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Jun 11, 2025
I feel obligated to write this review in order to share the incredible work that the author has been doing consistently since release. Not once in my life have I read a literary work that the reader can clearly see and feel the not only constant, but almost parabolic improvement from the author in terms of story and writing, and in this case, art and panelling.
I only feel awe towards the author to make me feel when I picked up this manga around chapter 30 and go from "this is a solid 6,5-7, decent shounen that has an incredibly high pace" to where I am
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now. At the current moment of this review, I can say this manga is entering JJK's Shibuya levels of shounen peak.
It's such a joy to have been able to read this weekly and see the improvement. The art has gone from mid to incredible, shout out to the panelling, the author's taking a liking to fish eye panels and I'm really grateful that he's done that. The story's gone from "I will kagura your bachi" to probably the best (by far) battle shounen plot I've read, to the point where if it continues improving at this rate I think it will be kind of an insult to consider this manga a simple battle shounen.
Before ending, I have to give a especial mention to the villains, if they can be considered as such. By far with no doubt in my mind the best villain group I've seen in a battle shounen.
The author is fully aware of the restraints of the genre he's writing, and that's probably the reason why he's able to write such a good story. Every aspiring mangaka should take note of Kagurabachi's improvement across its chapters and how it gets to the point.
I pray unlike JJK the author doesn't fumble the latter arcs, and let it be known I invested in Kagurabachi stocks (aka, my 9) while it was still rated sub 8 in MAL and practically underground aside from meme-acknowledgment. Extremely enjoyable read and weekly experience. 50 BUCKS AND A LIGHTER.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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May 14, 2025
Have you ever read a book or a novel written by a woman and thought "I might have to go celibate for 5 years to compensate the amount of lust I've just read?", well. look no further for a lustless experience.
Is it perfect? Far from it. The whole isekai troupe could have used a bit more thought put into it? 100%. Does the fact that the whole story takes places in a game take from the tension? Partially, but [REDACTED] (it is adressed).
But most important of all, is it entertaining? You bet it is. It's an incredible drama that is (intentionally) carried wholly
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by the protagonist, and she does a really good job at it. Very addicting, and the art style is very nice.
The worst part about it is that at the current moment of writing this is not yet finished and it still has at minimum 10 months to go and I might just go insane from waiting for the next chapter.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Feb 4, 2025
If what this manga talks about hits close to home, it's an instant top 5.
The story doesn't bother to hide its intentions. If you've read a certain quantity of manga, the ending is very predictable, but this plays out in favor of the story and is very intentional. Since the conclusion is clear, you gradually develop a growing sense of anxiety and dread, which increases proportionally to how attached you grow to the cast. This, in fact, is how what happens throughout the narration is lived.
Another intentional aspect is the duration. It's very short, which, if you've had the misfortune of living
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through what the story talks about, you know is just how it happens. This enhances everything that it talks about to the maximum.
The duration also affects how characters experience growth. As mentioned at the start, if the story's themes are familiar, The Summer You Were There will hit very close to home. However, if they are not, this might be the only hindrance you'll encounter. Since it's only 32 chapters, the character development is quite limited, and much of it relies on the reader having personally (or very closely) lived through what the characters are living through. Not to say that they're flat, far from it. But I imagine it would be hard to understand each of their motivations with such little time with them without having lived it first-hand.
This story is very special and has one of the best endings I've had the pleasure to read. Do not be dissuaded by the "yuri" tag: it feels so natural that you never think about it.
Give it a try; you won't regret it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 13, 2024
What could've been.
Oshi no Ko's last ~40 chapters are the single biggest fumble I've ever seen in any type of media/story. The first chapters are absolute cinema, all the way until the Theatre Arc, where the story peaks. After that, it goes down a little, but still a very good read. It does a lot of build up for the ending of the story, where all the mysteries will be unraveled and all of our beloved protagonists will finish their respective growth and... instead we get what we got.
Oshi no Ko is not a usual type of story, where it's a linear
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progression in the literary sense, and ends with it's conclusion, where "Journey before Destination" usually applies, and regardless of how bad the ending of a story is we've still got whatever's in between, unfortunately that's not the case here. How the story is structured means that the end is both the conclusion AND the justification for the story. Very risky type of stories to go for, high-risk high-reward.
To the detriment of whoever had the misfortune to read this through, what they got is an ending that spits on the face of the reader, the characters and the plot. It goes against everything the story stood up for, and every single set up established was overturned and practically retconned. Non ironically it got to a point were we got 5 literal back-to-back clear changes of mind about where the story was heading.
I cannot emphasise enough how much this story spit and stepped on it's characters, it's really painful to read.
I can only recommend reading this whole if you're an aspiring writer, in order to have a reference of what NOT to do.
Until chapter 60, it's a 9,5-10/10, and from 60 to ~120 ish it's a 7-8/10. The last 40 in isolation are a 3/10 (just off of all the nonsensical bullshit that happens). However, given the nature of the narrative (ending=justification and conclusion), in retrospective I cannot give this story anything higher than a 1/10, I wish MAL let 0s be put. Due to the justification, the story is quite literally pointless to read, a waste of time if you will.
Recommendation: wait for the anime and pray they fix the story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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