Manga Review: Assassination Classroom by Yuusei Matsui

Title: Assassination Classroom

Original Title: Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Author: Yuusei Matsui

Artist: Yuusei Matsui

Year of Release: 2012

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, School Life, Sci Fi, Shounen

Status: Completed

Chapters (Translated in English): 187

Volumes & Chapters:

21 Volumes in Total

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Manga Review: Girls of the Wild's by Hun

Title: Girls of the Wild's

Original Title: Girls of the Wild's

Author: Hun

Artist: 

Year of Release: 2011

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Harem, Martial Arts, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Webtoons

Status: Completed

Chapters (Translated in English): 260

Volumes & Chapters:

Number of Volumes unknown

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Manga Review : Hori-san and Miyamura-kun by Hero & Hagiwara Daisuke

Title: Hori-san and Miyamura-kun 

Original Title: Horimiya

Author: Hero

Artist: Hagiwara Daisuke

Year of Release: 2011

Genres: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life

Status: Ongoing

Chapters (Translated in English): 48

Volumes & Chapters: 7 Volumes (ongoing)

Volume 1 Chapters 1-6

Volume 2 Chapters 7-13

Volume 3 Chapters 14-20

Volume 4 Chapters 21-26

Volume 5 Chapters 27-34

Volume 6 Chapters 35-42

Volume 7 translation in progress 

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Manga Review: Fuuka by Seo Kouji

Title: Fuuka

Original Title: Fuuka

Author: Seo Kouji

Artist: Seo Kouji 

Year of Release: 2014

Genres: Drama, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life, Tragedy

Status: Completed 

Chapters (Translated in English): 51

Volumes & Chapters:

Volume 1 Chapters 1-10

Volume 2 Chapters 11-20

Volume 3 Chapters 21-29

Volume 4 Chapters 30-40

Volume 5 not completed

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Summary

Yuu Haruna just moved into town and loves to be on twitter. Out on his way to buy dinner he bumps into a mysterious girl, Fuuka Akitsuki, who breaks his phone thinking he was trying to take a picture of her panties. How will his new life change now?

My Thoughts

Review covers 48 chapters 

What the hell just happened? No, you didn’t just do that to the series!!! Okay, sorry for the outburst, maybe it’s because I just finished reading the manga and couldn’t contain my feelings. I deeply apologize, but let’s get back on track.

Do you remember the very first manga that I featured on the blog? It was Unmasked Noise by Fukuyama Ryoko, if you haven’t read it, go check it here. Well, Fuuka is a bit, only a bit similar to it, because we have to deal with a band which wants to become famous. Well, if you have read my reviews you might be familiar with me not liking the mangas where there are either singers or artists, due to not always imagining colors or sounds come out of the paper. The exceptions are Chiba Kozue and Fukuyama Ryoko’s works. However, here in the beginning I was not really feeling the characters singing, not it was still amazing, but there was no sound coming out. Now, when I read either 40^th or 41^st chapter, I felt it, the sound of their voices reached me. And it was breathtaking. Maybe it was the situation too, but nevertheless it was amazing.

Manga may be starting both slow and fast. I am not making any sense, am I? Well, how do I explain it, there are only 50 chapters out or so, however the manga is only starting but it already had a lot in it. The real adventure starts now, but the prologue was a really fascinating one. I do not want to say why the manga is just starting, but if you read it, you will even understand my very first exclamations and you may even support me. I hope you take up this manga, because it does teach us to follow our dreams and that sometimes even if we are hit hard we need to find strength to stand up and keep moving, because it is our life and only we can change it.

In the beginning you may not like the characters, hell, I thought some of them were too annoying, but you will have no time to think twice about them, because they will change your life. I hope you will like it as much as I did, and when the manga is finished I will post another review, where will be quite a bit of spoilers. But that’s for later. Enjoy it to the fullest. Happy reading and don’t forget to share what you think with me!

