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Oct 3, 2025
A super-dense manga about chasing wild dreams, arcane Shonen Jump workings, and living a life fully devoted to your work. It's excellent!
I cannot believe how wordy this manga is, even after Death Note showed how much Ohba loves to write. It has roughly 3x more words than a typical Jump chapter, maintained over 176 chapters, which is nuts! It took me ages to get through, but that was fine when it was constantly delivering new ideas, bouncing concepts off the fun duo of Muto Ashirogi, and catching up with the other creative teams in the series.
The overwork inherent in the weekly manga process comes up
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with a major arc early, and sporadically throughout, but isn't often a huge obstacle. I'm happy for that, because there's not much to say about it other than everyone with regular jobs saying "don't do that" and the people in their dream jobs saying "it's for the art". There are a ton of arcs Muto Ashirogi go through, with four different series, editor drama, friendly (and less friendly) rival creators' challenges, copycat criminals, an insane fan with unlimited money and terrible ideas on making art, and online harassment!
Overall I enjoyed the structure of each story, but it feels a little odd to have the characters talking so nakedly about arcs for their story-in-a-story, then some new drama pops up to push THIS story in a new direction! Once you see the magician reveal their secrets, even when it's so well-done like in here, it WILL lose a bit of the wonder. It's especially weird when their final series has parallels to Death Note and they passionately say "this should end when it's supposed to instead of continuing past the main antagonist battle", which...feels like a pointed barb at someone within Shueisha.
If you are even remotely curious about comics, Shonen Jump in particular, and have the patience to stick with a thick series that's high on word counts, definitely give it a go. There's some fairly transparent and eye-roll inducing "please kids, get married" messaging in here (and some pretty gross fatphobia), but on the whole it's superb, and potentially even better than Death Note.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 3, 2025
Solid shonen! I'd put off reading it for a while because of how weirdly ugly Andy is to look at, but I'm glad I finally pushed past that and dug in. It starts off...well it has some good ideas wrapped up in some bad ones, let's say. Gets over the icky stuff in a couple of chapters, thankfully, and gives the main duo time to focus on being hunted by unstoppable paramilitary forces! It's crazy how dangerous and bleak things are right from the start!
But it helps that Andy is completely unstoppable with the strongest healing factor in any comic I've read, allowing him to
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use the blood from severed legs to fly. And he keeps a katana just...in his back or his arm. He shucks his skin a time or two, it's pretty gross! Fuuko, however, is cute and a good foil. She spends 120 chapters being useless in the fights but a hero everywhere else, then turns into a badass in her own right when she rides the wheel of time to save scum her old timeline and help everyone out during the most tragic times of their lives. The rules of the world come into focus as it opens up in scope and gets very, very interesting, which gives it one more fun layer to consider.
It's cool! I started reading also because I saw the SJ previews saying they fought God so I said "surely this means it's wrapping up" and...not yet! It went another two years! It's unique in its melancholy and/or darkness and worth a look for that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Sep 3, 2025
A solid series, but a rushed ending doesn't help me recommend. The author goes to great lengths to establish what's going on, and why it isn't creepy (which it really needs), and it works! You believe Juzo's motivations immediately and really feel his enthusiasm for learning. As it continues and more battles pop up, it turns to various challenges that are more fitting for a middle school compared to just combat, which is great to mix it up, and introduces a ton of enemies, both in school and out of it.
The classmates are fun and interesting characters, you typically don't see Home Ec students mingling
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with stone cold killers so it gives this series some freshness. The majority of the assassin syndicate plot doesn't go anywhere, which is okay when the Unicorns are more interesting.
