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Hot take from me who's just finished Medaka Box chapter 140 (I sent this since you and spooky are the 2 main MB analysts on here): Medaka's council was boring until the Minus arc. The only interesting thing the other members of the council ever did pre-Kumagawa was their fight with Medaka II exploring Zenkichi's past. Kumagawa showing up casted doubts on the council members and Ajimu successfully divided them after chapter 115. Before and after those 2 arcs they are simple yes men to Medaka.
Previous asker here. No idea why the phone keyboard hit it to 140. I read to chapter 150 with the new council battling in Antartic already and saw the former council members went back to their old ways with the obvious exception of the new President.
I can't say I agree with you, but I see what you're saying since Akune and Kikaijima get very little attention in the story as a whole
That said, I really like what contributions they have for the story in the Daily Life, Flask Plan and Medaka's Successor Arcs
Nisio definitely didn't give them the screentime that I think they deserved, but to a certain extent I think this is just an example of narrative utility: what benefit would Akune and Kikaijima have brought to, say, the Minus Arc that other characters didn't?
Akune vs. Shibuki could have been cool since Akune must have had a ton of injuries for Shibuki to reopen with Scar Dead, but Naze's emotional scars not only offered the same basic story structure that Akune's past as The Destroyer would have, she also expanded on what Akune offered by being reminiscent to the Minuses in her personality type
That doesn't make Akune a lesser character than Naze, it makes Naze a better fit for the story that Nisio wanted to tell in that case
In the Medaka Successor Arc, Naze only appears briefly every so often, but Akune has a consistent presence as the focus of Wanizuka's character arc, at least during the Clock Tower game. The lessons he's able to impart to Wanizuka and the change he inspires in her aren't things that Naze could have achieved because that's not even remotely what her character is about
Kikaijima, meanwhile, acts as a sort of moral grounding point for Kumagawa. She's not incredibly active aside from the Battle of the Bands performance, but she helps motivate Kumagawa and gives him a guidepost for how to move Hitoyoshi and Medaka's conflict to its resolution
As for being yes-men, that's kind of the point of them. Akune's blind idolization of Medaka is reflected in Wanizuka's blind idolization of The Destroyer, and Kikaijima was a member of the Student Council because a) she was being paid and therefore just doing her job, and b) so she could spend time with her friends like a normal high school student. Neither of them had any reason to be anything other than yes-men either in the context of the story or for the purposes of the story
Medaka said from the beginning that she wanted her Vice President to be someone who would antagonize and challenge her, so she wouldn't become a tyrant, but that's kind of an insane thing for, again, a high school student to say. It's abnormal, while the rest of her team was being perfectly normal about the whole thing
I'm not sure if I'm actually addressing what you're criticizing, but I hope it's clear that there is something to Akune and Kikaijima that other readers are able to find endearing
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Kikaijima Mogana | The student council treasurer. (Medaka Box)
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Plus±Minus
Plus±Minus by CamRa
As he awoke from his catnap in the burnt rubble of his now former apartment, clinging onto his now forever dead mother figure, hacking up smoke and ash, Izuku Midoriya, or rather, Misogi Kumagawa's first thought was the anticlimax to the rather turbulent ride his (unbeknownst to him) father figure was currently putting him on.
