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Things are better in twos. Four wheels good? Two wheels better. Four legs good? Two legs better. That’s why our reviews come in pairs. At least for the manga. The movies are a whole other ball game inside a kettle of fish. Are we mixing metaphors and aphorisms? You betcha, because that’s two and two is better.
First up is Tim with a webtoon, The Player Hides His Past. The premise is there was a popular game that suddenly went offline and the CEO disappeared. Shortly afterwards, gates opened up, monsters started attacking, and everyone that was a player became their character. What happened to the people that multiplayed because they love experimenting with skills and styles? Presumably they looked like a Star Trek transporter accident. It gets a Burn It.
Weltall has 9MM Girls. This was a crowd funded comic series that’s very clearly in the style of manga. There’s a pair of ladies trying to do security when a guy does a hit on their target. So now they want to get revenge on the guy, or something. There’s not nearly enough pages or story to get past whatever is trying to be done here. At best this is very much for the people that funded this. It gets a Borders.
