Reviews for Jagaaan

Well! Like the man before, I started to read Jagaaaaaan since his first chapter, it's very great! The draw, the universe is good! It's so cool to see how the mangakas introduce a situation, it's very powerfull and rythmed! You need to read it! They are such details for faces expressions and the powers of the fractured humans. Such beautiful things in a powerfull manga! Maybe the scenarios is not very "original" because the protagonist need to meet others transformed humans like him but I'm so impatient. I look forward to seeing how they will look at future arcs and new developments! Read it!

(This review will contain spoilers.) Jagaaaaan had the potential to be one of the greatest seinen series ever made, with a very accessible set-up, an unconventional protagonist, and some absolutely fantastic yet grotesque artwork, the first fifty-four chapters of the series are very highly recommended. The scenarios in which the powers are distributed to humanity and what humanity does with said powers are just as disturbing and realistic as can be, which makes for quite the unpredictable ride. But this isn’t a review of the first fifty-four chapters. This is a review of the whole series, and as a whole, Jagaaaaan takes your enjoyment and timeand throws it out the window.

Immediately after killing off 70% of the cast by the mid-point, the series takes a nosedive so spectacular it makes you wonder why you started reading the series in the first place. The artwork in particular, is the first thing you’ll make note of. I’m not sure if it’s because the artist lost a few assistants or what, but Nishida’s artwork becomes more and more sketch like, with far less grotesque detail and more same-face syndrome. The late game chapters in particular begin to lack details such as backgrounds, accumulating in our first big downgrade. Speaking of downgrades, time to meet some more characters! We meet Yadori, a delivery man who hates himself, absorbs a woman named Ari and becomes her, transforming from a envious male into a female that is envied by all. Sounds pretty interesting right? We’ll come back to her later.

The protagonist is introduced to Takemitsu Mikazuchi, a cold-cop who chews pencil lead and takes over as the deuteragonist from this point on while the series becomes a serial cop vs. fractured human of the week series for a dozen chapters. Jagasaki goes from a homicidal narcissist to an edgy bi-polar loser who constantly flip flops from wanting to kill himself to wanting to kill everyone else around him to a cinnamon roll shonen protagonist who just wants to protect his hot new cop girlfriend. THEN, the series switches gears once again and we are introduced to Deader Land, a Halloween/horror based theme park that seems like a short arc in the grand scheme of things.

Believe it or not, this is where a good chunk of the rest of the story is going to take place/have stakes on. The leader of Deader Land is a fractured human named Nomans Nomen (????), a business man and founder who wishes to turn his theme park into a nation that can grant anyone’s wishes. Also by his side is Tengu, an edgy swordsman who’s there to look cool and fight Jagasaki when needed, but his character doesn’t extend beyond that. It is also here that Mikazuchi betrays our protagonist and becomes The Black Oni, an edgy swordsman who’s there to look cool and fight Jagasaki when needed, but his character doesn’t extend beyond that. Hey wait….

Oh, and also Chiharu, our main antagonist who hasn’t appeared for literally over 30 chapters, was undercover here as a tour guide and then decides that he wants to ally himself with the hero because “humans are interesting” and all that.

So within 10 chapters,

We are introduced to our new main antagonist with no backstory.

Our former main antagonist is demoted by betraying our new main antagonist to become Jagasaki’s uneasy partner in crime.

And our former partner in crime Mikazuchi betrays our protagonist to serve our new main antagonist.

If this sounds stupid and confusing as all hell, not to worry, we still have about 50 chapters more to go. Characters no longer function on development or rhyme or reason and instead become vehicles and functions for edgy one-liners and people for our protagonists to fight. Gone are the morally grey characters of old, and are in its space are these losers who trudge around and feel bad for themselves. Did we really need 2 evil swordsmen with historical motifs for Jagasaki to fight when there’s not a single thing that splits them apart besides their names?

You could possibly be wondering at this point, “Oh well what about Yadori? They got introduced before all these sword guys, maybe she’s up to something interesting.”

Nah, she just gets fucked. In both the literary sense and the physical sense.