「Ah. I'm being manipulated.」
Words: 2183, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Medaka Box
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Categories: Gen
Characters: Kumagawa Misogi, Midoriya Izuku, Ajimu Najimi, Bakugou Katsuki, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Hitoyoshi Zenkichi, Hatsume Mei, Yaoyorozu Momo, Uraraka Ochako, Sensei | All For One, Kurokami Medaka, Todoroki Shouto, Midoriya Inko, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Akune Kouki, Mogana Kikaijima, Iida Tenya, Kirishima Eijirou, Kaminari Denki, Hagakure Tooru, Monoma Neito, Asui Tsuyu, Aoyama Yuuga, Tokoyami Fumikage, Shiranui Hansode
Relationships: Ajimu Najimi & Kumagawa Misogi, Kumagawa Misogi & Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Kumagawa Misogi & Bakugou Katsuki, Kumagawa Misogi & Hitoyoshi Zenkichi, Kumagawa Misogi & Hatsume Mei, Kumagawa Misogi & Yaoyorozu Momo, Kumagawa Misogi & Uraraka Ochako, Midoriya Izuku & Uraraka Ochako, Midoriya Izuku & Yaoyorozu Momo, Hatsume Mei & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Kurokami Medaka & Kumagawa Misogi, Midoriya Izuku & Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Midoriya Izuku & Todoroki Shouto, Sensei | All For One & Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Sensei | All For One & Kumagawa Misogi, Hitoyoshi Zenkichi/Kurokami Medaka
Additional Tags: Midoriya Izuku is Kumagawa Misogi, Reincarnation, Ajimu Najimi is Alive, not telling exactly what happened to the other medaka box characters, that's what reading the fic is for, Dead Midoriya Inko, Abnormalities & Quirks, no stands tho wrong series, really? no character tags for akune or kikaijima?, i'm disappointed but that means i'm also breaking new ground so, I don't know how to feel about that, Kumagawa Misogi Has All Fiction, Kumagawa Misogi Has Hundred Gauntlets, Kumagawa Misogi Has Book Maker, Kumagawa Misogi Has Unskilled, Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, for most of the story at least, still roadmapping it but, Midoriya Izuku Has One for All Quirk, by the end probably, Sensei | All For One is Midoriya Hisashi, Sensei | All For One's Bad Parenting, Sensei | All For One Has a Minus, Flask Plan, Analytical Midoriya Izuku, Social Darwinism, and it's consequences, Original Character(s), only a few, BAMF Midoriya Izuku, he's kumagawa so it's inevitable
Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33687115
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Extremely Rare Dere Types in Anime
We weebs and otakus all know tsundere, yandere, kuudere, dandere, and deredere. Some may know kamidere, mayadere, oujidere/himedere, undere, and dorodere. However, there are dere types out there that most otakus have never even heard of, as they may be new.
All of these are from The Dere Types Wiki.
Bodere
Combine the violent nature of the tsundere with the shyness of the dandere. Bodere characters don’t know how to handle their embarrassment and so they use their fists instead of their words. The term derives from "bo", possibly derived from "bо̄gen wo haku" (暴言ぼうげんを吐はく, meaning "to rant"), and "deredere" (デレデレ) which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Mahiru Inami from Working!! and Hiyori Iki from Noragami.
Byoukidere
A byoukidere refers to a character who is usually very sweet and kind, but suffers from a physical disease, usually a fatal one. The term derives from the Japanese word "byouki" (病気びょうき), meaning "illness", and "deredere" (デレデレ) which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Nagisa Furukawa from Clannad and Kaori Miyazono from Your Lie in April.
Hinedere
A hinedere refers to characters who have cynical world views, are cold-hearted, and highly arrogant. Hinedere characters have a soft side deep down that may reveal itself after their love interest breaks through. This word is a compound of "hineru" (ひねる), which means "to twist", "to turn", "to puzzle over", and "to defeat easily", and "deredere" (デレデレ) which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Hachiman Hikigaya from My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected and Naofumi Iwatani from The Rising of the Shield Hero.
Darudere
A darudere refers to a character who is often very lazy and dull. They are nonchalant to those whom they love, but they do express emotions, just usually show no interest in those who like them. This word is a compound of "darui" (ダルい), which means sluggish, and "deredere" (デレデレ), which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Houtarou Oreki from Hyouka and Yin from Darker Than Black.
Hajidere
A hajidere refers to a character who is very nervous and embarrassed around their crush. They will constantly blush near their love interest, and might even faint from being so bashful. However, they can be social and outgoing in front of everybody else. This word is a compound of "haji" (恥はじ), which means embarrassment, and "deredere" (デレデレ), which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia and Nana Ebina from Himouto! Umaru-chan.
