Monday, March 21, 2016

ReLife - Review

Let's be true to ourselves, once in our lives as adults, We really like to escape the reality and go back to the past where we are highschool students. Some may think that if  he would go back to high school, he would choose the things that would really suit him/her. Maybe things like not breaking up with the one we love in the past or doint things right for the secondtime in out life. and that's what ReLife is.

ReLife is written and drawn by YAYOI Sou and moreof a webcomic rather than a typical manga you would see in a shounen magazine. ReLife is story of Kaizaki Arata, an average 27 year old man who was jobless because of some events happened in his past work. He was offered to be research subject mysterious pharmaceutical research institute. And what would be the reasearch?Somthing like a pill that would make you younger that you would look like a high schooler again. The offer was something within a year being a subject , he would be given a full compensation and that after being a subject he would be given a referral to his a company.

ReLife offers something that people young and adult would really enjoy reading it. The young ones would really appreciate this because issues regarding school that sometime not even talked within friends and family were brought up. Issues like bullying, friendship and even about love. What the young ones could looked here is what would the adults do if they were in that scenario. The lessons that you would get here is somewhat realistic. 

The adults would also really enjoy reading this because of imagining something like going to high school is somewhat a reality to many adults. Some may say that it would be amazing since you would really stand out since you've already studied it. But the thing is, subjects in high school were tend to be forgotten by many after finishing college, right? You know you've also said this once in you younger years: "I will be _______, what would the subject _______ would do me any good if my job is _______." This is just some reasons that the manga makes the adult realistic. Or even being in love to high schooler (14-18y/o) while you know you are a 27-30 year old man/woman is morally wrong(that is if your somewhat a lolicon or a pedoxxx..hehe).

Also adults, would also see things that would help them up to what they face in reality. Things or events that may end up us adults thinking to end our lives. This manga also shows how cruel bullying in the corporate world is.

To wrap this up, Relife focuses more on the thinking of the people in the corporate world and young people in the high school world. I truly recommend this to be read by high school students for them to know what people in the real adult world would do or say in a high school problems. and I would also recommend this to people who would were currently stressed in their own corporate jobs. This would also can be great stress reliever for you.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Naruto- after it ends, what's next?

Naruto will be finally reach its end. Seeing the ninja world working together. Seeing Naruto finally able to control Kurama the Kyuubi, And Finally, The clash of Rasengan and Chidori. Well, since I'm not good in Japanese, I'm always looking forward at the translated works. Naruto is one of the famous manga now. And even one of my favorite. Since I'm a fan of the ancient japanese culture, Naruto gives a different perspective about ninjas and their skills. There would be something different in the next wednesdays(since translated works released on wendesdays). Wendesdays would never be the same again. Its like seeing your favorite band putting their last show on earth. And its like seeing your idol doing her final bow. It really feels like seeing your favorite sports player doing everything to win in his last full game.

Well, we would surely miss how crazy naruto and his friendship ideal is. How cheesy it would seem to say that its Naruto and Sasuke in the end after all and not Sasuke and Sakura. we would surely miss that. And there are many characters that died. We surely miss Neji the cool guy with no black pupil. Personally, I would always remember that times when readers would surely want Kakashi's face to be revealed. I mean we surely miss every characters there. But let's all face it. Every story must go up to its climax and finally it must go to its final bow. Let's go on to what could be next after naruto.

Honestly, Naruto can't be replaced. As I said, Wednesdays would never be the same again. But, as an avid fan of manga, I think we need to look to something to add up in our list. So, lets take a look on some popular mangas.

Bleach - This manga entered its final arc well, it surely be the next to go. well It started good, then at the middle portion, it was a really shaky up until its final arc. The excitement that it gave from the start up until its climax do not equate to the final arc. Its like you want to fast track everything and looking forward to its end.

Detective Conan - This one of my favorite since its a detective type of genre. But, it can't make you look forward on reading it. There are reasons: first, many cases needs the understanding of kanji characters and others. Second, You only need to look forward to it if it enters again the black organization part. Third, if its kaito kid vs. conan, it would be surely a good chapter. Fourth, the manga is not possible since the age of the characters stopped(the one that portrays kudo shinichi was married)

One Piece - One piece does have its own set of fans and I think One piece would surely catch the attention of many naruto readers. Well, One piece does have unique aspect towards its readers so Naruto readers were also reading One piece simultaneously.

