Re: RAVE MASTER manga
I'll be quite frank with my opinion. I read about 2-3 volumes myself before I threw it away.
The art is AVERAGE, and AVERAGE art in japanese manga simply sucks. The story doesn't have any unexpected turns. I love it how the author tries to make interesting turns and 'unexpected' encounters etc, which are very very easy to predict. For example the musica dude, anyone could guess from the first sight he was not the musica they were looking for in the first place, and shortly after it was easy to see he definately was the gramps grandson.
And a character who's looking for his/her memory? how lame is that. Might be good, but it was all set up in such an uninteresting way. And you know, I haven't even read it that far, but it's MORE THAN EASY to tell that the leader of whatsoever dark brings is his dad. If I'm actually wrong, wow, the author succeeded in surprising me for the first time. Seriously, no unexpected turns, sucky art, and easily predicted/uninteresting plot all three make it a worthless manga in my list.
But I guess thats my opinion. I guess about 10-12 year olds will love this, as they're not able to think so far ahead in general, so the turns will be unexpected, and even the lame action scenes might be interesting for them.