 Hello, and welcome to the weeaboo zone today. I'm gonna talk about manga manga that I like manga that I dislike I've been meaning to do this for a while, so let's get started That that that looked a lot cooler in my imagination This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long Okay, I'm gonna start with the manga that I like first and then I'm gonna move on to the ones that I didn't like So first one that I like I actually talked about a little bit in my last Review compilation video is Gameron. Now this one is very simple It's just about a Daimyo during the Tokugawa era who Wants to know which martial arts school in his domain is the best so he gets all his sons together and Has them each choose a different school And then there's a whole tournament where they all fight each other and the whole series is basically just about all these Awesome fights that it has and I talked about it in more detail So I don't want to repeat myself too much But like if you're just looking for something that's pure action and fun then Gameron will probably be right up your alley next up is bleach now. I know this one I I know this one is going to be a bit controversial Because bleach has its detractors, you know It was one of the most popular manga in the world for a while during its heyday was one of the big three You know, but I I can't help it. I really like bleach It's similar to Gameron in that, you know There's a bunch of action and fights and that's the main draw But there is other stuff to it because this is basically just about a kid who can see ghosts and stuff And then one day he learns like oh, hey, there's like demons and shit So he becomes a shinigami or god of death or soul reaper as they call it in the dubbed version of the anime Not sure why they want with that But you know he can see these demon things and he goes off to fight them and then it gets Crazier and crazier as time goes on and you know the plot I'm not going to say is amazing But it's a lot longer than Gameron which leaves it room for stuff like twists and turns and it has a much larger character cast and they all Well, not all of them But and a lot of them do actually get some developments and they change over time and there are Like things that happen that are unexpected and the world expands over time So while yes the action in the fighting are some of the is really the main draw And I mean that like some of my favorite fights that I've ever read in manga or in bleach, but That while that is the main draw There is other stuff there. So I really like bleach next up is berserk now anyone who recognizes that poster Obviously, you know that I'm a fan of berserk and I have been for a long time and unfortunately the Mangaaka the author just passed away recently on May 6th Rest in peace kintaro mura. And so I don't think we'll ever get a proper ending, but It's still a phenomenal series. I still think it's worth checking out It's uh, it starts off with this guy named the black swordsman his real name is guts And he's going off again killing demons and stuff because that's a common theme in manga And he's specifically searching for this one guy named Griffith and at first we don't know why But very early on it switches into a flashback and it stays in flashback for a very very long time Just going over guts his whole backstory and what led up to this point And that I think is one of the best parts of the series and then after that it goes back to the present and it's him continuing his quest for revenge and berserk is mostly known for being super super dark and depressing at times and it is yes But I'm okay with that because It's not just edgy for the sake of being edgy And it actually does explore all these dark elements and it does show like What it's like to be a person who has to deal with this like, uh, for example Guts has been around violence and fighting his entire life. Like that's pretty much all he knows throughout, um most of the series and so It really explores like, okay, how this affects his ability to form meaningful relationships with other people Just as an example and I don't want to get into other stuff because of spoilers, but like if you are A fan of dark fantasy stuff, then I would at least check berserk out because it's a very intelligent, uh exploration of that genre if you're not then I don't know if this would appeal to you and I just want an excuse to bring this up like last year when I did that video on my terrible novel that I wrote when I was 15 Uh That one was really dark and edgy with no point to it and part of that is because like yeah I was a fan of berserk at that time And someone in the comments even said that berserk poster on your wall suddenly makes a lot more sense, which It hurts a little it does but you know that that is accurate berserk is great Next up vagabond now vagabond is uh This one's historical. It's not like a 100 true story But it's at least based on really vents like it's based on the life of Miyamoto Musashi who was a samurai who lived Uh around the end of the warring states era and when it was transitioning into the tokigawa era So that was a pretty important time in japan where the samurai were no longer As important as they used to be because of the fighting had died down And this is a fictionalization of that and this one also is pretty dark and It gets a little heavy at times But it is really good all the fights are a lot of fun and it goes into a lot of detail about like Why um people fight and like what purpose there is to it, especially now that most of the wars are over and even then like Without the wars being over most of the wars are fought with like guns and arrows now So swordsmanship isn't that important anymore like how does a man like musashi make his way in that world? And uh if you were like me and you recently watched yasuke on netflix and thought well that was trash because you were hoping for it to