Because Yadori as a man was envious that he wasn’t a “main character”, as a woman he throws his sexuality around to get a what she wants/discover herself. Normally, this would not be an issue if the character was better written, but it’s taken to such virile extremes that sex becomes her only purpose in the story, and for trans character not only is that not a good look, but it’s such a massive waste of a character that every single time it cuts to her, a voice in your head goes.

“Yup, this chapter’s gonna have a sex scene isn’t it.”

Yadori gets raped, blackmailed, fucked in public, fucked on the deck of an apartment, and has an entire conflict of a chapter based around whether or not she can make a dude cum from her titfuck in order to distract him while she hacks a terminal. None of this is played for laughs. Whatever foundation for the character was laid for her within the first couple of chapters of her appearance is thrown out the window in favor of cheap softcore pornography and as a result does nothing for the story, serving as another checkmark for the author to cross off.

After this very public Dead Lands arc, Norms decides he wants to run for government and despite all of the atrocities he’s committed, everybody is totally cool with it and gives him all the media attention he could possibly want while he climbs the ranks. Sure.

Hang in there though, because the series still isn’t through introducing shitty side characters, and because the villains still outnumber our heroes 3 to 2, we need another hero to balance things out. Enter Yukimaru, an edgy cat-twink who wants revenge for the death of his grandfather due to fight that occurred between Jagasaki and Tengu at Deader Land. Appearance-wise, he is basically untellable from Tengu. He joins Jagasaki under the condition that he can kill him when this is all said and done, and our protagonist agrees with literally no pushback. Because if he doesn’t give a fuck why should we? Not that it matters, cuz Yukimaru first shows up at chapter 103, and with a screen-time of 25 chapters, it’s just as hard to care about him as we do for our remaining cast. He also fucks Yadori, so I guess to his credit he serves 2 purposes instead of 1, so that’s a plus I guess?

From here, the series chugs through its remaining 30 chapters with crappy monologues about the human condition, what it is to live, fight scenes, and cum. Some characters get redeemed only to get killed off immediately after, some characters get fake-out deaths only to immediately be revealed to be alive right after, and in the case of Chiharu (remember him? Our former main antagonist?) he gets killed off only to be revealed to be alive within the FINAL TWO PAGES OF THE SERIES. The series ends with the status quo not changing whatsoever, Jagasaki is now pretty much well-put together and has a happy relationship with his new cop girlfriend, such a happy relationship in fact that we get to see them fuck in the pen-ultimate chapter! Great! The series basically ends the same way it starts but with worse art and a worst cast to boot. If I could rate in parts/arcs, the first fifty-three or so chapters of the series are an easy 9/10 for me. But a review has to encapsulate a series as a whole, and as a series, Jagaaaaan just crashes and burns far too early on for it to be worth the experience. Do yourself a favor and just look up some panels on google images, it’d be more satisfying experience than the one I took to read this.

so i walked into the bookstore and asked for a seinen recommendation, this was what the store clerk handed me and after reading the first volume i just couldn't stop. jagasaki is a really relatable character, facing the troubles of the world and learning to get by and live his life, but that doesn't mean it's a fulfilling one. the constant dreams of changing his life around, quitting his job, living an extraordinary life instead of a common one if a really relatable sentiment. as the plot thickens and the world around him changes drastically we get to see him evolve as a person and learnto make compromises to be able to reach his goal.

the art is impeccable, which is to be expected of such a well produced seinen. the art really goes well with the story and is pretty clean but messy when it wants to be. the manga does have some gore and nudity that is pretty detailed so if you can't handle these things i don't recommend it, howeverrr if you can handle such things i really recommend it!! the characters are really well written and lovable even in tense situations or fight scenes. it's truly a 10/10 and a really enjoyable reading experience

Keeping it real, the first 67 or so chapters of Jagaan are some of the best written chapters out there. 9/10 Read. Unfortunately, after this point the manga becomes complete dogwater. Straight up. How it's written, plot design, character motivation, even how its drawn- everything seems to fall off after the aforementioned point. If you are planning on reading this manga, please don't be surprised when everything suddenly takes a turn for the not good. The fact that this series started out so strong makes it hurt that much more. I still firmly believe you should give it a read and formulate your own opinionon it.

