666 Satan

In the not too distant future, mankind battles over O-Parts, relics from an ancient civilization. It takes a special kind of person to unlock the full potential of these remnants from the past, and a unique breed of humans known as O.P.T.s (or O-Parts Tacticians) become a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, O-Parts can be used for good or evil purposes.

Jio is a young boy with a tragic past who only trusts one thing in the world: money. Little does he suspect that he is actually a very powerful O.P.T., and inside him sleeps a demon of incredible ferocity. He meets up with a girl named Ruby, and together they decide to embark on a dangerous quest to discover as many O-Parts as they can. Will Jio help Ruby realize her dream of becoming a world famous treasure hunter? More importantly, will Ruby help Jio realize his dream of--world domination?!

(Source: Viz Media)

Included one-shots:
Volume 6: Trigger

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666 Satan was published in English as O-Parts Hunter by VIZ Media from December 12, 2006 to December 8, 2009; in Italian by J-POP from June 6, 2008 to July 25, 2010; and in Spanish by EDT/Glénat from July 2009 to June 2012.

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Freed, Jio

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Kirin

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Ball

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Bianchina, Cross

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Crescent, Ruby

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Jin

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Zero

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Jajamaru

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Kaito

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Baku

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Mar 17, 2024

Kid_Otaku

Recommended

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I started reading this manga because my friend recommended me this. to clear somethings up, many people say it was a ripoff of naruto but little did they know 666 satan was written and illustrated by masashi kishimoto's brother seishi kishimoto the art and some of the story looks kinda similar to his brother's manga naruto but other than that the 666 satan is entirely different thing.

after finishing this manga i thought this manga would rather be a RPG GAME other than a manga Because The Item Ranking and fighting theme strategies and so on.

For me the bad thing about the manga was 2 ...

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Feb 23, 2016

Rikuson1

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O-Parts Hunter (666〜サタン〜) Review

Story (6/10) Fair

The story for 666 Satan is a fair story, if you are looking for a synopsis you are in the wrong place. The pacing for the first half of 666 Satan was good. Character introductions and the world that they live in were fair nothing super special but it wasn't necessarily too generic or enough to complain about. Some arcs in the story did feel out of place and unmemorable to the overall story. And the time skip that occurs in the last 22/76 chapters of the manga felt like it wasn't necessarily needed. Even though the character designs change ... and they looked cooler which (usually always comes when you have a time-skip in any series so that's given). The reason the time-skip occur felt forced. Why do I say this you ask? Well firstly let just talk about WHEN this timeskip occurred and WHO this mangaka's older brother is firstly. In the manga the first chapter of this time skip as far as the volume (Volume 14 to be exact) release came out in June 22, 2006. Now let's answer this question who is the Managaka's older brother? We all know this it's most likely the reason what intrigues people to read this manga in the first place Mashashi Kishimoto people creator of Naruto yes yes. It's definitely the reason why I gave this manga a chance. Anyway back to my point, time-skips happen in mangas all the time and I'm not saying that because of Naruto having their timeskip a year before 666 Satan has their time skip (Naruto chapter 245 in the year June 2005) is Seishi copying Masashi because that's just an assumption. But Naruto's and 666 Satan's timeskips should have reasons for them occurring right? So let's see spoilers for Naruto pre-time skip if you still don't know what happens but Naruto chases Sasuke to the outskirts of the left village looses their fight Sasuke leaves the village timeskip occurs with Naruto training with Jiraiya to get stronger for the future upcoming conflicts, obstacles and battles any other other bigger reason for the timeskip occurring in Naruto is debatable. Now for the timeskip in 666 Satan which basically occurs because... well Jio get's knocked out and goes missing and his friends search for FOUR YEARS trying to find him, that's basically it. Why didn't Jio try to contact his friends within these four years? My guess is as good as yours, but I'm going to go with the easiest one to fall back on. Plot convenience and a pretty bad excuse/reason to half a time-skip to entice readers that all my characters are all more grown but I'll talk more about that in the character section. Anyway back to timeskips, I'm not going to say it wasn't needed but it kind of wasn't and honestly with that bad excuse of "we couldn't find Jio in 4 years" just wasn't a good enough in story plot excuse and only makes me believe more that the reason Seishi decided to have a timeskip is before Masashi had a timeskip in his manga exactly a year ago. And with Naruto like I said the timeskip happens on chapter 245. Naruto is over now with a hefty 700 chapters so Masashi definitely had a lot more chapters and content to write about before his overall story concluded. But with 666 Satan pulling a timeskip which I already explained why I think it came out of now where is a weak reasoning and to only have the last 22 of the remaining chapters be timeskip content just felt like he didn't need to do a timeskip and when I figured out that a timeskip was going to happen the first thing you do is to get excited because you can't wait to see what the future holds (which is why I think he did his timeskip to turn heads and keep people who may have dropped off during that time to come back and to follow in his brother's footsteps let's just be honest here there was really no legit reason for the timeskip to occur in this manga). The remainder of the story had a couple of cool things which usually comes when you have to reintroduce all of your characters and their new abilities. And it does help that even though it was the last 22 chapters of the manga to be about the timeskip this was a monthly manga that had around 35-46 pages per chapter. And with a mangaka rushing though 30+ page chapters was about to cover everything he wanted within 22 chapters (except one thing of course). One of the IF NOT THE biggest issue I ended up having with the conclusion of this series was the conclusion. Yes I am talking about that "We are True Nakama" ending he gave us because it felt like he just wanted to wrap it up real quick and I'm not a fan of anti-climatic endings that this sure was one. Now I've see worse, but this ending was rather sloppy when it came to telling us what happen after the final fight between Jio and Lucifer. Even Naruto's ending (even though I'm not a fan of that ending either) had a some what more conclusive ending when it came to letting us know what everyone is up to and right at chapter 700 which was nice of Masashi to do. But here it was just "We are true nakama" the end... Anyway I didn't think the entire story was bad because if I did this would be a 4 it isn't a 4 but it's not anything higher than a 6 in my opinion and everything I stated above is my reasons why I feel this way.