Just be a regular historical anime and not bringing a bunch of mecha and shit Then vagabond will probably sate that desire for you witch hunter now. This one is okay technically It's a korean manhwa, but I I don't actually give a shit. It's close enough And this one is basically There's witches that came out and they're super powerful and they've taken over most of the world And the only people I can fight against them are the witch hunter organization. So enter our intrepid Main character who fights witches really well and that I could go into more detail But that is the gist of it and this one it is kind of dumb like it in a lot of ways It's like just a regular shonen action series. In fact, I would just say yeah It is just a regular shonen action action series But it's a lot of fun. It knows what it is. It just has fun with it And the story structure is a little weird which I found off putting some people I've heard praise it and basically What it'll do is it'll show something happen And then it'll go into flashback for like 10 15 chapters to show what led up to that point So you're wondering that whole time like whoa, how'd the characters get into this predicament? you know that sort of thing and I don't know I I didn't like that but you might and it's just I don't have a lot to say It's just a fun series angel then setsuit which I believe translates out to the legend of angel This one is about a guy in high school who looks really scary Like he he just looks like he'd be a bully and people are afraid of him But he's not he's actually just the nicest guy ever and this is actually just a regular school comedy Which yeah, there are a few fights in there. Sure And they're kind of fun, but they're mostly I mean, they're just they're played for laughs for the most part because while he doesn't He's not a bully. He's the nicest guy ever the main character guy still does get into fights now and again and he's really good at doing it and One little bit of trivia I want to add is that this was written by the same guy who later went on to write claymore, which I I've never really gotten into claymore. Like it's not bad. I just haven't gotten around to Finally getting into it. It's just you know, it's one of those things it's on my to read list Which basically means I'll never read it. But I do find it funny how he went from school comedy stuff with very little action in it to that Dark bloody action fantasy that was claymore, but you know that whatever the case angel then setsuit It's pretty good series. It's fun. This one. I think is going to be controversial as well It is Rosario vampire now again remember I'm talking about the manga not the anime because the anime While it is kind of fun in its own way is very different from the manga and this one is about a guy named scune He's just a regular japanese school boy who transfers to a new school Which turns out to be in another dimension and it's full of monsters. So like werewolves vampires fairies like that sort of Shit and he's being the only human there. He's in trouble But he immediately makes friends with a vampire girl named mocha Who constantly wears a like a little rosary across around her neck? And so that keeps her powers suppressed, but when she takes it off she becomes a you know full vampire and she's super powerful and stuff and For the most part this series at least it starts off as just a harem comedy and I don't think it's particularly good at that But it is better than a lot of other entries in the genre If that makes any sense because I mean the average level of quality for the harem comedy genre is Extremely low like there there is there is no bottom to it. But anyways scune is a likeable enough guy most of the other characters including mocha and the other harem members are likeable enough and while they start off as Stereotypes or cliches tropes, whatever you want to call them. They do develop later on and they become Different people. They become better people. They become more likeable as characters as well and um There are How do I put this there? There are a lot of things that Go very wrong after a while. And so the series transit transitions from being just a harem comedy to being more of an action adventure tale and this is actually Pretty good. I think like I'm not gonna praise it too much I I'm just supposed to be a recommendation video. Why am I like qualifying my statements so much? But I I think it is pretty good as an action adventure series not the best I've ever seen but It does have some fun fights. It has scune going from like this regular school boy to actually being kind of a badass fighter Uh, and all of his friends are pretty good at fighting in their own right. It's like it's a It's a fun series when it gets to that point and it's not terrible before that point either and Well Okay, how do I even put this there is a weird twist near the end regarding mocha's identity? I'm not gonna go into it. I'm not gonna spoil it right now But you know when she takes off the rosary. It's not just her powers that come out She actually has a different personality that um is inside of her most of the time they're usually just referred to as inner and outer mocha and The relationship between the two of them seems straightforward at first But it gets really weird near the end and I thought it was a very dumb uh twist But at the same time it is one of the only harem comedies I've ever seen that has a definitive ending It doesn't just end with like well, they continued their hijinks forever. Like it was it was pretty good Suzuka now this one is kind of just a regular Romantic drama story, I guess like it's fun. You know, it's basically just Japanese kids in high school And they go about their lives and they fall in love and stuff and it's not it's not really constant drama It doesn't feel the need to do that. So it feels a bit more realistic But at the same time there's constantly