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REVIEW: Black Bird GN 1

Of the three major Japanese manga publishers, Shougakukan has been struggling the most of late in the shoujo manga genre. They simply do not have anything on the order of Kodansha's Nakayoshi or Shuueisha's Ribon.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the cover makes it look like he's raping her??

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the cover makes it look like he's raping her??

Is it just me, or has Casey been pretty generous with grades lately? Anything not Tezuka that she has reviewed seems to be getting A's and B's.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the cover makes it look like he's raping her??

Casey has always been generous towards smutty stuff, even more for BL smutty stuff. I've read enough of her reviews that I can generally tell when I'll agree with her (with my recent mistake trusting her on Tsubasa being an exception) or whether she's doing her frequent hyperbole, declaring anything she likes an "instant classic" or a masterpiece and disparaging anything she doesn't like until it's eating dirt. Like all reviewers, you need to read her articles regularly so you can get a feel whether her tastes will match yours.

Oh, I already know that her reviews aren't for me (I have zero interest in most of the stuff she reviews and even when I do I almost always disagree with her). It's just that her constant high grades really stick out, when compared to other manga reviews on the site. Giving B's for stuff that even by her own admission is average devalues the grade and the grading system.

This is a manga I am definitly not checking out. How could anyone want to read garbage like this?

By the way, I just noticed this review, along with Honey Hunt 2 and Sand Chronicles 3-5, were published weeks or even months before the items become available to general public.