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Aug 6, 2021
I'll make a review and reiterate what the other angry reviewers has said about Lust Geass.
I initially read this one because I was looking for some mindless ecchi fun where the story didn't matter as much as the spicy scenes that commonly do happen.
But then it devolved. Fucking hell.
It spiraled into something that was awfully appalling.
I'll spare you the words and say that just...dont read this one. Take it from someone who reads too much doujins on his free time and enjoy works that won't give us this blatant bullshittery.
From chapter 37 onwards, the author just ran out of material and just hit us
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with the oldest trick in making a deprevity of a work. I wouldn't have made this review that kind of copied with the other frustrated lads if it weren't for the fact that this shit ruined my day.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 12, 2021
I read the light novel(volume 5 or 6 i think) and this manga some time ago twice. So I'll make use of what I remember and be concise about it. Also, the anime adaptation has recently been announced.
This is a nice breath of fresh air after the Yokohama arc(the previous arc). We now get to see how this borderline incestuous dynamic between brother and sister came about. I was expecting some incelly take on how someone can conquer their sister if they just put their mind into it, but what I got was a heartwarming and cute story about a girl who learned how to
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appreciate her brother's presence more.
Art 7/10
I don't remember much, except the the art being decent. I'd say it's better than the generic art form coming from a lot of romcom mangas but it's not on the levels of Murata or Kentaro Miura. Because this arc takes place in the tropical parts of Japan, and as someone that likes beaches, the landscape and background art are indeed aesthetic to a tee.
Story 6/10
I've read the light novel before the manga, so I had 3 takes to review my point on the story. Nonetheless, my opinion has never changed at all. The story is fine. We are taken into the perspective of Miyuki and how she developed her current brocon status towards Tatsuya sama and the storyline is as straightforward as it gets. Because of that, we see a more dimensional Miyuki when we see her again in the next arc. Nothing to comment for Tatsuya sama. As much as I hate to say this, he's still the same aloof bae we simp for.
What you see in the manga form is a faithful adaptation from the light novel. There were some nitpicks I can point out, but they're irrelevant to the big picture, which is the plot.
Characters 5/10
Apart from Miyuki's very cute character development which is an 8, the majority of characters are a definite Meh. Not much to say about them. Because I'm mostly treating this manga as an adaptation than a standalone work, I'd say it accurately depicts what's in the light novel. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the novel and the adaptation. But upon evaluating my thoughts(and watching a lot of anime and manga), I'd say they're pretty average.
Enjoyment 8/10
I personally enjoyed this adaptation and there's honestly not much to say
As someone who has read the novel prior to the release of this manga, this is a good adaptation and you should read it if you're too lazy to read the light novel.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 12, 2021
I picked up this manhwa a few months ago because a lot of my friends were raving on about this nonstop and I saw this being on the top 30 manhwas in MAL.
Noblesse is that manhwa where everybody hypes up to be the THING. But for me, it's just a shounen manhwa bordering between a 7 and an 8 on the first half and a 5 or a 6 in the second half.
I will admit, even if the art is a bit average to say the least(as far as Korean manhwas go), I can say it's slightly distinct against the cesspool of average works
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in the same genre.
The arcs go up and down(up, meaning slightly average, down meaning average as hell) and I had to will my horny on main self to keep reading it till the end for me to make some sort of opinion about it. It was a very arduous journey to self control from reading Tower of God for the umpteenth time.
Before we move on, I will preface by saying I actually enjoyed reading Noblesse, before it devolved into a painfully average piece of work. I like the way it delivers dry humor and the character designs were actually really good.
My biggest gripe about this manhwa is the fact that the dialogues are very tongue and cheek, a pain to read and are unnecessarily long. We readers don't need to hear their monologues for the millionth time. We get it, you love humans at the point of sacrificing yourself. The author only needs to put that in our face once.
I tested the waters and read 5 chapters without skipping or skimming any dialogues and my god I never would've thought to be more bored than having to survive a day on a blackout.
And it took me 1 hour to read it all.
