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Manga Monday Ep 120: Kill Blue Manga Review / Weird Science Manga & Anime

June 5, 2023·59 min·5 clips

A panda-masked deviant exposes himself to schoolgirls in a manga chapter that pushes boundaries.

The premise lands with an easy sell: hitman action shoved into school life. The hosts sound ready for it. Then the chapter gets hazy, and the question becomes less whether it is bad than whether it gives anyone a reason to come back. Luke gets there first. To him, it reads like a one shot, and that ends up being the problem they cannot leave alone. If the first chapter already feels finished, what is the next chapter supposed to chase? So they start fixing it out loud. Their better version is a bodyguard job, with the hero hiding at school because a daughter, an idol, or a television star needs cover. That gives the setup a job to do. A regular bodyguard blows the disguise, so he has to pass as a friend and get dragged through the classroom nonsense. Now the jokes have somewhere to go. They want more out of the popular girl angle and the nerdy kid angle, but the best bit is still the hero folding the moment money shows up. He says he hates kids and will not go back to school. Payment enters, and suddenly he can make peace with it. Nakata gives them another toy with the headpiece, which sounds like it should be Cyrano coaching and instead mostly turns into insults. They wish the tech got dumber: bad slang in the earpiece, the undercover student mangling every phrase, and the whole plan getting worse by the minute.

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A hitman-school setup gets pushed until it either earns a next move or runs out of road.

Luke Hollywood and his co-host spend the episode worrying at a setup that promises hitman action and school chaos, then keep pressing on whether the story has anywhere left to go.

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You get a skeptical read on a hitman-school setup that keeps drifting into confusion.

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