Monday 17 July 2017

Arasa Quest (first impression)

 
 
Author: Shiro Amano
Alternative title: Around Thirty Quest, アラサークエスト
Type: Manga
Status: Ongoing (2 chapters out)
Tags: comedy, fantasy, seinen, adventure, romance, parody

Five virgin adventurers are traveling in fantasy world having a lot of fun. Bare, 32 year old virigin, is trying to find her Mr. Right but it could be problematic due to her own hilarious personality.
Well there are not much chapters out but so far it's intriguing. Each woman has different traits and they work pretty well together. So far story was more about Bare who is obsessed with finding a guy. This could actually be a pretty nice theme for comedy manga.
Art is bit plain and clean, but puts a lot of effort into exaggeration of facial expressions, which is actually good for parody theme.
First chapter felt slightly flat with jokes for me but little perverted second one was really good. If it would continue like this it could be pretty awesome because it manages perverted jokes very well (it's not easy to deliver a perfect perverted joke, lot of them just feel stupid or childish but look at Gintama, that's a good example of hilarious and perverted jokes!).
Definately depends on your sense of humour. If you laugh, read it, if not consider reading two or three more chapter and then decide...

My rating: 7,5/10
First chapter wasn't exceptional for me but second one did a really good job. Humour really needs to be my exact type or it's not worth it in comedy/parody manga

Reading value
Going to read few more chapters to see if it has my kind of humour. If so I will probably stick with it, because there is no enough hilarious manga. If not there is no point in reading it because it can be pretty boring if you don't laugh at jokes you are supposed to...

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