admin reviewed Negima by Ken Akamatsu (Negima!: Magister Negi Magi (English) (2))
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1 star
Have you ever read a manga where one of the characters were just so tsundere/ridiculous that it hurt? It hurt so much that you put down the book and could not continue further? This is that book. Usually I take ~1 hour to read manga but this one took me three days. THREE. DAYS.
I JUST. KEN AKAMATSU. WHY?
I should know by now that 99.9% of the time, I do not enjoy light hearted romantic comedy bull. Especially light hearted comedy MANGA bull. Yet I pick this up! Somehow I assumed that this might be a nice fantasy series with minimal boobs. Then I realized why the name Ken Akamatsu sounded so familiar.
Now, I whipped through Akamatsu's Love Hina rather quickly when I was younger and I just... Did not appreciate 90% of the humour. Is it guy humour? Weird lonely guy otaku humour? I will never know. …
Have you ever read a manga where one of the characters were just so tsundere/ridiculous that it hurt? It hurt so much that you put down the book and could not continue further? This is that book. Usually I take ~1 hour to read manga but this one took me three days. THREE. DAYS.
I JUST. KEN AKAMATSU. WHY?
I should know by now that 99.9% of the time, I do not enjoy light hearted romantic comedy bull. Especially light hearted comedy MANGA bull. Yet I pick this up! Somehow I assumed that this might be a nice fantasy series with minimal boobs. Then I realized why the name Ken Akamatsu sounded so familiar.
Now, I whipped through Akamatsu's Love Hina rather quickly when I was younger and I just... Did not appreciate 90% of the humour. Is it guy humour? Weird lonely guy otaku humour? I will never know. But holy crap do these characters get on my nerves! And the lead female... I'm probably using the wrong term but... SO MUCH TSUNDERE.
Maybe I'm too bitter and have too high of expectations for manga nowadays.
The public library needs a better selection of manga... To bad 90% of English translated manga are like this...