XOXO

Katie

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Manga Review : Tower of God by SIU

Title: Tower of God 

Original Title: Tower of God

Author: SIU

Artist: SIU

Year of Release: 2010

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery,  Psychological, Shounen, Supernatural, Webtoons

Status: Ongoing

Chapters (Translated in English): 135

Volumes & Chapters:

Volume 1 Chapters 0-79

Volume 2 Not completed

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Summary

What do you desire? Fortune? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all others? Whatever you desire, 'that' is here. Tower of God.

Original webtoon from Naver

My Thoughts

Review covers 130 chapters 

What do you desire the most in the world? Power? Knowledge? Fortune? Revenge? Whatever you want, you can get it in the Tower. Climb to the top and get your prize.

Why did I take up this webtoon, and even went as far as to cover it on my blog? The answer is quite easy. I started reading it back in July 2014, when my mom and I went to the mountains. Because most of our day we spent in the forest walking around I read something to read on my phone. It was that time that I found this awesome application called “Webtoons Line”. There were some webtoons which I was reading and some which I was dying to read. One of those was “Tower of God”. First several chapters I was like: “Haaa???? What the hell is going on here?!” Then I just switched on my imagination 100% on and it started making sense, though, even now I sometimes find myself asking: what is going on? The mystery of the tower is still intact and that is what makes this webtoon amazing. You just never know what will happen next, who will betray who, and who will scheme what in order to climb the tower and get the prize he/she wishes for.

Keep in mind that this is a Korean webtoon, meaning that it is not black & white, but in color. Also it is read from left to right. I really liked this webtoon, because it covers a broad line of human nature. It addresses nearly all of our characteristics and brings to life not only the good one but the bad ones too. This webtoon has a lot of characters and to say the truth I only remember 5-10% of them. But that is not because they are so similar no it may be quite the opposite. Every character is absolutely different. Everyone has a goal and a reason he/she is there. There are a lot of amazing characters both from the “good” and “evil” side. The sides changed so frequently, that I got confused.

There are a lot of characters who make you think and reflect on what you do or have done. There are some who you just despise and who you adore. There are a lot of battles and conversation about the concept of power. The battles are especially amazing and if you just use a bit of your imagination, they come to life leaving your mouth agape and craving more. All the chapters always end on a mini cliffhanger, leaving me screaming. But what I try to do is compromise with myself and not read for at least a month, which means I have 4 chapters to munch on later, if I hold on longer more chapters and so on. This way, I read continuously, well I still do complain, however, now it is at least once a month not every week.

I hope you get some free time and read this amazing webtoon. If you do, or if you already are, don’t forget to share your thoughts with me. Enjoy a thrilling ride which is “Tower of God”.

XOXO

Katie

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Manga Review: Half & Half by Seo Kouji

Title: Half & Half 

Original Title: Half and Half 

Author: Seo Kouji 

Artist: Seo Kouji 

Year of Release: 1996 (debut) 2007/2012 (Serialization)

Genres: Drama, Ecchi, Mature, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy

Status: One Shot 

Chapters (Translated in English): 1

Volumes & Chapters: - 

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Summary

Nagakawa Shinichi and Sanada Yuuki both get involved in an accident and die together, but they are given a chance to live again. A voice lets them survive for seven more days. However, that after the time limit, one of two must die again.
Also, their lives will be shared, including emotions (guilt) and physical sensations (pain). They are told not to leave the other's side, else both of them die. Now, with each of them wanting to save his/her own life, how will the next seven days of non-separation be like? Will they get along?

My Thoughts

Review covers 1 chapter

An amazing one-shot, which afterwards got a serialization. I think the serialization began somewhere in 2012, while the debut work was written in 1996. The most amazing thing about this one-shot is its plot and idea behind it.

Imagine, you died and then you were resurrected, but there are some circumstances, because of which now you share a soul with a person who died at the same time as you. Now, let’s see what I mean when I say “you share a soul”. All your feeling, your desires are felt by that person. You are thinking something dirty? That person feels or may even hear your thoughts. Creepy right? Well, now, think of a situation, where plus of what I have just described, you only have 7 days to live and you have to decide who has to die on the 7^th day.

