(G) Edition by Mizuki Kawashita

I've got the 'I should have watched that movie in the theater' regret right now, its pretty heinous. Also I saw a commercial for Uncharted 4 and had a fit of fangirling. I foresee a lot of money being spent in my future due to these two. *sigh* Also, its starting to get hot, yuck.


(G) Edition (G-Maru Edition) by Mizuki Kawashita

Art and story (c) Mizuki Kawashita

Genre: Shonen, Ecchi
Length: 2 Volumes – 16 Chapters


           The art is sufficiently cute and, uh, fleshy. The characters are cute and a fun mix.

The hair looked a little odd from time to time but it was mostly in only one hair style that those problems came out. The eyes are a little generic, but the expressions have a lot of variation and feeling in them. The clothes have an interesting look, and they have a lot of detail from character to character, too, even though all three of the main characters just wear school outfits. The “mascot” character though, he was a little incomprehensible in a way, and he honestly just reminded me of Sgt. Frog designs instead of something original. The backgrounds are there and the action covers up some of the more blank panels. Its professional and well made, but not really that excitingly unique.
          Aruto Kaburagi is a high school student with a passion for making shojo manga, and though she isn't a professional yet she knows she'll make it one day. Then, one evening after school, she comes home to her room warping and a voice announcing an arrival. What pops out isn't human in the slightest, but claims he is from a hundred years in the future where Aruto's manga is his favorite and he just had to meet her. Except that he isn't a fan of Shojo manga at all, but claims that Aruto is famous for Ero (adult, pornographic, another word for hentai) manga??
            Just like one of the other gratuitous manga I reviewed, Zero In, this is that type of manga that panders to boys with many butt and chest shots, and that really isn’t my thing, but the genre does have several things going for it that make a few worth the read. This particular manga really was amusing, and I enjoyed the slapstick humor, if not the random nudity that made me worry if anyone was looking over my shoulder. Also, the story is

amusing by itself so it holds the interest okay for what it is. But that doesn't mean there wasn't plenty to dislike, either. I already mentioned the “male” lead in the story, and how his design wasn't really interesting, and he had a joke that when he gets excited his head grows, but I really didn't notice much of a difference unless I was really trying to. He was mostly a Doraemon joke that lasted two volumes. The worst and most stereotypical part, something Zero In didn't have which was why I liked it so much, is the fact that there isn't a real plot. The main character doesn't want to be an ero mangaka, the mascot character gets a silly device out of his hat to try and convince her to. There is a little deviation, and it is all funny but the characters do not advance, really. I've probably ragged on lots of manga already for this problem, and I bet most of my low scores are due to this problem too, but not having a story line that keeps the plot moving and the characters growing sort of makes the whole time spent reading pointless in the end. At least in my opinion. In G-Maru's case, in the end the emotions are just kind of shoehorned in at the end and then everything goes back to normal. It was amusing and well drawn but I didn't really connect with the characters because they stayed the same the whole time. There is a fandom for this type of silly, non-involving manga but I just don't see the point in it most of the time.



2/5 Funny but not really involving in any way.