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My Anime & Manga Series Reviews

A list of the various anime and manga series that I have read or seen, even just one issue or episode and what I think of it.

  • 5 STARS: The best of the best; you HAVE to go and see/read it!
  • 4 STARS: Really, really good. One of the better ones!
  • 3 STARS: Mediocre to decent.
  • 2 STARS: Fair to Okay; if you got nothing else to do and want to kill some time...
  • 1 STAR: Didn't like it.
  • 0 STAR: Junk. You will regret it and agonize over the fact that you will never get back the time you wasted over this worthless crap...

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  • Mainly I started reading it 'cause it was by the same guy who did Dragonball Z. I think it was one of his first works and it wasn't that great. Rating: 1/2 Star.

  • Poor in my opinion. It has the potential to be a rather funny and hysterical series; but I think the writer lacks the comedic timing to really succeed. In many cases, I think the gags are stupid and insipid. I recall one scene where one of the main characters, Tenma sought to confess her feelings to her crush and wrote a long rambling letter on a scroll. Her crush reads it for several panels and then starts all over again until it's night and then, blithely remarks "how the writer never put down their name". There are a number of scenes like that; they start off pretty good but fall flat. I gave up after the first three or four GNs, it just didn't seem all that funny to me. Rating: 2 Star.

  • A series that's not afraid to rip off anything. I've noticed references to Gundam, Evangelion, Lum, Street Fighter, and numerous others. The alien Keron race decide to invade Earth and send a group of elite soldiers as their primary scouts. Only when the good Sergeant is captured by the Hinata kids, the Keron Fleet realize that the invasion is compromised ... abandoning the scout force. Unwilling to allow the Sergeant to be a freeloader, the Hinata family decide to make him their housekeeper. A job which he seems to be pretty good at when he's not busy collecting Gundam models. Even though the rest of the platoon has been reunited and seek to complete their invasion of Earth, they are frequently hampered by the incompetence of their commander. It's heartening to know that even advanced aliens have incompetent boobs who have been promoted to positions of authority. Rating: 3 Stars.

  • Read a few GNs, but I didn't much care for it. The hero felt really lame to me. His main desire is "to live a peaceful life" which is philosophically OK, but he came off as being just really lazy and unmotivated and not very heroic at all. Rating: 1 Star.

  • I've started reading this series and have only gotten about 15 GNs into it, but I have to say that I'm not that impressed with it. The series is rather predictable at times. I suppose I'm jaded by several other sports manga that I've read, but this one follows a rather generic formula of a newbie player joining the school's sports team and facing the challenge of trying to get to the championship. It's fairly straightforward and there are moments of humor here and there, but I thought that none of the characters are really interesting enough to merit a really high rating. There was a genuineness about Sho Kazamatsuri from "Whistle!" and the insane wackiness of Yoichi Himura from "Eyeshield 21" that is missing from the series' characters. The storyline is decent and the games are very realistic and fast-moving, but it's sort of like reading about a basketball game instead of seeing it live. Even the "enemy basketball teams" that the main characters in Slam Dunk face off against are regular characters. There doesn't appear to be any genuine heated rivalry or out-and-out bad guys that they're playing against which makes it seem a bit on the boring side. All in all, it's decent, but it could be better. Rating: 3 Stars.

  • I used to play the arcade game all the time and saw a few of the anime. The live action movies sucked though. Rating: 4 Stars (for the video games) and 2 Stars (for the anime). The live action movies rate a big fat 0 in my opinion.

  • I read the first two GN by CMX which suffered from being censored and cut scenes which prompted me to simply drop it. Still, the eye popping transformation scene of Maya Natsume is not to be missed. I understand that they're re-releasing the series, only uncut this time so maybe I'll give it another try. Rating: 2 Stars.

  • I think the author watched too much Iron Chief and Dragonball Z. The basic premise appears to be a gourmet hunter/eater travels to the world, seeking the most exotic animals to kill and use for his gastronomical dishes. It pushes the boundaries of good taste, and not in good way. I quit maybe halfway through the 1 GN. Rating: 0 Stars.

  • I was such a Transformers fan in my childhood. I grew out of it but it still remains as part of my memories. I still remember seeing the first Transformers animated movie and crying when Optimus Prime died on screen. It was never really the same after that. That aside, I have perused some of the comics that they've been recently been printing and have to admit that it's quality varies with some good stories and some not so good stories. I do have to give the writers credit in that they seem to be genuinely making an effort to make an understandable and comprehensible universe and storyline. I have also seen some of the later animated series that they've been producing as well as the movies but while it brings to mind a certain fond nostalgia, they don't really seem to be all that good. I suppose I've simply outgrown it. Sigh. Rating: 2 Stars.

  • I've watched maybe half of the first TV season and then quit. It starts off as a pretty funny and maniac series and then descends into angst melodrama that turned me off. Rating: 2 Stars.

  • One of CLAMP's offerings, the main characters include Sakura and Syaoran from Card Captor Sakura (albeit slightly older). In fact, many of the characters who populate this series are drawn from many past manga series created and drawn by CLAMP including Tokyo Babylon, X, RG Veda, Chobits, CLAMP School Detectives, and Magical Knights Rayearth; although all of them are alternate universe versions of them. Unlike Card Captor Sakura which has a "happy ending" and a lighter feel to it; this series is a bit more darker and tragic sense when I read it tempered with brief moments of comedic humor to offset the dark tone. I'm not sure if I'll continue reading it, but I will say that it a compelling read. The characters feel real and 3-dimensional to me. Rating: 3 and 1/2 Stars.

