
Is Burning Effect Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
It knows exactly which shonen tricks it's borrowing and executes most of them well.
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We use the whole 1–10 scale and judge each title against the best version of what it is trying to be — a comedy on how funny it is, a thriller on its tension — not against some other genre. As a rough guide: 9+ is all-time great, 8 excellent, 7 a solid recommendation with caveats, 5–6 mixed or average. A 7 is a genuine yes, not a knock. The “Community score” in each review is the crowd rating from AniList, MAL, and MangaUpdates, shown next to ours for comparison.

Slow to start, but by the time it picks up around chapter seventeen, it's one of the better sci-fi manhwa currently running.

Dropping a future-war veteran into present-day Seoul with no memory of why turns ordinary street crime into genuinely tense stakes.

Rito falls into more compromising positions than any human being should survive, and the whole series is built to keep that streak going.

Mashima found a new setting but brought the same toolbox, and whether that's a plus depends entirely on how tired you are of his other toolbox.

Starts as a cozy office romance and quietly turns into one of the more unnerving sci-fi mysteries in recent manga, without ever losing its warmth.

This is a tight, bittersweet what-would-you-trade story that earns its ending instead of just aiming for one.

The early arcs undersell it hard, but once the tournament arc kicks in this turns into one of the smartest tactical shonen out there.

Every cyberpunk story made since owes this something, even when it seems more interested in its own footnotes than its plot.

Well-built psychic-battle series with a genuinely satisfying time-travel mystery underneath the fights.

Barely any plot happens, and it doesn't need to — the central idea and Kenji Tsuruta's art carry the whole thing on quiet conversation alone.