But my efforts weren't wasted for nothing as I realized at that point that nobody needs to read all of these; they're the same thing repasted and the characters always repeat themselves. I would appreciate it more if the boring dialogues and expositions be paired with some visualization, like what Nisio isin did with the manga adaptation of bakemonogatari. This is awful writing on it's finest and it is disheartening that not many people noticed that. Might as well write a novel if the author wanted to and it wouldn't make any difference.
The second thing I noticed that the manhwa delivered awfully is the characters. We have raizel, the handsome Kuudere bae that I really wanted to like because of that quirky personality of his, but the execution of Raizel in the manhwa just fell flat the more I think about the character. Instead of making him this reserved and cool character, he's a one dimensional character that was eventually downgraded to a boring deus ex machina.
Frankenstein is a henchman of Raizel and I can't seem to grasp why he submitted himself to Raizel at first sight. A good reason for this is the fujoshi fanbase. I never realized I read a whole fujo bait piece of work without even realizing it.
Tae-soo's dynamic with Ken Kitano was way more believable than Frank's and Raizel, to be honest. Both dynamics are surface level, but there was way more character in the former the more we see them having a conversation. Whereas Raizel's speech bubble were mainly composed of trails of periods.
I don't need to go over all the characters because of how forgettable they are. The orange haired guy is basically beta -Itadori(from Jujutsu Kaisen). Apart from him, all others were very very forgettable.
The art quality is a gradually evolving thing you see in mangas where the artist uses his/her work to improve his/her skills because it is a weekly release. This in itself is a double edged sword because 1) One can appreciate that this artist wouldn't settle for less but 2) it's very hard, as a reader, to go back to that scene in the first chapters. That's kinda why I never would want to read the first 50 chapters of Tower of God regardless of how good the story is. The moment I see a butt ugly panel of Endorsi my Waifu, that's where I draw the line.
And then... There's the plot progression.
I already mentioned before that I preferred the first half(<chapter 250 and below) rather than the second half.
Here's why...
The way that the manhwa ended in a semi-cliffhanger didn't sit well with me. Not to mention, it ended in a flash and I was never given the chance to absorb what was going on. It's not a cliffhanger as much as it's an open ended one. The only resolution we get is the bad guy dying and that's it(I won't get to too much spoilers).
But that's not the only problem I had with the second half. I also mentioned before about the lame ass dialogue of the characters; they all happened on the second half. At that point, they were just spouting nonsense over and over again that those were the times when I repeatedly put this manhwa on hold.
Also forgot mention that on the second part, the manhwa took itself too seriously and there was no point on getting invested to anything: to the characters nor to the story. The comedy skits they used always do in the beginning were just thrown away and the first human character to appear in the first chapter (and his friends) were downgraded to mob characters until the last chapter.
Plotwise, I could not remember a single thing about the second half and I won't bother to remember it. The formulaic pattern I remembered was: bad guys appear and wreak havoc, good guys are notified, big battle commences, bad guys defeated. It was rinse and repeat until the last big battle and the finale flopped.
Tldr: Noblesse is a decent manhwa until the second half where everything just flopped. I'm not gonna stop you from reading it, but if you want a manhwa that structured its story and characters very well even in the long run, read tower of god. You won't regret it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 12, 2021
Memories are 3 standalone short films from the same director and I've had an interesting experience. I'll be concise and give my summarized opinion as well as give my individual scores for each one of them.
Magnetic rose: 8/10
I am honestly baffled that the animation quality in this one is just masterclass and I'll say it's the most amazing one I've seen in a pre 2000 anime. Ken Arto in a podcast said that Magnetic Rose is "the masturbation of animation" and I couldn't agree with him more. I used to look down on 90's anime but Magnetic Rose changed me. The short film subtly tackles
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the loneliness of space and how that loneliness can make us lose our own sanity. Not a depressing watch, but more of an existential one. The art is top class and the sound design is just making my ear orgasm. Solid watch.
Stink Bomb: 7/10
This one also had a very good animation, slightly lesser than Magnetic rose, but amazing nonetheless.
