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灰仭巫覡 [Kaijin Fugeki] #1
灰仭巫覡 1 [Kaijin Fugeki 1]
大暮維人が満を持しておくる完全オリジナル新作！
敵は天災。抗うは少年少女……。漫画の常識を覆すファンタジー巨編開幕！
“夜”。それはかつて天災と呼ばれていたもの。
人智を超えた災害の襲来に対し、少年たちはただひたすらに舞う。神々の力を借りる為、“夜”の怒りを鎮める為、そしてこの世界を救う為――。日本の田舎町に住む少年・仭は、“颱の夜・キャサリン”により故郷を追われた英国軍人・ガオと出会い、“夜”の絶望と戦う運命が動き出す!!
敵は天災。抗うは少年少女……。漫画の常識を覆すファンタジー巨編開幕！
“夜”。それはかつて天災と呼ばれていたもの。
人智を超えた災害の襲来に対し、少年たちはただひたすらに舞う。神々の力を借りる為、“夜”の怒りを鎮める為、そしてこの世界を救う為――。日本の田舎町に住む少年・仭は、“颱の夜・キャサリン”により故郷を追われた英国軍人・ガオと出会い、“夜”の絶望と戦う運命が動き出す!!
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192 pages, Paperback
First published August 16, 2024
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Oh! Great
226 books130 followersOh! great, whose real name is Ito Ōgure (大暮維人 Ōgure Ito) is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Air Gear. Apart from working with manga, he designed some of the alternate character outfits in the PlayStation 2 version of Namco's 3D fighting game Tekken 5, and a guest character in Soul Calibur IV named Ashlotte.
His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order, is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".
His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order, is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".
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January 7, 2026
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.
What a mess. Sooo many parts of this make it feel like this manga doesn't know what to be. The artstyle is jarring - mostly realistic proportions and kind of elegant designs interspersed with really ugly expressions that are fail to be comedic, and Jin's character design, particularly the way his eyes are drawn, stands out as much too cartoonish amidst everyone else. Panels that would otherwise be fine or even pretty are annoyingly interrupted by a very uncomfortable focus on female genitals (which is made worse by most of the girls presumably being high schoolers). The same goes for the story - there are really weird fanservicey moments that seem sudden and unnatural and serve no real purpose. The atmosphere flip-flops wildly between slice-of-life and action-packed, with comedic moments not at all hitting. There is zero tension between scenes, things just...happen. I barely understood whatever the hell anyone was talking about; conversations progress extremely weirdly and no work is done at all to really explain the world of the manga. All of the female characters are written annoyingly or to fulfill the author's weird kink (like Micaiah being a stealth exhibitionist apparently or Natsu/Fuyu being willing exhibitionists), with the exception of Gao's mom who seemed cool from what little we saw of her (although the focus on her breasts and lack of bra was off-putting). I was promised futuristic science fiction crossed with ancient religion but honestly, very little of the setting feels like it's anything but modern-day Japan. Overall, very clumsy and the allegedly award-winning art does nothing to save it.
What a mess. Sooo many parts of this make it feel like this manga doesn't know what to be. The artstyle is jarring - mostly realistic proportions and kind of elegant designs interspersed with really ugly expressions that are fail to be comedic, and Jin's character design, particularly the way his eyes are drawn, stands out as much too cartoonish amidst everyone else. Panels that would otherwise be fine or even pretty are annoyingly interrupted by a very uncomfortable focus on female genitals (which is made worse by most of the girls presumably being high schoolers). The same goes for the story - there are really weird fanservicey moments that seem sudden and unnatural and serve no real purpose. The atmosphere flip-flops wildly between slice-of-life and action-packed, with comedic moments not at all hitting. There is zero tension between scenes, things just...happen. I barely understood whatever the hell anyone was talking about; conversations progress extremely weirdly and no work is done at all to really explain the world of the manga. All of the female characters are written annoyingly or to fulfill the author's weird kink (like Micaiah being a stealth exhibitionist apparently or Natsu/Fuyu being willing exhibitionists), with the exception of Gao's mom who seemed cool from what little we saw of her (although the focus on her breasts and lack of bra was off-putting). I was promised futuristic science fiction crossed with ancient religion but honestly, very little of the setting feels like it's anything but modern-day Japan. Overall, very clumsy and the allegedly award-winning art does nothing to save it.
January 5, 2026
Thanks to Oh! Great and Netgalley for a digital e-copy of this manga volume in exchange for an honest review.
