.
Now for the first of the nice categories - Art (8/10):
Art was good, not exemplary, but I never looked at anything as "off", and everything looked like what it was supposed to, though I never had a "wow I love that art" moment either.
Character (9/10):
The characters were what made the story. The main character is a confident and mature high schooler, contrary to so many other harem leads. He's not boring, nor overly comedic, and he often acts as a straight man, while still maintaining his own personality. Every girl in his class likes him, whether romantically or as a friend, to the point of him getting valentines chocolate from all of them. However, he leans towards the side of being oblivious about anything love related. The attempt of the author to solve this is about 50% of my grudge towards the ending, as it was 2 chapters of character development that came out of the blue and seemed unrealistically forced.
The main girl for the majority of the story is his assistant. She is an attractive, dedicated, and intelligent young women, but she has several flaws. First, she is terrible at alcohol, and will use the main character as a pillow to sleep with if she gets drunk, and second, she often leaps to conclusions, despite there being not enough info to fully conclude that. However, she is a loveable and interesting character. She quickly gains a crush on the main character; but alas, the manga never fully goes all the way with this, another of my main faults with the ending.
The other major girls are primarily 2 of his classmates. The first is a small shy loli who also jumps to conclusions, and she had a crush on the main character since the first chapter. Unfortunately, he character remains able to be described in a single sentence for the entire manga, and is my candidate for most boring girl.
The second girl is a much more interesting character, in my opinion. She loves to tease the other girl and is generally a playful and fun character with a good sense of humor. Early on she seems to develop a crush on the main character; however, the author seems to have forgotten that, as she doesn't show much signs for the rest of the manga. Despite being an interesting and likeable girl (and personally my vote for best girl), she never gets much character development, primarily being a sidekick for the loli, and rarely getting moments for herself.
Other characters drop in from time to time, but most of them have their own relationships and are basically side stories, so the harem pretty much remains at 3 relevant characters. However, each and every one of them is an amusing and interesting character.
Now, the most important field - Enjoyment (8/10):
I would give the beginning 10/10 for good character introduction. I would give the middle 8/10 for keeping my interest. I would give the ending 2/10, for one of my least favorite endings of all time, and would recommend you stop reading as soon as you see definite pairings being established (excluding for minor characters), as it just goes downhill from there.
Overall, 7/10, a great manga ruined by a terrible ending.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 28, 2015
So, to start my review off, let's just put out that I watched the anime first. And found that lacking. However, after a several month break, I took it upon my self to start reading the manga, which many people had found better. I was both pleasantly, and unpleasantly surprised.
Story (7/10): This is the area I feel the most conflicted over. It started out pretty mediocre, like the anime, but over time became more complex and interesting. Eventually, I started very much enjoying it. The story arcs were always interesting, and I enjoyed the fact that the main character was not stagnant, like so many
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other MCs. In the broad range of overarching story, I'd probably have put it at a 8 or 9.
Now, here's why it didn't reach that high: After about the 3/4s point of the manga, I felt like the story structure started to become repetitive. To be blunt, almost every chapter began follow the same script. Without spoilers: MC and Moka have a fight. They decide they aren't going to see each other any more. Bad guy of the day picks a fight with one of the two. The other comes to the rescue. They make up. Done. Every. Single. Time.
The first few times, it was interesting, because it was supposed to convey character development. But... WHERE'D THE DEVELOPMENT GO? You'd think after the 9th time the MC and Moka fight over a misunderstanding, they'd learn some communication skills and try to find what really happened. Especially given that the exact same kind of thing happened last episode and they promised not to leave each other. But nope. No such luck.
Overall, good story arcs, repetitive individual chapter plots.
Art (9/10): The art was mediocre at first, to the point where I didn't really like it. Characters' level of detail fluctuated, shading seemed weird, etc, to the point where it just made me uneasy. But over time, the art style stabilized, and more detail was added to individual shots. Shading was more advanced and consistent, characters had more range of expression, and above all, the backgrounds of each shot became much more interesting, all the while not distracting from the foreground. By the end, I very much liked the art style.
Character (9/10): If I were to rate the individual characters, most of them would be in the range of 6-7, but where the characters shine is in their interactions with each other. On their own, the characters are a fairly classic assortment of harem archetypes, but when they interact, they become interesting and somewhat unique characters.
While I did not love the main character at first (being the wimpy kid he is), he did improve throughout the story (and I mean, he actually did change, not just that I like him better). The girls' interactions with the main character are fairly stereotypical, and not that interesting (why do they like him again?), unfortunately; however, their interactions with each other are usually either emotional or funny, and the humor is well balanced.
Overall, stereotypical characters who become funny and unique through their interactions.
Enjoyment (7/10): Let me start this off by saying: If the chapters had had more unique stories, this would be 2 points higher. It just kept repeating itself for so long, that I got bored and wasn't enjoying myself anymore, to the point where I had to force myself to finish it.
However, earlier on, it was very fun to read and I always enjoyed in when a new part of the plot advanced or a new character was introduced. It was good for a few laughs here and there as well. It was especially fun to watch the main character change and grow throughout the story (unlike half a million other anime/manga MCs). I only wish the other characters grew as well. If it lost half the filler fights, I'd find it nicer to read.
Overall (8/10): Decent manga, with fun characters and good art (at least towards the latter parts), which had a good story, but dragged on too long. I would recommend this for a read, but I would avoid marathoning it due to its repetition.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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