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TL;DR: An incredibly good, tight piece of cyberpunk fiction that I would recommend to anyone. Top-tier dialouge and characterization for its main leads, and very natural and well-paced worldbuilding. Also, do not watch the anime version lmao.

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[This review will avoid explaining anything about its story or premise, so dont worry about spoilers]

Your Forma is incredibly good manga. From the first chapter, it will naturally blend and flow, showing off its cyberpunk worldbuiliding and premises pretty effortlessly. The series makes an active effort to have all the world building always come up in a natural capacity from scene to scene, as Hieda and Harold work together ... solving there case.

What makes this manga such a high score for me is its two main leads. Every single chapter for the tight 16 chapter duration of the series is incredibly well done, especially so in regards to dialogue. Each conversation serves to deepen the characterization into how they think, there ethics, there stories, the world and there relationships. And your insight into them litterally grows every single chapter of its 16 chapter run, making it a engrossing read.

Your Forma explores a lot of different facets of the human experience, our senses, ethics in technology, the difference of man/machine and a lot more. Its not going to necessarily have mindblowingly new things to say about all of these things, but it ties it all together so well within its neat 3 volume run, I cant help but say its a must-read for science fiction fans.

The art is also quite great, and maintains a rather brooding atmosphere while not being overbearing with it. Harold brings a lot of lighthearted expressiveness that also balances out the rather stoic vibe hieda brings to scenes, and this is reflected in how they are drawn. When Hieda is leading the conversation, the art and expressions are rather grim, wheras when Harold can get under her skin and joke around, characters can have more expressive, animesque art. Its a nice dichotomy of the two leads thats subliminally hammered in through the characters expressions and art.

I also love the way the art handles Hieda diving into memories. Its all very readable while still being abstracted. Overall, the art is excellent in this manga.

Essentially, I would say this is a incredibly overrlooked manga I would recommend anyone read. 10/10.

P.S: On the anime adaptation..... it doesnt actually start from the beginning of the story. This manga does. The anime seemingly starts adapting from like the middle of the source light novels (not sure what actual volume / chapter) and its incredibly baffling because your missing all the worldbuiliding, lore, characterization and character relationship dynamics that actually make the plot make sense. If you want to watch the anime.... at least make sure you have read this manga first.

Imma make this review very brief:

First 10 or so chapters are pretty charming, with a solid romance arc and plot development. Following 15 chapters? Incomprehensible mess, with constant meme references and side characters you do not care about constantly being introduced. Culminating in a lackluster and annoying ending.

Like literally goes from an average, maybe slightly above average romance manga to like a horridly paced, badly written manga. Story stops taking itself seriously at all.

I dont like leaving reviews like this where i dont have anything insightful to say (even when i dislike something, i like to talk about it and give like good ... analysis) but the second half of this manga is so horrendous in a baffling way that i dont know that i have anything interesting or insightful to say, It just pivots into being a boring mess.

Final Score 2/10.

TL;DR: 3/10. This manga is more interested in being a dragon quest advertisement than being a compelling manga.

[This review has no spoilers. This review is up to chapter 71]

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I read this manga blind. It wastes an insane amount of runtime just being an advertisement for various dragon quest games. Runtime that in a normal romance manga, would have the leads going out and doing stuff and living life, instead wastes time on the two of them bonding while playing an Dragon Quest MMO. Which like.... is boring frankly.

The progression of there romance also is super stagnant, then takes insanely massive leaps. I wont spoil ... anything, but the latter chapters of the series have the two leads hopping giant spans of relationship hurdles incredibly fast, and the writing for it is just unsatisfying. It lacks any compelling dialogue or character moments. In addition, the characters are just always so understanding of each other and don't actually go through anything to bond closer.

Don't get me wrong, im not saying they should poorly communicate for the sake of fake tension, but these two have failed to even have the most minor of disagreements or actual relationship problems. Side characters are so numerous, but they all essentially water down to faceless drones that fade out of your mind after the chapters go by.

I will also say when the characters meet eachother early on and come to the conclusion of: ive known them for a full year, i know there a good person. Which like..... is that true if you are talking to someone exclusively through text chat, during a game? Like not even voice chat? not to mention, they are super like distant about eachtother, not actually knowing anything about eachothers lives, gender included? How do you actually know someone, like really really know them like that?

You dont. But idk, dragon quest acts as a good medium of letting u get to know someone or something idk. It would be convincing if they voice chatted and like broke out of exclusively talking about the game.

To top it all off... one of the characters in game is a stoic and doesnt say much and the main character RP's as basically a little mascot character.......i genuinely dont think you can get to know anyone like that....

Essentially, i think if this manga wasn't a giant advertisement, and could use large spans of its screentime for anything other than dragon quest, it could be pretty compelling.

3/10

TL:DR: Masterpiece but only bother reading this manga if you have seen 0079, Zeta, ZZ, Chars Counterattack, Unicorn and Narrative at the very least. If you havent seen all those shows, this manga wont have anything for you to enjoy.

[THIS IS A TENTATIVE REVIEW; REVIEW IS AS OF CHAPTER 30, SERIES IS ONGOING SO OPINION CAN CHANGE]

Gundam Pulitzer is a genius concept. To take Kikka (the little blonde girl in red boots aboard white base in og 0079) and have her grow up to be a journalist who interviews various characters (minor and major from across UC timeline) to write a biography about Amuro ... Ray.

Gundam Pulitzer differs from any other gundam series, as it has 0 combat occurring other than people talking about combat in retrospect. Same with the mobile suits, they only appear in reference or conversation / flashbacks. Its a refreshing, civilian perspective on the Universal Century that only serves to further flesh out the world. The manga has lots of love put into it, and clearly cares a lot about universal century gundam. It foreshadows plot elements to attempt to make the bridge between CC and unicorn/NT less weird. The writing is excellent, and characters feel and talk exactly how you think they would. It is a manga i think is a genuine 10/10.

BIG CAVEAT THO: Gundam Pulitzer is genuinely only a manga that is enjoyable if you are a MASSIVE universal century gundam fan. This series pulls characters and / or plot elements from 0079, Zeta, ZZ, Chars Counterattack, Unicorn and Narrative. And honestly for good measure, i wont be suprised if it starts referencing other stuff like 08th ms team, stardust memories or even hathaway in the future.

Without deep context of universal century gundam, the series would be confusing, and the genius of its writing would be lost on you as the reader.

The manga also does feature references to incredibly niche characters, for example, characters from like gundam F90 manga or even characters from a sega saturn gundam video game. These kinds of characters dont really require background knowledge though, as the author is aware that even some of the most dedicated fans are not aware of who they are.

All in all, Gundam Pulitzer is a 100% must read for mega-fans of UC. Its a stellar story that utterly fails to stand on its own two feet. It requires a staggering amount of context, but thats okay, as it understands that is the intended audience. So if you fit into that audience, give it a read, its absolutely amazing.