July's manga / #Supernatural(82)

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.

This manga has me on the edge of my seat every chapter. The art is great and I love all the colored panels, which is rare to see in manga. My only issue is with how nonsensical literally everyone in here behaves, which detracts from the overall realism of the game, in my opinion. Everyone goes from normal-looking to batshit crazy at the flip of a switch. There are supposed to be other players in this game, but I don't understand why they would know the progress of the protagonist. It's not like he knows their progress, too. Those other players don't even change their bodies each time like he does, which makes me question why it's different for him, and only him? The protagonist is not all that likeable, he's a total narcissist and obsessed with his own good looks, and doesn't care about other people. But you do want to see him clear the stage, because he's the least abnormal person in this world. The pacing is somewhat too fast, if looking from a logical standpoint, but it's likely that way to maintain the suspense. Also, the author has a really weird eye fetish. In the first chapter, he makes the main character wear an eye patch for no reason at all, when he was supposed to remain inconspicuous (eye patches totally don't draw attention), and his eye wasn't even injured in the first place. Now both of his eyes have popped out all of a sudden, and they're just rolling on the floor. What the hell.

One of my first shoujo manga, it's not as good as I remembered, but the art is great and the animals are cute. What more can you ask for?

Less gory compared to the original series, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. It focuses more on the supernatural and follows how a famous Japanese writer solves mysteries and finds out the truth behind ghost stories. Pretty cool, it's a shame that the translators stopped translating this work.

Short one shot manhua about what lengths people will go to be able to see a dead loved one again. Art was pretty, but the panels flowed poorly and it was hard to understand what was happening at times. Very rushed and uneven pacing. Nothing is explained and you just have to go with the flow.

A manhua like Parasyte. Very interesting, but sadly, it's only a one shot. Leaves me wanting more. Art is great and panels progress fluidly.

An episodic manga about preventing death by using an ability which lets the people wishing to die experience that death without actually dying. A handsome enigmatic professor and an unwitting woman who had been saved from suicide by him and ends up being forced to work for him afterwards make up the main cast. Art is way below average for a manga, using very simple lines and barely an screen tones. I'm interested in seeing more, but it looks like this has been dropped.

A bit like "The Ring," where people die one after another after receiving a supernatural omen, in this case, the victim's own last words via a voicemail on their phone a few days before their actual day of death. The voice messages come from the future and announce down to the minute when someone will die. Then it turns out the cause of these tragic events originate from a girl with unnatural gifts who had been wrongfully killed for being "different", and now she's wreaking havoc on the people who caused her death and extending her vengeance on even the unsuspecting people around them. Except in this story, it's much more confusing as there's too many characters and they all look the same, and it just makes no sense as the plot jumps back and forth between them erratically and unpredictably. I could barely follow the plot, and I was left scratching my head at the end wondering what I just read. Art is below average for a manga.

The art is really nice, and some of the angles in the various sex scenes are very well done, making them especially steamy. Lots of weird fetishes here so stay away if that's not your thing. For me though, I love all the bizarreness the author comes up with, it's exciting to see as opposed to the same vanilla BL stuff that's available everywhere. No real story here, just lots of monster sex and dubious consent (or rape).

It's a pretty cute 4-koma type manga. Art is very simplistic, but it gets the point across. There are only three characters which are properly developed though, everyone else is rather two-dimensional. I enjoyed it and it made me chuckle at times. The romance between Ayako and Hayato, or lack thereof, was amusing. I think it ended at a good point and didn't unnecessarily drag things out too much. Cons were some of the jokes or references were hard to understand, as in, how point A led to point B which led to point C. There are sudden jumps in plot and swings of emotions which were a bit hard to understand. Overall, a decently good manga.