Just pathetic. Imagine if you mixed a good premise with inspiration from Parasite and Gantz and simply ruined it because you are terrible at writing narratives and characters, and yet you leave your sick fetishes so visible in the story that it makes anyone embarrassed to read it. I read all those 163 chapters thinking they could still have a decent ending, but no. Just disappointing and a waste of time. I could still say the art style is good, but it feels lazy in the pacing of the series. Also, there's a character in the beginning of the story that makes everything worse, andthose who read know who I am talking about (and if you think this is a good character although it's a villain, please seek help and I mean it).

* some degree of spoiler in this review * I've been reading Jagaaaaaan for about 2 years now, and let me tell you, if you're looking for one hell of a premise, interesting protagonist development, questioning your morals, a lot of psycho faces and a buch of weirdos plus an owl, then mate Jagaaaaaan is for you. Worth mentioning the plot has a bit of disturbing scenes such as harass, gore and sex (you'll know if you know). Also worth mentiong there's like 0 censor in this one. So what sticks out in this manga, is its art, wonderful art throughout the whole work, the somewhat uniquestyle and faces set the ambient for a gory and more mature oriented story, it revolves around the inner desires of humans, our strongest desires, our deepest desires, that fracture us ever so slowly.

Jagasaki our protagonist is the very embodiment of this idea, working as cop and being frustrated with his current life, unti an accident happens one day and from there, mate is one hell of a ride.

In Jagaaaaaan story what takes place is a chaotic setting, with lots of gore and morally questioning events using a bit of psychologal aspects to spice it things up a bit, in a rollercoaster of events the development of the protagonist is outstandingly well done.

But what stinks in the history so far, is that it doesn't seem to have a clear path, first we were lead to believe the goal was one thing, then something else, and finally it seems like it acutally settled in a more stable path, though it seemed the same earlier.

Each and every character has unique feelings and vibes, they also fracture in different ways, that's the general idea after all. There are dislikable characters (there's a major hateful one around chapter 20, be advised) and even they, are extremely well done.

The enjoyment in this one is massive, be it the hype for some action scene or just the sheer emotions that can flow or even Doku-chan (our owl) just being wholesome and stupid.

Putting it bluntly, not all might enjoy Jagaaaaaan, but those who enjoy, are in for an awesome ride as the story progresses so does Jagasaki and his understandings of the current situation, as well as the introduction of characters pretty interesting and a lot of action that flows around its gory premise, my score is a strong 9/10 for this one.

Now I don't tend to be harsh, but I'm scratching why people praise this when I see everything wrong in storytelling. Now Jagaaaaaan is a series developed with Muneyuki Kaneshiro, who is well-known as the author of Blue Lock, a wholesome standard battle shonen about soccer. Still, no one knows his edgy Parasyte ripoff, which tends to be a battle shonen or Tokyo Ghoul. Jagaaaaan starts as a police officer named Shintarou Jagasaki, who does his regular job being a cop with his sidekick Clarabelle Kawamoto. Until then, suddenly, he gets powers where his arm becomes freakazoid and works as a weapon. Now this thingisn't an original topic since we've seen this in Parasyte, Tokyo Ghoul, etc., but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing if you manage to make it well-written, but the problem is it isn't.

The whole plot goes like a standard "Monster of the Week" where Jagasaksi is in front battling these weird creatures and then discovering more people to become a team with him to fight them. Where it just gets boring since I just see cool drawn fights with copious amounts of fucking gore. I have no problem with that unless it gets too repetitive, where it's just there to carry the story seen there.

Also, let's not forget the sex scenes too! I'm not much insensitive to it, but I got annoyed since the sex scenes were just there for forced drama between characters or to be a fetish show from the mangaka. I thought this was just a hentai manga with a plot and gore the entire time!

Jagasaki is just a worse cuckold version of Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul. He is such a lousy anti-hero.

Most villains are just there to be edgy and evil, and their motivations aren't even revealed!

There is a character that merges with a female and becomes a female, and that character is just there to be a sex device since we've seen her being raped, fucked in many locations, or even by the villains lol.

The original team of fractured humans is so bland, and the only thing interesting is that they have sex and help Jagasaki to fight the monsters, and then they die after like 60 chapters. I forgot their names because ffs they are so forgettable.

Then after Chapter 70, it turns into GANTZ-type wild, but not in a good way.

