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Oh, God. It's Rosario + Vampire all over again.

eh I liked both for me the manga actually did Benio dirty by literally putting her away for an entire arc, her absence is really felt in a story called TWIN star exorcists and it really doesnt do a fucking thing for the story meanwhile the anime doesnt get to that arc and wraps things up pretty early on hitting the most important beats along the way

When I was younger and got into Manga there was very little available to American audiences. Talking 2006 in a rural area my local bookstore had one 4ft shelf of Manga until probably 2010 and most of it was taken up my Naruto, one piece and bleach. Once I had caught up on all of the shounen ones I started reading the shojo they had. Vampire knight was absolutely amazing and I don't think shojo as a genre is any worse than shounen/senien but God damn is the standard art style ugly. I've always been very picky about art style and to overcome something I find visually disparaging it takes an amazingly strong story. (I dropped one piece for example because of the art in the early volumes). I think more people should give shojo a try, there are bangers especially if you actually enjoy the romance subplots of male targeted Manga. Skip beat, your smile is a trap, and I turned my childhood friend into a girl are worth a read

I'm gonna call this and raise yall reality it was meant to be one season with L dying and maybe light also, but shonin demanded more I get the author didn't want too but he should've made it 3-4 seasons and give light a reasonable downfall with near gaining his own student after Mello and maybe the rest of the spks death but idk my issue was that mikami went too the bank twice in one day was what led lights downfall it was good I used to hate it but now I'm just thinking that there's only 2 things I didn't like because it was way to lucky for near or L it just wouldn't happen so well, mikami wouldn't have broken his order after Takada, and there's no way one man remade the whole notebook and handwriting in less than a night, and mikami was neglectful looking for tampering I'd just like more reasonable explaining, that's why I loved season 1

I would swap part 8 with part 5 and it's perfect

Disagree. Honestly mikami is someone i could have discovered. The guy was way too much in the public eye and was connected to kaneda

im not a major anime fan nor have i ever read manga but after L died this show got so boring to me I could hardly finish it. i liked light's character enough to see it through but I can safely say i did not care what happened narratively after L died it all seemed so meaningless

Bro Steel Ball Run better be the best piece of fiction I laid my eyes on😂

Theirs a lot of randomness in the show and convinces

The manga ruined the second half by creating it in the first place.

yeah she and denji gonna make the perfect couple in the end

I loved how you also used Nier Automata's legendary OST. Especially that one for deep reflection, it's like a neat reference to our love of deeply nuanced media

The ending is just SHIT. THATS ALL THERE IS TO IT. Everything in the 2nd half can be forgiven until the end. THERE IS NO FUCKING PHYSICALLY WAY POSSIBLE THAT LIGHT LOSES THAT INTERACTION. To fully PERFECTLY copy the whole notebook in like 8 hours is IMPOSSIBLE. I love this series but this is one of those shows where the "Villian" is supposed to win. And they pulled the rug out last second. It's just dumb

Have you checked out Yu Yu Hakusho? It’s made by the same guy as Hunter X Hunter and it’s pretty spectacular. It does have a pretty weak ending arc, but chapter Black and the dark tournament are absolute bangers of arcs and more than make up for it’s anticlimactic ending. Plus I think the first portion of the manga(which is largely cut out of the anime) is really fun to read.

one of those manga that gets worse and worse with every single issue. by issue 50 you've read the same story told in different ways half a dozen times.

Is dead

I standby my belief that near shouldn’t even exist. Homie looks like a 10-year-old kid and acts like a 10-year-old kid, yet he has the detective abilities of L and is smarter than light Yagami. The writers really just wanted to ruin the first half, while watching it seems that light and L are way more intelligent than everyone else in the story then the second half happens now apparently light is stupid and L was inferior the whole time

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Would love to watch the video and you still got a click but the anime MASSIVELY improved upon the manga version no question.

0:19 okay, so Goodbye Eri but bad. Really really baf

I'd of loved to see the additional mafia raid with Mello ect. That manga scene where the USA soldiers get their helmets cut and ripped off there heads so the Mafia memeber with the eyes 👀 could kill them. Also Sidoh, dragging that one soilder inside would've been something to see on camera

yay finally someone gives some respect on Haikyu!!

This was an amazing video that actually made me so happy! I'm always wary of videos like this because a lot of people (primarily, but not limited to, men) tend to discredit the shojo (and josei) category as inferior, which is really just misogyny and a disdain for femininity as something lesser. So I'm over the moon that none of that is present in this video, even in your reviews of series you didn't personally enjoy. I also gravitate towards shonen and seinen (and manga I wouldn't necessarily categorise as any of the four demographics), but there are so many good shojosei series I greatly enjoyed. I would love to see another installment of this video, purely so I can recommend you read "Orange". I would so love to hear your thoughts on it, since it is an amazing, thought-provoking, tender and complex manga with great pacing and a story that in no way overstays its welcome.

I still think its worth looking throught because the edning is great

I honestly didn't know this about the Manga and now I look a little more favourably at the Anime for it. See, you were told early on in the story how and why Light is acting the way he's acting in the 2nd half of the series, he's defeated L and claimed victory, he's posing as L and has every single police and investigative group under his direct manipulative control. He therefore thinks he doesn't need to be heavily analytical about things, he's only got the members of the Anti-Kira Task Force to convince after all and every last one of the missed the whole "if I die Kira will assume my identity and control the world." that L said to them - which happens and they never question it. The problem with Death Note in its ending is the final final act where Near has a perfect copy of the Death Note made in less than a day, has the actual copy given to him and arranges things at the Yellow Box to out Light as Kira, this is a big ass pull and isn't believable, it shouldn't have worked at all.

