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Sep 23, 2025
What a rollercoaster. I haven't been this hooked to a manga in a really long time. If you like high stake games and mind games with a lot of plot twists you're genuinely going to love it.
First of all, this manga is going to be inevitably compared to Liar Game. I'm not going to lie the similarities are definitely there and a lot of the games follow the same formula, with Yuichi/Akiyama always looking to be on the verge of losing and it's just a matter of when the tables are going to be turned, not if. I mean this is one of the main
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criticisms of Liar Game, Akiyama has literally 0 flaws and always wins, you know he's going to win and that kinda makes the games have lower hype. Another thing I also hated in Liar game is how the organization is always simping and complimenting Akiyama like he's so perfect he always wins he's so smart... This also happens in Tomodachi Game, the administrators genuinely feel like they're simping over Yuichi, I don't know if this is kind of a male fantasy so the ''smart'' people can relate to the MC so it feels like they're actually complimenting them, but again Yuichi is kinda hard to relate to unless you're an edgy teenager that likes ''dark'' characters (he's complex don't get me wrong, but we all know what kind of crowd this character attracts, just check the favorite numbers of the MC compared to the rest lmao)
Tomodachi Game is kinda like that too, but Yuichi is genuinely a horrible person, he has literally not a care in the world about being dirty and he's genuinely behaving like a villain sometimes, he's a genuinely interesting character that's often dismissed as edgy. Yes, he's comically edgy sometimes but still is way more interesting than Akiyama.
There's an abundance of plot twists too, not going to enter in spoiler territory but if you still want to go fully blind I reccomend you skip this part: Pretty much every character is morally gray at best and a disgusting human being at worst. I can count on one hand the characters that are genuinely and unmistakably a good person. The plot twist machine stops impressing the reader when literally 99% of the new characters end up being evil backstabbers, to a point that when someone is actually a genuinely good person you'd be flabbergasted.
With that said, the recurring and main characters are genuinely interesting and makes you care for them since most characters at least show up in more than one game, which is another flaw Liar Game has, there's only like 4 recurring characters that's actually 2 and one of them is useless and the other is a Mary Sue, the rest is forgettable.
Sorry for the comparisons, Liar Game is a genuinely good manga but everything that's missing is literally what I found here.
The art is amazing, like it genuinely gave me goosebumps after turning the pages because of how well drawn are the creepy and horrifying faces some of the characters make, clashing with the overall artstyle, which makes some showdowns and reveals even better.
The reason this isn't a 10 are mostly minor things: First of all I'm not a big fan of some of the characters having comically big boobs for no particular reasons, and the classic ass or boobs shot that offer nothing to the plot in the middle of a serious conversation. Also that there's not a single interesting female character during the first half, if I want to see mind games amongst men I'll just read Kaiji. Thankfully this was fixed in the second half making some interesting characters.
Something I also didn't like is how this game is so damn afraid of killing characters. The other extreme (killing everyone) also sucks but damn sometimes people are shot in the chest, stabbed, thrown off cliffs... And they always survive lmao like the actual deaths in this manga are so little. It's like everyone has plot armor which kinda lowers the stakes in the games.
Also the pace of the games slow to a crawl in the second half, so it's not weird that a single game lasts 5 volumes. The second half the author genuinely gave up with the money part (I don't blame him, keeping track of all characters debt and currency must suck) so if you're in for the money part you might be disappointed.
This is more of a pet peeve but I'm genuinely disappointed with how they handled the transition to the last game. We get actually good reveals of good villains, but the game ends, they'll join the next game and... They're ignored? Like, what's the point of revealing what looks like your actual threats when in the next game they're literally going to be background characters for like 3 volumes... Felt like the climax of an epic showdown never really arrived and I was genuinely disappointed because it was one of my favorite characters.
Another important thing: This manga is genuinely text heavy, it often references scenes that happened like 10 volumes ago. Fortunately flashbacks are there if you forgot but I genuinely think that binging might be better to appreciate all the small hints because reading this for a long time might diminish your abilities to guess the plot twists. If you're just in for the ride it doesn't matter.