Megadere
A Megadere is basically obsessed with their love interest, but not in the insane way a yandere is. They constantly fangirl/fanboy over their love interest whenever they can, and might stalk them on occasion. The word "mega" from Megadere, comes from the English word "mega" which means big or huge and Deredere デレデレ which means "lovey-dovey".
Examples are Junta Azumaya from DAKAICHI and Juvia Lockser from Fairy Tail.
Nemuidere
A nemuidere refers to a character that spends much of his/her time sleeping. They are somewhat similar to the darudere, except they sleep a lot more, and sometimes show interest in the one they love. The term derives from the Japanese word nemui (眠���,) meaning "sleepy", and "deredere" (デレデレ) which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Shiki Maboro from Nanana's buried Treasure and Kumin Tsuyuri from Chuunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai!
Kanedere
A kanedere refers to a character who is attracted to others with money or status. They’re an equivalent of a gold digger. They often just care about how much money a person has, and nothing else. However, a true love can break their habit. This word is a compound of "kane" (金かね), which means "money", and "deredere" (デレデレ), which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Ami Kawashima from Toradora! and Mogana Kikaijima from Medaka Box.
Kekkondere
A kekkondere is someone who wants to get married right away, despite having only just met. They immediately decide when they meet someone that they're the right person for them, and starts planning their marriage. This word is a compound of "kekkon" (結婚けっこん), which means "marriage" and "deredere" (デレデレ), which means "lovey dovey".
Examples are Neko Fujinomiya from Masamune-kun no Revenge and Kaoru Hakaze from Ensemble Stars.
That’s all guys. I hope it wasn’t too long.
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The Fourth Box
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There's a psychological phenomenon known as the Capgras delusion.
It's when, one day, a person feels that their family member or friend has been switched out for an impostor—of course, this wasn't Lupin III, so there's no way that person's friend was switched out for someone else, but for whatever reason, they couldn't help but feel that way.
Even though they look the same on the outside, they seem different.
Even though they speak in the same way, they sound different.
Even though it's the same atmosphere, they feel different—that's the Capgras delusion.
If that's the case, then I, this Kurokami Medaka may have always—or perhaps, from the very beginning—felt that way towards my brother, Kurokami Maguro. Is this person really my brother? Is it really true that this person is my brother? That's how I felt.
Although, according to Zenkichi, my brother and I resemble each other.
"If you really hate Maguro-san, Medaka-chan, then I would think that's due to hating others that are similar to you. You probably don't want to recognize it, but personally the differences between you two are paper-thin. There's just barely a difference."
Just barely.
Well, rather than not wanting to recognize this opinion of Zenkichi's, it was more like I didn't recognize it at all, but the words "just barely", and those words only, seemed to be surprisingly fitting towards us siblings.
I didn't know about paper-thin, though.
Perhaps if that paper was twofold.
First off, I felt that my brother's existence was just barely on the edge, and secondly, the relationship between my brother and I was just barely on the edge—well, this was a story about after the collapse of Kumagawa Misogi's Student Council, after everything ended on that summer break, but I left my parents' home.
I left my parents' home, and I became independent.
Without taking a penny of the allowance provided by the Kurokami family, I began living independently—one of the big reasons that I entered Hakoniwa Academy was that, as a special scholarship student, I would be exempt from tuition fees.
What?
What did you say, Torai Kudaki?
You're saying that someone like me would be exempt from tuition fees in most schools?
Haha, it's an honor to be overestimated like that.
But that isn't true at all—because I was a bit of a problem child.
I was a problem child in both elementary school and in middle school—even if you took away the fact that I was a scholarship student, it's hard to believe that there would be any school to take me in but Hakoniwa Academy.
After all, Hakoniwa Academy's Class 13 is that sort of class.
That's what I think, anyway.
Incidentally, my brother had also been in Hakoniwa Academy's Class 13—just from that, you'll be able to find more similarities between my brother and I, but the bizarre aspect of my brother was that he quit that Class 13 partway through.
