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Jan 14, 2026
The first part of the film is good, but then it gets really bad. Jungle Pocket is portrayed as a bland character with the "I want to be the strongest" cliché motivation, it wouldn't be a problem if she wasn't the protagonist and this need to have her keep saying that buzzword over and over. Agnes Tachyon is her co-protagonist and she does well in the first part of the film - albeit also being a recurrent type of character in anime -, but they changed the focus in the second part and, for the plot, they force Agnes Tachyon on Jungle Pocket's "character development."
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all feels too unnatural, we get some reactions in the film that are similar to what happened in real life - at least from what I could find online -, however the film belittles Jungle Pocket's achievements too much. Dantsu Flame and Manhattan Cafe were also done dirty and felt like they were in the film just to fan service.
So what is the point of this film? They have Jungle Pocket as a protagonist, but they completely undermine her achievement; they have Agnes Tachyon as a co-protagonist, but they completely side-track her in the second part. They had a good idea in their hands with Agnes Tachyon history, but they probably felt like they only had half a story to be told, so they decided to shift the POV and have it as a story of Jungle Pocket, but they also don't fully deliver on that front. So to make this film they thought mixing half the story for Agnes Tachyon and limiting Jungle Pocket to what involves the former would make a long feature film, but it ended up being a chimera that doesn't pay homage to neither Jungle Pocket, nor Agnes Tachyon.
BTW, on a side note, this film portrays Agnes as a genius, right? I don't think it does the same for Fuji Kiseki, considering both hold the same record: 4 races, 4 wins. I also hate how Cygames didn't manage to get Stay Gold's rights for this and we only get a rip off of her, they don't even mention her name.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Nov 10, 2025
Considering MAL's recommendation concept, I mark this as "Mixed Feelings," however personally I would not recommend this to anyone.
Currently the manga is in the Demonic Ocean Arc and I finally decided to drop it on chapter 58 for a simple reason: it is too cliché, so you can easily tell what is going to happen next in the story and most of the times the author picks the most obvious outcome.
My first contact with this series was a Youtube video mentioning Descaras as this uber strong mage, I can not recall the context, but I liked her design and decided to give it a try.
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So it was weird she is more like a discount main character rather than the actual main character of the manga, so you have to get used to - as another reviewer mentioned here - Tanjiro 2.0. Despite that, what caught my eye were the early double spread pages, the art style WAS what pulled me in and maybe I kept reading because I knew what the artist had to offer, but maybe she only went all-out early on and eventually she started to slack off. It does not look bad now, it just is not what it once was, and why is this so important? Because the manga lacks depth.
Ichi/Tanjiro2.0 is an one-sided protagonist, the cookie cutter of the loveable goof that every major shonen has been using, dude is basically without a flaw and his motivations are shallow: "I have to hunt," that's it. He does not have aspirations, he is a feral child put in the protagonist's knee high boots and you have to like him. Which is ironic considering how even an overpowered Descaras would have been a better protagonist: she is way more complex, has a proper past that was hinted, her interactions with her Majiks and the other witches would make a young adult Descaras an ideal protagonist - which more likely will be a future arc in the manga - for this story. There are other members in their party, but I will not spoil them, besides they are quite forgettable.
Forgettable is also a word that can be used to describe the story so far. Boring, uninspired, more of the same. 58 chapters in and 5 complete volumes out, you would expect something more concrete or interesting, the manga lacks either, it reads the same stories I have read before, but under this Madan no Ichi filter, so there's nothing new in it. That includes the main antagonist of the story, which is introduced fairly early, and is quite simplistic in their main objective, just like our protagonist, so in the same way you have to love Ichi, you have to hate the main protagonist, even if their motivation is a "that's it?" moment.
Madan no Ichi does not need a twist, it just need good writing, but it does not have the latter and - from the "twists" shown so far - does not seem capable to pull the former out of their hat. It is plain and simple, if you want a read that does not require you to think nor are you strict with the quality of the material you read, you might enjoy this below-mid manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 28, 2025
The first time I read Reze's arc I felt very depressed afterwards and the film managed to do the same thing after I finished watching it. Reze grew to be one of my favourite characters ever, but I hate - or maybe I am already used to it now - how Fujimoto treats some of his characters. So by reading the manga, you can prepare yourself because anything can happen and sometimes nothing at all.