Shingeki no Kyojin - this gory manga does have the place to the popular manga right now. I'm not a fan of this manga nor its anime since I can;t imaging giants eating people. But the manga is good. The twists in the story makes it more exciting to read. Another drawback of this manga is that, The realease date of translation. Yes, its exciting but to wait for longer time makes your exciting factor go down and start again at zero.

Fairy Tale - this manga would surely let be get a the time that would lack because of naruto. Although it really is a different theme, Fairy tale would do have a unique character that would really be good to recommend as a part of someone's manga list.

In conclusion, surely everyone will miss Naruto. The love triangle in the team 7 will be a unique memory for many manga readers (sakura love sasuke...AND....Sasuke and naruto...hehehe......). All in all, The lessons that the manga gave the readers would be surely something to be in the lives of its readers.

Monday, September 15, 2014

One Punch-Man Review

Almost all Heroes in manga or even in western comics do have special powers. Many of them do have struggles. It's like almost every hero whenever a villain shows up, He/she struggles first that he/she be defeated but at the end it always the hero who wins. that's typical for ALMOST all the heroes. Yes! ALMOST!

Why?


One Punch Man is a shounen manga superheroes manga. What sets it different from those mediocre heroes is Saitama is just an overpowered normal human super hero wannabe.Overpower normal bald super hero wannabe? First, Saitama is Over powered because he can kill and not just defeat his opponent with just one punch. his normal because he live in an apartment, rest just like a normal bald human. Most of all, He trained for only 3 years just for the sake of being a hero.

But similar for other known heroes is that saitama do also have a sidekick/apprentice. Genos is a cyborg boy who follows saitama for him to have the strength. Well, what sets him different from other apprentices is that he was being known as powerful by the citizens. Another is he does have cool face drawn for him, he does have that cool devices that a cyborg superhero need. Most of all, I believe we can safely say that He is an cool looking guy.

Since this is a superheroes league, the manga was setup in a country were superheroes must be legally licensed. it may safe to presume that this hero licensing is just like how Civil War(Marvel comics, just look about it) really ended.

The villains, well at the start is mostly similar to some well known villains in some manga. However, this villains is not also your typical villain in a super hero comics. In your typical super hero comics, villains were the ones making you feel scared for the hero, villain are someone you would really want to be dead because of the hard times they've been giving to the super heroes. In One Punch Man, villains would let you want to see if he will be dead in One Punch. However, this villains also make hard times but not to Saitama. and to Saitama, they are just like a normal swatting a fly.

He's similar to the villain in a super human manga.hmm...
All in all, this manga is for fun reading. If your a person who is feeling bored and just waiting for the day your favorite manga would be updated, this would surely let you get out of your boredom . If your a fan of super heroes, I believe you would really be interested into this.


Friday, September 12, 2014

Manga Sensei(Teacher) List

Teachers in our school is one of the very important people in a life of a person. They may lead a student to a good or bad path. It all pertains on how they teach them and on how they were seen by the students.Students do have different classifications and different types and it depend to what a person experienced and observed this are some:

HAAAH Boring!!!
1. Post Dated teachers: this are teachers who can't get out of the past age. They thought they were in the industrial age. this are the teachers who up until now don't can't see the sense of using internet as a strategy to learn. But not all don't accept information. Its just that they are too boring.







2. By the book teachers: this are teachers who would make you memorize a math book. this would let you memorize an accounting book and they hoped you memorized how to balance a balance sheet. or how to read a financial statement. Its not that they are boring.they make the subject boring. they are just people who would want to sit back and wait for the students to finish the book.
When the teacher is writing. there's a party at her back.

Pervert teachers have this kind of
facewhen you jog or stretch girls.
3.Pervert teachers: there are teachers up until now. those teachers mostly on a mostly on physical education. those who would let the girls have stretching more than the boys. those who would let the girls jog more than the boys. Well, it really benefit us boys.







They are so many but this is safe sexy.
4. Sexy Teacher: the teachers that you won't let go of the time when she was trying to get the ballpoint pen on the floor or just let her gaze more with those sexy eyes.








They become like this.
5. Terror Teachers- these can be classified into two different sides. First the one that your truly afraid off. The second is the one you would just want them to die. Let them become your teachers, and yes you would feel their terror.

