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Good manga, 9.5/10, rounded down. The scope of worldbuilding in "Ascendance of a Bookworm" is what every fantasy manga should strive for. It kinda fails in the details - for example, the german words used for things like spells and wands are pretty haphazard - but the scope of it is proper...

Not bad, I give it 8/10 so far. The MC is a veteran of 4.75 years adventuring, mentoring a team of newbie highschool girls. This is the usual Dungeon RPG Apocalypse genre, but unlike many others, this manga takes itself seriously and tries to have things play out realistically. Things like...

Now I want to read a manga following the Hero Party where a subplot is that the Hero kinda wants to exile his all-rounder best friend who handles the paperwork from the party, but is smart enough to realize how badly things would turn out, so he just... doesn't. And then they have to talk about...

OK, this is really weird, but I can't say it's not novel, so... Might as well let this play out and see what happens. I'm so sick of manga rehashing each-others' plots, so I can't complain too much when they attempt something new and crazy. Maybe the next mangaka copying this will execute the...

Mmmmh. It's kind of a 7/10, but I just don't buy the premise. If these were healthy, fertile women, men who wooed them would have a lot of children, who would end up changing the population's preferences just through evolution. One resolution is that if women typically die at 45, then at 30...

Agreed, about half the Isekai slaves could be contracted workers with magical NDAs, and the story would not change significantly. This weird half-state is diluting the concept of slavery and making it seem more acceptable...

Mmmm, not bad, I give it 7.5/10, rounded up. This is an isekai, but not a cookie-cutter one. There are some interesting and memorable characters - the MC's helper guide has an actual personality - and there's an understanding of context and shades of grey that many isekais lack. The MC is...

Hm, not bad at all. I rate it 8/10, with potential for more. The protagonist is an unusual combination of cynical and easy-going. He's been downtrodden so much that he just has no shame anymore, he simply rolls with everything. Like, when the androgynous royal wizard flirts with him, the MC...

Eugh. I give this one 5.5/10, rounded up. I can tell the author just hasn't put 'realism' in his list of priorities, at all. I'm not asking a lot, just... Look, if you have super speed, you're going to forget that you have super speed exactly once, cause a small disaster, and then you train...

So far, I give this a 9/10, possibly more if the author sticks the ending. Van and Ryuuka are childhood friends with great chemistry, and like to see each-other regularly. Problem is, Ryuuka is the final boss of the local Dungeon, and in order to see her, Van must conquer that Dungeon's 40-some...

This is nice! I got hit out of the left field twice in one chapter!

Those are weird metaphysics. Magically summoned ice disappears again... unless you melt it? Meaning there are two effects: first "summon ice" and then "banish ice" on a timer... That kind of slapdash system bug exploit implies this is actually a Matrix-type setting. ...Well, it does have RPG...

Mmmm, not bad, 7.5/10, rounded up to 8 because it had a decent ending. Fairly interesting premise, does some neat things, doesn't take too long to finish. I would kinda want it to feel more connected, though. Maybe the webnovel is better, there's 5 novel chapters per 1 manga chapter, so the...

Not bad, but the artist is a bit lacking. The MC's spider monster is supposed to be big enough that she can ride it to town while it's dragging along about ten cocooned monsters. That's why she's getting a pile of magic stones back from the dismantler, and why she has to rent a large room to...

This rates an 7.5/10, rounded up. The author is clever enough to add some novel twists to the story, put in some "if x and y then logically z", that makes it stand out as decidedly above average. Like, the MC actually looks back at their life and goes "That sucked. I guess being a genderbent...

I give this a 6.5/10, rounded down. "Urk" must be the worst name for a female love interest in a non-parody story. And that actually points to the main problem of this manga: It's not a parody. Everything is overexaggerated, but it's just not funny, because hypercompetent MCs who are...

I always feel it's weird when otherworlders try coffee and immediately like it; coffee tastes like ass. The smell is OK, but the taste is like bitter putrid mud IMO. People like it because they gain benefits like decreased tiredness, and if you're ingesting something without harm long enough...

It makes sense to use a pillar as long as she can magically reinforce it not to fall apart. A steel beam would probably be even better. When it comes to transferring pure force to your enemies, something big and heavy is hard to beat. Usually, muscles have a maximum speed, and once you've...

Hm, it's not bad... I give it 7.5/10, rounded up. You've got the basic OP cute girl alchemy protagonist, uplifting her home country's tech level all on her lonesome. It's not a total cookie cutter, though, there are some novel things going on. You can tell the author is decently smart, they...

This manga is... OK. Probably like 6.5/10, rounded down. The art is kind of meh, and using cgi monsters doesn't improve it. The pacing feels off, often I scroll quickly through a chapter and go "huh, barely any plot progression in this one either". I vaguely remember the book being better...