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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.
This is a story that eventually asks its two leads to choose each other over saving the world, and it commits to that choice instead of chickening out of it.
Two strangers quietly repairing each other in a rain-soaked garden shouldn't work this well in this few pages, and yet it does.
Tezuka uses a body-horror premise to interrogate exactly how fast people stop treating you as human, and the result is uncomfortable in all the ways it means to be.
Treat this like a long-running anthology of tight assassination thrillers instead of one continuous story, and it's one of the most influential action manga ever put on paper.
Nothing dramatic happens here except the slow, ordinary erosion of a relationship over years, and that's exactly why it lingers.
This is a tight, bittersweet what-would-you-trade story that earns its ending instead of just aiming for one.
Few manga sell raw, obsessive ambition as convincingly as this one does — the tragedy is that you may finish every available chapter without ever finding out how it ends.
Every operation plays like a heist with a scalpel, and the hospital politics around them are just as sharp as the surgery itself.
Tezuka points his most beloved-cartoonist instincts at genocide, propaganda, and the lies people tell to survive them, and it hits harder than almost anything else with his name on it.
This is exactly as much brainless harem revenge as the title promises — which is either the appeal or the dealbreaker.
Nobody's in danger here, and that's exactly the point — this is slow-life comfort reading done well.
Two volumes in, this is already better at quiet, believable teenage awkwardness than most rom-coms manage in twenty.