Reviews for Gacha Girls Corps

A surprisingly enjoyable read. This manga's story is not as edgy or perverted as I thought it would be. Instead, it takes notes (very sensibly) from the likes of Konosuba, introducing whacky and eccentric characters to emphasise humour. Although it doesn't exactly change the formula of its genre (Iseka and Gacha based stories), it plays with the tropes very competently and its embrace of humour and light-hearted romance/harem makes this a guiltless, enjoyable read. It is a rather shallow piece of work, but, I don't think depth was ever really the author's aim. It knows what it is and willingly strives toward making it enjoyableand fun to read. We really do need these little escapist time sinks once in a while.

Perhaps an element that would really improve the story would be to introduce some urgency. Create a strong central conflict/goal for the characters to strive toward. It seems that a lot of Isekai stories usually start with an intriguing premise, but they eventually become too preoccupied with building tropes, cliches, and maintaining the status quo that they forget that stories need to have some form of an end.

6.9/10 I dream for a day when there is a well-written gacha story, but it’s simply not now. As expected, there’s not much struggle/pressure you’d get from an overpowered isekai story, but instead, for better or for worse, it’s light-hearted. To further elaborate on the light-hearted attributes, the characters are made with comedic attributes and the plot line is full of jokes. Along with that, there’s a very poor amount of world-building, so it would be quite shameful to say this manga is aiming for anything greater than some burn-off humor. Despite all the negatives and critiques, it’s still a relatively enjoyable harem isekai that isn’ttrying to be perverse or clouded with minimalistic characters. It’s a massive time-waster and possibly nothing more.

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired & A Huang Teizan Original)

10 – God’s penmanship

9 – Must-read. Drop everything else.

8 – Instant bookmark

7 – Entertaining

6 – Good to pass time

5 – Why are you reading this?

4 – Bad.

3 – Typical garbage.

2 – My head hurts.

1 – Retirement is a thought.

0 – “Did they even give you a story?!”