But let's just skip all those hatreds from those teachers. Why? This teachers were real. and we know we can't change them so what will we discuss is the type of teacher many yearned to have. A teacher that its not too boring. It maybe not sexy but they were cool. They understand what a student wants to have. We want call them the Manga teachers. They are the teachers that students yearn but the truth is they are all fiction.

We will talk about teachers from the mangas that would really yearn for. We would only tackle a little about the manga they are in. Since manga reviews were not part of this blog post. This are some teachers and will continue to find more teachers in this vast world of manga.

Kumiko Yamaguchi of Gokusen. Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a Yankumi. She's the teacher that really can tame not just one delinquent students but a gang(not a classroom) of delinquent students. She's a teacher that would tame by not making them change their attitudes but at least would let them finish their studies. Even though She's not good at teaching academics, she would teach her students that being a delinquent in school is really different on being delinquent in the real world. How could she know that? She's was only just the grand daughter of the head of a famous and influential Yakuza Group.

Eikichi Onizuka of GTO. the ex-gang member and a virgin. Eikichi Onizuka, like yankumi, He tamed a bunch of delinquents. But the delinquents he tamed were not all boys its a mixture of young girls who were growing delinquent and boys who become delinquent or become bullied. Onizuka's way of teaching is more like a carefree type. He let the students do what they
want. He let them decide then he intervene when they goes in the wrong path. He was more of an outlaw rather than Yankumi since he was more like not doing it for the sake of the school.

Kagami Junichirou (Denpa Kyoushi). He's an otaku and a genius for anything. He has a personally known disease "ADW"(able to do what he only wants). He had a dream of doing a dokodemo door(from doraemon) but get the disease of ADW. This man is more different from Yankumi and Onizuka. What he wants is to change the school system. Change it to let the students do what they want to do and master it. This is what the students really like. A revolution. He was a teacher that would really change and make a revolution about the school system.

Hachisuka Goro (Hammer Session). He's a Swindler. He do more like Onizuka but in a swindler way. He calls those lessons as Hammer Session. He might be somewhat the teacher that would fight almost for the sake of the student. He is a teacher that would follow the rules of the school. But he will let you have a lesson that you would really appreciate. He was a teacher that would really let you experience how it feels to in the real world.

Korosensei(Assassination Classroom). He's an alien. He's a genius just like Kagami. What sets him very differently is that He's an alien. He teach his students in a way the student would easily to understand. He would give each of his students examination depending on the each students capabilities. He personally teach each of his students simultaneously since he's an alien. He also give lessons to his student for them to be prepared for the real world situation.

In the future posts and reviews, This post will be edited for the addition of the Manga teachers that would be in this list.

If your into a school manga, The manga where this teachers came from would be suitable in your interests. All in all, this teachers are what students yearn to have. Yes this teachers where delinquents also. But let's put out that part. The students yearn for the attitude that this teachers have. This teachers reasons, ideas, and strategies would surely help teachers of this generation to know them better.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Assassination Classroom - Review


What if there is an alien that destroyed the moon and make it a crescent moon and planned to destroy the earth next? What if its like superman less all the abilities and the handsomeness of superman except the supermach speed?What if he train you to kill him before he destroys the earth? What if he trains you at school? and the reward for killing him is fortune that would make you rich for the whole of your life?Or at least have you ever been imagine killing your own teacher?


Assassination Classroom is obviously a classroom that teaches assassination.This is a shounen manga and not a seinen manga. In short, this has almost no blood spurting out of the body, no nudity, and almost weapons are not real knife, real gun. Hnestly, this is not an assassination manga. Assassination Classroom is about a class in a certain school that tasked to kill an alien who would destroy the world after a year.



If your not a fan with modern war mangas with guns, assassination classroom in the title itself would let you turned this away. if your a fan with modern mangas, it would excite. However, expectations to this as you read would tell you that Assassination Classroom is similar to Gokusen and GTO.


  Assassination Classroom is a Cool Teacher type of manga just like Gokusen and GTO. They were taught to be an assassin, but they were also taught to be good in academics. They were taught of hard lessons in life. Some lessons never been taught by your great feeling to be good teachers. Assassination Classroom would not just let you wish to have a teacher like that but also will let you wish to be in a classroom setup like that. Students in this classroom were not most of them delinquent just like gokusen and GTO. But those students were the ones bullied by students whom think that they were almighty. They were bullied by students that would make them selves strong by hurting physically or emotionally other students.These are the students considered to be trash by its own school. These students were taught lessons that may fire them up that there is an equality to all people, there is enough space for everyone in the top, that giving up is just the sign of failing.

