☘ waidh ☘'s manga / #thumbs up!!(137)

Captivating. Phenomenal. Beautifully rendered.

A detail oriented and beautifully drawn tale of a young man's journey to find what life holds for him and in the process, finds himself instead. Breathtakingly masterful, artwise and storywise...I don't have enough thumbs to show my appreciation and adoration. Thank you, Inoue-sensei.

Pave the way for the self-proclaimed genius, Hanamichi Sakuragi! This aggressive redhead is about to make his mark on the jungle that the ball court could be... Admittedly talented, this not-so-bright rookie will have to hack his way through the long and increasingly arduous path to the end of the court. ᕦ(✧≖ ʖ̯≖)ᕥ I absolutely adore this MC... an all-time favourite character of mine.

❦︎545 Eye-popping seinen.

I first encountered Shaman King as an anime back when I was eight. And now that I'm older, I am much more enamoured with the manga than I was with the TV series back then. This is a pretty good read.

Just as striking as the anime, if not more so. I love, loved it!!! But I just had to live in a country where securing licensed and/or physical copies of any manga is harder than acing college exams. ( ノAヽ )

❦︎242 We will have to wait an indeterminate amount of time for what could be a bittersweet conclusion to this epic tale...

Short, bitter. While it is, in essence, 'conventional', what we glean from it is worth every coin.

❦︎30 Maomao (the female lead) has a penchant, bordering on obsession, for anything poison-related...and her ways of expressing that is rather endearing. ;)

...and so it leaves us with a dozen wondrous chapters where an actual climax, a falling action and a denouement has not been drawn. I found myself beguiled with a manhua so absorbing it seemed like it'll never end, and yet just when I thought the act is being prepped for a dazzling climax, it ended... This series has been discontinued. And it will remain as such. (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)