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This manga is pretty interesting. It has a revenge-esque premise, but it isn't really about revenge. It's more of the same mindset we got from Kira in Death Note, someone who pushes their philosophies and ideologies to the limits through supernatural means. This manga isn't overly as edgy or poorly written as Juujika no Rokunin or other revenge fantasy manga's, and has a stark contrast between the actual plot, and the art style. The main character seems to be pretty simplistic, even though the themes presented by him are pretty unique, though I would hope instead of relying on backstories and random happenstances, he pushes ... the plot forward himself with his newfound powers.

The premise is especially interesting as it's mostly a question of morals, where this unhinged main character will do things and act in ways you can't predict. He isn't a hero, dishing out revenge against bad guys, hes just a vengeful person who obsesses over small things, as to not accept reality and fall into depravity himself.

Hopefully this manga continues to build on it's symbolism and themes, and develops this character well, because I think it could turn out great. The main character is interesting, the plot is interesting, and theres probably more characters to be introduced later. Since theres only 1 chapter, why not give it a read and make an opinion for yourself?

This shouldn't have been a movie.

This movie really stings for me personally because of the golden run Hibike was on before it. To preface, I haven't watched any Hibike movies as they're mostly just recaps with a few extra scenes. Season 1 was a great set up for season 2, which left off at a sad yet exciting conclusion to see what would come next. This movie isn't bad by any means, but compared to what Hibike was building, it dropped the bar.

It felt like it reused conflicts and character arcs that had already been done, but much better with more time in both ... seasons before. It felt cheap, recycled and glossed over. The movie can be split into 3 main arcs, with 1 small subplot running underneath. All of these would be much better with even only 1 season, to get through the entire year. Even though the first year was split into 2 seasons, this part of Hibike should have had more time, because the new characters and conflicts would have had more time to develop and add some depth to them, rather than being rushed and hastily resolved in an episode's worth of time each.

This movie also fails to uphold the expectations left behind by season 2, which had an amazing conclusion, leaving viewers to be waiting for more. There were many things we wanted to see, but to make the entire next year into a movie felt extremely cheap. It felt like getting rid of all the (new) 3rd years before season 3, so we could have a conclusion for Kumiko's cohort in the next season. They already pretty much got rid of Asuka and her cohort, which included many great characters, namely Asuka, but now the 2nd years too? It's pretty sad when you realise that the new first years didn't get the time to develop too well either so we're left with some good characters but not enough to carry in the 3rd years for next season, half-baked second years who you can barely remember the names of, and first years again, but this time hopefully done better.

The conclusion also felt extremely disappointing, not because of the outcome, but because it wasn't the focus of the movie to actually reach the goal. They spent too much time trying to introduce and build new characters and reuse conflicts, that the main goal of the band itself became an afterthought. As such, the outcome makes sense, but still feels very wasted because of all the hype riding from the conclusion of season 2 being crushed.

Even though the movie may be a failed sequel to the Hibike series (in my opinion), it isn't actually bad. The music is great of course, the characters from previous seasons are still great, and the new conflicts make a decent amount of sense, but they weren't very original. Kanade is a good foil to Kumiko, and Kumiko has developed greatly, with her taking herself and the club seriously and earnestly, while helping ease tensions as she always does. Kanade forces Kumiko to utilize her experience, and deal with these issues directly through herself, without relying on anyone. Though Kumiko is great in this movie, many past and new characters are unfortunately side-lined for the most part.

Reina, Mizore, Nozomi, Yuuko, maybe Natsuki, and many other second years, third years and first years barely have any dialogue. Nozomi and Mizore have their own movie, so they don't really matter, but Natsuki and Yuuko are central characters, and letting them leave the cast with not even a proper conclusion or farewell is straight disrespectful. The second years barely have any dialogue either, it would have been nice to get some more dialogue/screen time from them, especially because they all made relations with different first years, and having more from them could help develop the first years too, preparing for the new cast that would be introduced in season 3.

Shuuichi is one of the characters most butchered, with him being given no screentime, except to be used as a tool by them to "develop" Kumiko by giving her an obstacle to move forward from. First of all, this should definitely not have happened in this movie, maybe near the end of the third year, but definitely not the second year. Hibike had been keeping a good distance from romance, and it was a good decision. And to all the people who had random ships, Shuuichi is the romantic interest no matter what you say, and it was obvious since the moment he was introduced. Even if he was, this was not the right moment, which was even emphasized by how trivialized it became near the end, a development to be retried later, or offscreen. A failure, you could say.