In other words, he dropped out.
And now, he works as the manager of the old school building.
If you think about it, it's quite the unreasonable life—there's no thought or consistency behind it. And if you add the fact that he worked as the Hakobune Middle School Student Council Executive Committee's secretary in his middle school days, then it really starts making no sense at all.
I don't really have any, you know?
Things that "make no sense at all", that is.
It seemed that they've been playing around again recently, but the intimate combination of Kumagawa Misogi and Kurokami Maguro was, from my point of view, something of a nightmare—no, not just to me, but to anyone who looked, it was something of a nightmare.
It might not click to anyone who only knows the present combination of my thornless brother and Kumagawa who's been mellowed out thanks to Tachiarai-senpai, but the combination of the past was something that was shocking and feared by the entire student body of Hakobune Middle School.
Well, at this point in time, I knew nothing of President Kumagawa or Secretary Maguro—but, well, it seemed quite appropriate to make my brother into the Secretary. As a magician who wields the magic known as analysis, my brother had been appointed with the role of record-keeper—however, I would only learn this after the fact, but this appointment had not actually been made by Kumagawa himself.
Kumagawa himself wasn't the kind of person to put the right person in the right place.
It was something I could tell from him appointing me as Treasurer.
Since, according to Zenkichi, I didn't have the disposition to be Treasurer at all—that's why, when I became the Student Council President at Hakoniwa Academy, I approached Kikaijima Mogana, a professional, for the Treasurer position.
Ah, I know.
Why don't I mention this, while I'm at it?
This isn't about Kikaijima Mogana, but about Akune Kouki—the relationship between Akune Kouki and Kurokami Maguro. The Hakobune Middle School's 66th Generation Student Council Executive Committee's Secretary, Kurokami Maguro, and the Hakoniwa Academy's 98th Generation Student Council Executive Committee's Secretary, Akune Kouki.
In terms of their personalities, it seemed they didn't mesh very well.
To be clear.
I'll get into the specifics later, but in the end, the number of people that my brother could "get along with" in terms of general values was surprisingly limited—even though he has such good manners and is always smiling, I guess everyone still feels something from him.
"That person," Akune Kouki had said.
Oh, this was something he said just the other day.
"Maguro-san doesn't seem to have any conception of good or evil—it might be natural for him as an analyst, but it seems like he only feels what he sees as he sees it. How should I put it? Perhaps I should say, he doesn't associate ideas with other ideas. For example, he may look at the sky and see that it's blue, but he won't think of it as pretty. Something like that. There's no doubt that he's not a bad person, but he's absolutely not a good person either—rather than good or evil, it's like he doesn't know right or wrong. That's the kind of person I think he is—and I imagine he's been like that in the past, as well."
Indeed.
As expected, he has an exceptional way of putting things—though that may be usual for him.
Of course, his way of looking at my brother wasn't exactly the same as mine, and if anything, I had some objections to his words from where I stood, but because he didn't know good or evil—because he had no conception of good or evil—perhaps that was why he was a good match for Kumagawa Misogi, who ruined both the good and the evil at the same time.
Although, that could also apply to Miyakonojou Oudo.
In the end, it seemed my brother could only get along with guys like those.
In other words—for me.
For a person like Kurokami Medaka, it seemed my brother wouldn't be able to get along with her for the rest of their lives.
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The Student Council office that my brother took me to was empty.
It seemed that the members wouldn't show up here on a regular basis after school—that was yet another difference between here and Hakoniwa Academy's Student Council. At this point, if I were to enumerate all the differences between Hakobune Middle School's Student Council and Hakoniwa Academy's Student Council, there would be no end to it.
It was harder to find the points they had in common.
Even though they both held the name of Student Council, perhaps it was better to think of them as completely different beings—in terms of animals, it would be as if their appearances were similar, but the genus or species was completely different.
There were animals that intentionally camouflaged themselves to look like other animals, though—with that in mind, I could come up with a new theory. The organization with Kumagawa Misogi at its summit was not a Student Council Executive Committee, but an organization that had simply camouflaged itself as such—well, that seemed more like something to come from President Kumagawa, but regardless of what was the truth, it was the same either way.