The first volume of this series was pretty wild! We get introduced to a large kooky cast of characters, including our two main protagonists (so far, at least), a Prince from Britain now living in Japan and a Japanese boy called Jin. In terms of vibes, the closest I could really think of was Chainsaw Man, only this manga is much more of a sci-fi story with found family vibes, though I could see this definitely going in more of a horror route in the future.
The story starts off with some gorgeous full colour art before settling into the traditional black and white style, but the manga's art is definitely one of its strong points. Not only are the daily life elements and characters drawn well, the more supernatural and sci-fi elements are particularly striking. We follow Jin, Gao and their group of friends as they have a normal teenage life and call on the powers of magic to fight devastating monsters. The cast in particular here feels super unique from a two headed shrine maiden girl, to a boy who can summon frogs from shrine offerings. It's clearly influenced by both western sci-fi storylines, but also traditional Japanese urban legends which is a nice blend that really gives this series a unique feel.
My only low points really, and why this first volume didn't get a five star is the perverted jokes that frequent the pages - some are genuinely quite funny and thankfully not all performed by the male characters (who are actually the more demure ones here), but the comedy did fit the more zany elements of the manga. Overall, this is definitely a manga to check out if y0u like action packed stories with cool and fun characters and I'll definitely be carrying on this series!
The first volume of this series was pretty wild! We get introduced to a large kooky cast of characters, including our two main protagonists (so far, at least), a Prince from Britain now living in Japan and a Japanese boy called Jin. In terms of vibes, the closest I could really think of was Chainsaw Man, only this manga is much more of a sci-fi story with found family vibes, though I could see this definitely going in more of a horror route in the future.
The story starts off with some gorgeous full colour art before settling into the traditional black and white style, but the manga's art is definitely one of its strong points. Not only are the daily life elements and characters drawn well, the more supernatural and sci-fi elements are particularly striking. We follow Jin, Gao and their group of friends as they have a normal teenage life and call on the powers of magic to fight devastating monsters. The cast in particular here feels super unique from a two headed shrine maiden girl, to a boy who can summon frogs from shrine offerings. It's clearly influenced by both western sci-fi storylines, but also traditional Japanese urban legends which is a nice blend that really gives this series a unique feel.
My only low points really, and why this first volume didn't get a five star is the perverted jokes that frequent the pages - some are genuinely quite funny and thankfully not all performed by the male characters (who are actually the more demure ones here), but the comedy did fit the more zany elements of the manga. Overall, this is definitely a manga to check out if y0u like action packed stories with cool and fun characters and I'll definitely be carrying on this series!
January 23, 2026
Kaijin Fugeki: Kindled Spirits 1, for me, reads a bit like a lovechild of FLCL and Noragami.
I’ve always enjoyed the idea of gods or spirits interacting with human societies under the guise of other, non-sentient forces, so the premise of angry gods trampling humanity in the form of natural disasters immediately piqued my curiosity. The other thing that caught my attention (maybe even more so) was humanity’s answer to this god-problem.
In Kaijin Fugeki, humans dance to summon other godly beings, to possess and be possessed by them, and thereby use those divine strengths to obliterate these natural disaster spirits (or “nights,” as they’re called in this story). And those dance/summoning/battle scenes? So captivating! The art for them, the creature designs—absolutely incredible!
While the story can be a little tricky to keep up with (if you go in expecting something straightforward or typical), I found it interesting enough to keep me turning the page.
The art? Top notch. The mangaka’s use of screen tones to create texture, contrast, and depth was really impressive. I also really appreciated the perspectives many of the panels were illustrated from. The overall effect felt kinetic and fresh. And again, those dance/summoning/battle scenes? So cool!
I wasn’t wild about just how fan-service/breast-focused some of the panels and designs were, but the manga seems self-aware, and tries to poke fun at itself in this regard, so I wasn’t too bothered by it.
The translation and humor, though? Both were excellent. The humor was silly in a charming way, and the translation reads very naturally in English.
Thank you very much to Kodansha for providing me with an ARC! I will be looking forward to volume 2!
I’ve always enjoyed the idea of gods or spirits interacting with human societies under the guise of other, non-sentient forces, so the premise of angry gods trampling humanity in the form of natural disasters immediately piqued my curiosity. The other thing that caught my attention (maybe even more so) was humanity’s answer to this god-problem.