I genuinely feel empty, not gonna lie. The ending wasn't perfect, but at the very least it ENDS, which is something a lot of stories can't say.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 7, 2025
I really wanted to give this a positive review, when I started this manga was a solid 7 for me, but the quality kept decreasing in the last volumes and I couldn't give it a higher score.
First of all I'm not going to repeat what the other reviews said. This manga takes itself too seriously and it's quite literally a fighting/sports manga more than an ecchi one, you get desensitized to the supposedly erotic parts because the way the story is told. This isn't really a bad thing though.
The problem is probably personal, I just hate fighting manga/anime because it's always the same thing: hard
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plot armor, you know the good character is winning 99% of the fights, and it's about outsmarting and finding out the gimmick of the villain of the week. That's literally it. If you like fighting anime and ecchi you'll probably love this, but I personally hate fighting anime (in the manga format it's even worse because it's genuinely hard to guess what's going on and you just rely on a character explaining it).
I liked the idea of starting from scratch, like they start literally doing some exams to get in a school, then they get in the school, then they go pro, then they fight the best of the best. Which again, it's fine to have arcs the problem is that except the two main characters, literally all of the side characters disappear. Oh you liked the single mother in the first arc? Well screw you because she leaves never to be seen again. Oh you liked the two characters that were roommates and baited to be main characters too? Well screw you because after the arc is gone they'll literally disappear for 10 volumes (with one or two mentions and a fight if they're lucky).
This manga has A LOT and I mean A LOT of characters, with a lot of unconventional names even for those used to japanese names literally most of them didn't stick and I was binge reading I can't imagine a person reading as they were being published. Take the bait and switch of main characters, the villain of the week that are relevant for one fight and disappear, the characters that show up but they do 8 volumes after their first appaearance that you genuinely forgot who's who or who their gimmick was or whatever you just know they're allies and vibe with it. With some exceptions because their designs are recognizable, some minor characters are somehow treated as main characters now and I'm supposed to remember them because they appeared 8 volumes ago and literally did and said nothing (okay).
This made really difficult to connect with any of the characters, because either they leave for no reason, or they're ignored or they're just too many to keep up. The gimmick of 6 players in the same arena in a supposedly free for all didn't work at all (except 1 arc that's literally most fights). It's always the same, good team vs evil team there's no free for all and there's no stakes. And I've lost count of how many 5v1 or 4v2 the main characters win because plot armor (god I hate shonen).
The manga is really good the first two arcs, because the cast is relatively small, but after the 4v4 fights arc I genuinely gave up trying to memorize all names and just keep reading for some reason.
And even worse, the last arc is about fighting the top 5 villains which is just a glorified villain of the week, and other than one of the fights the rest were literally nothing special, and one of them which was baited to be the final villain wasn't there.
So what we got is two 2v1 happening simulataneously, being the main character + old villain of the week that didn't show up in 10 volumes that I'm supposed to care about vs a random girl that was supposedly a top 5 but is somehow the best now? She's literally beaten in half a volume lol AND a girl that disappeared 10 volumes ago + a random character that I genuinely forgot who she was vs another villain of the week.
Also another of the top 5 villains was beaten in 20 pages.
The last arc was lame since the beginning but being axed and rushed made everything worse.
Again, if you like fighting anime and ecchi you might like this if you've mentally prepared yourself to not get attached to any character other than the main two, and even then it's like 80% fighting-sports and 20% ecchi, the ecchi part is just they attack with their boobs and butts and there's occasional nudity but it's not treated as something weird or hot, it's ecchi just for convenience but anyway.
Mixed feelings but could've easily been a negative review if I didn't like the beginning.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 26, 2025
Aku no Hana is a manga I REALLY wanted to like, it has all the ingredients I like, but the execution was poor. First of all, most of my pet peeves here also apply to oyasumi punpun, another manga who's extremely similar to this one in a lot of ways.