Or not constantly, but there are a bunch of situations where the characters no matter what decision they make It's still gonna hurt somebody. So it comes down to like, okay. Well, what do I want with my life? And am I willing to what am I willing to give up to achieve that? So it is it's actually pretty mature in that regard and I can't go into too much detail about that because it's uh, You know spoilers, but it's uh It's a fun Fun little romance there. You know, I I'm not gonna say it changed my world or anything But I did enjoy it. It was a fun series Now we're getting into manga series that I dislike and when I say dislike this range is all the way from just Mild I wasn't I wasn't the biggest fan to This just bitter seething hatred. Okay, so uh, this this is gonna run the gamut First up is 20th century boys. Now this one I really like the first half of this one because it starts off, uh, this guy his sister Came back from joining a cult a couple of years before the story began and handed him her infant daughter And he's been raising her for a couple of years and he his sister just disappeared He doesn't know where she went and then there's this cult that appears and they start doing crazy stuff and It's so hard to go into any real detail about it because The thing that really sucked me in at the beginning was the mystery and wondering like okay. Who's running this cult? What's their goal? What are they willing to do to achieve that goal? How are they gonna stop them? And that really kept me riveted for the first half of the series But once you get to around the second half I started to realize that there aren't there haven't been any satisfying answers to these questions. You know, it's the it's the jajabrams School of writing, you know, they just constantly introduce more mysteries more Questions that need to be answered and then you don't give any satisfying answers to that You know, like you got to open the mystery box at some point jajabrams, but You know, I wouldn't say it's the worst thing ever It's just it seems more concerned with surprising you than it does with telling a compelling narrative black clover now this one actually Came into the mainstream a couple of years ago when the anime Adaptation got started and the anime adaptation was terrible And I will say the manga is better than that, but it's still not great like okay If you're looking for just like a regular Shonen battle manga like what you would have found back in 2010 or maybe 2005 even earlier like if you're looking for something like that Then I think you'll like black clover just fine, you know, it's full of tropes and cliches and stuff but It seems to know that and so they kind of just use May chill out over there oscar And so it kind of just uses those as almost a shorthand for various Aspects of the story I suppose like it doesn't need to spend An entire chapter with a character monologuing about their backstory and everything like it just sort of shows you What this character is like and gives you a brief little glimpse at it and you get the picture from that So some people have liked it in that sense, but for me, there's just there's just not enough new there for me So I I couldn't get into it fairy tale. This is another one that started off pretty good like I I loved fairy tale for 250 chapters maybe 300 chapters and then it became absolute dog shit like It feels as though the author just stopped caring Which is weird because he wrote rave master and rave master was pretty good You know, you know, I will just we'll just post talk throw that onto the like list like rave master is pretty good Check that one out But fairy tale it feels like he just gave up after a certain point and I don't know why I Yeah, I just don't know why but like after a certain point Everything becomes resolved through the power of friendship like every battle Even if the characters have been facing impossible odds and like, oh, how are we going to defeat this guy? He's I don't know immune to all of our attacks or something. They're just going to defeat him through the power of friendship which That's annoying if you do it once but if you do it constantly the way fairy tale did then Oof, that's just it made me actually angry at a couple of points. So I just gave up and Later, I did go back and read through the um The last couple of chapters just to see the ending and I was like It's it's still not good. It is still pretty bad. It's still power of friendship defeating the evil bad guy so Yeah, fairy tale not good. All right, this one i'm gonna get shit for I and I don't really even dislike this one but I could not continue reading it after a certain point because one piece now One piece people talk about it very highly and for good reason, you know, there's a lot of Fun characters in there. The art style is goofy, but it's great. Uh, the world is huge and it's fun to explore A lot of the fights are fantastic The problem is it's just so long Like I I read it up until the beginning of One of the one Okunyark like when they first arrived there and then I just I realized I had just kind of lost interest and I wasn't that into it anymore because Well, it's similar to 20th century boys where like there's a lot of questions that have been brought up that I want answers to and They're not giving us any answers. You know, like I'm aware that Them finding the treasure is probably going to come like at the end of the series But the fact that this shit has been going on since 1997, which keep in mind I was a year old when one piece started. I'm 24 now This is it's There is a limit. Okay. Like I have a limited amount of time on this earth and I can't spend all of it just Reading through this one series even if I've already read the bulk of it Like let's say this point I stopped was like the three quarters mark Well, that last quarter is still going to be longer than a lot of manga that I've liked Including