The cast of the team just gets killed off, and then a new antagonist where teams up with a fucking The Warden from Deadman's Wonderland to use the power of arm fuckery to make an everyone's dream come true. Ok, that sounds fucking stupid. Then now, after the following 20 chapters, he decides to fucking take over the world. How it jumps the shark 2 TIMES!

We have the businessman and two edgy swordsmen as bodyguards. One manages to betray our hero, then he is outnumbered 3 to 2, and then we balance it out with another antagonist who is just there to help get back. At Jagasaki, just for fucking killing his grandfather 30 chapters back, ok, then.

The rest of the last 50-60 chapters were pretentious bullshit about how life is valuable to directly live and cum. Most characters that died, including our former antagonist of the first arc, who just genocide for fun and who died at the final battle, get revealed he is alive somehow. How can you be worse than Okamoto when he brought Bando back from the Elfen Lied manga?!

It ends that Jagaski is now in love and finally fucks his new girlfriend.

One of the worst mangas I've read, tbh. What a sad waste of art, even if it gets worse in the last 70 chapters or so

My experience with Jaga[..]n : an incredibly bold start that unfortunately fizzled out into a boring edgy battle series. I want to take a moment to commend the opening ~20 chapters of this manga, incredibly dark and explosive. In them we meet the series protagonist, a pathetic, disillusioned cop. His only cope is knowing his gun could, in some universe where he'd be brave enough to perform the act, kill one of the pathetic NPCs that surround him, or even himelf. The opening chapters reflect the unending horrors of the contemporary, disempowered social individual. The monsters are the protagonist's shitty coworkers, an abusive bossin the metro, protagonist's naggy girlfriend. Protagonist feels trapped, isolated, and itches for something to give him meaning to live. These chapters are also actually super funny, because à la Joker (but also Otto Dix, or Munsch, or Picasso in the abstracted animalistic quality of the faces), the protagonist wears a grotesque smile, reflecting the bland and appeasing social selves we create to interact 'normally' with others without causing conflict. It's hilarious and painful, and most importantly, directly echoes the monster designs that begin to appear through Tokyo. Ensues an incel magical girl power fantasy, which I unironically think echoes Madoka Magica super well. The undying mascot is a useless moron of an owl instead of whatever Kyubi is, and the magical girl gems get crushed up and snorted like coke in the Jagaaan universe. One of the side heroes immediately uses his newfound powers to rape, like, every woman he meets. The gift of power is quickly revealed to be a curse.

Anyway, I loved this part of Jagaaan. Edgy, of course, but also thought-provoking and funny, as well as visually unique. Unfortunately, as the series continued, it began to draw away from the inner thoughts of the protagonist, and as he gained power, he solved a lot of the conflicts that made the beginning of the series so interesting. He became a generic hero, overpowered and surrounded by girls. This is what I'd like to call the Gantz effect: slick visuals and characters, but an initial darkness and provocative quality that becomes stale over the course of the series. The pathos-inducing gags and original, grotesque facial expressions disappeared, replaced by tons of naked cute girls and (admittedly) cool battle series monster designs. The monster designs also lost allegorical strength. We went from 'girlfriend is a giant scorpion, lashing out out of bottled rage caused by a complex tangle of reasons' to 'vegetarian monster (?)'. [spoilers lol] I was really shocked that the idol girl's arc went from gaining her powers to kill her father who raped her for 10 years, to killing him, to succeeding at her dream to become an idol at whatever cost, to getting raped by that one side character pervert guy, to slightly injuring him, to him lowkey getting a redeeming (death? if i remember correctly) in the next battle. Amidst gory deaths, constant sex, and nihilistic characters, this arc is easily the darkest element of Jagaaan. The part where she is raped in the bathroom by the pervert character is heavy and effectively horrifying. But it is not treated with the narrative weight it deserved, pushed aside while protagonist and girlfriend #3 find some stupid deus ex machina plan to take down big bad.

It's always a bad sign when characters start yelling concepts like 'justice!' and 'peace!' and 'hero!' at each other while charging at each other in their gigantic OP bioweapons. I am afraid I must have overestimated the critical depth of the Jagaaan, which, despite a strong beginning, has revealed itself to be quite a shallow and typical seinen battle manga!