I really like the OST, better yet everything sound related to this movie is a 10/10, it impressed me while I was watching it because I don't usually pay attention to
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those things and yet it caused a great impression on me, I left my screening very happy with the quality of what I heard. On a similar line, you couldn't ask for a better voice actress for Reze than Ueda Reina, perfect casting.
Now there are some things that are questionable in this adaptation: we have the art change that isn't bad, but it is different and I disliked how it looked, it feels like a downgrade, but from what I read on twitter it is the sort of art the Japanese people prefers, so we can take from that the next season will look like the film; the animation had some good moments, specially in actions scenes, but there was also some weird scenes, there is this one scene that reminded me of early Dragon Ball Super, yeah those bad scenes, still it isn't bad, but it is worthy pointing out; as some people have said in other reviews, it sort of feel like a 3 episodes of a season glued together to make a film, couldn't they either get Fujimoto do or at least get his blessing on the storyboard that would improve this "cuts" some parts of the film obviously has? It wouldn't amount no more than 5 minutes to the total runtime of the film and it would have made it more fluid and fans would love these new scenes that wouldn't necessarily be filler, just better adapting the manga to the silver screen.
Overall, it is an honest film, 7/10, I don't think the average movie goer that haven't heard about Chainsawman would totally get, after all it is never explained in the film the motivation of the antagonist's objectives, sure as a reader or if you watched the first season you can tell why, but aren't these kind of movies supposed to be self-contained? Yet another reason to have some extra scenes in the film, you know, for the common people that might give this a try.
By the way, it is just so funny to think that this arc is almost 6 years old and it is still so vivid in my memory, curiously, for the whole year of 2020, Fujimoto had Reze as his favourite character, I also hold Reze in a nice place, she is a lovely character, I'm loving seeing all the fanarts and one page comics she's been getting on Twitter, everything so wholesome and cute, she deserves the best.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Oct 9, 2025
If you are reading this manga for the DRAMA, then sure you might enjoy it, but if you were looking for the ROMANCE they implied it would exist, drop it.
Asako is a mysterious older woman that shows up in Masashi's, an 11 years old boy, small village Eni and he falls in love with her. There, she will spend her Summer and he will learn how his first love can make him feel the extremes of the spectrum of feelings. Notice that having 7 volumes and being a Drama, each volume will basically tackle a serious issue that Asako and Masashi will help people to
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deal with, so don't read this expecting much from the romance the author herself implies early on.
Drama: Despite approaching serious topics, they feel incomplete, specially when the issues are not properly closed or are off-screened. We get to see those characters develop and "conquering" their fears, but even with some 200-pages/volume it is not enough. I do have to say that some of the drama isn't as malicious as you could assume, I was always expecting the worst from all characters, which can be nerve-wrecking, but most of them aren't that bad.
Romance: The author teased us with a story and then gave us something else. You get to understand why she wrote Asako in the way she is, how she behaves in some of her actions, but other times you can tell what she does is what she is actually feeling, what Masashi is also feeling, their desire, their attraction, their connection, that is romance. Specially when the manga tells the story in two moments of time: when Masashi is 11 years old and when he is 34 years old. Just let me be clear, I don't think the romance should have happened in the past (and people might really dislike what happened in the past), that's wrong, but in the "present"? When he is 34? Why kick it to the curb?
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 2, 2025
Bait-and-switch manga, don't read this if you are expecting a cute relationship between an old hag and a young man. This story isn't wholesome, the "mature" woman doesn't behave like an emotionally mature person and from Japanese comments people are just hate-reading this manga.
Let me point out some of the early problems, this manga is supposedly about a 35 years old recently divorcée and how she doesn't believe people would be interested in her, it doesn't take long until her 22 years old trainee, Mitsui, falls in love with her. Now, Ono's problem isn't being a divorcée, it is her age gap of 13 years
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with Mitsui. So far so good, right?
On volume 2, now, supposedly in a happy relationship with Mitsui, Ono starts enjoying when a new man is flirting with her, and yes, he knows she is in a relationship. Here, a normal person would start to frown upon Ono's conduct, sure everyone wants to be desired, specially if you think your marital status would be a negative in the dating market, but she decided to start a relationship not that long after her divorce, if she wasn't ready to commit, why settle down?