ones that are on this list like Gameron. You know, that's a fairly short series, but it's still really good and Man, I just was endlessly frustrated with every arc Not even really contributing that much to the greater whole, you know Like you can have a lot of these arcs that are mostly self-contained If you still get like little bits of information about like the wider world and what's going on out there and You know, uh, some of the mysteries that have been intriguing us But one piece did not do that And so even though I liked a lot of the individual pieces after a while my good will just got sucked away And so if you're looking for manga recommendations, I cannot recommend one piece I would advise you to stay away from it. And finally we have My most hated anime of all time the irregular at magic high school Now I'll admit like I said, it's my most hated anime of all time. I haven't read much of the manga It started off as a light novel and then you know anime and manga were adapted from it But there is a manga of it So I'm putting it on this list because I hate it and I want to complain about it. So this one Is a pretty standard Set up as far as anime goes. It's like our world 60 or 70 years in the future and magic has been Revealed to the general public, you know, so pretty much anyone can learn how to use it now It's not like a secret society thing anymore the way it used to be Um, which is kind of neat and then enter Main character guy whose name I will die not remembering. I don't give a shit he and Him and his sister transfer to this new Magical high school and that that's it That is um, that's pretty much the whole story as as far as I read or rather as far as I watched Oh, okay. I should clarify I watched a bunch of the anime thought it was trash Red light novel thinking it would be better and it was slightly better but it had its own issues which I'll get to and The main reason I hate this series so much is because it had potential You know, I like the world it takes place in and I like the way magic works and how they explain a lot of that is Really cool and whenever they go into those exposition exposition dumps. I was super into it, but Man There was no story to speak of and all the characters were super annoying Like if you thought kirito from sword art online was an insufferable mary sue Then main character guy from irregular at magic high school will Oh, I can't even think of a good comparison. He's 20 times worse than kirito though like Absolutely so much worse like any magic that someone can do in this show he can do better And he also has a bunch of other stupid abilities that just come out of nowhere Like he can cancel spells that other people cast as they're casting them He invents flying off-screen like apparently no one else had ever figured out how to do flying magic and he just Offscreen he invented it like his sister comes into his room at one point and she's like, hey, you're floating. Yeah, I invented it Whoa, that's crazy. Um, there's a weird Sort of incest storyline where like the girl that is his sister or rather. She's pretending to be his sister is Very attracted to him clearly Which is weird But like I said, they are in hiding from something and they're really just pretending to be siblings So I guess it's not as bad as it could be but It is still a little weird and on an off-putting like I don't know why anime has that so much. I I assume it's because no one in japan has siblings But it is still really weird to see it be so ubiquitous over there and anyways As I said I did read the light novel and it was better because the anime had no plot whatsoever For like the entire first season at one point A terrorist organization that has never been mentioned before and never gets mentioned again Comes in and fights some of the main characters and then they defeat them through their Sheer power of being awesome Uh and the light novel also doesn't have too much of a story But I was okay with that because it was basically just pure exposition dumps and Sure, it kind of felt like I was reading a wiki about this world, but Well, that that's better than what I was getting You know, it's better than having to sit through five minutes of characters I don't care about Jabbering to each other before I get the exposition dump as opposed to this where I can just go in and read it But I still had to stop reading after a while because I got to some point where The main character guy goes on this really long Like over a page long rant about chinese people Or he's basically just saying ah these fucking chinese people coming over here stealing our jobs raping our women They need to go back to where they came from And I was like well that just that that just came right out of nowhere. I wasn't expecting that And the thing is if the character had been portrayed as being a racist and other people like criticized him for it or something That would be one thing But he's not criticized all the other characters agree with him Because apparently this is the author's real views and he It just just using this as an excuse to push those out there. So Yeah, irregular magic high school is utter dog shit and I hate it. I have friends who like it I don't know what they see in it, but I I hate it. And if you like it, I hate you probably so anyways, that was just little video a couple of Manga that I like and couple that I dislike if uh if you guys want me to talk more about this I probably can like actually For years reading manga was kind of just what I did You know like I would come home from school and for hours afterwards until I went to bed I would just Look through websites and find a bunch of manga and I would read through them and some I dropped early on but a bunch I finished so I have a bunch that I can talk about if you're curious, but anyways, that's it for this one. See you later. 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