Part 1: Introduction Im a big fan of Mierukochan Liar Satsuki and Schoollive If there was ever a subgenre of slice of life that I adore its that of high school girls going up against supernatural phenomena. Anyway Furyou Taimashi Reina a manga about high school girls going up against supernatural phenomena. Its not good. Part 2: The story and the characters Are they any good? 400https://media.tenor.com/85ef3Uk3DCwAAAAd/victorsaltzpyre.gif The story isnt that deep. Its just Reina and friends going to one supernatural phenomenon performing an exorcism and moving on to the next. Sometimes therell be an attempt at an emotional moment but those fall flat whenever they are tried. Heres an example: Tendou grappling with the fact that he couldnt save his sister. Except he doesnt actually grapple with it theres two pages about it and we move on. Theres also a plot line about Reina failing to save her friend from an abusive father but then she visits an alternate dimension in which the friend is fine and has a loving dad which certainly doesnt undercut any emotional weight that a story about domestic abuse could have. Speaking of domestic abuse this manga pushes the insane idea that it alongside some other complicated issues like gender dysphoria arent actually that nuanced but just really bad cases of ghost possession. For the love of God either commit to your serious tone or dont. Either try to have social commentary on domestic violence or write it out entirely in favor of the uncomfortable fanservice. This manga has so much fanservice I mean the first volume of Mierukochan was bad but it is a chaste saint compared to this galore of gratuitous boob shots of teenage girls. By far the grossest offender was a joke about one of the characters feeling ashamed of her small boobs which is always funny because that means that she cant seduce her teacher. One more thing to note is the final volume. The manga got axed before the author was ready to end it and it shows in how rushed and incomprehensible it is. Any sort of character development was skipped in favour of exposition textwalls about what the characters are like and where they are. Reina also suddenly has magic powers theres alternate dimensions and its all dumped onto the reader so fast. The aforementioned textwalls are genuinely painful to read. Anyway uh characters yeah? This is a segment about story and characters. Basically theres Reina the mean blonde her manic pixie tomboy friend Riku the uptight class president Kokoro griefstricken Tendou and their womenfearing teacher. As far as personalities go thats it. As I said theres a lot of fanservice here and it always takes precedence over any sort of character building. This is because the author either thinks that fanservice is more likely to grab people or he cant really write character development. Seeing how empty the emotional scenes are I assume its the latter. Tendou is the one who lost his sister and feels guilty about not being able to save her which is always an interesting premise it just sucks that a character like him was stuck in a manga this bad. Part 3: These monster designs are jokes not funny ones either After reading Mierukochan Bibliomania and several Junji Ito stories you could say that I have developed a standard for monster design in manga. I really dont want this to sound pretentious Im not saying that you need nightmare fuel design but if youre going to make a monster manga please dont make the monsters look like rejected designs from The Mandela Catalogue. 400https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878333835505442846/1134601452732551319/EfK3rxyXoAI4GvU.png 400https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878333835505442846/1134601790671822979/11763182413105831026172224970329642918426280n.png Sure these would be pretty frightening if you saw them in real life but in a horror story? Theyre just meh and leave a lot to be desired. Most of them are just a spooky face or a spooky humanoid. My favourite design is this Bach portrait monster: 400https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1062834830410260511/1130869264602107984/IMG20230718163033.jpg I dont think its scary I think its the fucking stupidest one and it got a little chuckle out of me. Oh thats not to mention This Man 400https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878333835505442846/1134603313577480263/image.png Yeah one of the main villains they face is internet sensation and infamous urban legend This Man. In a manga which is supposedly about fighting otherworldly creatures beyond our comprehension what an uninspired and actually garbage choice for the antagonist. Part 4: Conclusion Furyou Taimashi Reina is a painful insulting transphobic manga. I think its unfunny I hate it I never want to think about it again and I dont even like it. Not recommended. Good night.