Review as of Ch.67 (dropped)

Story:Feels a bit like parastyle,with the MC having infected with a unknown parasite frog and is able to shoot monster with his right hand,a bit like shinichi from parastyle,but despite that,it feels different and felt just as good if not better then parastyle, 9/10 Art:Really good art style,the mangaka really put a lot of effort to show the emotion of the characters (plus the plot is just as good if you know what i mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) 10/10 Characters:The character does not feel bland at all,even newly intro characters felt really good despite only appearing not for a long time,the MC is reallygood,where he felt really relate able as he struggle to live in life until recently where he got his power. 10/10

Well it's pretty early but I can say that for now, it's very good manga. ART: The characters are very well drawn and detailed.The artist foces in the eyes of the characters (ecpecialy the main) and it's kinda creepy but the illustrations are so good that you just stare with awe. The art here it's great (anda little bit mature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) . CHARACTER: The phychosynthesis of the main character is a little bit strange but with the way he is introduced everything fit right. As for the others we don't know much but for now everyone is matching with the whole atmophare. STORY: Itis a good story , for some reason it is rather familiar to me but I enjoy it. The story really reminds me of something. The storyline it's not really what you would call marvelous and thrilling but it fine.

I have read all the available translated chapters :)

Hope I was helpful!

Jagaaaaaan is weird. I was expecting that, but yeah, it's a fucked-up story. The art is crazy and really good, but the main character starts as a asshole, a loser, and a failure. From the beginning, it feels like a manga that could be a great fun time, but maybe not a masterpiece. It turns out to be a ride with constant, whiplash-inducing highs and lows. The core concept is awesome. A down-on-his-luck cop merges with an alien frog and gains the power to shoot his repressed desires out of a gun-hand, fighting other "fractured humans" whose own twisted desires have turned them into grotesque monsters.When Jagaan is good, it’s because of this. The monster designs are sick, the action can be incredible, and the art has some of the most cool-ass double-page spreads I've seen in a while. The potential for a great, edgy dark-action series is right there on the page.

But here's the thing: for a long time, Jagaaaaaan is a dumpster fire.

This manga has some of the worst and most forced aspects I’ve ever read. It constantly uses unnecessary rape and sexual violence as a plot device. It's not edgy; it's repulsive and feels like the mangaka is just indulging in some gross fetishism. It gets to a point where you wonder who hasn't been a victim of it, and it makes the manga incredibly hard to read and even harder to recommend.

On top of that, the story often becomes a parody of itself. It seems to want to say something deep about dehumanization and the ugliness of the world, but the execution is so effortless and bland that it fails completely. Most of the characters are awful people you can't connect with. And then there's the Yadori subplot... a completely tone-deaf drama about a body-swapped character that takes up dozens of chapters and adds almost nothing to the main plot. It culminates in one of the worst, most idiotic chapters I've ever read, titled "Masturbation Planet." It's a massive, frustrating waste of time.

But even with all that, the manga makes a generational comeback in its second half.

Just when you're ready to write it off, the main plot gets really good. The "Deader Land" arc is easily the highest point of the series, with amazing action and story progression. The introduction of new factions and badass characters like Mikazuchi injects some much-needed energy. Jagaan's own development gets pretty sick. The art also hits a new level of quality. It’s a manga that constantly claws its way out of the trenches it digs for itself.

The ending is... meh. It’s fine. The final fight is cool, but the last chapter makes some confusing choices that undermine what could have been a great, happy ending for the characters. It just sort of fizzles out, which is a shame.

Jagaan is the definition of a manga with missed potential. The art is memorable and the action is fire when it wants to be, but it's held back by its garbage fetishism, a terrible subplot, and inconsistent writing. I don't know if I would recommend this to a casual reader. It’s an okay manga, a 6.5/10, that is memorable for both its highest highs and its absolute lowest lows.

STORY: 4 Meet Jagasaki, an average manga hero, who gets to lead a fight against humans that turn into monsters because of their overwhelming desires. Here's a series that starts strong.. and then quite suddenly turns mediocre with a plot that becomes boring and predictable. This is a seinen (for adults) title with horror and sex, but what spoils the manga is that the storyline follows a very cliched shonen progression: hero gets stronger along with the enemies, each battle to the death has the characters have a conversation like if they were sitting having some coffee, and of course power-ups appear when the fight seems over.Some enemies are even not far from telling you how their ability functions so that you can beat them, how nice.