All in all this movie is fine, but for Hibike fans like myself who were excited for what was to come, it’s a disrespectful gesture to all the characters and events that lead up to this point in the story, just to make this mediocre continuation. As I stated before, this wouldn’t have been as bad if there was a series behind it, but there isn’t and this is the only adaptation we’ll get of their second year, which was supposed to be the year that Asuka and the other graduates hyped up in their conclusion. Again, I wouldn’t have minded this outcome had it been explored and done in depth, instead of glossing over things and proving no real reason for anything. Hopefully season 3 can save the show, because it really felt like season 2 was leading into something amazing.

First off, this manga is by no means racist. Sure you can fantasize about killing aliens being like killing tourists, but its just inherently different and fictional. Fictional racism doesn't hurt anyone, it's just a storytelling device, and if you take offense from it, you're probably a self-victimizing bum.

The plot of Drama Queen is very reminiscent of something you would find in a Tatsuki Fujimoto one-shot, something so bizarre and insane and just running with it and escaping reality, submersing us in this world where aliens are commonplace, and our 2 MC's aren't happy. The MC of this story is genuinely just a bad ... person, and from what we can see of him, so is the deuteragonist. They are both racist (against a fictional blob race), conspiracy theorists, and murderers. This work isn't going to be from the POV of a hero or some guy trying to unveil an evil plot from an alien race, and save the world. It's just a broke loser that blames aliens for all her problems, using it as an excuse for her being miserable.

They aren't morally right or wrong, nor do they have to be. no one actually knows what it's like to live in a world where a sudden surge of aliens come and act as saviours from a threat that may have been staged, and inject themselves into human society as if it was the norm. The manga is trying to show us the perspective of a miserable person, in this weird world and how the world has changed, and how it affects her as a person. She doesn't actually know if she's right or wrong, she just does. This is the nature of humanity at it's core. We're selfish, self-centred, vengeful, jealous, angry, guilty, happy, joyous, intelligent, hard-working, etc. The title is Drama Queen because it wants to show this, through the MC, a "Drama Queen." This is a manga about humanity, in a world where humanity is no longer dominant.

Drama Queen has only 1 chapter, but I do have very high hopes for it. I hope it stays consistent to the themes it has presented in this chapter, because it is very wishful thinking to rate it this high over 1 chapter, as it might mess up in the subsequent chapters and plummet the quality by taking the story in the completely wrong direction, abandoning everything it has set up now.

A very fun one-shot, with great dialogue, unique character designs and good art, angles etc. In only 50 pages it manages to fit in enough to make both main characters feel lively and fun, while also developing a fun little romance.

The main dynamic is great, and the two main characters play off each other really well, though there are barely any side characters due to the breakneck pacing that one-shots have to abide by. Personally I think their dynamic would get a lot better with more time to explore them each and them getting closer.

The comedy is pretty good, and the background characters do ... what they need to. The supernatural stuff also fits really well into the story, and it flows great, though there are only a certain amount of things you can fit into a one-shot, so this would probably get a lot better if it became a serialised manga instead of a one-shot. If it does get a continuation, I’d gladly read it.

For a 12 episode show, it does what it needs to do well enough. Unlike it’s predecessor, we have an actual cast this time around. The drama doesn’t feel overly forced and the characters aren’t extremely one-dimensional. They have inner conflicts and struggles that they have to work on throughout the 12 episodes, and learn from them and grow and become better people.

The main focus of all of these is probably Yume, the deuteragonist, who has a decent backstory and her own personal issues she works on, while being helped with the friends she makes through the dynazenon and mecha/kaiju stuff. Unfortunately, most of the ... other characters personal struggles and backstories overshadow the MC’s which felt kind of forgotten, as it seemed it was going to have more attention paid to it. Though he acts as more of a support character and has his fair share of moments throughout the season.

Again, studio trigger did animate this, which leads to the cinematography/directing being great as usual, and the character designs this time are actually great, all of them look unique and cool in their own ways. The dialogue is also good, as usual. They sound like normal humans, not scripted animated characters.

The fights are still filled with dumb mecha/kaiju tropes and corny lines, but with a bit more self-awareness of the fact. The show peaked around episode 10 - 11, with the finale feeling squeezed in and ruining potential plot lines with a pretty unsatisfactory boring ending, which anyone could expect from the start.

ssss.dynazenon is an average mecha anime with a well rounded entertaining cast, and big dumb fights with kaijus. You could finish it in a night or 2, and be satisfied with it.

SSSS.Gridman is an extremely boring, average series to a fault. It has nothing special about it, with the MC being an amnesiac character with pretty much an empty personality, nonsensical plot that realistically doesn’t even make sense in their own world, a boring villain that is just there to be driving the plot, and pretty much no lore or explanation of the world they are in.

The only redeemable factors are the cinematography/directing, as it is from studio Trigger, and the dialogue. The characters might be one-dimensional with little to no inner conflict, and empty personalities, but the dialogue isn’t half bad, and the voice acting ... is pretty good.