Assassination Classroom might be a way to also open up teachers that different students does have different ways for them to study or even to open up. Assassination classroom would let teachers open their eyes that students were not the ones needed to open up. Its the teachers that would not give up in opening themselves to the students.

This manga would also be a good recommendation for all the students. That classrooms were not a competition room or just a quiz room. Its a room filled with cooperation and compassion towards each other. This would tell students that school grades were important but the more essential is your relationship with your fellow schoolmates and classmates.


all in all, Assassination classroom is a good manga similar in how good Gokusen and GTO is. Since it involves some good strategies for assassination(if your into that work), It really makes it different from other Cool Teacher Type. It would really makes you remember the classroom your into and also the classmates you have and their differences and similarities.




AKB49 Renai Kinshi Jourei - Manga Review

What if this even also happened in a manga adaptation?
Maeda Atsuko, Oshima yuko, Minegishi Minami( because of the youtube scandal), the idol stabbing incident in japan, simlarity of this events and names is that they are all connected to AKB48. AKB48 an idol group consists of many young women. They hold the biggest idol group in the world. And for the fans of this group, seeing their idol graduate is surprise yet sad event.

As katsuragi keima (The world God only knows) had once said that real world's idol will surely face the time they need to graduate or retire, it might be because of scandals or  because they got older while game idols or even idols created in animation and manga can be lived into eternity. And what if such popular names mentioned above would be a character in a manga mixed with some new characters? what if real events such as the graduation announcement of Maeda Atsuko was mixed in a manga?

This can be seen in AKB49 Renai kinshi Jourei. Although there are manga done for the group, AKB49 is a Shounen Romance manga focused on a one sided love of a boy to a girl who dreamt of being an idol. What he have done was to cross dress and be part of also of the idol group. Yes, this might be seen as an awkward plot. Some boy who cross dresses can't be noticed by people watching him. But what it makes it different is how the idol group is alive in the manga. Making some popular names from the group alive in manga, with their characters known by their fans. Like how pervert Oshima Yuko in the dressing room, how addcited Watanabe Mayu to cosplay and to danso-kei(male disguise style), or even how childish matsui jurina is. It is also a manga that is much like connected to the real world events which might seem become realistic in one's fan imagination. Like the scandal that made Akimoto Sayaka go down to being a captain, The general senbatsu election, the graduation anouncement that shocked many fans or even the music videos of some song of the group.

The Graduation Announcement they all talking about
All in all for fans of the 48 group, it really is a fan based manga. It just like it lets you have backstage pass to the concerts, the akb theatre, the general election. It also lets you have a tour on their dressing room, the dorm, the dance studio, the music studio and even a tour to the life of an idol. It lets you have a pass to the happiness, sadness, loneliness, the successes the failures of an idol. Its like how many fans follow the story of their idols.

Many would say obviously from the title itself, "its for the boys who was addicted to those girls", "its for the wotas". Well, yes your right in one aspect. But your also wrong in another. This manga is not the story of the Maeda Atsuko, Oshima Yuko, or any other girls. You know why? because fans know their story. Because what you call wotas(the real hardcore fans) know it from the start. This manga is a story of a Yoshinaga Hiroko and Urakawa Minori/Minoru.

Is this a adventure game with this enourmous quest?
If you like Naruto, Bleach, Saiyuki, if you play Final Fantasy, Zelda, Ragnarok Online, this manga is more like an adventure manga, but not in a fantasy world, it in a modern world with some real people, and some weird characters.How would it be?, have you notice what are the plots of those adventure manga and adventure games? Isn't it defy the evil plan, kill the evil boss or even CRUSH THE GODS?

If you happen to having fun watching shows like big brother, the running man, this manga is more like a reality TV show with all the cameras chasing the characters.

Lessons, this manga was full of lessons. Well, many of it is not about being an idol. Its about how chasing dreams. Its about the hardships that needed to face to gain you dreams. There are lessons about love, love to you family, to your friends, to people who hates you and even there are lessons for those people who have a one sided love.

