...then walk away right now. The two protagonists and their courtship is shoujo through and through, but pretty much everything else about this manga will appeal more to a horror-mystery fan than to the average shoujo romance fan, which is hardly surprising considering who the original author is. 2g5p3f

I'll address a few complaints I've noticed people bring up time and again:

(1) "Too much information...

...that the comments are being dominated by Yamamoto Kotetsuko fans who didn't realise the author is Ono Fuyumi, and therefore expected something completely different from what Sugiru Juunana no Haru has to offer. So let me start out by saying this: the author and the artist deal with two completely different styles and genres of story-telling. Ono Fuyumi is an acclaimed writer of supernatural...

Unlike most horror stories, which rely solely on gore to provide "entertainment," the deaths in Book Club have a fairly intriguing mystery behind them that's revealed at an acceptable pace. The plot's not worthy of a good quality detective story, no, but it's interesting enough to save this manhwa from falling into the cesspit of mediocrity that is most of the horror genre. I was actually quite...

The plot itself is quite good -- much better than one usually expects from a horror manga, especially when both books (One Missed Call 1 & 2) are read together. VampireBanana, below, complains about characterisation, but... Honestly, what horror story wastes (the writer's and the readers') time on expounding upon the characters' pasts and future dreams when they're all going to be killed off at...

The plot itself is quite good -- much better than one usually expects from a horror manga, especially when both books (One Missed Call 1 & 2) are read together. The plot twists were unpredictable and I love how the ghost(s) weren't redeemed in the end, despite their backstory.

In a sense, I really loved the art style, with it's high-contrast drawings and it's pretty -- but not flowers-and-sparkles...

While Fuan no Tane was appealing largely only due to its non-traditional approach to horror storytelling, Fuan no Tane + manages to retain the characteristic style of the original while providing better scares, mostly because the ghosts/monsters in this series are actively malicious whereas those in its predecessor rarely were. Some of the chapters link to previous stories as well, and it was...

This is the kind of manga I'd usually enjoy; insane, twisted characters, a good bit of fighting and killing, no annoying romance or lovestruck teenagers...

But I didn't enjoy Rinjin 13 Gou. It simply did not manage to live up to what I expected of a story dealing with dissociative personality disorder as a result of childhood trauma. The actions of most of the cast were, more often than not, quite...

...is the ultra-realistic portrayal of human reaction to disasters, whether natural or man-made. Other than that it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

I understand the message the mangaka was attempting to convey, but that in no way justifies 250+ pages of death, destruction and misery, with little to no narrative thread and an absolute dearth of storyline, coherent or otherwise.

If this were...