It was all in the past, anyway.
It wasn't as if anything would change if we tried to figure out the truth—although if there was something that would change, even the tiniest something that would change, I'm still not sure I would spare the effort to do so.
At any rate, there was no one in the Student Council office after school.
I'd been so sure that President Kumagawa would be there, so it felt a bit anticlimactic. I'd come expecting that it would be a conversation between President Kumagawa, my brother, and me—no, rather than anticlimactic, you could say I felt a sense of danger.
Just think about it.
It was just me and my brother in an otherwise empty room, you know?
I definitely felt a sense of danger at something like this—I wasn't the type of person to run from a battle, but a situation like this was something that made me want to run away.
But, I couldn't run away.
And I couldn't let my brother escape, either.
I had to ask.
"Why?"
I said.
Keeping my feelings in check—bracing myself, trying not to be conscious of the fact that the other person was family.
"Why are you doing something like being a member of the Student Council, onii-sama?"
"Why are you doing something like being a member of the Student Council, onii-sama?"
My brother repeated my words in an affected manner.
And he took his seat at a desk to the right, most likely the desk of the Secretary position.
"What a strange thing to ask, Medaka-chan."
"It isn't that strange. As your sister, I'm simply worried about my brother."
This was a big lie.
If anything, what I was worried about was Hakobune Middle School, in which my brother worked as a member of the Student Council. Yes, to be clear, at this point in time, I was more cautious about my own brother than of Kumagawa Misogi, commonly referred to as "the Minus that crawls from chaos".
I was cautious.
And I regarded him as dangerous.
Just between us, I've seen a lot of people up close, produced by my brother's analysis and gone astray—in terms of having caused people to go astray, I couldn't exactly speak ill of others, but in the case of my brother, it was worse because he caused people to go astray intentionally.
How should I put this—you've heard of the story "Yam Gruel", right?
It's a story about feeding as much yam gruel as possible to a person who likes yam gruel—in terms of ideas, what my brother is doing is fundamentally similar. How should I put it? It's like giving humans a disproportionate amount of power—I'm not sure if this is an appropriate comparison, but what do you think would happen if you used a time machine to go back a thousand years ago and gave the people there cell phones?
It's hard to predict what would happen, right?
It would certainly improve their level of civilization, but it's easy to realize that it won't be just good things that happen—there would definitely be things that are lost or broken. Progressing in one bound without following the proper order would surely cause a distortion somewhere.
My brother is a person that does things like that.
He ends up doing things like that.
That must be why he was employed as the supervisor of the Flask Plan—but, because he was nothing but that sort of person, I suppose I could praise my brother a bit for not getting swallowed up by the Flask Plan itself.
However, three years ago.
When I was in middle school, I didn't have the leeway to think those thoughts.
I didn't have a shred of the feelings of wanting to praise my brother—not a sliver. If anything, I held nothing but hostility towards him. Well... I'd like you to think that it was a difficult age for me.
As for the rest.
It would be my unreasonable... My excessive faith in my brother. Although it might sound a bit unnatural to suddenly bring up the word faith at this stage—but my feelings were such that I knew that he would not tremble in the slightest even if I went at him seriously, even if I hit him seriously.
Facing him with all his might.
That was what the sister thought was the correct way to handle her brother—and even now, I still do think that to some extent. Compared to his middle school days, my brother has mellowed out a bit, but some discretion is still necessary in regards to him.
"Worried, huh? Ah, I understand, Medaka-chan. You're always worried about your dearly beloved brother, aren't you?—but that's why what you're asking is so strange. After all, aren't you going to become a member of this very Student Council, too? I've heard from Kumagawa-kun."
"...I wouldn't have agreed to that invitation if I had known in advance that you were a member, onii-sama."
No.
Had I even agreed to his words in the first place?
Even if I had nodded along, had I truly agreed?