The fights themselves are extremely corny and don’t make any sense, as expected from any kaiju/mecha anime, but they aren’t too boring most of the time. It’s only 12 episodes so it’s not really a drag to watch the whole thing quickly, but you’re better off without it. It hasn’t been 24 hours since I finished it but i already forgot the characters names.

boring show, nothing special going for it. In my humble opinion, you’re better off skipping this one.

This manga is barely enjoyable, with the constant reminder that it's just a self insert fantasy for the author, or the author writing a self insert fantasy for the readers.

There are some good parts, which is obviously the pacing of the relationship, in which they start dating and do lots of cute and diabetic stuff, which is nice to watch. It does feel like an actual relationship, not like other manga's, where they might take 50+ chapters to kiss once. The art style is good enough, as to where you can understand what is going on, even though the character designs might be uninteresting. ... If you can turn your brain off and just enjoy, it's a very cute, diabetic manga to easily get washed away by. It might sound good so far, but it does have quite a few flaws too.

The MC has quite literally no personality, no background, no characterization, nothing. His whole character is purely created through the FMC, which is an average "gyaru" who is actually just a normal outgoing girl. She influences the MC to actually start existing, since before she influences his character, he quite literally has nothing. No family, no friends, no hobbies, literally nothing. He does get into gaming with the FMC, but he didn't play games before meeting her, so the only actual thing we know about his character is that he watches anime. It's so obviously a self-insert it breaks the immersion whenever you are reminded of it, if you can even immerse yourself with how many times it reminds you that he is just an empty shell.

The pacing might seem good, but it felt extremely forced, with the little sister being some magical wingman that only appeared as a tool for them to get together as fast as possible. The confession is also rushed itself, following right after one of the first outright romantic moments, which would usually make them realise their feelings, not outright confess in the moment. It does subvert expectations, but not really in a great way. Reading it feels very rushed, and ruins the moment a little bit. The MC has a little inner conflict about it, but succumbs to the mangaka's will within one chapter. It was honestly boring that he just accepted that he had a girlfriend, and his character completely shifted towards an average boyfriend, who isn't awkward doing physical stuff with his girlfriend, even though he doesn't have any experience with anyone, male or female. Even though he is literally set-up to be a loner-type guy without any experience at the start of the manga, yet completely changes when the manga needs him to, to add more diabetic moments.

If you want to read a diabetic romance, this is fine. But don't expect any level of immersion or actual care for any of the characters, or any events going on in the story, since it all feels like one massive fan-fiction story. It's as if someone's daydream of a perfect girlfriend appearing to them and falling in love with them for no reason came true, as if it isn't the main concept of the other hundreds of cloned romance manga's nowadays. It is still executed very poorly, with no consistency to any of the characters, except maybe the FMC, who carries the show, like a poster girl.

Overall if you just want to relax and read some diabetes, this is what you want, but it doesn't have anything to offer, other than those cute moments, so if you want an actual good romance, this is unfortunately not it.

I did put recommended, but this manga isn't for everyone. As you can tell from the synopsis, it's quite dark with the themes of sexual assault, suicide, murder, guilt. etc. The manga itself has very raw art, not in a bad way. It's kind of reminiscent of old chainsaw man art with thin lines and rough sketches.

There is a lot of emotion packed into the manga, but it feels very blunt and shoved in your face, instead of slowly developing into something that could make you shed tears. Not that it can't, but at the pace that the manga goes, it's just like watching ... a tragedy, something that goes by too quick to cry over. It isn't such a bad thing though, as it can convey many emotions through these very broken characters, which are all suffering from some issue, and they're all interconnected in some way. The MC was actually surprisingly mature, and is very satisfying to watch through his actions, always trying to bring about something better for the characters around him, while also having to deal with his own struggles, but I can't say much about the other characters without spoiling. Overall the characters and themes are great, and there is a lot of emotion.

The pacing sometimes feels like it's holding it back, with pretty short chapters, moving onto the next thing before we get to fully digest the current situation. I really do like this manga though, and I think it's quite underrated, and I hope it gets more readers, since I want to see the manga continue and how the characters will develop, which I think is the best part of the manga, the characters. They are all connected through one tragedy, the effect it has on all of their separate lives being the focal point of this manga, and how they will move on from it and grow as people and try to live, as a family.

I do hope the mangaka doesn't focus too much on adding random details about the tragedy that started, the whole manga. As much as people might be curious, I feel after chapter 13, we don't need any more random lore about it, and we would rather deal with the problems, instead of creating more. I do want them to start working on living normal lives instead of dwelling on the past. After all, the whole manga itself is a tragedy, full of broken characters trying to piece themselves together, through interacting with each other and atoning for each of their sins. I think the manga has a lot of potential going forward, if it goes in the right direction.