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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.
Video game manga adaptations are usually padding; this one is the rare case that actually improves on its source material's character work.
Homework is what the premise sounds like. What it actually is: one of the more quietly affecting school dramas out there.
Tama and Jinka's mismatched, prickly bond does more heavy lifting than most of the monster-of-the-week fights around it, and it's better for it.
Nobody in this gang explains themselves, and figuring out why is most of the fun.
Barely a couple hundred pages long, and it still hits harder than romances five times its length.
Almost nothing happens across any single chapter, and somehow that's exactly why it's been running for over fifty years.
Takahashi wrote a lot of manga after this one, but never another romance this patient or this honest about how messy real relationships actually are.
It treats a single half-inning with the same care most sports manga save for a series finale, and that patience is exactly why it works.
Any given volume is a mixed bag by design, but even the weaker stories are carried by art that makes skin crawl in ways few other horror manga manage.
Shimizu trying and failing to hide how hard she's trying is funnier than it has any right to be, chapter after chapter.
Hyeonsu ignoring the game's own rules because his real-world skill outclasses them is a small idea that carries a surprising amount of weight.
Watching a hero fight using the exact power that once destroyed his world is a satisfying twist on a genre that usually just hands the lead generic strength.