Art (8/10) Very Good

As a Kishimoto, I have to give him credit where credit is due. Regardless of how I feel about the content within this manga, character or how it concluded it was indeed drawn very well. Basically if you like the art style Naruto you'll like this also and I didn't think that the art style that the Kishimotos have were bad or good it's very good. He knows how to create to cool and unique looking characters just like his brother and yes since both of their character art styles and designs like damn near identical some character may or may not look like they were ripped straight out of Naruto but once you know that they were brothers and grew up drawing their art style together it's reasonable enough to give it a pass because at the end of the day it looks very good.

Characters (7/10) Good

The characters in 666 Satan are good. The designs on them are good as well and their aren't too generic outside of the main character. But even he (at least pre-timeskip) had a little uniqueness to him. Yes he does have his goal that he'll let you know continuously just like Luffy from One Piece or Naruto (pre-timeskip) where he wants to conquer the world. But at least his personality (at least for a MC) doesn't follow every single generic troupe. He's not willing to make friends when the series first started unlike Luffy, Naruto, Ichigo, Goku etc. He kind of denies that he has friends for the majority of the manga so that's different. And yeah you can say that was just put in there for easy character development in the future of the series but it is what it is. Ball is a cool character also being basically the friendly rival to the MC and probably the only character I thought was enjoyable to experience post-timeskip. Ruby isn't that unique for a female character in my opinion as she kind of shares just a bit too much similarities between Bulma from Dragonball and Sakura from Naruto (it's basically Bulma + Sakura = Ruby honestly). The other supporting, side, rival and antagonist characters aren't anything super special but they aren't worth complaining about too much. Not going to go over all of them but their were fine.

Enjoyment (6/10) Fine

666 Satan I think would be more enjoyable as an anime than a manga. The fight scenes and choreography that happens during majority of the fights in this manga are probably the key enjoyable factor to this manga and that was when I was having the most enjoyment in the series. The comedy was ok nothing super funny the only characters out of the few comedic relief character that I thought stood out is the dog,sheep,wolf creature Jajamaru him he reminds me of Iggy from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3. Other than that it couldn't raise past a 7 for enjoyment because I did feel that majority of this manga (especially for a manga with 35-46 pages per chapter) felt either too rushed in one place and dragging in others. It's like driving a car and pushing the gas down at your hardest kicking it into full gear going as fast as possible then hitting the breaks and tapping it ridiculously softly to the point where your car is moving at a walking pace.

