July's manga / #Shounen(43)

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.

It was very dark and tense for most of the story, but then the plot twist about aliens playing this game for fun came out of nowhere, and it just lost all the depth and somberness of everything that came before it. It's also hard to feel for these characters, since they're so two-dimensional. I didn't care whether they survived or not.

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.

Holy crap, this webtoon is one of the worst ones I've read so far. Not only is the art super bad, so is everything else. I don't understand how his power really works, besides that he gets some arbitrary points for recording his experiences and he can use them to exchange for knowledge or skills? The male lead has no personality, and he's a perfect character who can literally do everything perfectly since he got the skills from the book exchange. There is no conflict and each chapter is dedicated to showing off how supposedly good he is at everything. But my main problem here is how the artist is terribly bad at their job in trying to depict it. Like he's supposed to be a master calligrapher, but the so-called masterpiece calligraphy he writes are laughably bad. I was almost mentally crying with frustration from looking at the chicken scratch calligraphy that grown men were clamoring over and saying it will cost millions of won. Like seriously? And then he got the experience of cooking and oh lord, the webtoon went even more downhill from there. There's lots of drawings of panels where they're eating to show his food expertise, and the artist of this webtoon cannot draw appealing food worth a shit, since all the food looks like blobs of different colors, then you have the characters gushing over how delicious and appetizing the food is. I think I lost some brain cells...Not to mention, despite the so-called expertise of the main character, the author clearly did no research and just randomly spouts ridiculous stuff using their characters which make absolutely no sense, like how pork is easier to eat than beef and how sweet potatoes work with tteokbokki. I can't even. And the male lead is also a Michaelangelo, so he's a master painter too, and he paints awful drawings that once again, everyone praises him to death over. Please pass this webtoon, it is a travesty. Update: Completed at 150 chapters.

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.

It's pretty interesting so far, a man is isekai'd to the world of a novel he was reading before he fell asleep. He's a minor villain in the novel, and he's striving to live a peaceful life with as little conflict as possible. I think he seems more intelligent than other male leads in the isekai genre, so I'm curious what will happen next. The art is not bad, I really like the look of the male lead 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?

Isekai x wine making x magic/cultivation type webtoon. Fairly standard so far, but there's only two chapters, so not much to judge by. Art is ok, but not the best. I'm not that impressed by this.

Sanji in his element. Not really a shokugeki, but it's awesome. And the food critic strips after eating his food.