Another review from my account on MAL. (besides, i just wanted to mention that there is now a subcategory to each 'Anime' Manga' and 'Games' that say 'Reviews. You can find all reviews of the relating category there, without looking trough all the posts you don't care about)


Authors: Shungiku Nakamura (Story & Art)
Release: BLU
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Type: Manga series
Rating: R+
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Yaoi/Shounen-ai
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SCORE: B+


I most definetly like the way the whole plot is settled up. Although it gets a little confusing with the multiple stories featured in every volume, because of the outward semblance of some characters. Usually I'm not fond of sudden changes of place and protagonists in manga, but I guess that these aversenesses disappear, at some point as you get way to cought up in the individual relationships. The concept of the three seemingly different tales meshing togehter is another (more or less) rare occurrence.
The only thing that bothers me are the characters themselves. They're all made to a certain scheme that is already cliche in the world of yaoi. The typical macho, the one who denies his feelings, a rejected one... nothing really new comes along with it.
Both ukes, Hiroki and Misaki, act extremely hysterical and the whole 'No, Stop it! I don't want to...' is just the usual teasing that no one would take as dead serious. On the other hand we've got their counterparts, Akihiko and Nowaki, who act mostly calm and obviously too straight forward. That contrast makes the whole story more interesting. The Junjo Terrorist couple is a little different from the other two, Romantica and Egoist, which gives variety to the whole plot.
As for the artwork. I am sort of torn between liking it and hating it. A lot of scenes are drawn so cute, irresistible and full of love. And then during other parts I simply want to cut them out of the manga! The proportions (head:body and head:hands) are so miserably extreme at times, that it gets almost unbearable...
I guess the humor makes up for some of the mistakes.
But all in all Junjo Romantica is entertaining and Yaoi-fans should be able to enjoy this series (especially because it contains a lot of [almost completely] explicit sexual interaction *wink*).

Oh well, there's nothing important going on right now, and therefore the lack of posts, so I decided to poast an older review of mine from MyAnimeList.net


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Type: Manga series
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Supernatural, Super Power, Shounen, Mystery, Horror, Comedy, Adventure, Action
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SCORE: B+


D.Gray Man fulfilled almost every of my expectations towards it. And I was specifically sceptic, because of the little 'Shonen Jump >Advanced<' caption on its cover. However, this is an entertaining and unique series.
First off, let's get rid of the bad things. I did not like the sentence at the beginning of 'The 1st Night': "The end of a fictional 19th century..."
You can't really put yourself into the story, if you're told beforehand that it is completely fictional. Things like that just kill the mood and besides, everyone would figure that out by themselves anyways. Maybe I'm just making a big deal out of it...
Ok, now to the plot... It is pretty original and settled up in a very interesting way, but while reading D.Gray 1-4, I had a feeling like I've seen some of it before.
Yet, other things really surprised me (in a good way) and most of the time I was outright captivated.
Even the characters are well drawn and have exceptionally multifarious personalities with profound background stories that are revealed bit by bit as the chapters continue. Lenalee was the only person that ticked me off slightly.
There is one thing in particular, that I haven't seen coming and that was Allan's attitude. He is definitely not the cliche type of main character, being way more friendly and cool-headed then any other shonen jump frontman.
In my opinion D.Gray-Man is an amazing and crazy mixture of loads of genres and definetly worth spending money on it.