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REVIEW: Tactics GN 3

In the first story, for example, we learn that the “curse” is actually the fault of a girl who is trying to save her twin sister's life by killing all the men in any way involved with said sister.

This review is terrible. Firstly, the reviewer has nothing but bad things to say about the story, and then rates the story with a "B"? Wha -? Perhaps the reviewer is unaware that a "B" generally indicates moderately good work?

Secondly, the reviewer is judging this series against particular genre standards that Tactics never set out to fulfill. If you are looking for adventure, why would you be reading a comedic supernatural mystery series? Tactics has action, of course, but action is not nor was ever intended to be the core of the series. If you're looking for action and adventure, go read an action/adventure series. There are plenty out there, to be sure. The rest of us enjoy a change from non-stop fights and level-ups now and then. It would seem that the reviewer has a preconception that supernatural anime/manga are supposed to be mainly action oriented. The reviewer has apparently never been exposed to the likes of Mushishi, Natsume Yuujinchou, and other quiet, whimsical works with a folklore-ish flare, which have even less action than Tactics.

Thirdly, the reviewer has a problem with the fact that the robot-dog-from-the-future segment is, how should we say, coked-out insanity. That segment is an omake. Omakes are generally supposed to be, you know, funny? It was never intended to be taken seriously. (I suppose this reviewer, upon seeing the "Granny-a-Go-Go" omake from Blue Seed, would think that they creators intended the audience to think that the protagonist's grandmother really goes out to night-clubs in tiny skirts and flings her mile-long breasts around on the dance floor.)

Lastly, I'd like to point out that the reviewer should probably check his or her facts before stating that hints of an ongoing plot are most likely meaningless. As a matter of fact, volume four is where said ongoing plot really gets going. Whether that plot is well written or not is another matter altogether, but it is there, no doubt.

In sum, shoddy review is shoddy, so forth, et cetera. It's pretty bad form to give a bad review because a title doesn't succeed at something it was never trying to succeed at.

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In the first story, for example, we learn that the “curse” is actually the fault of a girl who is trying to save her twin sister's life by killing all the men in any way involved with said sister.

SPOLIER ALERT: spoiler[Isn't this the plot of Mike Myers' So I Married an Axe Murderer?]

Tactics is a lot better than any number of mindlessly similar shojo titles full of annoying female leads too fricken dense to figure out the hot guy wants her/she loves him/or whatever else drags on for too many volumes.