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Psychic Academy, Vol 1

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first of all you should know that my english isn't perfect ^^

This manga has a boring start indeed, but I hate reading anything without ending it, and I'm glad that I did it with this one cuz the manga gets very good at the last 4 or 5 volumes.

if someone spoiled the story for you then reading the manga is meaningless, so I'll just give you some good and bad points about it

good points :
- the art is good and you will see so much movements and nice shots that you will like
- the chapters has their own fun so it isn't just " how it will ends "
- there is romance and tragedy things but of course not in the first volumes
- there is some comedy as well
- it has many important characters and it has unexpected ending

bad points :
- as I said it has boring slow story at first
- the fights are boring, they just use skills, defending or attacking, and then one of them rape the other and they say "wow! that person is great", it isnt life or death fights except those in the final volume

note that the girls all of them are busty here, and remember if you don't like the 2 main girls "you will see them in the covers" then you don't need to read it

In the world of Psychic Academy, psychic powers in the population have been on the rise. And it's a good thing too because the forces of evil have also been increasing. The most gifted of these psychics, Zero, defeated the "Dark Overlord" and is now teaching at the Psychic Academy, a school for adolescents with psychic gifts. Most of the time, these powers show up in the first years of life, but for Zero's brother, Ai, he has just shown potential before entering high school, and has been dragged out of his everyday life. He doesn't want to go because he believes that he has no powers, and plus how can he ever live up to the shadow of his famous brother? One good thing is that his childhhood friend that has a crush on him, Orina, is also attending the Academy. He also picks up a pink rabbit named Master Boo, whose voice only he can hear, who guides him on his rocky way of discovering his abilities. Another friend that he makes is Mew, a girl with attitude and beauty who supposedly has a soul 100% compatible with Ai! While most of the Academy looks in awe at Ai because he is Zero's brother, there are some at the school who look on him with complete hostility and might even want to hurt him! It's up to Ai to prove that he belongs there, to others and to himself.

Psychic Academy reminds one of the Harry Potter novels in that a young boy is sent to a school to work on abilities he never knew he had up till this point. But beyond those similarities, this manga carves its own niche. Katsu Aki's storytelling ability is very clear and easy to follow, even during the action sequences. There is not a lot of clutter in the art. The characters are interesting and make up a little for the cliched plot. There's also a lot of humor here, especially from Master Boo, the rabbit.

Well the book is about a student from the Psychic Academy. He can't understand why he would be put in a school for the gifted. He has no slef confidence and thinks there must be a mistake. He quickly masters basic techniques without understanding how much it takes. He still has not revealed his full power. ^.^ Of course like with any manga there have got to be chicks! There are two real pretty ones. Orina is nice and carying and Mew is distant and tough. Both have different abilities. Orina is closer to the water element and Mew to the fire. Orina as you can tell has a slight crush on Ai. (Go Ai!) Ai's too clueless to notice and thinks Orina has a crush on his older brother. It's a great manga. The first volume is a little light and fluffy, but light and fluffy can be nice. A thicker plot isn't even touched in the first volume. It's still great though.

I thought this book was okay. Not actually for any of that hocus-pocus stuff, but for the developing romance between Ai and some of the other buxom females. It's kind of lame though, a formula repeated throughout a lot of the anime world. A cute guy has a chance to hook up with all these cute girls, and is really confused on who to choose. Unrealistic ethics in my view.

The bishounen art direction is nice, but the fact every female in this manga has gigantic breasts is also a questionable ethic.
Magic duels in this book are kind of a Harry Potter thing. I can't say I was really interested in the acion scenes though. The standard flashy anime background got kind of lame in this book. I can understand male appeal, but the shower scenes very so often were inappropriate.

IN short, the book was mildly entertaining, humor was kind of low, but the developing romance was very entertaining.

I'd have written a more insightful review, but my computer is on the fritz.