Forward to volume 3 and things start in the worst way possible, it is clear that Ono is some sort of pushover and this isn't necessarily bad if we were in a wholesome story, but this isn't one, so a special moment is spoiled because of a decision Ono took, the rest of the volume whoever pretends to be wholesome and things get lighter, so there isn't really a major problem - besides the one in the first chapter of the volume -, it is a volume to show Ono and Mitsui's relationship.
For the 4th volume, Ono gets jealous of a past relationship of Mitsui and once again their age difference creeps on her mind, despite him consistently reassuring that shouldn't be an issue, this one I read with google translate help and it seemed like Ono was unfair towards this past relationship Mitsui had since he doesn't have feelings at all for her, Mitsui only cares about Ono. Besides, doesn't that make you wonder why Ono didn't have the same stance towards that man that flirted with her? Either way, much like the previous volume, this one ends on a light note, despite Ono's not substantiated insecurities.
Now volume 5 is dangerous territory, you could even hear through the grapevine that by the end of it they changed the writers of the story and that lead them to fiddle while Rome burns, here's the thing, this volumes tricks you from the get go because it shows Ono and Mitsui in their best moment so far, they've been together for four months, things are going great at the office, their relationship is blooming, there were talks of getting married - despite Ono once again asking Mitsui to calm down, after all, she divorced not that long ago - and she looked as happy she could, she met his parents and they also helped ease up her concerns about her being a divorcée and their age gap and we finally have a moment where Ono stands up for herself and it feels like she broke free from something that was dragging her down, those first three chapters are peak content, but then comes the iceberg that sank the Titanic, chapters 34 to 37, 34-36 aren't necessarily bad, they deal with a serious issue, however the outcome we get to see on chapter 37 is unnerving and negatively impacted on the story as a whole.
The character's art is pretty and cute - which makes the lack of wholesomeness even more infuriating -, scenarios aren't common so there isn't much to comment, personality wise Mitsui is a believable 22 years old immature young adult, but Ono - as you can tell from the previous paragraph - isn't a very convincing 35 years old woman, or maybe she just is a very immature old hag that keeps telling she has to act mature, but never does.
This manga disgusts me, but I am a hopeless romantic for old hags finding love, I want to believe that this leachate well can still be purified by obasan's pure love.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Jun 18, 2025
Ririsa Suzunomiya is enrolled in one of the most prestigious girls only high schools in Japan, the main objective of this school is to teach their students how to be ladylike. Ririsa aims to be the most ladylike of all because unlike her pairs - and unbeknown to them - she doesn’t have a rich upbringing, her mother remarried some rich family and that’s how she got her last name. In school, Ririsa meets Otoha Kurogane, she seems to be even more ladylike than her. However, both of them hide a secret they don’t want the school to know: their passion for Rock. Otoha is
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a skilled drummer and Ririsa is impressed by her raw drumming skills, Otoha convinces Ririsa to play along and after their explosive musical interaction, Otoha is enamoured by Ririsa’s guitar skills.
People that came from the anime might naturally want to compare this story to “Bocchi the Rock!”, since both stories deal with the Music theme, but let me stretch a bit the Music theme and compare “Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite” with an Idols manga, but just as underground: “Damedol to Sekai ni Hitori dake no Fan.” I feel like both “Rock wa Lady” and “Damedol” succeed where the other story fails, the former has a good narrative progression, but it lacks on characters development. One could argue that, being an Idols manga, it is obvious “Damedol” focuses primarily on character development, which I agree, yet “Bocchi the Rock!” also shared this characteristic (albeit the narrative progression is moderately good).
Please, don’t assume by what I am saying that the character development in this story is either non-existent or horrible, it is a sidetracked element and sometimes contradictory? Let me give you an example: Ririsa from the get go catches Otoha’s eyes as a diamond in the rough, so she still has to polish her guitar skills, however when a new arc comes she goes through the same issues again, her past progress was for nothing. It is not like she is struggling when she is playing because she has stage fright or she didn’t practise, most of the time we are told Ririsa just “lacked emotion,” so in an arc she will overcome this “lack of emotion” barrier, only for the next arc she has the same issue again. Otoha is an even more static person as a character, barely any progress, she is a fun character, but it feels like she is a "done" character with no room for improvement.