I had a different experience with Stink bomb because of how weird and funny it is. The thought of a dude having the deadliest fart in existence is funny on paper, but seeing it animated paired with a lot of sakuga made me piss myself. I actually like the campyness of this one but it's the fact that I can't take the plot seriously is holding me back from giving this an 8. I have a feeling that the animators at this point are just flexing with no care about the premise, not saying I had a problem with it.
Cannon Fodder: 6/10
Out of the three, this was the shortest and the most esoteric one. I can't get my head around this movie because of how avant garde and uncanny it is. We follow a communist nation that has a weird obsession on cannons, with the highlight being the indoctrination of the children with said obsession. The animation style reminds me of that game called Beholder which makes me wonder if this movie was ahead of its time much like SEL. Me giving this a five is ignoring the fact that I was intrigued on the true interpretation of this short film, which I can only assume as something that makes a lot of people feel uncomfortable. Don't get me wrong, it was an interesting watch, but not to the caliber of cohesion as the runtime is just within the length of a typical anime episode.
Overall, Memories is the perfect definition of a hidden gem. The three films are very different from each other and I would probably watch it again
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 5, 2021
Slime Review
This will be one of my first anime reviews so to anyone who doesn't mind reading my opinion about the anime, please bear with me.
I don't watch any Isekai anime that much. I watched SAO, Mushoku and NGNL. I expect my recency bias to kick in and consider Slime as a very good anime, but my God it didn't do shit.
Slime is one very average anime. I can't understand why people have the balls to give it a score higher than eight. It's the most 5/10 show to exist.
As I've said before, I don't watch that much Isekai, but I'll consider my
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perspective on slime on a broader scale.
I'd say the strongest aspect that this anime has is its comedy aspect. When the comedy scenes pop up, they always deliver.
But what this show did to make me kinda hate it is the fact that it's a tryhard on other aspects other than comedy.
Plotwise, it doesn't have much anything to offer. It's straightforward, and this might be the biggest gripe of the series. We spend the majority of the time watching this 37 year old virgin play Age of Empires continuously spamming cheat codes in the global chat. I expected my monkey brain to kick in and self insert, but it was just blatantly boring that I didn't have the energy to do that.
The animation is up and down for me. There are some scenes where I can see some bit of sakuga and whenever those pop up in my peripherals, they're actually pretty good. But, besides the occasional sakuga, the animation is pretty average. the color palette choice of the anime is a bit questionable but I'm willing to see past through that. They seem a little bit washed out and bleachy at times but whatever.
NOW. ONTO THE SOUND.
I can handle the show's very boring plot, but what's worse is that it doesn't hide us the fact that a normie crackhead made the sound design and the OST. It makes me think is there a sound engineer involved in the mixing? There is lack of sufficient mixing between the sound effects, the OST and voice acting. It's consistent in the way that everything seems to be too loud for their own good.
And... I just heard the worst sound effect in existence. Not a blood splatter sound, not a sound the rotten egg in my fridge would make. It's a sound that whenever played, it made my ear go numb. Imagine recording a punch sound effect and increasing the gain, so much so that every frequency are always peaking. It weirdly reminded me of that particular sound effect in one Punch man 2. It's too loud and even hearing it on a high quality IEM doesn't do justice. No... In fact, it actually does justice on how terrible it is.
I'd wake up at night on a cold sweat because someone was dumb enough to make this sound effect.
The characters aren't even worth mentioning to be honest. All of them are inoffensively generic and forgettable. Especially the main character, where I can't see any speck of character development at all. The main heroine gets showed in the openings and endings prominently and I don't see any reasons why. I expected a romance subplot that would at least give the series a 6 but it just gave me a limp dick resolution. She dies 2 episodes after being introduced and is doesn't even mentioned until the last 4 episodes.
Overall, I wasn't severely disappointed by the series considering that I came with little to no expectation. Comedy is a 7. The characters, story, and OST(only) are a flat 5. The sound mixing and sound effects are a dreadful 3.(I know I'm being nitpicky, but it just pains me whenever an inherently average show be a tryhard.)