The first half is unfortunately the weakest of them all. A lot of shit happens, Nakamura is a bitch for literally no reason, Kasuga lets himself be blackmailed for literally no reason? (like do you think anyone is going to believe Nakamura which everyone dislikes, and they have no evidence bro you just let yourself be
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blackmailed). What started as a sort of weird ecchi crossdressing gag ends up becoming a serious story but the thing it's just nonsensical. They keep escalating the shit they do, Kasuga keeps agreeing because whatever...
I swear to god half of the interactions in this manga feel like a roll of a dice, like it feels like the author wanted more shock value than actually coherent characters. Like NOTHING makes sense, the characters just say stuff randomly and you have to put the pieces together somehow. The MC is literally raped, abused, hit several times and he still keeps going on. Yes I get it, abusive relationships and all that, there's part of it that's true, but the beginning of that relationship is incredibly stupid that the rest just feels forced.
Previous to the timeskip I was genuinely going to give it a 3/10, thank God the second half is way better and more enjoyable since the characters behave more realistically and their actions make more sense. Like seriously I get Nakamura's actions are sort of explained in the ending, but what the fuck is the problem with Saeki, there's literally no explanation to it.
This kind of storytelling always feels on the border between pseudo intellectual garbage and actual masterpiece, and the difference is so small sometimes I don't know if the author is a genius or he just isn't, puts random symbolism and lets the fans interpret whatever then praise the genius that's the author (?). Seriously there's A LOT of symbolism, a lot of characters doing weird shit with no explanation, literally everything is up to interpretation and sometimes it feels like I'm literally interpreting half the story, like seriously sometimes there are like 30 panels straight with no text and just weird stuff happening and you get what you get.
Seriously I really really wanted to resonate more with this same as it happened with Oyasumi Punpun, it feels like a person who can relate with the MC will probably enjoy this way more than me, maybe these are not stories meant to be binged, who knows...
The art is excellent I'll give it that, it's unironically one of my favorite artists so far, just sometimes in certain scenes the author just decides to represent movement with lots of nonsensical lines and you can't even see shit, other than that, the normal scenes are amazing.
This is like the equivalent of the so called ''wiki videogames'' as in games you literally need to study the wiki because the game does a poor job to explain the system mechanics and you literally can't get anything done without consulting external sources, Aku no Hana feels the manga equivalent of that.
There's a lot of potential missed and I still think the first half was hot garbage that made no sense, maybe with a possible reread I might change my opinion. I'll try to read something else from this author and see if this is just his usual storytelling method or it was just this once.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 25, 2025
To be fair I'm not used to reading short manga so the pacing kinda messed me up with all the timeskips, I usually tend to prefer slow burn stories. I think there was a lot happening off screen that I would've loved the author to expand on.
I'm going to be honest, the premise is original and this isn't predictable at all, I legit had no idea where any of this was going, and I am grateful for something that I just go along and let myself be surprised.
It has funny scenes, emotional scenes, fucked up scenes... It's a real rollercoaster. And I loved that, the
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problem is that it was so fast and it's already over, I tend to prefer slow burn because I feel like I get attached to the characters better. This manga you can read in a day or two and it'll be less time on your mind. I'd probably have preferred reading it at a slower pace because I genuinely feel like I've missed a lot of stuff just by binge reading, like it feels I'm on the grasp of understanding some hidden meaning and I know this is deeper than what it's being represented but I can't really get it (and not in a pseudo intellectual way like some of the most popular series, like I really mean it).
Pretty much all of the characters get development but in my opinion some of them were fairly rushed because of the volume constraint. And as much as I liked some of them, it really gives a bad message when an actual bully gets a ''good'' ending with no real consequences (which to be fair that does happen in real life but let me complain).
I was missing some crucial scenes like the aforementioned bully apologizing (because they stated their intentions to do so, but it's never shown on screen), and that's just an example of many scenes that we never got.