On the other hand, not all is lost, the progression in the narrative is done with a good pace, you actually feel their band progressing in this underground Rock bands’ world, in a realistic manner. Nonetheless, the same can’t be said about the school story, which I particularly feel like was an afterthought by the mangaka. My hunch is that the author wanted to tell a story about these girls in a band, but had to put the school in the story to make it different (?). Ririsa even has a side plot related to the school, as in each year the most lady like student of the school – we actually don’t know the parameters, but we all know how those things usually end, right? – gets granted the title of Noble Maiden and that’s how she plans to turn around her mother’s life, because both of them are mistreated (for being commoners) in their new rich family and, by being a Noble Maiden, Ririsa believes her mother won’t have to suffer any more. Unfortunately, the plot around the school is pushed aside so just reinforces my hunch that this was an afterthought.
52 chapters in, I feel like the story arcs are well developed and the pacing is quite good, at least we have a sense of where we are going with this Rock band part of the story. For the characters, Ririsa got an okay improvement, we had a little of her past disclosed to us, but not much can be said about the other characters‘ development.
Overall, it is a fun experience, I can’t shake this feeling that both Ririsa and Otoha remind me so much of Mary Saotome and Jabami Yumeko from “Kakegurui”, I know this brave, short-tempered blonde hair (usually twin-tails) and two-faced, carefree black hair (usually hime cut) duo is somewhat common in anime, but it is always interesting seeing them.
I have to mention this somewhere, the author has some sort of leather, BDSM fetish, those instances are quite rare – usually to show when one is being in control over the other when playing –, it is a weird add, they remind me of “Shokugeki no Souma”'s foodgasm, but don’t serve the same purpose as that aspect, it is probably just the author wanting to flaunt their fetishes to the reader.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 29, 2025
These first two seasons were amazing, but I will be dropping the anime here and, considering how the manhwa unfolds, I recommend you do the same.
The idea behind the story is interesting, the protagonist also has some cool powers and the whole "solo leveling" is okay too, but as he grew in power in both season 1 and 2 he will keep on growing, but the issue lies on how every other hunter just can't evolve. It is very disappointing when they take some time to introduce those global powerhouses, the S-rank hunters, and they are light-years behind the main character and there is nothing
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they can do to catch up to him.
It is Dragon Ball Z all over again, when we see Goku turning SSJ1 and the others Z-Warrior can't catch up to him; Kuririn, Piccolo, Tenshinhan, become an audience to Goku and Vegeta to solve all the problems. That is what Solo Leveling will become from now on - or rather the gap will only widen more -, S-ranks won't make a difference, Hunter Sung and his Shadow Army will keep getting stronger to a point S-ranks feel like Kuririn.
There is still an overarching story to be told, there are some cool moments from now on, and if the fact that those supposedly international S-Rank Hunters will feel like toddlers against Hunter Sung doesn't bother you, keep watching. It is nothing ground breaking though.
So as someone that read ahead, I can tell you that the stakes get higher, but with each new chapter side characters lose their relevance in favour to keep Hunter Sung as the Korean Jesus.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 20, 2025
"Why?"
Even after hearing the unexpected "next chapter will be the last one" last month, and reading the last chapter today, it seems like it is a consensus: "why did the author end the manga like this?" So if you in the future are reading this, know that the manga will end unexpectedly, it is not like there were major loose ends, but it is still so frustrating.
The whole cosplay idea behind the manga is good, we get some behind the scenes on how far cosplayers go to create their costumes with different make-up tricks, stuffing, concealing, fabrics, a wide variety of topics that are very
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interesting - and surely didn't seem like the author talked about everything she could on this matter because cosplayer are always learning and adapting to the situation they are in. Not only that we did have a story that people were immersed and that is why we asked: "why?" as in "is that it? Is this how the story ends?"
The last arc was a mix of feeling: its pacing was bad, it was lukewarm, it was also kinda boring considering how it kept on dragging, however, as always, the art was always on point and definitely the best cosplay Marin has ever pulled; now that I said it, could it be that the author felt like she could not top this moment? Did she even have to top that moment?
There was so much to tell in this story, sure, there is a controversial moment where it felt like the author was taking as to a direction and then it was something completely different, I wonder if it was then that the author decided to finish the story as quickly as possible, because all the branches that the story could spread were pruned then.
