July's manga / #Beautiful Art(23)

I really liked learning about Go in this manga. The art is fantastic as usual for this mangaka. I only wished to see more of Hikaru's growth after Sai left, since the end seems a little abrupt to me. Also, he never beat Akira by himself, which was disappointing... He's still always behind him, despite how good he has become.

I'm so conflicted about this webtoon. The art is one of the best I've seen, but the plot is one of the worst. It's like someone took a trip while high and starting writing about their visions. Nothing makes sense and it ends abruptly. Such a waste of good art. Thankfully, the sequel is a little bit better.

Great humorous side stories for Noragami. Beautiful art, as always. I don't think there are any more chapters for this title, since it's a short collection.

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.

The art is fantastic, and the story is good until when L is killed. After that, it goes severely downhill. So many plot holes and there's no one to root for by the end of the manga. Seems like they ran out of ideas by the second half. All the so-called geniuses are pretty dumb in the end, what a let down.

Classic dark BL, it's very well written and the art is gorgeous. It deals with a lot of mature themes, so may not be appropriate for people who don't like this kind of material. Ending was tragic, but made sense as none of these characters deserved a happy ending.

It's only a one-shot, but the art is gorgeous. I find it rather difficult to follow the story due to panel layouts, but it seems interesting enough. There's too much going on in this one chapter, and it's not laid out in the best way, despite the beautiful art. Hopefully, this will become a full length webtoon with the same art quality but with better storytelling in the future. This is one of the few works where the art of the webtoon itself is prettier than the cover art.

Wow, this webtoon is really good. It uses the previously popular concept of body-swapping very well, and effectively writes two compelling heroines into its narrative. I think I prefer this over the villainess isekai genre, since it's just done so much better this way. The two heroines are perfect foils for each other, Medea is strong and clever, while Psyche is compassionate and gentle, although the latter sometimes gets on my nerves. They grow as they become more comfortable in their new roles, discovering so much about each other, and learning of tragedies and misfortunes that the other has suffered. The art is absolutely beautiful, the author did a great job, especially with the details of the eyes. Of course, I prefer the look of Medea over Psyche, but I'm always rooting for Medea, no matter which body she's in. She's the badass heroine that goes around taking names and kicking everyone's ass. I hope the two of them can work together to take down the evil crown prince.

The art is really good, and the paneling as well. I'm not getting a good feel of the characters right now, so I will adjust ratings as needed when more chapters are released. I like the ruthlessness of the sultan and I hope it's not just some cheap trick to make him seem mean for no reason, while he's nice to the female lead in a fake forced contrast. Will keep my eyes posted for more. Update: The female lead is an idiot, and the male love interest sultan guy is always saving her. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And it's creepy that he is in love with his father's concubine, even if they didn't sleep together. It's also the whole reason why he rebelled and killed all his siblings in the first place too. Really? Love over everything? It's just so cliche. They don't even really love each other...That's just what they want readers to feel, but I'm not fooled. Not much happens, they have some more sex, then she magically became more assertive, and boom, the end. Meh.

I so, so, so wanted to like this manga. In fact, I was in love with it from the first chapter, but it went downhill pretty quickly after that. But, wow, that first chapter was beautifully done, with some of the best art and panelling I've seen recently. There were a series of panels without any words, just action and wide shots, so amazing. It really captured the beauty and dangers of the new world the protagonists find themselves in very effectively. The only problem is that the pacing is too goddamned fast. Like we were introduced to 4-5 main characters in a short span of three chapters. Slow down! How do you expect readers to keep up? Not to mention, this is based on the Water Margin, where there are 108 main characters or heroes, who will all probably appear in this manga too. I think this could have been good, but maybe it will find the right pace later on. By the way, I love how the girl character doesn't fight, instead, she commands the guys around her like a general, but I wish it was more believable, since there wasn't too much explanation to why they'd stoop to serve her if they're more powerful than she is. And her being the supposed savior isn't enough for me, since she doesn't have the kind of charisma to pull that off.