July's manga / #Comedy(58)

This is awesome! It's like if Detective Conan was on crack. I love this!

This webtoon is like Boku no Hero Academia on crack, except without the school setting. Every hero here has a ridiculous, completely nonsensical superpower, but they also keep such a straight face about their abnormal situation. It's super funny. I'm just sad that it seems to have been dropped by the translators.

Haha, this shoujo webtoon is hilarious. The female lead is a ditz, but not in an intolerable way. The prince's reactions and his subsequent exasperation at her antics are relatable. Even the side characters are rather interesting, so I would say this is one of the better shoujo webtoons out there. It's not completely cliched, but it does have some huh? moments. Especially with the crown princess character, who seems completely at odds with the existing cast, because she acts very differently and inexplicably. The art is pretty good, but there are some problems when it comes to facial proportions and locations of facial features. The eyes are drawn very well though. I also appreciate how it doesn't turn into a full-blown in-your-face romance, and the author allows time for the various relationships to develop. I look forward to more chapters. Update: After Season 1, this story no longer makes any sense. I don't know if it's the translation or the story, but this webtoon sucks now. I don't recommend it anymore.

Ok, I'm pretty torn about this webtoon. What it does well, it does very well. What it doesn't, it fails pretty badly. The good thing about this webtoon is the comedic elements, especially between Intae and his friend Chulsoo. Their relationship is dynamic, and they play so well off each other, with Intae being completely crazy and Chulsoo being the straight man. Their reactions seem natural, even if they're completely over the top, and I did laugh out loud a couple times reading this. There's also a lot of nerdy or wink-wink-nudge-nudge bonus things scattered around, like manga trivia and stuff. But the bad thing about this webtoon are that it's very unbalanced. It tries too hard to be dark and heavy, with some meaningful message hidden underneath, but it's not executed well, and there's zero resolution. Honestly, nothing bad happens to any of the characters, and no one gets punished, even when they should be. Also, the comedic parts clash way too jarringly with the dark parts, and it's not pleasant to read. I had to take a lot of breaks while reading this webtoon because it just didn't hold my interest, and I didn't want to continue reading to see what happens next. Some of it is due to the characters. There are maybe only three compelling characters in this webtoon, at least from my perspective. That would be the nurse, Intae, and Chulsoo. The cast of characters is extremely limited, it only shows the same couple of students and two other faculty members throughout, but it fails to develop anyone else in a meaningful way, because they're used as plot accessories. I know the author tried to tack on sob stories to these other characters too, but it just doesn't work. It makes everyone in here seem crazy, and they're all angsty teenagers or disturbed individuals, and how can a school function normally, if that were the case? I think the webtoon should just have stuck with one genre only, either comedy or psychological, but not both, like it tries to do here. It can't be expected to be both deeply serious but also ridiculously impossible at the same time, and that's the main problem with why it ultimately fails, in my opinion. The art style is very stylized, using bold colors and thick lines , which I think suited this particular webtoon, but honestly, it's not very appealing to look at. Most of the colors are dark and dull, so it's a big downer while reading. However, the author made good use of their panels, and the space was used very effectively in webtoon format. One other thing I disliked about this webtoon was there was way too much LGBTQ in here, it didn't add anything to the story or the characters themselves, and it felt like the author just made literally every other character (especially the minor ones) not straight just for the sake of inclusivity, and that's just wrong. I wish people stopped using sexuality as a characterization because that's not what makes a good character, there's much more to a character than that alone. I did like Intae's sister somewhat, but the romance was out of nowhere, and resolved in the most unsatisfying manner, with them dating in the next chapter after they talk stuff out. The plot twist weren't that surprising to me either, since the author did it way too often, with the misleading conversations and cut-aways. It gets predictable once you've done it more than twice.

It's ok, fairly interesting. The gimmick is that every chapter details the life of a single woman in her mid-life crisis moments but she's actually a 300++-year old witch. I don't know if she has really been single in the whole 300 year period since she's dated lots of men during that period of time, and it just didn't last, I think. The gimmick of the story gets old quick though, I'm rather bored with the recent chapters since nothing major has happened and she's returned to normal singles lifestyle. There's basically no conflict and it's supposed to be humorous, but I personally don't find it funny myself. Update: After a lot of rinse and repeat with her failing to find a good guy, she gets married with the original guy she liked. And he's cool with her being a witch, and she still has her powers. Meh. Ending is not surprising at all. She could have thought of this possibility herself, getting the best of both worlds. Shows how stupid she is.

There are some nice chapters, but also a lot of mediocre ones involving fart and shit jokes, which is very low-brow humor. There is a sense of development, while the characters retain their key characteristics, so it's interesting to see. Art is overly simplistic, but it is fine for this genre.

Professional sniper woman isekai'd to ancient China, which is suffering from zombie apocalypse. It's somewhat funny at times, but the constant touching and suggestive poses is getting old. Action is quite fast-paced and the story sometimes jumps a bit without warning. It's not a bad read overall.

Great webtoon with little to no text, yet it's very effective at communicating each story. I preferred the longer singular ones as opposed to the chapters with two stories each. The art is cute and each of the characters have distinctive traits and personalities. Capoo is the cutest but the dog is the most lovable. I especially loved all the stories where Capoo bonds with a random character who ends up dying later on, they really tug at the heart strings.

A webtoon about a cat who wants to eradicate humanity, along with his not-so-bright sidekick dog and a hamster that mysteriously disappears for long stretches of time. The hamster doesn't get much screentime, and barely plays a role. The cat is rather stupid, but it's meant to be humorous, though it works for me about 40% of the time. I don't find his antics that funny, it's the side cast's reactions to him that are more enjoyable to read. The art is very simplistic, and below average, honestly. It's cute though, so it achieves its intended purpose.

One of the best horror and mystery manga I've read. The art is gorgeous. Definitely not for the faint of heart or those with weak stomachs. All the gory details of dead bodies are drawn without censors. It's a shame Dark Horse Comics stopped translating past Volume 14.