Is it worth reading? It has good art, it has amazing cosplayer content, Marin is a lovable goofball - there are plenty of rip-off of her out there now -, but as for the story? Not really. At least it is a "short" manga with a little over 100 chapters. The author said she plans to release an epilogue and side stories, but those can not salvaged this.
Meh
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 16, 2025
I pushed through all 47 chapters released so far to see if anything remotely interesting would happen, it does not. Let me just point out the only good thing the manga has: characters' art. If I were to praise anything from this story, it is the art behind each character, each one is different from the other, their face, their hair, their style in clothing, it is the only good thing worth commenting. The author also loves asses, he makes it quite clear his preference when he highlights pants in a specific way, sometimes those butts can look a bit weird, but most of the
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time those are nice.
Having that said, all the rest is trash if you look at it objectively. The protagonist, Ryota Miki, has one of the strongest plot armors in manga, everything that happens to him, whether the outcome being the one he expected or not always, works in his favor. Also, he has this fake charisma where he is polite and throw some minor compliments here and there, but somehow he manages to captivate people in a matter of minutes, waking their sense of protection towards him (a maternal instinct for some of them perhaps?). Remember when I said the character's art is the only thing worth praising? So, the author abuses two specific faces for the protagonist: puppy face and "Chill Guy". Puppy face, as you can expect, is the face the protagonist recurrently does to get what he wants, it is sort of pathetic seeing him doing that face and worst seeing him getting what he wants when he does that; "Chill guy" is a reference to that meme, the anthropomorphic dog wearing a sweater and jeans and he has his hands in his pockets with a half-smile on his face looking kinda chill, the protagonist uses a similar face as his smug face, where 20 years ago you would see "T/N:'keikaku' means plan" because he is acting like everyone are puppets in his 4D Chess.
The protagonist has those "I am a genius" moments, but of course he would see himself like that in an universe where two things happen: every event that plays out work in his favor and every single character will make a stupid decision if that also directly affects the protagonist. It is boring to read when everyone else have high stakes and plenty to lose, while the MC is like "oops, I tripped and found a ticket with a one million dollars prize, silly me."
The author did not do his homework on some matters like foster care and criminal investigation, for instance we are shown early on how the protagonist went through 5 foster homes and we are led to believe he "abandoned" his foster parents by pinning on them domestic violence, one of those foster parents even vanished (I do know about the "missing" people issue in Japan, but isn't it a bit odd to have the same child having the same problems over and over and no one stops to wonder: maybe that kid needs professional help? You change the environment several times and the same issue keeps repeating? Maybe the problem isn't in the environment). As for the criminal investigation, it is plain ignorant to what really happens, I won't delve into details, just consider that for the already ludicrous due process existent in Japan, the author manages to make it even worse.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Nov 13, 2024
Aka is that kind of writer that is able to start a story and get you invested in it, but somewhere in the middle he loses his magic. I can guarantee you you can watch the first two seasons of the anime or the first 80 chapters of the manga, skip the next 81 chapters, reading the last 5 chapters and still manage to understand everything that happened. Why is that? Because the 5 arcs spread on those 86 chapters are mostly beating around the bush. Sure you get some development here and there, but mostly it doesn't make a difference for the outcome because
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Aka basically builds the whole story on those first 80 chapters and that's why he struggles with the rest, it is hard to develop a story that was already developed, so on the following arcs he mostly "goes back to the basic" returning to the entertainment industry that is mostly sidetracked, but it feels like filler, filling a certain amount of chapters his editor probably set him to do, I'm pretty confident this manga could have ended with 100, maybe 110 chapters - considering the content he officially released.
However, unlike Kaguya-sama, I managed to read the whole thing here in Oshi no Ko, so maybe kudos to him for "improving"? Still there's a long way to go, or maybe I am being to harsh? Maybe Aka himself wanted to ended this manga sooner, but he wasn't allowed to because it makes perfect sense - writing-wise - to have this story end 20 or 30 chapters after the 80th chapter and it wouldn't feel rushed, instead we got a story that gets really bad and a poorly written ending. I don't think it was even a controversial ending considering how most people hated it. So do consider that when reading this: half the story can be skipped and you would still be able to understand the ending, doesn't it make the quality of the writing here questionable?
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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