But it really feels rushed in the end. It probably could've gone for another 50 chapters with all the material they set up in the final few months, but it just suddenly goes to the endgame without much payoff! Sours the whole thing, unfortunately, but still a unique, offbeat assassin manga among the sea of murderers in Shonen Jump and Jump +.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 19, 2025
A great shonen series with a fun cast of supporting characters, a cool conceit, and absolutely massive scale! Now that the whole series is over, I can recommend it to anyone who reads shonen, the biggest point against it was the s l o w pace of chapter releases. Once I saw that it was likely in 'final battle' territory I stopped reading, after learning from My Hero Academia that a final battle spread over more than a year is... tough to follow. I made the right choice - being able to read from the start of the invasion to the last chapter was an
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excellent time, and that took at least a year and a half to come out, with two-week breaks as the norm!
I found the art good, but the human characters are a little less detailed than some series. That's because the kaiju and the battles are FULL of dense lines and huge scope of destruction. While it's not One Punch Man level detail, it's still good at conveying the sheer power of attacks, though they could use a little more room to breathe on the page.
The characters aren't worldbreaking, but the team atmosphere of the Defense Force lends itself to great moments of camaraderie, duty, and overcoming barriers to defend their family, friends, and homeland, which is what you'd hope for a series like this. Kafka himself is a great protagonist, representing for those of us over 30 with dreams unfulfilled, which is a novel thing for a series like this to have (I'm just glad my back doesn't hurt).
Check it out if you want an action series that doesn't break the norm, but makes some great choices to differentiate along the way.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 2, 2025
A not-very-surprising cancellation, considering no other readers took the time to review it. I liked the main duo, a fun dynamic between a degenerate psychic and his extremely straight-laced judoka made for some good jokes. The side characters were a little less interesting, don't think we need a weird teen whose only trait is his horniness or a drunk salaryman. The weekly misadventures were overall fun and I liked the slightly bigger stories that required a little more policework from the cast, but alas, not enough to save it.
The art might not be for everyone, and I'm a little disappointed that the setting (inspired
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by the same part of Tokyo as Like a Dragon!) wasn't more utilized outside of 'being known as a crime hotspot'. Still, it's worth reading if you like the first chapter, and hopefully there's another fun gag manga that takes its place.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Nov 4, 2024
Naruto ran so this could also run, then trip and have a three paragraph explanation about how crazy it is they tripped.
I cannot but help comparing this series with others, namely Naruto and Chainsaw Man, the former this borrows from, and the latter borrows from it.
Cursed spirits are uninspired compared to Devils. I started both around the same time, and Chainsaw Man has much better explanations for Devil power levels compared to JJK. Why are there only a handful of cursed spirits based on primal fears in JJK? Why bother using such a cool idea if you ignore it after the first two arcs?
From Naruto,
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you have a half-face-obscured, white-haired teacher with incredible power teaching a goofy dude with an incalculably destructive demon inside, an emo dude with family issues, and a girl who will never get any real fights after chapter 20.
I just don't think the series has good enough characters to drag out arcs like other strong Shonen series of old did, as the introduced characters just don't have much going on and are often one-note or change desires on a dime. It wants to be a funny series to break up the seriousness of the setting at times but isn't funny and isn't good enough at laying the scene for why something is serious either. The antagonists are one of: brainless monsters, unkillable curses that take 8 lethal blows but continue on as if nothing happened, or Aizen but less charismatic. The internal sorcery politics are something new but then the plot says "everyone hates the protagonists now" and all sides become black and white.
I think the writer knew things were getting out of control because he abruptly stopped the culling game the second Gojo got out and then fights became even more wordy exposition dumps about why a move was so cool instead of just showing us a cool move. There's too much inconsequential garbage in each fight, and as a result there have only been about 5 main arcs in 270 chapters. (JJK High, Kyoto Games, Gojo Flashback, Shibuya, Culling Game) All of Naruto's first series can fit into that space!
The power system is so wildly exponential. Nobara is literally useless after 50 chapters against the threats that appear so it's just Pink Man and Not Sasuke doing anything in the main trio, leading to a never ending parade of new characters that are flat or confusing. Setting up the graded sorcery conceit made no sense once everything interesting immediately became special grade, and anyone under that mark became chum.
