July's manga / #Action(36)

It's a nice short side story that explains the ending of the first season of the anime. I think there's only two chapters? Beautiful art as always.

Oh my god, this manga is really not good. In terms of both the art and the story. The art is horrendous, all the people look like some poorly drawn cartoon characters, and they're neither cute nor beautiful to look at. The plot is some weird crossover of Harry Potter x Boku no Hero Academia, where the protagonist is OP but he needs to act like he sucks at magic to pose as an ordinary student at the magic academy. It's not even done in a fun or interesting way, since all the characters are super ugly and stupid and common tropes of things you expect to see in a typical shounen manga. And wow, it turns out that the only teacher in the school introduced so far is an arbitrary bad guy, who's shown to be super strong, but then gets trounced in 1 second flat by the male lead because he's so OP.

It was interesting in the beginning, but then devolved completely. Every chapter now has drawn-out battles where you can't tell what is happening and who is fighting. There's too many characters and they all look alike, and none of them have any personalities. There's too much talking while fighting, like a shounen manga, but worse. There's a lot of fantastical effects and super powers, so it's completely covered by special attacks instead of actual fighting. The translation also got worse, so I really don't know what is going on. The male lead is too OP and he kills people in one hit, but he's very boring as a character.

The art is beautiful, but the translation does not do the story justice. Nothing so far makes any sense, and it's a waste of the the art. The manhua looks like a Chinese comic book, with the thick lines and bold colors. The story has no substance, and is meaningless. What a pity. The male lead is not properly introduced, and we know nothing about his motivations or ambitions, it's just a lot of empty talking. It seems like he had a redo of his old life, but sometimes he himself forgets about everything in his old life, when he should remember to successfully redo this life. Also, it's weird that he's so clueless about important things that he should have remembered if he already live through all of this before. There's nothing worth reading here at the moment, but maybe it will improve in the future?

Cultivation webtoon with weapon souls, the male lead wants the weakest soul to achieve the perfect martial arts technique. There's a girl who likes him but when she sees that he's obtained the weakest weapon soul, rejects him because she only likes strong people. Basically don't judge people by their apparent strength. The art is not bad, and translation is understandable, unlike other cultivation webtoons. Interested to see more. I don't really like the male lead though, he's as off-putting just like all the other leads in cultivation webtoons.

The male lead broke off his relationship with his girlfriend, who kept verbally abusing him because she's stronger than he is, and he decides to start over from the beginning. It doesn't really make sense why he'd need to do that since apparently he's a really strong adventurer himself. If he really wanted to get away from her, he should start a different lifestyle, not go back to the same exact path he had been on. It would be another thing if he had been weak and wanted to prove himself to her (or himself) that he's not weak trash. But no, he's already strong, has an insane level of magic to make the strongest mage faint, and was already the top level in adventuring. Yeah, this setup is lazy and poorly executed. Art is average for manga. There's a really weird disconnect from Chapter 1 and 2, it seems it's the present in the first, then skips to the past without explanation in the second chapter.

The art for this full color manhua is great, the coloring is bold like in Western comics but retains the style of a Chinese martial arts manhua. The story is non-existent for now, due to the limited amount of chapters available, it's mostly a lot of fighting, which is drawn really well in an understandable manner. I think the male lead is too unruly like typical shounen manga heroes, I'd rather read this with his elder brother as the protagonist, since he seems more calm and rational. Translation is great, which is surprising since lots of Chinese webtoons and manhua are poorly translated. Hoping to see improvement in the future chapters in terms of story and characters.

A famous actor wakes up in the middle of the night and is attacked by a woman in black. Like basically most men, he uses his raging hormones instead of his brains, so he asks her for her phone number, which she doesn't give him. They're doing some kind of surveillance of his neighbor who's involved in drug smuggling. Not sure where this is going, since she seems to be a terrible spy or secret agent to have been discovered so quickly. He even uses "charismatic" to describe her... Dude, that's like one of the worst traits for you to have to be a successful spy slash secret agent slash thief since the whole point is to NOT get noticed. Also, it seems her physical strength is below his, even though he's not trained, because he easily pulls her towards him several times. By the way, this webtoon is from the perspective of the male actor, and not the female agent person, so ignore the tags for "Strong Female Lead" people are putting up, because she's not the lead. She's more like the female love interest, to be precise. The art is weird. The backgrounds and other inanimate objects are drawn beautifully, but the actual people are not drawn in an aesthetically pleasing way. There's too much use of thick solid lines and the faces are too angular to be considered beautiful. But overall, the art is quite good. Update: Completed at 60 chapters. Was awful.

One Piece is the best! Classic shounen manga~

Honestly, this webtoon was only good until maybe the second or third chapter. It went super downhill from there, and now I think it's dug itself into a hole so deep it can't even get out of it. The author wrote themselves into a ditch, apparently. Then decided to go ultra magic! on this story, and now it barely makes any coherent sense. The art is alright, but if you look closely, the artist is lazy at drawing everyone except the female lead. Only the female lead is carefully drawn, with constantly changing hairstyles and clothing. Everyone else is just bleh and sometimes, the art quality can decrease a lot in a single chapter, if it doesn't feature the female lead. The artist is also not that great at establishing shots or backgrounds, and draws far too many headshots and characters from the waist up. What really irks me is the constant freaking gushing of how handsome the male love interest is in nearly every single chapter. It's like the author doesn't know what else to make the female lead say when she's thinking to herself. Shut up! I am a reader and I have eyes, so let me be the judge, thank you. By the way, with my very eyes, I don't see him as that handsome that you feel the need to remind me every single time you see him. It also makes the female lead sound stupid and shallow. Basically, this does nothing to advance anything and it's a waste of panels. The male lead also thinks to himself about how beautiful the female lead is quite often, but not to the irritating extent the female lead does. Honestly, a lot of the chapters are just spent with the two characters praising the hell out of each other in their heads. What happened to "Show, don't tell?" I really detest it when the authors think their readers are so stupid that everything unimportant needs to be spelled out for us, instead of focusing on plot and writing actual believable conflicts. You know what, this webtoon is basically Twilight. You heard me! Except instead of vampires, everyone's a god. She's a god, he's a god, the maid is a god, and there's another random god wandering around somewhere. Uhm but maybe at least Twilight had some conflict with the werewolves, I have no clue where this pile of steaming trash is trying to go. There's some weird plot line about how he's a supposedly evil god, and then absorbed the other gods, and the last god ran away, but then he reincarnated and ... Yeah no clue. Why is that even important, since obviously he's not a threat to the last god if he doesn't remember he killed the other gods? Or maybe the conflict is that all the other gods are going to kill him, but then they made a point somewhere back there that he's super OP, so it's not like that's a real concern. Yeah, just avoid this. It sucks.