In Kaijin Fugeki, humans dance to summon other godly beings, to possess and be possessed by them, and thereby use those divine strengths to obliterate these natural disaster spirits (or “nights,” as they’re called in this story). And those dance/summoning/battle scenes? So captivating! The art for them, the creature designs—absolutely incredible!
While the story can be a little tricky to keep up with (if you go in expecting something straightforward or typical), I found it interesting enough to keep me turning the page.
The art? Top notch. The mangaka’s use of screen tones to create texture, contrast, and depth was really impressive. I also really appreciated the perspectives many of the panels were illustrated from. The overall effect felt kinetic and fresh. And again, those dance/summoning/battle scenes? So cool!
I wasn’t wild about just how fan-service/breast-focused some of the panels and designs were, but the manga seems self-aware, and tries to poke fun at itself in this regard, so I wasn’t too bothered by it.
The translation and humor, though? Both were excellent. The humor was silly in a charming way, and the translation reads very naturally in English.
Thank you very much to Kodansha for providing me with an ARC! I will be looking forward to volume 2!
April 6, 2026
Netgalley review, possible plot points mentioned below (SPOILERS ARE POSSIBLE BELOW, you have been warned)
Kaijin Fugeki is one I was really looking forward to but it really dropped the mark in every way possible. I definitely didn't expect this book to only be fan service, I was kind of hoping at this point in our lives maybe we'd move on from plot just being fan service and actually have books written with thought... but that's too good to be true I guess. I have no idea what happened because everything is all of the place, and nothing was explained. You need a little bit of explanation to keep the reader hooked and wanting more but I just wanted to be done within the first few pages.
I will give the author credit in some of the pages are highly detailed and are gorgeous plus I appreciate all of the female characters looking very different from each other, I feel thats hard to come by. I really liked the character with the partly shaved head. I hate the main characters looks. On the cover he looks kind of cool but hes so unbelievably dorky looking to everyone else. Its really his eyes, he looks so out of place in his own damn manga.
Overall I will not be picking up this book, if you want full fanservice on every page and absolutely dog shit plot, this book might be for you!
I thank the authors and netgalley for giving me a chance to read this book.
Kaijin Fugeki is one I was really looking forward to but it really dropped the mark in every way possible. I definitely didn't expect this book to only be fan service, I was kind of hoping at this point in our lives maybe we'd move on from plot just being fan service and actually have books written with thought... but that's too good to be true I guess. I have no idea what happened because everything is all of the place, and nothing was explained. You need a little bit of explanation to keep the reader hooked and wanting more but I just wanted to be done within the first few pages.
I will give the author credit in some of the pages are highly detailed and are gorgeous plus I appreciate all of the female characters looking very different from each other, I feel thats hard to come by. I really liked the character with the partly shaved head. I hate the main characters looks. On the cover he looks kind of cool but hes so unbelievably dorky looking to everyone else. Its really his eyes, he looks so out of place in his own damn manga.
Overall I will not be picking up this book, if you want full fanservice on every page and absolutely dog shit plot, this book might be for you!
I thank the authors and netgalley for giving me a chance to read this book.
March 19, 2026
Thank you to Netgalley and Kodansha for the advance copy
This was a first volume that didn't really live up to my expectations, I'll start with what I did like about this. The art is beautiful, the action is flashy because it's dancing, the power system is very unique, and there's a very interesting hybridization of Japanese and other folklore with technology happening here.
On the other hand, while the action and fighting is very interesting I don't think it translates very well to static illustration and I personally think this would be better visually if it was animated instead. The other thing that actually bothered me quite a bit was the repetitive lewd gags. It's understandable that Micaiah has a crush on Gao, but do we really need her expressing it by consistently reminding the reader that she's naked under her clothes around him?
All in all, I likely won't continue this series but the overall premise is very interesting, I just felt it was a little disjointed.
This was a first volume that didn't really live up to my expectations, I'll start with what I did like about this. The art is beautiful, the action is flashy because it's dancing, the power system is very unique, and there's a very interesting hybridization of Japanese and other folklore with technology happening here.
On the other hand, while the action and fighting is very interesting I don't think it translates very well to static illustration and I personally think this would be better visually if it was animated instead. The other thing that actually bothered me quite a bit was the repetitive lewd gags. It's understandable that Micaiah has a crush on Gao, but do we really need her expressing it by consistently reminding the reader that she's naked under her clothes around him?
All in all, I likely won't continue this series but the overall premise is very interesting, I just felt it was a little disjointed.