Near the end, the story becomes especially bad and we get to the point of caricature with the hero having to go through a ‘dungeon’, and defeat sub-bosses like in a video game before reaching the final boss for a annoyingly long fight.

ART: 7

Very solid at times: backgrounds, objects, characters.. everything is well rendered and digital techniques are abundantly used without getting in the way. But the quality is also wildly fluctuating, it almost feels like the author is leaving assistants do everything in some chapters. Expect an edgy start with details and a cleaner, US-comic influenced, sometimes lazy art in the second half of the saga.

POLITICAL POTENTIAL: 4

Some questions here and there about desire, the use of violence and justice. And mostly the usual overconfident nihilist antagonists that cannot stop blabbering about their evil projects even in the middle of a fight.

FEMINISM: 2

Despite the story rapidly degrading to kids level with its shonen tropes, the level of sex is clearly for adults. Sadly, we get tons of softcore porn, abuse and rape, wrapped in a sleazy male gaze.

Male characters don’t have a lot of depth, but female characters are clearly being drawn as a body or stereotype first, and not much else. This is clearly evident with Jagasaki love interest, whose personality is totally inconsistent through the manga, just being whatever the scenario needs her to be.

The only female character that does get a bit of story time and development is actually.. a man that has entered the body of a girl. And she mostly has lots of sex. I think that says a lot about the author's interest in women.

CONCLUSION: 4

Many readers thought of titles like “Parasite” or “Gantz” when reading this manga and they are indeed better. You can skip Jagaaaaaan, no woooooorries.

*LONG REVIEW* Art: The first half of this manga featured some of the best art I've ever seen in a manga. But the second half really dumbed the art down, things got far less detailed. Probably an issue with time. There were certainly amazing art sometimes in the second half, but there is a clear down-grade. The faces went from circular and unorthodox with creative angles, to angular, orthodox, and generic angles. This reflects the story as well, that I'll touch on in its own section. If the art had kept its amazing standard throughout the entire manga, I'd think it would bump this up to a9/10, rather than the 8/10 this manga is. The art conveys the emotions behind each scene well though. You can feel the disgusting aura from the monsters, you can feel the desperation during action scenes, you can feel the horror of the gore, you can feel the sliminess of the wicked humans, and you can feel the passion in intimate scenes. Perhaps if this was a monthly manga, it would've been able to do all it wanted to do. The character designs were great, the monster designs were quite unique, though some fell into genericity. All in all, I really liked the art, and even in the scenes I didn't, it still managed to invoke emotion. I still much preferred the art and character designs in the first half though.

Story:

Contains NO spoilers, beyond what's implied.

This manga turned from a Seinen into a Shounen. It went from an interesting exploration into the human psyche and the effects that desire have on everyone, with characters that were morally ambiguous, to an hero story where there is a clear contrast between "good and evil". There are some very interesting and sometimes unique character backgrounds and motivations, however during the second half, things become very generic. Though this manga may revel in tropes and unoriginal ideas by its second half, I think there's still enough original and thought-provoking ideas and setpieces to call it a good story, just not anything revolutionary besides the shift half-way through the manga. Characters are pretty good, had the manga kept to its Seinen roots, I think they would've developed into a very great cast with their own reasons and motivations, rather than everyone being forced to follow the MC on his own selfish journey. Despite the story being about everyone's desires born from being selfish, everyone eventually converges to help the MC, which takes away from what made them so compelling, their selfishness. The erotica makes the world seem more grittier and further increases the reader's relationship with the characters, it is a common tool to use nudity/erotica in a story this way, even if it does feel cheap. But the erotica isn't always... *clears throat*, consensual. So the nudity also increases the tension and the feeling of disgust that comes with a story about giving into desires. The ending was actually good, which is wild considering it's an manga ending and all. It had an adequate amount of time to wrap up the MC's story and the world as a whole, with an interesting twist. However, some characters don't get proper resolutions to their plot lines. The fates of some characters are forgotten about at several points in the manga and in the end. They are mostly minor characters, sure, however, this manga is about selfishness and character relationships. So seeing these people who shaped the major characters not being treated right is annoying.

