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Toriko is pretty good. Please read it.

This series is something that I will always have fond memories of. I read this all the way through high school and it was possibly one of my favorite series ever. Bursting with character, creative ideas both by the SHIMABUKURO and his fans, and really AWESOME fights, Toriko is definitely something to behold.

Food is not just food in this series. SHIMABUKURO, throughout the series, shows the importance that food can have on society and the individuals that inhabit it. It is used not only to give sustenance, but it can be used to make economies thrive and helps us ... create deep, lasting relationships with others. Meals bring family's and friends together, and no matter how small or big the meal is, no matter how well it's cooked, it'll always be tastier when you and your loved ones are around the same table.

Though this series does have it's flaws (similar character designs, underdeveloped characters, a rushed final arc, etc.), I think it's still worth checking out.

Big Order is horrendous!

Everything in this series puts an fowl taste in my mouth, literally making me cringe and deform my face every time it did anything.

Before anything, I want to talk about the super powers in this series known as "Orders."

"Orders" are just "Stands" from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
If you read ANY review or comment section of Big Order, people are going to compare this series to Jojo. However, I want to get into why this bother me so much.

Stands, in Jojo, are defined as "Life energy" that are given a visual form and "stand" next to it's user, or is a "physical manifestation" of ... their "fighting spirit." That is kind of vague, but it gives you a general idea of what it is.

In Big Order, Orders are defined as "a supernatural power that's granted by a fairy," as a result of a "wish."

... That's it. That's the only explanation we get. It never explains how they really work, or why they appear as skeletons, or anything, really. Orders are just super vague reasons why these characters have super vague powers that stem from super vague wishes.

The problem with Orders, compared to Stands, is that the series just kind of expects you to know that it's a rip-off. The writer felt that, since people will know what Stands are, that they don't have to explain what they are. You just GET IT.

But, this backfires. The writer tries to also make Order seems different from Stands, as they seem to follow a different set of rule. The rules are NEVER explained, but they don't seem to act like Stands. If you want to know the "rules" of Stands, please just look them up, this is long enough as it is.

Basically, it tries to have it's cake and eat it too.

Now, onto the characters...

The character are boring. They look bland, they act bland, their wishes and powers are bland.

The main character, Hoshimiya Eiji, is such whiny bitch throughout the 4 chapters I've read. He is constantly talking about how the world is shit and it's "All my fault" (albeit the world seems just fine). This can work, but the way this series goes about doing it comes off a VERY melodramatic and annoying. He also has the power to "control everything in his zone" because he wanted to "conquer the world," but never explains how this works. It's just a weird square below him with a mummy in it and things happen.

The main girl, Yuno from Mirai Nikki, is just that, YUNO FROM MIRAI NIKKI! She's just some bland Yandere girl with no personality, other than that she's a Yandere. Her power is the "heal really fast," so fast that she is immortal. Also, she has a skeleton for a Stand.

Neo from the Matrix is in it, and bunch of other generic characters that don't "stand" out at all.

In short, BIG ORDER is shit. Read Jojo.

This thing is shit, don't read it.

It's just like every other high school battle light novel adaptation. Generic/bland/boring characters, a generic/bland/boring setting, and generic/bland/boring visuals.

The MC, Homura Kamashiro, is so generic that it hurts. He looks SO generic, that the only thing that he had to distinguish him from the background people what his scarf (it didn't even look interesting, it's just the fact that he had a scarf). His personality is incredibly rehashed; A new, edgy, too-cool-for-school transfer student who is so powerful that he cure super magician cancer. He says things that are supposed to make him sound like a cool hard ass, ... but also be super nice and freindly. You can literally find this guy in hundreds of different shows/comics.

The other characters are too boring to even mention, other than the fact that a girl with super magician cancer has her whole character arc summed up in a page in the first chapter.

The visuals in this manga are shit. Everyone is always in these static, boring poses that it becomes hilarious. The artist didn't even try to make it look interesting (even a poor artist would try if they really wanted to). These links are perfect example of how much effort the artist puts into their work.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z2O8P-ku3J4nCkhS0Fu6JcY1B_Leo6w2hnWtioXDoCo/edit?usp=sharing

In this one, even the background characters are doing the same pose.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zzf8DQqRC7zk5QK3yCE2RDcCUAcRZJ6PwO98YsP6LCk/edit?usp=sharing

Also, the backgrounds are boring.

I'm done talking about this. It's shit, read Jojo or something.

I felt that this manga was a train wreck from the start. The plot didn't interest me, a lot of the characters designs were incredibly hard to distinguish and had almost nothing going for them in the story.

This series heavily relies on using lots of blood/gore and sex to try and keep the readers attention, with every arc starting with some kind of lesbian sex scene and ending with a huge blood bath. This can be fine if the style of the drawings are unique and cool and the things that happen are so over the top that you can actually like it (Rule of ... Cool).

However, the character designs fall heavily into archetypes, the style of drawing is too similar to every other anime style, and the all the "cool" stuff that happens comes off as contrived and stupid.

It also tries to the weird Quentin Tarantino-esque, out-of-chronological-order style of story telling, which I feel is something that can only work if your characters are interesting and endearing and everything actually ties together in a fascinating way (which doesn't describe this series).

In short, I don't like Murcielago. Read something else (like Berserk).