To be honest, it felt like it had gradually moved along in that direction until things were suddenly decided... Ultimately, it may seem as if I had decided it by myself, but how was it really?
"Onii-sama, were you also invited by President Kumagawa?"
"Mm, how should I explain it—how far should I explain it?"
"Well, right now, Medaka-chan, there are things that you should know and things that you shouldn't. For the sake of your future."
"Those are words that don't seem very like you—isn't it your principle to draw out 100% of your target's power?"
"I'm saying that there's information that could be bothersome in drawing out 100% of that power. For example, just because a baby has good muscles, you wouldn't start feeding it protein, right?"
"So am I a baby to you, onii-sama?"
"That wasn't what I was trying to say... You shouldn't snap at me like that. Although, if you want, you're free to bite at me for real."
In that way, my brother dodged the question.
This time wasn't particularly special. My conversations with my brother usually went like this—he would treat me like a kid, and he wouldn't respond to me decently.
That sort of behavior.
That brother of mine probably never once thought about how much it hurt me.
"Well, if you don't like that comparison, then I'll take it back. But with that, just know that I don't necessarily think that you joining the Student Council is a good thing, Medaka-chan."
That was what my brother said.
His expression was the usual grin.
Well, even if I said it was the usual, it might not get across to you—but at any rate, he did not sound particularly serious.
"If it's true that you wouldn't have joined the Student Council Executive Committee if you'd known that I was a part of it, then I really should have publicized that information—instead of hiding it."
"So you did hide it. I thought it was weird that I didn't know about something like that."
"Well, Medaka-chan, you don't have much interest in others, so even if I didn't hide it, I figure you wouldn't have known about it anyway."
"I don't have much interest in others? Don't say something so stupid. I was born to be of use to other people, to strangers."
"You're saying something pretty incredible, huh."
Ahaha, laughed my brother.
It was as if my words didn't reach him at all.
I can more or less understand my brother's state of mind as I am now, but at the time, it was nothing but aggravating. Why was it so hard to understand each other despite being siblings? Why were we so incompatible? That was what I thought.
Perhaps that was a part of my idealism.
That siblings should understand each other.
That they should be able to get along.
Because my mind was rooted in such thinking, when it didn't match the world, I felt a sense of discrepancy—I was living by carrying that sort of imaginary stress on my shoulders, so I can understand now why Zenkichi was worried about me.
Thinking about it, I do regret it.
If only I had realized three years ago.
If so, at the very least, I wouldn't have accepted President Kumagawa's invitation to become the Treasurer of Hakobune Middle School's Student Council Executive Committee.
"In that case, I was born to show love towards my little sister."
My brother laughed.
Though rather than laughing, it seemed more like he was ridiculing me.
"Medaka-chan. For you, how much does the world encompass?"
"Huh?"
I was bewildered at the sudden question.
Although, it was rare that I wasn't bewildered when it came to talking with my brother.
"What do you mean by that? The world?"
"Yes, the world. When you hear the phrase 'the world', Medaka-chan, where do you think that is? When you say the phrase 'the world', how many meters is the radius you're referring to?"
"......"
I couldn't figure out the intention behind his question.
It was probably some sort of psychology test, so it was probably something I could answer with whatever came to mind, but I could only assume that such things varied from time to time.
"...I don't really see a meaning to trying to perceive the range of the world, but if I have to answer, wouldn't the world refer to everything in this world? Basically—the greatest range possible. That's what I perceive as the world."
"As I expected. Since you are greedy, after all."
"Greedy?"
Yet another awful word.
Even for a lack of restraint around family members, it was pretty terrible.
"What about me is greedy?"
"Ultimately, the world is limited to the range which you can affect—so when you imagine everything in this world, that's no different from saying that you want to make everything in this world yours."
In my eyes, you're no different from a Great Demon Lord scheming for world domination, said my brother.
A Great Demon Lord, he said.
For lack of a better word, that was awful.