I read this book on a reconmendation from a friend. At first I din't think I would like it mostly cause alot of Tokyopop books have NO plots. But I was Wrong. This Is a great book. before I read this I haden't read alot of manga so fom what I new Rurouni Kenshin was the best out there. But then again I was wrong. ( I hate admitting it.)
[...] The worst nudity In the first 3 vlumes is they show the 2 main girls Orina and Mew taking a bath (Not toghether people! I swear you guys have nasty minds.) But all you see is the outline of the girls....yeah. Any way the 4 has some sex related matterial. I own the first 4 volumes but from what I've previewed in the store of volume 7 is Ai and Orina start off in a hotel but they don't show a thing.
The first 1-3 volumes show the friendship of Orina and Ai blossoming into love(You don't know how hard it is to write that.) and Ai and Mews friend ship.Ai and Mew end up getting toghether.(you can tell) Then 5-7 Show them as boyfiend and girlfriend. Half way throught book 7 Ai relizes how much he likes Mew and that therte made for each other. (Yeah Yeah mushy crap) but it is a good plot and story line.
The best think about it is that it is a comedy and in case you haven't read it I'm giving something more a way from volume 1. The funniest person is Master Boo sceptor yad yad yad. Any way hes a rabbit who can camunicate with Ai telapathiclly(spelling?)He is they funniest person/creature who along with Mew help I learn his ability. In the first book you learn that master Boo is a perverted bunny who thinks he's a streetster(?) the funniest think I think he says is when Ai and Mew are having a sparing practice. This is what he say's "Your Ice cold, Your covered in ice cream at the north pole sipping ice tea, shaking hands witth Frosty tyher frozen-assed snow man." Her said that as Ai ran through Mews Flames.
There are many wierd characters which makes it even better.
So thats what I think of it but every one has different taste.
Ever one I ever talked to said it rocked. so know I am waiting for the others Yeah.

I am a big Manga reader, and I love many series by Tokyopop, therefore I am always looking for new ones. This was such an awful book, I started with high hopes, it's cheap and sleezy, and was so deeply offended by the Porn-like art that I wouldn't proceed in reading it. I threw two out because the sexual content was so distracting that I was disgusted. If you want your girls and boys believing breast implants and porn is a good way to go, I guess you'd approve. If you have any moral standards and care about the moral climate of your home, you will avoid this particular series. I thought the idea sounded great, a psychic academy, but this is disgusting and not at all grounded in a paranormal adventure. This is no Harry Potter, or literature. I am no prude, nor am I a teen, but I hated this, and I would not let anyone near it. I don't want this garbage in my head. I believe in woman's rights, and men treating women with respect. This isn't sexy, one of the joys of Manga's are that the heroes are interesting and cool. This is not appropriate for the 16 Teen rating that is claims. As a writer myself, it's just totally inappropriate. There is even a part where an under age male is grooping a female and upseting her. Not art, just the filth that contiues to ruin the minds of the young creating many problems, as you know. I would at suggest this was at least list that this is graffic and innappropiate for underage readers.

Psychic Academy is a good manga, although a bit heavy on the fan service at times. It's funny and amusing, with plenty of the typical japanese fiction-style romantic hijinks.

I thought I'd throw in an opinion that isn't from a male who reads fanservice manga in his spare time. Psychic Academy is a fanservice manga. Get used to it. Yes, it is not-so-subtly disguised fanservice wrapped around a story that a three-year-old could have thought up.

The "story" is about a boy named Ai Shiomi who is sent to an academy for students with psychic powers. Unfortunately, he has no idea what his powers are. To make matters worse, his brother, Zerod Aimu Kyupura Pa Azaraku Vairu Rua Darogu, a.k.a. "The Vanquisher of the Dark Overlord", is a teacher at the school and continually embarrasses Ai with his displays of brotherly love. Meanwhile, Ai gets stuck in a love triangle between Orina, his childhood best friend, and Mew, a mysterious and powerful girl with one of the stupidest names ever. Finally, there's Master Boo, the telepathic rabbit with an annoying accent, who climbs on Ai's back on page 24 and doesn't get off for the rest of the manga.

When the first volume of a manga starts with an introduction, it's a bad sign. Why must the author explain everything that happened before the story started? Why can't he explain as the story progresses? Well, he is too busy with the fanservice.

