July's manga / #Mystery(21)

Definitely inspired by Detective Conan, it follows a group of children who all have their special talents to solve mysteries. I think it goes downhill after the Plague Village arc, since the characters don't develop much after that. I would have liked to see more Ryu & Kyu rivalry/friendship, but it focuses too much on the Hades and Pluto organization.

One of the best psychological mangas out there. Akiyama is seriously one of the smartest protagonists in the world of manga. The beginning portion had more interesting games, the end is a little meh, and leaves a lot of open questions, unfortunately. But worth several read-throughs for sure.

The art is fantastic, and the story is good until when L is killed. After that, it goes severely downhill. So many plot holes and there's no one to root for by the end of the manga. Seems like they ran out of ideas by the second half. All the so-called geniuses are pretty dumb in the end, what a let down.

The premise was interesting, but the subsequent chapters failed to deliver. I'm not sure what kind of story the author wanted to tell. I thought the ghost of the male lead who died was going to be the protagonist, but then it suddenly shifts to another female character that used to be his friend, then shifts to the female character that killed him. Very confusing. Also it seems that this manga was dropped, so we'll never know what will happen next.

It was very dark and tense for most of the story, but then the plot twist about aliens playing this game for fun came out of nowhere, and it just lost all the depth and somberness of everything that came before it. It's also hard to feel for these characters, since they're so two-dimensional. I didn't care whether they survived or not.

This manga was dropped a long time ago, which was sad, since I wanted to read more. The art is pretty good, and the female lead is quite smart, but it's hard to judge something with so few chapters. A pity.

I don't like this webtoon because it's so nonsensical and inaccurate in terms of detective work. Also, it seems to contradict itself with the prologue. Apparently, the two main characters knew each other from police academy days and were close, but in the next chapter which takes place two years ago, before the incident that caused the blue haired man to be dead eyed and wheelchair bound, when they meet for the first time, they don't know each other. Which is it? You can't be both strangers and police academy rivals at the same time like that. Unless you're going to make both of them have amnesia about their police academy days, which is so lame. It's just basically full of bad tropes at this point. Anyway, I don't know if it's the translation, or if the original text is wrong, but OCD doesn't equate to germaphobe, because you can have one without the other, or both, but it seems the text is saying he's just a germaphobe with implied agoraphobia. He doesn't show any signs of OCD at all. I even doubt he's actually a germaphobe, because he just unnecessarily tore off a dirty business card which was thrown on the ground with his teeth, when he could just have used his fingers to do it like a normal person. Ugh. What was the author thinking? It's not even sexy to do that. And the police chief just outright lied and broke into the other guy's apartment with a hammer, which is classic breaking and entering. He should arrest himself. The so-called psychic detective isn't psychic at all, he's just using observation like a normal detective should be doing, and deducing things based on his knowledge. It's impossible to put a microphone in something as flimsy as a card without someone noticing there's something wrong with the card. The list goes on and on with why this webtoon is terrible. It's clear that the author just wanted to write BL with a detective theme but didn't bother doing research or putting thought into it for the execution. Like why do they have rose-gold handcuffs...? The art is the only reason I gave it a higher rating. Although it's not the best art I've seen, it's slightly above average for a webtoon. Both of the main characters piss me off, and they're extremely unlikeable.

This is probably one of the better historical Chinese BLs, although I won't label it as such, since it hasn't obviously headed for that direction quite yet, but it's clear that there's an implication the two male main characters are going to be more than friends. But I'm not complaining, since the more obvious BLs which are focused in ancient China are basically awful except for the art. There's a strong mystery element going on as they try to solve the case of the murdered princess, but I find it hard to follow, personally. It may have to do with how quickly the clues are explained, and the line of logic isn't clearly illustrated in an easy to understand way. The art is alright, not the best, but it's easy to read through. There's too many Chinese names being thrown around so that's not too good. Hopefully, it will get better in terms of pacing.

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

Looks promising, it reminds me of Danganronpa a little bit. People say Saw here, but I haven't watched that, so I can't say so. The art style is very Western-inspired, with bold dark colors and lines. I want to see what happens next.