A Speedy Manga Review IV

This brings me up to the fourth “A Speedy Manga Review”. This time, I will start reviewing not only newly blogged manga, but second volumes of manga. The three I am doing the speedy reviews on this time are…:

  • Chobits Volume 1 by CLAMP released by Tokyopop
  • DearS Volume 1 by Peach-Pit released by Tokyopop
  • Death Note Volume 2 by Tsugumi Ohba released by Viz Media

chobits A Speedy Manga Review IV

“Chi isn’t your average humanoid computer. She can’t do word processing, she can’t connect to the net, and she’s incapable of interfacing with other persocoms … but when the hapless, technophobic Hideki rescues her from the scrap heap and takes her home, he finds that she may be more advanced than her childlike behavior lets on …”

Artwork: 4
Storyline: 4
Characters: 4
Extras: 3
Personal Opinion: 4

Overall: 3.8 (B)

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dears A Speedy Manga Review IV“Takeya Ikuhara attends high school all day to come home to his own apartment, where Neneko, the landlady’s daughter, provides him with an allotment of money. One day he encounters a DearS, an alien who crashed-landed on Earth, and his daily life becomes far from routine. . .”

Artwork: 4
Storyline: 3.5
Characters: 3
Extras: 3.5
Personal Opinion: 3.5

Overall: 3.5 (B)

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deathnote2 A Speedy Manga Review IV“Light thinks he’s put an end to his troubles with the FBI – by using the Death Note to kill off the FBI agents working the case in Japan! But one of the agents has a fiancee who used to work in the Bureau, and now she’s uncovered information that could lead to Light’s capture. To make matters worse, L has emerged from the shadows to work directly with the task force headed by Light’s father. With people persuing him from every direction, will light get caught in the influx?

Artwork: 4.5
Storyline: 4
Characters: 3.5
Extras: 3.5
Personal Opinion: 4

Overall: 3.9 (B+)

Related posts:

  1. A Speedy Manga Review III
  2. A Speedy Manga Review II
  3. A Speedy Manga Review
  4. Rozen Maiden Manga – Volume 5
  5. First Volume Manga – Love Hina

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