Something else I didn't like is that other than timeskips there's a lot of flashbacks so the story is not linear at all and it can be confusing, the art while not necessarily bad it can be messy and half of the time you don't even know who's saying what because the dialogues aren't clear at all, leaving it up to interpretation sometimes.
Overall it's a good read and I'm really inbetween recommended and mixed feelings, ended up choosing the latter. I don't recommend this if you're a slow burn long manga enjoyer if you're like me and struggle feeling anything for characters in such a short story.
I'll definitely reread this again in the future at a slower pace because it genuinely deserves it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Aug 24, 2025
Spoilers.
Jisatsutou is a good example of a story with an excellent premise with tons of potential that ends up being a dumpster fire. I'm a sucker for desert island/killing games themes that also deal with heavy topics like suicide and sexual abuse. This should've been easily a 7 out of 10... But it has several problems.
First of all, it literally takes the MC like 2 volumes to overcome his depression, most of the main characters get their will to live shortly after, so the ''suicide island'' theme goes to the backburner and it's barely relevant.
The author also has the bad habit of naming characters
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super late. His style also makes most characters look the same, specially the male characters having the same haircut 80% of the time, when the bandana guy has no bandana or the glasses guy has no glasses in a scene good luck guessing who's who. A lot of characters are literally unnamed for half of the run. Like the glasses girl that shows up in the very beginning doesn't get a name until like volume 12? Like are we serious now?
Specially in the first half there's a lot of deaths and literally NOT ONE of them hits hard because they're literally unnamed characters, or character that got their backstory in the same volume and die in the very same volume. The plot armor really hits hard, literally only unnamed characters die. Most of the evil characters die in a way that it's indirect so they good characters aren't labeled as murderers. There are exceptions to this though and I appreciate the author had the balls to make the MC kill a person directly in not a roundabout way which is a problem I see a lot in japanese media (rubber bullets, anyone?).
This manga also has a big problem with how they treat women. They basically treat them as literal useless people that are weak and need to be protected and can't do hard tasks. And there wasn't even a single character that wasn't disgusting towards women. Even the MC who knows that his love interest is traumatized because she was sexually abused and paralyzes when touched, he still makes sexual advancements with her like three times. The main heroine literally has NO personality other than loving the MC for no reason because they literally have like three interactions and now she wants to escape with him? yeah buddy that's not how women work. This applies to every female character, their only personality is being in love each one with a different character and with a different sad backstory, they only exist to give a motivation to the male characters. The only interesting character is Nao because she actually has a personality but then she's lobotomized into becoming pregnant and loving life and children like wtf? They lobotomized the best girl just to prove the prolife point of the author yeah ok buddy.
Some of the men are literally rapists and then they're treated like normal and everyone is cool with them and they're even comic relief. Seriously this author hates women so much I swear to god he only sees them as motivation for men and babies machines. To be fair it gets slightly better on the end but it's still gross. And it's not even a product of its time excuse, I've seen series 10 years older than this that treat women infinitely better. Also there's a trans/queer character but I better don't go into that rabbithole because holy...
The author also puts a lot of detail into survival tips and explaining what the character does but then he also puts it in the middle of a scene and saying how much he loved goat meat like ok buddy. This is the kind of thing you put inbetween episodes not during one. In one scene an important character literally attempts suicide and the damn author goes on a lecture on how dangerous it is to jump off a cliff yeah no shit (just make it a MC dialogue bro no one wants to hear your opinions it ruins the inmersion and it happens so often).
The last volume is also a hot mess. During the entire manga, named characters that are actually important that end up dying there are like... 4? One you can see it coming and the other was kinda bs but okay. The thing is this manga was BEGGING for characters deaths, but NO ONE DIES, only random npcs with no name that no one cares about, not even the characters themselves. I was genuinely hoping for a development like that,, and getting rid of the same-face syndrome his characters have and also allowing the other characters to shine, but no. The only decent death was admittedly emotional but still predictable, and there should have been more, if no important characters there are no stakes.