That was what I thought, but I learned afterwards that he was simply likening me to an RPG or some other game. It was an apt metaphor for my brother, whose hobby—or perhaps doctrine—was to raise the level of game characters to level 99, so to speak, but since I didn't have that level of knowledge about games, I didn't realize it.
"If we take it there, then Kumagawa-kun is different. He's the complete opposite of you, Medaka-chan."
"How is it different? The way he thinks, and the way I think?"
My state of mind wasn't exactly calm anymore, but I still wanted to hear my brother's opinion on the matter.
Kumagawa Misogi.
That unidentifiable, quite the unidentifiable boy. How had my brother analyzed him?—that was what I'd come to ask in the first place.
"Medaka-chan. If you're trying to conquer the world."
Without putting on airs, without trying to sound meaningful.
My brother spoke casually.
"Kumagawa-kun—wants to destroy the world."
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Mangas that I consider classics Part 3
The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior
After his parents transferred to a different location because of work, newly independent high school freshman Kazunari Usa moves into boarding house called the Kawaii Complex upon his mother's request. On an even higher note, Kazunari is going to be living under the same roof as his high school crush Ritsu (who is his senpai).
But what he did not realize was that the rest of the tenant are a bit “unique” to put it mildly. His male roommate, Shirosaki is novelist (and a pervert). As for the rest of the tenants who are all female, we have Mayumi who is a bodacious elder office lady, who is a crazy drunk and has terrible luck when it comes to love, and on the other side we have college student Sayaka, she might seem innocent but don’t be fooled by exterior image. Last but not least we have Ritsu who I said before is Kazunari’s crush but only social capacity she has is when she is reading novels.
After getting to know his fellow tenants, Kazunari was obviously petrified at first, but soon gets used to life at Kawaii Complex. I mean who wouldn’t get used to it when everyday is a literal adventure and slowly gets closes the relationship with his crush.
This manga was and still is comedy gold. Every chapter is just gets me excited to see what the tenants will do next. It’s also great how their reactions come to life on the page, not to mention the addition of the minor characters getting caught up in this groups crazy ways just sweetens the pot even further.
Mr. Fullswing
A great sports manga in the making! The story follows a 15 year old high school student Amakuni Saruno, who is desperately trying gain a girlfriend. But with his luck, all the girls that he confesses to are crushing on the athletic club students at his school. With all the frustrations that built up inside of him, he finally decides to join a sports team.
With the help of his friend Kengo Sawamatsu, they have checked off every sports club the school has to offer, that’s when Saruno finally meets Nagi Torii. After helping carry a couple of training equipment with her, he finds out that Nagi is actually manager to the baseball club. That’s when it hits Saruno to join the baseball club because ends up crushing on Nagi.
He later finds out at the tryouts that the only thing he is good at from the rest of the student trying out is that he can bat the ball ridiculously far. Thankfully in the last tryout challenge, he was able to make some comrades with Chounosuke Nezu (pitcher), Mei Inukai (pitcher), Pino Tomaru (second), Aoi Shiba (shortstop), Shinji Tatsuragawa (catcher), that form the core of a baseball team. In process, Saruno's team manages to pass the test with Saruno breaking the Muranaka record, hitting the school clock.
But even after passing the tryout, the bar keeps on being set higher with each challenge. Will Saruno be able to keep up to have the confidence in confessing to Nagi. Or will he bow out and regret even joining the baseball club in the first place.
Another ridiculously funny manga to read. The artwork is rough but thats what makes it so charmful.
Bakuman
Mashiro Moritaka is a talented high school artist who has no sense of direction when it comes to making big decisions about his future. Then one day he is confronted by one of his classmates Akito Takagi. Surprised as Mashiro was by Takagi taking an interest him, what really caught him off guard was the fact that he wanted to co-author in a manga together!
Even after Takagi tried to convince him the first time, Mashiro considered “mangaka” to be a trigger word. The reason was because of how much he respected his uncle who was mangaka himself. Sadly his uncle fell under the stress and pressure of being one and killed himself in the process.