January 14, 2026
I fear this story is over my head. I read alot of manga and this story felt like an amalgamation of many different genres and stories in one. I had a hard time following it but the gist I got is there are natural disasters called nights and they are trying to destroy the world. Certain people can dance and summon god powers (or maybe like literal gods) to fight off the nights. The two main characters, Jin who is a Japanese country boy and Goa a British soldier who escaped to japan after his mom died, can use the dance to summon gods to fight the nights. I'm not real sure why the scifi tech is here and there yet or why there is a girl with two heads. The art was beautiful though and is this stories biggest redeeming quality. The long black hair was drawn especially well, it was ethereal to look at.
December 17, 2025
This is a slow moving title, don't expect tons of shounen style packed action. It features life in a slow town, seemingly in Earth's future, since digital cameras are spoken of as how we would talk about things like records being aged. The spirits are real (as fae seem to be implied as well from our British characters), and sometimes are strong enough to be seen by the naked eye and perceived by the physical world. Our main character Jin works together with our British mmc Gao to work on saving the world. Not a lot of plot is given immediately in the first volume, but I found it interesting enough even with how sleepy it came off at times.
March 8, 2026
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.
The MC's eyes were... disconcerting. I hated that stylistic choice. Also: be normal about women challenge failed horribly. We get a woman saying she's not wearing any underwear on page like, 5, and the super emotional flashback of how Gao lost his mother focused on her massive ass honkers. Not a fan. Also what the hell is Gao's name 😭 Reverse Cho Chang ahhh vibes.
I have no idea what happened here, what was supposed to happen, and why the author thought this was fit for publishing the way it is. No idea. The art style was cool, but this artistic skill was not used to make good choices.
The MC's eyes were... disconcerting. I hated that stylistic choice. Also: be normal about women challenge failed horribly. We get a woman saying she's not wearing any underwear on page like, 5, and the super emotional flashback of how Gao lost his mother focused on her massive ass honkers. Not a fan. Also what the hell is Gao's name 😭 Reverse Cho Chang ahhh vibes.
I have no idea what happened here, what was supposed to happen, and why the author thought this was fit for publishing the way it is. No idea. The art style was cool, but this artistic skill was not used to make good choices.
December 18, 2025
this was definitely not for me. other reviews kept mentioning the pacing and they were right. every two pages felt like a different story. i couldnt follow anything. it was just annoying for me to read
January 17, 2026
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!
This was really good. I really felt for Jin and Gao. I am hoping to see some great character development between them later on. Jin starts out as a tragic character, which hurts my soul in all of the ways. Also, Gao...woah!
This was really good. I really felt for Jin and Gao. I am hoping to see some great character development between them later on. Jin starts out as a tragic character, which hurts my soul in all of the ways. Also, Gao...woah!
June 15, 2025
uffff raro de cojon*s
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December 14, 2025
Honestly pretty boring, it’s your typical shounen with ecchi even though the art is good but that’s all it offers tbh…
Got this via Netgalley and publisher
Got this via Netgalley and publisher
May 5, 2026
The art was genuinely beautiful BUT the story was so damn ass. Never pick up this book
January 25, 2026
ARC provided by NetGalley
This is a sci fi manga about a post apocalyptic world were the natural disasters are spirits and can be fought by channeling the power of the gods through dancing, singing and prayer.
It had some beautiful artsatyle when the action happened, though I am not a fan of the main characters very round and frog like eyes.
The action starts right off the bat, with some flashbacks to get the feeling of where some characters came from. Then there are some slice of life moments with fanservice. Personally, as there was a lot of action I felt that I didn't care about the characters and they were flat. The ecchi portions didn't help since I am not a fan of those either.
The parts about the summoning of the gods and how the world worked now were interesting, the best part of the manga.
This is a sci fi manga about a post apocalyptic world were the natural disasters are spirits and can be fought by channeling the power of the gods through dancing, singing and prayer.
It had some beautiful artsatyle when the action happened, though I am not a fan of the main characters very round and frog like eyes.
The action starts right off the bat, with some flashbacks to get the feeling of where some characters came from. Then there are some slice of life moments with fanservice. Personally, as there was a lot of action I felt that I didn't care about the characters and they were flat. The ecchi portions didn't help since I am not a fan of those either.
The parts about the summoning of the gods and how the world worked now were interesting, the best part of the manga.
June 6, 2025
quasiment manga que je lis je plains les japonaises, force à elles
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