Gojo is the most interesting main character and he was in a box for over 1000 real-life days. But he's also way, way too strong and the story can't justify anyone else doing things he can't while he's alive, so he got double-killed. Neat. And he even gets the afterlife sidebar JUST LIKE KAKASHI DID AGAINST PAIN!
But I don't want to deny it - this series was fun at first, then it became a frustrating slog during Shibuya and especially during the Culling Game. The best chunk of JJK is JJK Zero, which is short, sweet, and not overstuffed with half baked characters and concepts. If I read one more thing about a can't-miss domain attack that doesn't mean jack shit as fighters 'recharge their burnt-out reverse cursed technique', my eyes will roll through my skull.
It's always good when you have to spend the third to last chapter having all of your characters question why they did use certain techniques in the final battle. I cannot believe it just ends with Itadori, the guy who barely survived Shibuya, killing the final boss a month in-story later by punching him a lot. Borrowing Bleach's power scaling is not a particularly good idea!
It's a shame that this wasn't as good as the hype would lead you to believe, but sometimes you have too many ideas to co-exist in one weekly series. A solid start, a pretty weak finish.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 12, 2024
A stirring piece of life in a high school concert band and the growth of a shy student, concluding with this season. It's a slice of life series with serious scenes of contemplation as various forces in life pull you apart from the things you care about, and what you will do if they're strong enough to stop you. Will you bow to family pressures or stay true to the goals you have? Will your friends stick with you even if you aren't the best person to lead?
There's a lot of things to appreciate in this series, from the great roster of characters, the gorgeous
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Kyoto scenery, the music (obviously), and the questions about self and goals. It comes together for a great total package all within about 13 episodes per season that I highly recommend!
The final season in particular deals with fierce competition against someone who acts like they don't want to be a part of it, which you really don't see in anime or any media too much! I won't spoil anything but the resolution to it all left me thinking about it for a couple days after.
Absolutely worth a watch and a necessity if you cared about high school band, but it's a little sad that the extremely queer-coded interactions between Kumiko and Reina in the end came to nothing and she got stealth paired with a dude she barely seemed interested in. OH WELL.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 12, 2024
I don't think I've seen a series get cancelled before 20 chapters before, this thing must've been completely ignored by readers everywhere! It's got some charming aspects, it's a superpowered slice of life story that has the main character live with a found family of other superpowered goofballs. If you like that premise, then I'd recommend this as it will take you all of 45 minutes max to read the entire series!
The art is fine, but the design of everyone is just not quite to the level it needed to be to stick around and attract an audience. The secondary protagonist in particular wears a
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plain bucket and a size XXXL shirt and it's just not visually interesting. A shame to end so fast, but honestly it worked out plot-wise since every chapter except the last two was a pretty simple story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jun 23, 2024
The fun core of the show is still here with the goofballs that orbit Mash and Mash's own insane antics, but it loses some steam in the last few episodes this season. There are a few amazingly animated pieces throughout, but also some really, really cheap looking stuff as the final fight arc drags on a bit too long.
It loses a little focus on what makes Mashle really pop when it drags too much without a good joke to punctuate the heavier stuff, which is unfortunate. Still, I'll be watching the next season and it is still very enjoyable for the first few episodes, and
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if you aren't put off by the weird rap I'd say this OP is one of the best in a decade, it's so lively and fun!
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 27, 2024
Konosuba - A World Without Bras!
It's a lighthearted adventure with a bunch of weirdos in a goofy isekai, with a few absolutely head-scratching moments of mean-spirited perversion from the main character. If you know you're getting a mostly fun story about someone reincarnated with a maxed out luck stat with a heaping side portion of fan service that veers into some wild territory, then I think you'd enjoy it. I was not expecting quite so much degeneracy from Kazuma but now I know!
Animation is fine, no mind-blowing stuff there (except for boobs, they really like animating boobs), story is pretty much just a fun
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string of misadventures around their town, and the dub is very solid. If you're a fan of fanservice, go for it. Otherwise, I'm not going to recommend it in polite company.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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