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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.
The Daemons themselves take a while to come into focus, but Yuru and Asa's separate halves of the mystery are compelling enough on their own to carry the wait.
Akira and Hajime are both painfully bad at reading the same obvious feelings, and the manga is smart enough to actually let their relationship move instead of stalling it out.
Minato is pouring his heart out to the same girl twice without realizing it, and the manga milks that gap for exactly as long as it should and no longer.
Uehara and Niina are both terrible at romance and terrible at writing it, and watching them fake their way through both at once is the actual joke.
Sana barrels into everyone's problems whether they want her to or not, and Kodocha is at its best when that chaos runs headfirst into something genuinely sad.
Liam tries so hard to be a tyrant and keeps accidentally running a great planet instead, and that gap is funnier for longer than it has any right to be.
Haru and Shizuku fight, misread each other, and circle the same handful of feelings for volumes at a time, and somehow it still reads as one of the more honest teen romances out there.
Fran and her sword make an oddly touching pair, and the found-family angle is what keeps this from being just another dungeon-crawl isekai.
Few manga swing as big as CLAMP does here, jumping between dozens of fully realized worlds while still building toward one unified, deeply personal mystery.
Watching two mismatched musicians push each other toward careers they didn't think they wanted is as funny as it is unexpectedly moving.