Good list

1 year later. This manga video is gonna cook

They did the anime mega dirty :<

Part 1:Good Part 2:Great Part 3:Best Part 4:Best Part 5:Great Part 6:idk

Japanese live action was better

The anime opening song is amazing.

Honestly, I didn’t even think about the second half being worse than the first until this video. Then I looked back at me watching it and I just feel like I subconsciously lost interest while watching the second half. Not like I didn’t want to watch it anymore, but it just felt harder to get through each episode, I was kinda getting lost while watching it. Plus there was the whole fact that L was my favorite character and I was really sad about him not being there anymore, not that that’s why it was harder to get through. But ya, either way Death Note is still in one of my top anime’s and I still love it :D

Dead Tube is a manga I put in the "so bad it's good" category. The whole point to me came across as trying to convey that people will do absolutely anything for attention online, but it is told in the most over-the-top, ridiculous way that the author pretty much from the get-go became what he was satirizing. I check in on it every so many months to see how nutty it has gotten and have a giggle.

Would you guys say Mello is smarter than Near? 🤔

You know out of all characters in media, while I relate to some ones and some are my favorites. None have ever reach the status of favorite character of all time. If someone's favorite character is a literal train of Thomas and Friends Edward or a crab named Tamatoa from Moana, maybe I'll never have an all time favorite character. Or a literally me c-you get the point. But out of all the characters and after thinking about CSM Part 2 Asa became my favorite character of all time. Because I guess in a sense she's literally me. I enjoyed Denji as a main character, but I enjoyed Asa more because Fujimoto is so good with his female cast. I'm sure it's because of his simping for dominant woman is a thing, but when he made Asa I'm surprised of how kind of realistic and frighteningly horrifying she was. As a person growing up I did make friendships, but sadly I wasn't able to sustain or have them together. I remember dumb me chosed a girl who literally left Grade 3 over issues with home life. And when I I'm left with a former friend, my reluctance and fear of them caused out friendship to break and it was too late when she left High School. Asa to me was a character that made me think of myself and my life. I wasn't as anti social as Asa but younger me cried over small things. It didn't help I was diagnosed as Neurodivergent as a preteen and that was when things felt hard. I had to fit in, maybe socialise, or try to get along with others. It didn't help that like Asa I felt the students I interacted it were pathetic. I viewed the cool kids like animals and brats. And sadly younger me was always the respectful and friendly teacher's pet. While I still made friends some were just a few. And a friend I had I sadly interact due to lack of motivation and the 2020 event happening. I didn't even know her email address and stuff and that was that. So to have a character I relate to makes me feel happy. And I love how Asa isn't your standard shy or meek character that is cute all the time. She's kind of a tired and antisocial person dealing with the loss of her parents as well as feeling lonely after every relationship she has ends up breaking apart. Asa wants connection but she's unsure if she should. She had her pet cat that was gone because of a horrible person, she tries to have one in the form of Yuko but Yuko wasn't a good friend and she is gone even though they made amends, and Denji while he shares the same plight as hee after the infamous scene in CSM there's no way they'll ever connect easily plus Asa is becoming too obssessive of him it becomes unhealyhy, and finally she has to deal with Yoru's BS. This girl cannot catch a break and I pity her and sympathize. If there is one thing both me and Asa have, both of us get tired from interaction. Tired from interacting with loud conversations and not understanding things. So when Asa struggles I hope she learns she must love herself in order to connect with others. As well as understanding her wish on selfishness is making her unable to seek more connections.

After reading and watching the anime ver and manga ver, I can say that the Manga was way better than the Anime ver

i gotta give u props for framing this as a 'me problem' instead of tryin to say this is a terrible romance because xyz. I didnt watch or read kaguya so i have no opinion on this but soo often when it comes to- any piece of media, really, any part of it also, ppl confuse personal opinions and grdges with an inherent flaw that must be fixed, and not just, yknow, taste. It starts feeling very tiresome to discuss media w people when they get so angry! anyway, good video :]

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If you want to read shojo manga that don’t center around romance like Yona of the Dawn with interesting protagonist, I recommend Skip Beat, Junji Ito works, Hell Girl, Fushigi Yugi. But for romance you should definitely give a shot to Ai Yazawa’s work (Nana’s author) For more recent works there’s In The Clear Moonlit Dusk which has astonishing art work as well

It’s too bad you gave up on Sailor Moon. I felt like you in the beginning, but after finishing it, yes it’s definitely one of my favorite things. It has one of the best final war arc in anime, Usagi is simply one of the best protagonist, but all that mostly come to sense once you finish the manga/series (the final arc was simply THAT good). Her relations with the antagonists, her and other character’s identity crisis, lack of self confidence, how gender and sexuality is explored.. it’s a story so interesting, has a great lore but above all what makes me like it so much has to be the characters, their dynamic and their writing, all so enjoyable. I hope you give it another shot.

Glad to know my buddy and I weren't wrong in skipping out on the second half of Death Note after L died, albeit because we thought it was a cop out that there was another L sitting around and doing nothing that whole time.

I be having the same inner dialogues like light does but I’ll choosing something as simple as vanilla or chocolate ice cream… only to still not be satisfied with my choice lol

Yooo this is a sick video to my fav character! How'd you do the cencoring btw?