Manga 127436 Tougen Anki

Currently having 50 chapters and being caught up to all of them, Tougen Anki is your generic Shounen Manga that seems to have elements of other mangas like CSM, TG etc. But this doesn't mean that the manga is "down to the core" bad or anything.

Incoming reviews might have spoilers-

Plot (6)
The plot is too cliche. As i said above, the plot is almost as same as Tokyo Ghoul, having humans and "enemies" with focusing the main characters siding with the "enemies", where enemies are considered threats to humanity and is being hunted down by a special group of humans.



Characters (7)
Nothing too much has been ... revealed about the main characters, but at the same time, every student of the Rakshasa academy is diverse in their own way in terms of looks and personality.


Art (8)
The main plus point of the manga. The art is very dope and the quality increases considerably as the tension on the scene increases. The manga also has comedy elements which is shown through the artstyle, having similarities to Gotouge Koyoharu-sir's doodle-like artstyle as seen on Demon Slayer


Overall (7)
The manga is decent, not too good but at the same time not too bad. Sure, it has its flaws but hey, the manga is still pretty new and it still has time. Personally speaking, i would recommend this manga to new readers cus its interesting af.

So It's been a while since I started reading this and I've wanted to write a review but I just couldn't find the right words to help me convey what I feel about this manga. Slight spoilers ahead btw.

SO first of all the plot is very generic, but generic doesn't mean bad. If it's done in a good way generic can also be good as seen from almost every new gen shounen. But this... is just mid. The story starts with letting us know that Ichinose Shiki (the mc) is a trouble maker, always making trouble for his old man and everyone around him and ... he also never goes to school. Then a few panels later person with some type of mysterious magic comes in and tries to kill Ichionse, but of course his old man tries to stop him and dies in the process. But guess what? HE WASN'T HIS REAL DAD!! HE PICKED ICHINOSE OFF OF NOWHERE WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT?! After this Ichinose is all alone and miserable and doesn't know what to do which is when a mysterious guy with rollerblades and an umbrella made from blood comes in and tries to awaken Ichinose's true power by training him a bit. After training for 2 chapters Ichinose is told to go to this school for oni (his type of species which are basically demons able to manipulate blood) who train to fight off the momotarou (a group of supernatural humans who use bacteria? as their power source). Which is when he realizes that HE IS INDEED THE MC AND THE KID OF SOME IMPORTANT ONI FROM A CENTURY AGO aka the plot of Blue Exorcist and a couple of other shounen we've all watched before.

I'm gonna be honest it is kinda enjoyable at times despite not having a single unique trait. The characters are all painfully basic and stereotypical, though a few of them have some mystery behind their character which is good. One thing that this series doesn't fail at though is making good looking characters. EVERYONE is good looking. The villains, the doctors, the students, the teachers all of them are good looking. But I do not appreciate the way the women are represented in this. Sure they are thick and beautiful but all of their boobs are seriously VERY HUGE. No human can carry that shit around. I understand that it might be for fan service purposes but that shit ain't attractive at all.

One thing I like about it is that while the oni or the "bad guys" are just creatures trying to live their life peacefully, without harming humans, the momotarou who are supposed to be the "good guys" are the ones that are seriously corrupt. I think this is a good representation of how some good and evil works and I appreciate the author for doing that.
That being said, you should read it if you are an extreme shounen fan or if you want to kill time if you're bored.

Just got done reading all of the current chapters. At first I was enjoying the art and I liked the MC, I'm not too fussed about generic MC's like that. The first few chapters almost gave me mixed vibes between TG, BBB and Blue Exorcist. But then it suddenly changes pace from the academy, to a whole arc elsewhere before we even get time to be with the supporting cast.

At first I didn't mind it too much, thinking it was a new mangaka (with their first series), who has a chance to improve. But nope, it was brought to my attention by someone else that ... this is definitely the same mangaka that made Bougyaku no Kokekko (who went under a different pen-name), and based on the reviews and criticisms, the same issues all exist in that series.

The pacing sucks, the character writing sucks, the art has moments where the characters look too stiff, no name characters have faces drawn in a completely different style, the constant use of tropes, trying to make me sympathise with the bad guys with some really awful writing, the power system which just seems to be a weird combination of a bunch of other manga power systems in one, etc etc.

Honestly, this should get axed. The mangaka should look into doing art exclusively, and finding a writer that is actually competent. That way he can focus on fixing the art issues, while not having to write a story that sucks so bad. The fact that he's going under a different pen-name and still making the same mistakes is proof enough that it's just a waste of time to have views like "It has potential, so I'll keep reading". These seem like inherent problems with the mangaka that won't change later down the road.