Powers were also really wishy-washy. While not as bad as "Hell's paradise", "Jagaaan"'s powers are hard to understand and usually just come out of nowhere. Cool, but mostly mindless.

This is a tale of two mangas. One half is a Seinen character study of the human race, and the other half, is a Shounen battle manga where the psychological elements take a backseat. Really, the two halves of the manga are almost the same in terms of plots and fights when you look back on it. So the feeling of a "completed" manga is lost, because there's the beginning of a Seinen manga here, and an ending of a Shounen manga here, both frankensteined together. It's a shame, because they both could've been great mangas in their own right.

Overall:

Jagaaaaan! could've been amazing, but with all its faults, and the declining average quality of the manga as time went on, it remains simply "good", or for me, "great" as I really enjoyed the first half.

Despite me personally ranking this a 8/10, by the last quarter, I was really looking forward to the end. I'd still recommend this to people though, although the second half can really be a dealbreaker for some, that first half is brilliant.

I'm NOT a contrarian, and if your opinion differs, be civil. Your opinion is as valid as mine. Don't rate this as "confusing" just because you disagree with my view, instead, criticise the actual writing of the review. That's what it's there for. Don't be a child. Thank you for reading my review, have a nice day/night!

Jagaaan is... a mixed bag. The first half is off-the-rails crazy. Our main character is a homicidal maniac, working as a police officer in the hopes that he can shoot up people he deems as scum to society (whether that's a comment on police brutality or not is up to interpretation). And then magical frogs rain from the sky, people turn into horrifying monsters, and our beat cop gets the superpower to turn his dominant hand to a gun as a result. The early chapters are slow, but it sets the tone for what the series was supposed to be. Twisted people turn into manifestations oftheir desire, and it's really not pretty. The body horror is drawn beautifully, creating just the right mix of ugly and cool. And our main character is thrown into the mix, because he has to fight other monsters to retain his humanity.

How? He gets his magical bird mascot character to eat their frog-hearts and shit it out, then he snorts said ball of dung like coke. It's incredible. Like a magical girl from my fever dreams.

Unfortunately, symptoms of Jagaaan's problems start to pop up this early. The series like to introduce side-characters that we focus on as a sort of B-plot, and none of them are even remotely enjoyable even as a "break". The first one is a rapist who probably only exists as an excuse to draw sex scenes. The second one is a guy stuck in a woman's body who probably also only exists as an excuse to draw sex scenes. You get the idea.

After the hilariously named Deader Land arc is where these issues start to worsen. I heard the artist injured his shoulder, so it's not something I can really blame him on, but the art does take a noticeable quality dive. The unique art style and its ugly, inhumane expressions gradually fade away to something more generic. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the designs of the monsters; while still cool, they really don't retain the same level of body horror that they used to have.

Somehow the B-plot continues to be stupidly meaningless, and everything is tied up rather haphazardly by the end with some trite philosophical debates and monologues about the meaning of life. Still, Jagaaan's strongest points are its characters, and they truly do continue to leave lasting impressions right until the end. That said, I liked how dumb the final arc was, and I mean that in the best way possible. Jagaaan had an incredible start, a rough middle, and a decent ending that's probably a little too happy for me.

Overall, it's... fine, it just didn't live up to what it could have been like early on. If you want to turn off your brain for a little and watch people with cool bioweapons shoot each other's heads off while flying in the sky, this is a good way to pass the time.

To be honest Jagaaaaan is like nothing I have read ,just the whole frogs falling from the sky thing struck me as unique. The art style is great, the author real captures human emotion and you can tell what kind of person someone is just by their face. Also, the fight scenes aren't lacking either, there's tonnes of great abilities and seeing them put against each other is honestly a spectacle. The manga really shows you the harshness of reality and how cruel people can be(sometimes it gets pretty dark).Some people have pretty sad back stories, one to the extent where I found myself sympathising with anantagonist.

Jagaaaaan's main character is intriguing, at the start of the manga he's presented as this pshycho "shoot em up" dude but then becomes a bit softer, this didn't bother me but it did turn others off. However, at the manga's current stage i believe the MC isn't like that anymore.