Later on Takagi calls Mashiro saying that he is in front of his crushes house about to tell her Mashiros feeling. He then runs out the door to her house in fit of mixed emotions. When he gets there and sees her, he decided to make biggest choice of his life and tell her that he will be a mangaka. He also promises her that when he finally becomes big in the industry he would propose to her with no regret. Feeling the passion his crush confesses about her dreams of becoming an anime voice actress, and also makes the same promise!
Thanks to this youthful promise, Mashiro and Takagi go to his uncle's abandoned apartment and start creating manga with the motivation to actually be successful. And finally after being denied several mangas that they created from the company, they were publish their very first manga series!
This is one of the first five mangas that I read. I still remember being a freshman in highschool and reading this manga for the first time. I thought to myself that this was a great real life experience to learn. About the industry. About the commitment and patients it takes to finally get a bite in publishing a series. I also thought to myself that when I am finally confident in my own artwork and story telling that I would try and start publishing my own series no matter how long or tiring it took. Even if it is just one manga series I would be proud to have done that at least once in my life.
Medaka Box
Imagine if pandora's box was outright made into a Japanese manga series. Because that what Medaka Box is all about!
Following along in the perspective Zenkichi Hitoyoshi who is childhood friends with charismatic and attractive Medaka Kurokami. As both are the first ever first-years to become the president (Medaka) and vice-president (Zenkichi) of the student council at Hakoniwa Academy. On Medakas first day as president, she institutes a ‘suggestion box’ to help with any school problem no matter how dumb it is. Along the way she gains more people to join her in her cause to making their school a better place. With their newly acquired members called Kouki Akune and Mogana Kikaijima.
But as the story become more peaceful their school brings out a whole dark secret that not even Medaka could see coming! It seems the school has been holding dark secrets which leads Medaka, Zenkichi, and the rest to fight off genius superhumans called the ‘Abnormal’s,’ find underground lab experiments and more!
After the whole incident with the ‘Abnormal’s,’ Medaka steps down from her seat as president and decides to have as much as a high school student as she can. Sadly those peaceful days were disrupted by another huge problem that has to deal with Medakas future.
This manga has so many overpowered character that the fight scenes become god level! I love the fights, I love the characters connections to each other! I love how Zenkichi is probably the most overpowered character in this entire even though he is as average as they come. Definitely a home run with his manga series.
Cage of Eden
When a plane trip from Guam returning people home to Japan, something unexpectedly supernatural happens and the plane crashes.
Protagonist Akira who was suppose to be home the next morning from his class vacation to Guam, wakes up in a jungle by himself! After coming to term with what happend and being thankful that he is alive more than anything, he comes to terms about how the plane crashed onto an uncharted island in the middle of the ocean.
He then follows a path that leads him to where the plane crashed last in hopes of finding his friends, classmates and mostly his childhood crush. After reaching the sight he find no one there and one dead pilot. Akira at this point is about to lose all hope. That is until he finds a recording thats fills in the situation as to happened while he was knocked out. At first he was ecstatic cause he found out the most of the passengers survived. But as he keeps watching he finds that the passengers were being attacked from creatures in the dark. This attack led all the passengers to scatter across the island! What’s more is that those creatures that attacked were prehistoric animals!
This was the first thriller survival manga that I read. At first when I read it I could not handle the realistic death scenes that were being drawn in the manga. So it actually took me three time of re-reading this manga from the very beginning to actually appreciate what this magaka was trying to portray. And man was the storyline so good! The only reason why I was able to have the courage to finish this manga, was because my curiosity. I could hear at the back of my head just knocking on the door shouting “HEY WHAT'S HAPPENING! I NEED TO KNOW THE ANSWERS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING!”
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Kumagawa and Kikaijima junk.
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wizard
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I think Mogana is my favorite
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One of my favorite translations from Ajimu’s skills is for Death Swimming, the water combat skill: “Kikaijima does not want to fight against this skill.”
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“I’m not afraid of danger. I’m afraid of being left behind.”
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