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Weekly Shonen Jump: Do Retry 100 Chapters 1-19 Review

I didn’t like this one from the start so whatever.

Do Retry

(Jun Kirarazaka)

May 2023 to September 2023

19 Chapters

What I Liked

  • Akari was cute
  • The aunt/gang boss was cool
  • The aunt’s backstory

Where I Think Things Went Wrong

  • The boxing was a bit fantastical? It feels like a very grounded sport to me, I would have preferred if they stuck to real techniques (but then a kid would have no chance)
  • The war as the background setting was unsettling but also felt like a rip-off of Grave of the Fireflies, which feels like a horrible thing to say…
  • I feel like there could have been some insightful things said about forced positivity but the chance was squandered.
  • The dad was a boring character.
  • The art was unpolished.
  • Debuting around the same time as Martial Artist Asumi probably didn’t help.

Conclusion

The ending to this was so odd. It mostly just made me surprised that being a cobbler is a viable job in Japan?

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