AME NO FURU

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CHAPTERS

MANGA ComedyHalloween Party
ONE SHOT ActionUchuusen Minamo-gou
MANGA ComedyKyou wa Valentine desu ne
ONE SHOT ActionSeiken no Yuusha no Goei

REVIEWS

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  sangwoahsbat

  72/100
  Candy Flurry- Not The Best In The World, But Not Deserving Of Hate

  Toy Toy Candy....100 of these were made and thrown into the public. Eat one and gain candy powers. Being able to spawn giant lollipops, using ice cream as ice powers, throwing popcorn kernels to blow up someones face. That's just to name a few. Now, Tokyo was destroyed by a candy user and because of that, candy users are hated. Our protagonist, Tsumugi, is a Candy User. By "coincidence" she is also a lollipop user. She lived a normal life hiding her powers and hiding from recette agents (an organization dedicated to taking down Candy Users) She...well...most of the time hides it anyways- One day, Midori Misaki, a recette agent, recently transfers to the same class and suspects her to be a Candy User after an incident that morning. That's enough beginning plot. Time for my thoughts. Now, it may not have the *greatest* plot in the world, have any care about character development, or do anything groundbreaking. But the gimmick was good enough to last 19 chapters. Candy....as weapons?...yeah that works. If it was more than 50 I would care a bit more, but this is a short manga you can finish in 40 minutes so being able to make anything interesting enough in only 19 is pretty good. The manga made me laugh a few times here and there, the art was nice, and it was interesting enough. I've read some really bad stuff about this and was ready for a storm like Metamorphosis or something but was pleasantly surprised. # Story The story like I said was not that bad. Near chapter 7 I was generally interested on what the ending would be. Not that bad I think. It struggled a bit here and there but not enough for it to cause problems. #Characters The characters to me were the best part. I really enjoyed the small amount of time I had to spend with them. Minase Tsumugi- Protagonist. Interestingly enough, she was the one I cared the least about. Her whole thing is that she loves sweets and hates the fact lollipops have a bad rap. She was nothing special but that's what I expected. Misaki Midori- The really weak recette agent, in Tsumugi's class. He made me laugh and was a nice add to the story. The whole "good boy" act got annoying near the end but that's just a me thing. He's pretty stubborn and air headed so I enjoyed him. Touka Irie- Very strong recette agent. She didn't add **that** much to the story other then shock but she was decent and nothing special. It was cool to see how she would use her icecream power though. #Art The fight scenes were pretty cool most of the time. The big candy sometimes made things a bit chaotic and hard to understand in some panels, but not to the point where its unreadable. #Final Thoughts Not a bad manga I liked it, it made me laugh, it gave me something to do and i don't regret it ~~~~~~
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• 

  AnotherBadger

  53/100
  A Series That Had Potential But Struggled To Stand Out From The Crowd

  “If you’re going to be reckless, then I guess I’ll just have to follow your lead.”

  • Midori Misaki, Chapter 19

  When taken at face value, Candy Flurry could be best described as average. The art style is clean and easy to read, the story has potential, and the characters are fairly well developed. These elements make it a good read, but it feels more like a pastiche of other Shōnen titles rather than being its own entity. However, it definitely showed that it had the potential to become something more if it had been given more time.

  The core concept of Candy Flurry is an interesting one; taking an everyday item and expanding it into a fighting mechanic that provides a lot of room to experiment. This made the fight scenes enjoyable since there was a healthy amount of variety offered by the different power each character had. Due to the shortness of the series, there wasn’t enough time for the artist to truly experiment with the fighting style, this means that there aren’t many stand-out panels but it shows that there was definitely a level of competency behind the art. It felt as though a majority of the art was falling into line with a more generic art style. However, there were some moments of strong panelling and composition which shows the artist’s potential.

  The plot was also fairly interesting, hinting at a darker side that could have led it to tread on some interesting ground if handled well. There were a small handful of subversive moments that demonstrated the potential that the author had if they were given more time to expand on them. Unfortunately, the superficial elements of Candy Flurry overlapped with a couple of other Shōnen titles which would make the series a difficult sell. It also relied on being quite repetitive; especially with the idea of society “hating sweets”. While it makes sense that this would have been one of the larger focuses of the plot, watching as society began to slowly mirror the main character’s way of thinking, it was over-used and showed little faith in its reader remembering what the manga was about. This lack of confidence is something that can be felt and could put people off the series. The ending is, of course, a little rushed and is unable to fully explore some of the more intriguing elements of Candy Flurry’s narrative. However, the key elements are concluded and it is easy to see how the story would have progressed if given more time.

  The characters were the strongest part of the series, with the main character being likeable and her internal dilemma feeling realistic for the story being told. It set up a couple of interesting dichotomies that could have been expanded upon later in the story. For the secondary characters, there were only a few who received any development; mostly due to the limited amount of time that could be spent on them. There was definitely potential for them to be improved upon and their designs, for the most part, were interesting. The antagonists were definitely the weakest part of Candy Flurry as they didn’t seem to have a clear motive and lacked any depth until the last chapters where they were suddenly given a lot of exposition. Perhaps, if given more time, their purpose would have been revealed slowly over time rather than it being dumped on the reader all at once.

  Overall, Candy Flurry was a series with potential that quickly became buried by a roster of more accomplished series that have similar stories to tell. There were moments of potential that were never fully realised and of some of the character dynamics deserved a little bit more attention paid to them. However, it was still a good series with likeable characters and an interesting premise.

  I hope that the artist and author move onto newer and greater things as they both have talent and it would be a shame for it to go to waste.

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