Overall,Jagaaaaan is great and you should definitely check it out.

Here's my take after reading 25 fractured chapters of Jagaaaaaan by Muneyuki Kaneshiro (Story) and Kensuke Nishida (Art). It's seldom that you read something that has heavy influences and inspiration from well-established mangas and makes it work and stand on its own. Jagaaaaaan has a great premise that made it amusing to read. The story revolves around the protagonist Shintarou Jagasaki a 27-year-old policeman who struggles to contain his frustrations in life at work and at home with his girlfriend. Things turned upside down when a sudden rain of frogs fell down the city and started taking over the city's people turning them into fractured humans whoseinnermost feeling fuels their grotesque transformation and abilities; one being Jagasaki himself.

Although it got most of its concept and ideas from previous manga's like kiseijuu by Hitoshi Iwaaki and Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica by Magica Quartet (Story) and Hanokage (Art), It definitely works and I have enjoyed every chapter.

The art is good and clean, I'm not sure if it was intentional, but it was really cringe-inducing at the first few chapters then it turns into this itchy Trypophobia dealing nightmare. (This manga is not recommended for those who have Trypophobia trust me)

The characters are one-dimensional at first but they slowly improve as each chapter passes; however, they still have a long way to go. I can't help but add that Bell is the most interesting character among its cast and I like her more and more as every chapter passes.

There's a ton of mature content on this manga so I would not recommend this to our young readers.

But I do recommend this to people who have read Kiseijuu or Tokyo Ghoul but do not expect much as I believe this manga is created to primarily entertain which it did well during my read.

With that said, I would give Jagaaaaaan 8 Dung Balls out of 10.

I read about 60 chapters over the course of a couple hours and I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on this series enough to review it. Art: So you can tell the artist put a lot of time into the art and it shows, but something about this style is just unpleasant to look at. Not sure how else to explain it. Story: Story is nothing to groundbreaking, reminds me of Gantz. There is a lot of rape and stuff like that that this series could do without. Robachan in general is just pointless to have in here at all. Character: I appreciate that themain character is not some perfect hero, and even messes up sometimes. Nothing groundbreaking though, he's fine.

Overall: 6/10, seems like it tries to hard to be edgy at times, and while I know that the art is objectively good, I just find it unpleasant and messy to look at a lot of the time.

This manga is one of the most Gantz things that aren’t related to Gantz. You have the cool battles, the strange creatures, the amazing artwork and lots of sex. And, underneath it all, there is a great story about the human condition, and why people dream and desire. How we try to find meaning in a world that feels overwhelming and senseless, and rise above those negative sensations. I like how complex themes are seamlessly added into the story of policeman Jagasaki when he gets turned into a mutant called fractured human. Jagasaki wanted a different life style and now that he gets one, he hasto fight against other fractured humans in order to keep on living.

The story has its ups and downs, but generally the plot is solid, the characters arcs are mostly satisfactory, and despite the ending feeling a bit rushed, it ends with a bang.

I hope Jagaaaaaan gets the recognition it deserves, because it got mine, and more people should read it. I hope to see it animated someday.

The synopsis does not do this manga justice - who allowed this. Regardless, the most interesting part of the manga is the question of "what will you do to fulfill your desires?" Whether it is the main plot or one of the very intriguing side plots, this question is developed. It is interesting to see how the main character deals with his own idea of justice and how it proceeds to change over time. This manga does not allow blank space to fill the atmosphere, It is thoroughly interesting all the way through. It is enjoyable to see that the side plots can stand ontheir own, even though they are extremely morbid. Jagan is a tragic hero manga with a lot of self-reflecting moments and well paced, easy to follow action.

Apart from the action, and amazing well-drawn fighting scene. This manga also has an interesting love story, a good sense of humour, and uh a lot of nudity which done pretty decent (although some might be considered misogynistic in a way). All of the character (main and supporting) have some kind of tragic background that made you want to read more and more, my favourite would be the butterfly duo. Another thing about the story is how the author divided two stories of the main and supporting, gradually building them up then connect the dots at one point. Overall, it's a pretty good manga, lookingforward to the climax, and hoping it has 200+ chapters or 300+ would be nice.