  • Even though Stan Lee has done some ground breaking work, I didn't get this series not to mention that I thought the Ultimo android looked gay. It looked like a little girl, even though the manga claimed it was a boy and those gigantic oversized gauntlets looked incredibly stupid. Rating: 1 Star.

  • Read the Ultraman Tiga manga; it was a surprisingly entertaining read. I've seen bit and pieces of other Ultraman TV episodes but it never really spoke to me and felt a little on the dumb side. This one contains a lot of the same elements of the previous series but for some reason, it felt a bit more believable. Rating: 3 Stars.

  • Usagi might look like a funny animal character but his stories are often gripping, dramatic, and period-era samurai stories that never get old. I think that this will be considered a classic series like Lone Wolf & Cub, it's that damn good. Rating: 5 Stars!

  • Saw the recent movie. It's an anime version of Blade (although it predates Blade I think). The main character: D is a dhampir (half human, half vampire) that hunts down his father's race. He is a classic tortured soul seeking to redeem himself. I'm not quite sure how a vampire could impregnate a human female, but they ignore that part. The movie was a showcase of the awesomeness of anime but lacked a compelling story in my opinion. Rating: 2 Stars.

  • I saw one or two episodes of the anime but couldn't stand to watch anymore. I found the concept of a school that separates the student body into a day class and a night class (which is composed entirely of vampires) to be incredibly dumb. I would think it would be strange and would be even worse considering how stringently the faculty tries to keep the two classes separated would make someone suspicious. Rating: 1 Star.

  • I saw this classic cartoon as a kid. It was alright, but I liked Transformers more. Frankly, it sometimes didn't seem to make much sense at times; which I have since realized is due to the American censors. Still, Voltron was one of those that remain part of my childhood memories. I saw two versions; one with the Lion Voltron and one with the Vehicle Voltron which in my opinion, seemed the cooler of the two as there was more of 'em and they could create different configurations such as the Air Team, the Sea Team, and the Land Team. Unfortunately, the showing of the Vehicle Voltron series was erratic and they kept showing the Lion Voltron over it for some reason. They came out recently with a comic series based on the cartoon that I thought it would be a bit too juvenile for me but I was pleasantly surprised at the updated version which really managed to fill in some of the glaring plot holes and other problems. They managed to make Voltron as one of the most interesting giant robots to me. Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars (for the cartoon) and 3 and 1/2 Stars (for the comic book).

  • Mainly I read it 'cause the X-Men are an OK team, although they seem to be really whiny lately. This was a Japanese adaptation of the whole concept and seemed to be a bit strange. It just didn't feel like the X-Men but an odd imitation that wasn't very good at that. Rating: 1/2 Star.

  • Manga is a very versatile field and nowhere does it show it more with this series. England, France, and Germany all are distinctive countries and part of their national identity is that each one has their own bread named after them! But Japan does not. And it is here that the main character's desire appears. Kazuma Azuma is a young baker who wants to create a bread for Japan: a bread that Japanese people will like over rice, their staple dish. One thing you will undoubtedly be disappointed with is that they aren't any bakers in the real world which seem to populate the Yakitake manga. They are unusual, quirky, and a bit deranged, but they are craftsmen who are dedicated to their task. One might think that this series would be boring but frequently Azuma finds challenges wherever he goes such as competing for a job at a prestigious bakery; to discovering that the second-rate tiny bake shop that he is employed at has a monster bakery chain store right across the street from them and is danger of being closed down; to a worldwide international bakery contest; and even a villainous hostile takeover attempt by their chief competitor. It's a rollicking ride, the supporting characters are gems, and it's damn funny. Rating: 5 Stars!

  • It's done by the same dude who does Oh My Goddess! This series however is more normal, involving a pair of policewomen instead of magical goddess. To their credit; this pair of crimefighters are part of an odd precinct of unusual and quirky characters; the most notable one is a cross-dressing police officer who began his career dressing up to catch rapists ... and started dressing in female clothing even off duty. Oftentimes, the duo find it annoying that this character appears much more attractive than them and appears to be a lot more "womanly" than them. It's not a bad series; sort of like a Japanese version of Cagney & Lacey. And the writer/artist does know how to draw attractive women. About the one fatal flaw is that it lacks a real enemy or villain that the duo bring to justice; more often than not, they have to handle humorous nuisances or petty annoyances. Rating: 3 Stars.

  • A teenager gets killed before his time and becomes a ghost detective? It got fairly old fast. I understand it picks up in later chapters but I couldn't bring myself to care to continue after the first couple of GNs. Curse, my short attention span! Rating: 1 Star.

  • One of the earliest works done by the guy who does Bleach, Tite Kubo. He never finished it though and I wonder why bothered to print an unfinished series; it's like selling someone a 12-course meal and then saying "Whoops! We only got enough for half of the meal! Sorry!". The series has a rough sort of quality that is apparent that detracts from this series. Rating: 1 Star.
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