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Oct 16, 2025
Come read RAPPA, we have:
- the main character: a handsome - no, gorgeous! - swordsman, overpowered to a ridiculous extent, traveling alone in search of his past;
- the only woman character, who seems to be indifferent towards that swordsman, but actually is interested in him. she's obviously going to be sexualized, because why the hell not;
- male characters, none of them are even close to that perfection that the lone swordsman is, and that's if they're not much, much worse;
- action scenes that don't feel engaging, because we all know the MC is too powerful for a defeat or even slightest of failure, so he'll
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be good;
- 'believe in yourself!' talk right in the middle of a fight;
- worldbuilding, which is just a mashup of things the author likes.
Huh, I think I've just explained almost every volume of Vampire Hunter D... Well, the author is the same, so that figures, I guess.
In all seriousness tho, it felt like such a waste of time... If it wasn't just 17 chapters, I'd dropped it after the first volume. Which is not the most positive thing to say. Everything ends too soon and feels unfinished, action scenes make no sense and are hard to comprehend at times and because of that mashup I've mentioned, characters' designs are so random and out of place. I'd even say, that Vampire Hunter D is better in terms of its worldbuilding and story, or the mystery of MC's existence and his power. Which is not much, still.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 16, 2025
It's more of a long rant, than a review.
I'm not the person to return reading something that I've dropped before, so Fire Punch is one of a kind manga to make me do that several times - 5, to be precise. And I still can't quite decide, whether it was worth it or not. I'd say that the story - in its whole - wasn't that special to me, at times unnecessarily violent/cruel just for the hell of it, or to make you feel shock or disgust. This manga's characters tho, the way they interacted with each other or the world itself, how some of
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their actions impacted on what was happening next - this somehow kept me reading it until the very end. The themes of death, grief and, most importantly, vengeance - wheter it brings an end to the violence or actually gets it to a new high - were done well, in my opinion, so I have nothing bad to say about it. The art is okay, decent I'd say. I could easily understand what was going on through the art, or the way the paneling was done, which made this manga a quick read to me.
But gods I hated some pages - or even chapters - so much, it was hard to appreciate what I liked. I can stand plot-points or scences made purely for the shock value, but when it's done so many times, it becomes a 'shock fest', which makes me... I don't know. Indifferent towards it, the story? Perhaps, this is it. There were also lots of characters that either made no sense, or didn't have much of a 'value' to the story - either they were there to be killed almost instantly or somehow help the main characters, maybe start a new plot-point - as it was with the Ice Witch. The story wouldn't much suffer, if they were never shown or even existed in the first place. Which is sad, because some picked my interest in one way or another. To add to that, I think the story was dragged on for way too long that it has to be, everything could've either ended much sooner, or there could've been less 'plots', so that the rest was more fleshed out and felt finished by the reader.
In concusion, this is something that I wouldn't recommend to anyone, unless you're a fan of Fujimoto's works, or want something both having decent action and some interesting themes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 19, 2025
To me, Ikoku Nikki is that piece of media, that is hard not to relate to. At many points it felt, as if those conversations - about your own self, feelings, yours or others, relationships, life aspirations and, well, life as it is - were not directed only towards characters, but to me as well. It's actually a pretty difficult task to put my love towards this manga into words, except for "I really loved it, and even cried a little at the end, so please go read it!"
On a more serious note though, as I said at the start of this review, this story
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is really hard not to relate to. Every character is like a real person you could know, with their own struggles or hardships, desires and ambitions, and so on. Same with their interactions, especially, of course, between Asa and Makio - they felt natural, or understandable considering the circumstances they live in, and were pretty adorable at most times. Both behave and react the way someone their age and temperament would.
As for art, I wouldn't call it gorgeous, but it is beatiful, colored pages more so. I'd say, paneling is what makes this manga worth looking at. How, for example, Asa's emotions were not always told, but shown by simple metaphors, left quite an impression on me.
Overall, Ikoku Nikki is a story, that gracefully handles mature topics it touches on, and I can't recommend it more to anyone, who's looking for anything like that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 5, 2025
Let's just say Renai Idenshi XX was a total disappointment. While first chapters were promising and picked my interest, the full story left a lot to be desired. What could've been a thought provoking manga on gender roles and how they're more hurtful rather than helpful, and pretty much outdated or just unnecessary, instead it is a mess, where almost every plot-point either starts and abruptly ends (if it does that anyway), or appears out of nowhere and does nothing to move the story in any direction.
It feels like this manga doesn't know what it wants to be sometimes - whether it tells a story
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about a rebellious character, climbing his way up to the top in hopes to change the system he suffers in, or maybe an enemies to lovers romance, where both characters realize it's not just rivalry between them, but something more and what comes after this, or this is some ecchi comedy with cute and gorgeous feminine and masculine passing girls? Honestly, I don't know myself, because it's basically all that and not at the same time. Pretty confusing, I know.
Most infuriating to me was that MC gives up on his plan to literally overthrow the current goverment (some heavy stuff, right?), because of his love for LI. It could be a shockingly good plot-point, if this love made any sense in the first place, which it doesn't - it just so happens, that they both fall in love with each other, for no particular reason, other than that it's what this manga's plot is supposed to be about. And not to mention how the main conflict - the fact that Adams or Eves can't be in a relationship with the person of the same role they are - is not resolved, or at the least promised to, by the main characters, but some random Adam, who comes up by the end of the story (and I mean, like, literally last 1-2 chapters) and tells others to wait and give him support, when he'll be in charge and able to change the law. It all makes whatever happened before meaningless and shallow, how much purpose it had anyway.
What I can really praise is the art, especially characters designs, or the academy premises, which are although nothing particularly special, still pretty to look at.
Overall, I think there are much more interesting yuri/gl titles to pick up, leaving this one for another time, when you have nothing better to read.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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