I think the author wished to bring forth the human nature in this one-shot. However, in the serialization it is much more vivid, maybe because he had more pages to draw out what he wished to show us? The one-shot is mostly focuses on how the characters we spending these 7 days, how they were getting to know each other and how they even fell in love with each other. This one-shot holds a lot of raw emoti0ns and the ending is just really not satisfying. You shout: “what? Why? I want the sequel…” I suppose, because of a lot of such exclamations this one-shot turned into a series. And I may say that the series is as amazing as the original. It covers more of the characters feeling, their frustration, their dreams and their expectations.

I hope you will find 10-15 minutes to read this amazing and unique one-shot. It will depend on you if you want to read the serialization, however I highly recommend it. I will cover it a soon as it is finished; it just drives me crazy to wait for each chapter more than a month. Hope you will enjoy it to its fullest and you will spare 2 minutes of your time to share what you think about it.

XOXO

Katie

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Manga Review: Bloody Cross by Komeyama Shiwo

Title: Bloody Cross

Original Title: Bloody Cross

Author: Komeyama Shiwo

Artist: Komeyama Shiwo

Year of Release: 2009

Genres: Action, Ecchi, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen, Supernatular

Status: Ongoing

Chapters (Translated in English): 32

Volumes & Chapters: 10 Volumes
Volume 1  Chapters 0-3
Volume 2  Chapters 4-8
Volume 3  Chapters 9-13
Volume 4  Chapters 14-18
Volume 5  Chapters 19-23
Volume 6  Chapters 24-29
Volume 7 translation in progress

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Summary

Half angels: individuals cursed because of their impure lineage. Tsukimiya is a vampire half angel, and with her companion-of-convenience Hinata, with whom she shares a strained relationship at best, and an antagonistic one at worst, are on a search for the “God’s Book of Prophecy”. The book harbors immense power, and is supposedly the only thing capable of removing the half-blood curse that Tsukimiya and Hinata share.

The problem is that nobody knows if the book’s power is enough to save two people, and neither is willing to share with the other. 

My Thoughts

Review covers 32 chapters 

When I first was raking up this manga to read I was thinking, this might be a typical vampire story thingy. Though when you are talking about manga the word typical can only be addresses to one genre: Shoujo & Romance. I think I was looking for something similar to “Orange Marmelade” by Seok Woo, but they have absolutely nothing in common except the word supernatural in their genre section.

From the very beginning it started fast, maybe even too fast, but I guess I just didn’t read the summary, so I was missing out a lot of stuff. The author doesn’t solely focus on one particular character, it might be even true to say that even though Tsukimiya is a main character, and she sometimes acts as a supporting one. New volume, new chapter and a new character and all of these new characters are so different that you are lost in them, but no matter how different they may seem, they all have something in common and that is: Greed for power or in other words ambition to become the next God. No, no, I didn’t just make a mistake there. They realy want to become the next god.

The story begins with a half angel Tsukiyama and Hinata seeking a pureblood demon to lift their curse. They do defeat the guy, but due to betrayals from Hinata and a really risky step from Tsukiyama both of them are still left with the curse. So, they now are seeking a book of prophecy and are really hoping, that it will have enough power to lift both of their curses.

What I was really enjoying in this manga is that every character has his/her personal agenda. They do not care who they will align now or betray in the next moment. It’s just like the saying: “means justify the end”. However, there is a bit of romance, mainly between Tsukiyama and Hinata, however, it is always on edge. You never know what is going to happen next. No need to even guess, because the intrigue is so intense, it may drive you to jump pages to then go back because somehow everything got different just in the few pages that you missed.

No matter what I say here, I won’t be able to fully tell you what I think about it, why? First, I haven’t finished it yet, and am desperately searching for next chapters in English. Second, if I started, I wouldn’t have kept it all to myself and would have just spoilt the whole excitement this manga might bring you.

I hope you try it out. 5 volumes are already in English and next two are being released in 2015. Or you can just go to online websites and read it there. Well if you know French you may get all ten volumes. Hope you’ll get the same feelings as I got from reading it.

XOXO

Katie

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