I recommend it for the fans who's idols in the group graduated. I recommend it for fans  who just started to being a fan of the group since this would let you know some great facts and musics that might help you know them more. I would also recommend it for young women, who does have a dream similar to the dream of the girl in the manga. It would give you a closer look to this kind of industry(especially almost the the first arcs). But I also recommend it to people who does have a need to some great manga to read. It would really worth of you time reading this manga.

I would not recommend this for man hopeful to be in an idol group. Seriously, there limitation from what is real and what is not even though it might be possible. But seriously just don't do it even you have a girly like face. Just don't do it.





Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Kuroko no Basuke Manga Review

Kuroko no Basuke


Since this manga ended this week, And this week also is the FIBA World Cup. This is worth having a review. and will be somewhat comparing it to the old school basketball manga, Slam Dunk

Kuroko no Basuke is a basketball inspired manga. It talks about a Basketball club that aims to be a champion and enters interhigh school competition and about a sixth man name Tetsuya Kuroko. Basically the idea is that each area in japan does have its own basketball tournament, then the champion and the 1st runner of each area would only have the chance to enter the interhighschool tournament to become the best highschool basketball club in all japan. Interhighschool tournament is much like NCAA in United States is.

Kuroko no Basuke is somewhat can be said as a modern Slam Dunk. But, the two manga really is different. The most obvious is that the rules were totally different. Slam Dunk basketball rules were the old school rules like 30 second violation, the game is divided in 2 halves and i think there was no "no charging zone" inside the paint in the manga. Kuroko no Basuke basketball rules shows the modern basketball rules, 24 second violation, game is divided into quarters and even the tournament system is different from slam dunk.The characters differ so much although some characters look the same in height and in ability.



The two basketball manga shows
its unrealistic scenes in basketball. There is the phantom kuroko, unrealistic three points of shintaro midorima, or even the unrealistic shots done by aomine. slam dunk does have also, the unbelievable jumping power of sakuragi, or how they awfully have a longer time delaying the game for just a mere trash talking of the sakuragi and the other players in court. But I think Slam Dunk is more realistic than Kuroko no Basuke. Or should I say, Kuroko is a way too unrealistic. It may also show how Japanese were not a basketball country or country that have many basketball fans. I can say this since I myself live in a basketball country. I'll show you some I've seen unrealistic.

First and foremost, Phantom Sixth Man, Tetsuya Kuroko. Kuroko is identified as a person who doesn't have an aura that people can't notice him. This is the most unrealistic, why? Let's say we are the mere audience. If you truly watch a basketball game, you would definitely notice the 10 players in court. you would really notice it. I think even your not a basketball fan, you would really see 10 players and notice kuroko in reality.

I know some players who does have the height of kuroko and they can be noticed even if they are in a pool of tall players. Here in the philippines, we have some called "the blur", since he's too fast to be seen its like your just seeing someone blurred in your eyes and what you we'll rather see is that he's already going for a shot. Just like the phantom drive of kuroko. However, He can be noticed not just by the players but as usual the audience. He won't be considered as the blur he was noticed.

Aomine's attitude is again another unrealistic. If He truly loves basketball and notices that no one can beat him in japan, He would rather not go to a japanese school but go overseas in reality. Why? Simple, you would want to go and defeat the best and be the best in the whole world. See this, even if he does have that attitude, or even if the generation of miracles does have that attitude that their the best, their school would be known in world, they would be known by other school overseas and they would really do whatever it takes to get those players. Let's just say, schools in United States, They would really go and get a tall player that can shoot halfway or the whole court. Who would not notice internationally a forward that can shoot anywhere formlessly. Or just the mere fact that murasakibara is tall even the philippines would go scout and try to get that player. Really those were the some reasons Kuroko no basuke is way too unrealistic.

All in all Kuroko no Basuke is an entertaining way of basketball manga since its a story of a underdog team. We all know that underdog team is much more entertaining than all mighty great team. This would entertain basketball fans but not as how they were entertained to Slam Dunk. If you would want to know about basketball, this manga would not that be a way to inform you of what basketball is.I think this manga would only be more enjoyable and a worth to try if you are a basketball fan.

Basketball Manga does have something in common towards its lessons, the heart to finish the game up until the very last second even you will tend to lose or you have a chance to win. they also do heartbreak games. But why became interesting is the heart to sports they love.

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