In the last volume finally a non-villain important character dies but it's literally so incredibly stupid I can't be sad it's just pure anger (like seriously do you think it's a good idea to release the prisoner who's a literal psychopath that murders people and feels nothing? seriously?). They've been baiting with the death of this character since like volume 3, but whatever.
The only segments I really liked where those where it's just slice of life farming sim vibes, like nothing is really happening just people chilling, and that's the complete opposite of what I was even looking for so you can imagine the disappointment.
There's a lot of emphasis on hunting, like yeah bro the first time is okay but do we really need half a volume of the MC hunting a shark? Like it's not interesting it's just a excuse for the author to go nerd emoji and vomit his shark hunting trivia. Food stops being a concern after literally volume 2, there are no stakes it's already established the characters aren't going to starve can you please focus on the actual plot instead of these irrelevant hunting episodes?
Also they keep baiting us with the ''war'' which is like one of the long conflicts in the manga. Like yeah good settlement versus bad settlement but it's always the same shit. Plot armor ruins the fun but it's basically oh the good attack the bad but they deserved it, now the bad strike back but no one dies, now the good ones come back to attack but nothing happens. Trust me there's been like 5 times they've said ''ok this is the final battle we killing their leader frfr'' no bro you aren't we already know that.
As much as I wanted to like it, it's just hot garbage. It has some forgivable aspects but overall not something I'm ever going to read again, it fails at basically everything I was looking forward to. The real mystery is why I bothered reading it all. Sigh.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 6, 2024
Majo wa Mioji kara is a really interesting manga. The synopsis caught my attention, and the artstyle looked great (despite its misleading covers making you think this is some kind of ecchi manga, it's really not)
First of all you have to keep in mind that it is a manga of self contained episodes, the main plot barely makes progress until the very end. That has pros and cons but it's a manga you can easily read a few chapters whenever you want and enjoy it. If you're looking for a manga more story-focused this might not be for you.
The comedy is probably the best part
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of the manga, since it's self contained for the most part, most episodes are just our favorite witch finding a new weird coping mechanism for her loneliness (spending lots of money on gacha games, going to host clubs, trying to find the most unconventional ways of losing weight, talking to her alt accounts to pretend she's not lonely...) every episode is unique and even though the quality is varied, since they're short even if you don't like one, it's not a big deal.
It also takes itself seriously despite the comedy, with lore based on religion, mythology and beliefs, and a lot of characters based on actual real life people. Not only you get a few laughs, you also learn (mainly japanese) history. With that said, sometimes the story gets TOO japanese so if you don't know much about japanese history it might get confusing but it's not the end of the world.
The best of this manga is the characters. The main character is probably the best. She's a hard worker and a responsible person, but at the same she has the most stupid ideas ever to cope with her loneliness which makes this extremely fun to watch, or her weird attraction to good-for-nothing men and her desperate need of wanting to care for them. She's the most delulu character you've probably seen and it's a delight to read. The side characters are for the most part fun, we have the fujoshi sensei, the clumsy girl who forgets she abandoned a boyfriend, literally creatures like cthulhu or baphomet, the main love interests... There are more but despite being a short manga it has a lot of interesting characters.
My only real pet peeve is that I'm not supposed who the target of this manga is. It's listed as seinen, but for the most part I didn't feel like it was the case, I don't think your average adult man is going to like this, outside the cover art and a few episodes with some fanservicey clothing, there's nothing that makes me think this is seinen. I main the main character is a witch in her 300s (who acts like someone in her 30s), and the male characters art, the humor and some other stuff makes it more similar to otome games, whose target audience tends to be women. It's hard to explain, I don't even know what it wants to be or who it's supposed to be for.
I'd say it's worth a try to anyone who's read mangas of every genre and target audience and doesn't care about labels.
This was my first review, I usually don't like doing reviews in a language that's not mine but I felt it was a waste that no one bothered to review this, so might as well be the first.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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