ReviewRaptor's manga / #Unexplained Happenings(93)

When I Stopped Being Your Shadow

Ongoing | Bongyee,Rana | 2022 released

REVIEW TIME! TL;DR at the end for anyone alergic to more than two sentences. The Good: - The plot might be basic but it's still interesting. It's kept very casual and doesn't want to be some grand, epic story that is filled with big happenings at every corner. The Bad: - The writing is HORRIBLY rushed. The author jumped all intricate details, which makes me thing whoever converted this into a comic doesn't have enough insight in storytelling and hence just left anything out that makes a story intricate and immersive. Which is likely also why the Duke so seemingly randomly and from one moment to the other just BAM falls for the MC. This is not good storytelling tbh. Much too rushed and it makes me loose interest despite the story and characters being nice. - ALSO; THE UPLOADING. Please, PLEASE stop rushing and check if pages are uploaded in order or twice behind one another or even entirely jumbled. The Ugly: - The translation....REALLY needs an overhaul. Nothing is consistent. One moment grammar is perfect and in the next speech bubble it's bad Google Translator shennanigans. Please, for the love of anything ever holy, at least try to check for grammar mistakes and keep names consistent (how tf did Duke Sussex turn into Mr Sechs Kies!?!?!). It's like people don't even want to string together chapters and just half-heartedly throw the raws into google translate and then call it a day and pat themselves on the shoulder. Please put in some effort, and if you lack some stuff it takes to translate things: Just leave it to other people. Because bad translations are often just left laying around instead of being replaced with good ones and that just makes people turn away from a story that's now too much of a chore to read. TL;DR: My overall judgement is: It's nice but I find it unreadable due to the messy pages, bad translations and rushed writing. I'll half-abandon this and only flip through pages from now on to see how it continues for a while, but I'll never recommend this due to all the issues.

Bittersweet Howling

Ongoing | Keun zo maen | 2022 released

This reads like someone told their friend about a really cool sex scene they thought of and then said: "I wanna make this into a comic!". Then the friend replies: "But a comic needs to have plot and such, right?". And the creators reply was simply: "Well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it....". This seriously has SUCH heavy raw draft vibes, I can't even. Like the only planned out thing was 'sex scene' and the rest was just thrown together nilly willy. I think this might turn out to be yet another one of those smut comics that would have been better off as a 'silent' art reel. Because so far the writing is confusing, lacking and very amateurish in nature. And I don't think it'll get better, unless this was a 2-part promo upload. Which I doubt....

Love with Intention

Ongoing | Manxi | 2022 released

Bleach

Complete | Kubo | 2001 released

Divorce Me, Mr. Alpha

Complete | Runa konjiki | 2019 released

The story was at first glance nice, but it quickly went weird in terms of logic and character behavior. It's not interesting enough to read and it's overall just too boring. Neither character is special or overly fleshed out and the art is only so-so. Give it a try but I'm already uninterested at chapter 5. I tried to keep reading but it's just a chore to me. Enjoy if you can, I'll be looking for something better.

Peach Boy (Yooyoung)

Ongoing | Yooyoung | 2023 released

Yeah no. The art is WAY too much of a turn off to work as fap material (the artist overdoes it with ugly expressions and angles they simply cannot draw well), the story is dumb as hell and really makes it obvious it was just thrown together to excuse different sorts of fuck-scenes and the characters are overall just not appealing/uninteresting since they have no personality. Very disappointing, but another reminder to not bother with these kinda comics. Give it a try, if you have no high expectations for borderline perfect art and good writing, this can be for you.

Anemone Theater

Complete | zoy,greensea | 2019 released

Kick Off

Complete | Hocco | 2019 released

REVIEW, but without spoilers (interestingly enough). The writing is a bit too rushed and feels almost random in how things develope even early on (them bonking for the first time happened without any sorta build up tbh). It's not an impressive story but not entirely boring either. So I do not have much to say there, it was just a bit bland for me personally. The art itself is alright but even there I have to say the expressions always feel....inaccurate or too weak, like they are not drawn as they should be to make the emotions that are supposedly there clear. A smirk is barely a _ line that's VERY minimally drawn upward at the edges, making it less of a smirk and more of a neutral expression that ranges more towards the positive. That makes it akward in many panels if the rest of the face is supposed to show an emotion but it doesn't play together to create an actual uniform expression for whatever emotion is supposed to be portrayed. And sadly this goes on through the entire comic (for all sorts of facial expressions, mind you, there was barely a panel I noticed with a well drawn expression all over). It's not a bad story, but not good either. The art isn't good enough to give it more points either, if anything it would give it point reduction tbh. So all in all I find it below okay and wouldn't really bother reading it again or recommending it. It's probably a good enough read when you're bored or are new and don't have much knowledge of storytelling and expression-based art, but that's about it for me, for more experienced readers I'd say give it a go but be warned that you'll not exactly find anything good both in writing and the art itself.