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  CaptainZaimon

  85/100
  A short manga about aliens and espers that could've been much more - still a fun read, though.

  Every once in a while, I come across a manga that feels more like an elevator pitch or blueprint for something much longer, as if we were given a preview of some long-running series that never came to be despite the author's greatest intention and genuine passion for a project. This is very much one of those cases, I feel.

  Our story follows this random unremarkable student (unless we count his hair, which is supposed to be green, according to the author - shame we don't get to see that in the manga proper beyond like, one color illustration in the re-release, from what I gather) who's currently trying to do his best to get into his desired university. But then, his idyllic daily life filled with studying gets interrupted by a random alien girl from planet R'lyeh.

  Side note - I have to admit, I'm puzzled as to why planets and alien currency in a random silly comedy manga are named after Lovecraft's ideas. I guess it's kinda like Mortis Ghost naming characters in OFF using the Bible, who said he just flipped some random pages and noted down ones that sounded cool. Rule of cool always wins, and given this manga is from 2007, it sure does.

  As it turns out, our MC has powerful esper abilities that the planet's military wants to utilize in their war against planet Yaddith. What ensues is a series of romcom-esque gags where our MC has to evade attempts from the alien emissary to recruit him. And thus, poor guy has to decide - will he stick to his guns and continue studying in pursuit of higher education, or will he accept the R'lyeh emissary's request? We get her attempts to seduce him, get into his father's good graces, a fight against an alien war machine, a backstory explaining why MC isn't eager to just live the life of an esper and all of that in just 7 chapters.

  Here's the thing - in just 7 chapters. Now, there are plenty of manga that manage to cram tons of enjoyable things and pure fun in less than that (any given story in Yen Samejima's Chinese Fantasy, Honno Shiori's short stories or the average story in Jingai no Yome to Ichaicha Suru come to mind), but, sadly, in this case, it's hard not to feel a bit underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong - you get a complete story, characters with motivations, some cool moments and it wraps up in a decently satisfying way. But it really does feel like it was meant to be more and we never got to see that complete vision the author had in mind, which is a shame. There's even a tiny bit of social commentary that had the potential to be much more - characters ponder whether it's better to simply be born with a talent and live a carefree life thanks to natural predisposition for something, or whether it's better to feel the satisfaction of your hard work finally paying off. Unfortunately, we get a bit of a basic answer to that which might not be satisfying to all of you, no doubt due to the story being cut short somehow.

  That aside, however, this is nonetheless a pretty enjoyable manga. If you like any of its character designs, you sure do get a beginning, middle and ending. Hell, there's even a bit of ecchi in the form of high kicks with pantyshots here and there, if you're into that. Overall, it's not a bad manga by any means - but it's very much like a tiny sample of something that could - and should - have been more.

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