Tldr: Slime is an average self insert show having inconsistent writing and an average to god awful sound design.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 17, 2020
This is my review up until the latest chapter, so the arc might change as time moves on.
So this manga, at least for me, has been decent, UP UNTIL THE LATEST 2 OR 3 CHAPTERS (in which case I had to control my frustration).
This manga blatantly sees itself as a harem with a twist(as it says in the absurdly long title). Disappointingly, this harem twist has another twist of it's own. In this case, we're back to square one.
And my deadass thought it was going to be a question of "who is who" like nisekoi.
Story 5/10
Typical harem plot
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Art 6/10
The art doesn't really stand out that much. I've seen this artstyle multiple times.
Characters 4/10
The characters are why reading this manga in a short amount of time could be this frustrating.
The MC is dense asf. Someone you would expect off of a harem manga. I just pity for him.
Shiro is plainly decent and one dimensional.
The loli is the imouto type.
Best girl jack of all trades.
Then there's Kuro...
You see, if you really love someone, you don't play with their emotions. You don't try to justify your selfishness as your love for someone. You don't manipulate the situation because you know better. Kuro is the antithesis of that.
[SPOILER WARNING]
The reason why the recent chapters were weak and frustrating to read is because of Kuro. When MC genuinely confessed to her, knowing full that she has feelings for him, REJECTED him in front of the crowd. Great job. Your crush is the laughingstock of the century now. I could go back to how she would encourage him to confess to Shiro and say it out loud how a manipulative asswipe she is.
Not to mention the MC's sleazebag best friend. How could you call someone a best friend if they did nothing but badmouth you and humiliate you in the internet?
And now in that latest chapter clearly shows that birds of a feather flock together.
Enjoyment 5/10
I hope the story recovers though. The first chapters were good to read right before the recent chapters when it just became very trashy.
Overall 5/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 30, 2020
I set my eyes on this manhwa for some time because I heard that it was going to have a kdrama adaptation. I have no praises nor qualms against kdrama, but when I'd seen that the kdrama was based off of a manhwa, I had to read it.
The manhwa was really good. It got me on the edge of my seats as I was scrolling through the pages. As a thriller, it truly lives up to its name. As a manhwa, I can say that it's strongest aspects were the story and the characters. It gave me Parasyte/Jagaaaaaan/Prototype vibes when I was reading it.
Story 8/10
The
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story doesn't get even near to some top tier manga, but as a manhwa, it's far superior than it's peers. Don't get me wrong, the story is really good. I wouldn't do anything to the story if I was given the chance to change it.
Art 6/10
Now, I have mixed feelings about the art. Unlike the typical webtoon standard that involves a white background for non illustrations, they basically put a dark one and I think that's a smart move. It really gives off that uneasy vibe.
As for the jumpscares, the way they presented it to the readers is simply amazing. The horror aspect of this manhwa really delivers well to me.
But I find the action scenes disappointingly lackluster, particularly Hyun's action sequences. That probably turned me off more than all the redeeming qualities combined. I would rate it a 4 or 5 if it weren't for the fact that Hyun literally transformed into an OP version of Alex Mercer's Armored Form.
Characters 8/10
I've always thought Hyun is an asshole at the beginning. But upon witnessing his backstory, I couldn't help but sympathize with him. The guy's been through lot because of his life got flipped out by some entitled piece of shit bully(I really hope he dies a slow and painful death)
Then Jisu. I like how she values life more than anyone in the series because of her past. It would make sense that she would also fill the role of preventing Hyun killing himself.
Enjoyment 9/10
I enjoyed it. A LOT. Probably more than most of the manhwa I've read. It's on par of my enjoyment with tower of god. Not a lot of manhwa gets me hyped for every chapter to see what happens next.
Overall 9/10
With all things considered, this manhwa is a one in a million. The manhwa world is saturated with stories that just SUCK with the art as the only compensation for that. I have no obvious complaints for that. I'd like my monkey brain to take over sometimes and not stress over some complicated story.
But Sweet home is a completely unique experience for me, as far as manhwas go.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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