Overall (6/10) Fine
More Specifically (6.75/10) Fine+

Like I said earlier this would series would be better if it was an anime. 666 Satan is a fine manga but the pacing was weird and it felt like Seishi was too bust looking at what Naruto was doing instead of really focusing on what it wanted to be itself. With that being said do I think it's a Naruto clone? No because a lot of manga will remind you of another manga. But do I think it's anything special? No I don't but I do still hope this does get an anime because like I said the things that it had going for it would be received better if it was animated. The masses and countless of Naruto fans out there that don't know about this series existence would eat this up in a good way. But if you aren't really too fond of Naruto in it's entirety like I ended up being by the end of Naruto then 666 Satan I wouldn't recommend it a good alternative either because it's kind of like saying "If you like Naruto you'll like this" so what do you think the opposite will be? Well there you go..

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Dec 19, 2020

marcos813

Not Recommended

666Satan was done by Seishi Kishimoto, brother to Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto's creator.

The first 10 or 20 chapters of this manga will be filled with similarities between scenarios and concepts to Naruto, with moments that I can't quite understand if they were plagiarized from Naruto, or just a simple homage. From the protagonist, Jio Freed, who was bullied by other kids his age, who doesn't have fathers, who has an absurd dream (that of course will be achieved by the power of determination and friendship) and even to the concept of having an evil monster residing within him, the similarities are just too many. And ... that's just mentioning Jio. Like, did I mention there are numbered beasts just like the Juubi that are being gathered by organizations??? Like the Akatsuki??????

STORY: A typical, generic shonen plot that spans from the protagonists childhood to his adolescence/adulthood, depending on when he defeats the antagonist. A plot that really doesn't go anywhere until a timeskip happens around the later half of the manga, which by then would have been like 30 chapters in (which seems a small number, but take into account that most mangas have 20 pages per chapter, 666 Satan has 40-50 pages per chapter). Of course, it starts from a very grounded standpoint until the story absurdly scales to a planetary level and then a universal level. A Truly ridiculous plot with nothing remotely interesting going on, even if the concept managed to be interesting, it doesn't manage to draw you in and make you care at all.

ART: HORRENDOUS. It gets better nearing the end, which shows the mangaka actually made a progress on his drawing skills. There are some really nicely done action panels and dynamic poses, but they're not worthy considering most of the art on these 76 chapters is down right bad.

CHARACTER: None of them are interesting, none of them will make you care about them or what happens to them, most of them aren't even likeable. Badly designed characters (With the protagonists looking like deviantart OCs) that are truly displeasing to look at. One dimensional personalities, the only thing they do is are preach about friendship and promises and the power of the heart. The best characters this manga have are Kirin sensei (with his design being an amalgamation of Jiraiya and Kakashi????) and... none other, honestly. Antagonist keep popping up out of nowhere with poor attempts at plot twists that are laughable. Not a single villain actually felt like one, considering how little development they got.

ENJOYMENT: The most subjective aspect of any review, enjoyment.
I must admit, my enjoyment of this manga was totally fucked by the scanlation teams who, without having good scans, nor editing and translation skills, decided to take on 666 Satan. Of course, this isn't the mangakas fault at all, I'm just saying that your enjoyment of this manga will be absolutely affected to whether you read it officially or you pirate it. Leaving external factors aside, the only enjoyable thing this manga has to offer are some cool panel and double pages art in the final chapters and that's it. Every chapter being 40-50 pages made me enjoy this even less.

Overall: I do not recommend this manga to anyone, not even hardcore shonen fans. I'm shocked to see such positively scored reviews on this manga, but the fact that they were written in 2008 has to be taken into account. I wonder if the people who gave this a 7/8/9/10 back then would think the same on a reread.

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