Psychic Academy is a lame rehash of every other "kid with super powers/magical abilities goes to a special school" story you've ever read. Ai undoubtedly has amazing powers that no one has ever seen, and will probably rise up and do...something. I'm not really sure what, since there has been no antagonist introduced so far.

The characters are very two-dimensional, and not at all believable. The Vanquisher of the Dark Overlord subplot started out as a promising comedic idea, but the author never did anything with the character. Unlike most characters in this situation, Ai doesn't try to find out what his psychic ability is. Instead he spends his time whining that he doesn't have any special abilities (when it's pretty clear he does) and how he wants his brother to leave him alone.

At the school, all the kids and teachers are named after their auras. Who decides what the aura's name is? I'm not really sure, but whoever names the auras is a sadist. Why else would some poor souls have names like Shining Dappler, Boo Velka Receptor Arba, Sahra, Mew, and, of course, Zerod Aimu Kyupura Pa Azaraku Vairu Rua Darogu? Doesn't it make you wish you had an aura?

The author has not thought some of his scenes through. In one of the first scenes, Ai is walking to school when he sees a baby falling off a balcony. What mother would leave a baby on a balcony by himself? How can a baby who cannot stand manage to get on top of a balcony railing? Let's say the baby can fly. If the baby can fly high enough to sit on the railing, why would he need to be rescued? Why couldn't he fly back to the balcony? Oops, you've fallen in a plot hole!

Instead, the author has expended his energy creating irritating characters. Master Boo is possibly the most annoying mascot ever. He is not cute, not huggable, and has the most disturbing accent ever invented. Perhaps he thinks he's a gangster? Perhaps a bad translation is at fault, but when Master Boo utters gems like "Sharpy-Sharp-Sharp. I'm chiselin' an arrowhead outta you, Buck," who needs Shakespeare?

Now we come to the biggest problem: the fanservice. There is endless fanservice, which is especially shocking since the manga is rated T for 13 and up. This manga really should have been rated OT for 16 and up.

Fanservice includes naked girls in bath tubs, girls dressing or undressing, topless girls halfway through dressing or undressing, panty shots, girls with their clothes falling off for no apparent reason, girls showing so much skin that you wonder why they're bothering to wear anything at all, naked water fairies (let's get REALLY CLOSE so that you know they're naked!), and many more. Every girl in the book is also suffering from Truly Astronomical Thoracic Appendages Syndrome. It's a little known syndrome that afflicts many girls in fanservice heavy manga. Their thoracic appendages are so enormous that you wonder where they find clothing large enough to fit over their sizable body parts. Heck, these girls probably have trouble finding bras the size of circus tents. The most amazing thing is that all of them are suffering from the same disease. Every female, be she student, teacher, or innocent bystander, is suffering from the dreaded Truly Astronomical Thoracic Appendages Syndrome. Clearly, they should spend less time learning new spell power ups, and more time searching for a cure to the pandemic. Not only do they suffer from this terrible disease, they also feel the need to flout their symptoms by not wearing bras while jumping around (probably because they couldn't find any big enough) and sticking their afflicted body parts in other people's faces. You don't have to wear a bra if you don't want to, but if you're going into combat, wouldn't you want to restrain your swinging body parts? This is what sports bras were invented for, girls.

Ai seems continually amazed by the girls' terrible luck and makes sure to check that their thoracic appendages are real every couple of pages by grabbing, squishing, and squeezing in the appropriate places. The girls allow this behavior, but then again, perhaps Truly Astronomical Thoracic Appendages Syndrome decreases your brain size.

Many of the characters are also suffering from Artist Likes Wrinkles Too Much Syndrome. Many of the characters wear outfits which have wrinkles in completely illogical places, such as across the upper part of the chest, above their Truly Astronomical Thoracic Appendages, on the Truly Astronomical Thoracic Appendages, in the crotch area, across the waist (but running in the wrong direction), and across the shoulders. I may not be an artist, but I can tell when things look wrong and this looks seriously wrong.

So, please don't buy Psychic Academy unless you think that fanservice is a wonderful thing that should be encouraged. There are better manga out there, and you shouldn't be wasting your time and money on this hyena offal.

I found this a highly enjoyable read. The protagonist(Ai) is forced to attend a school for children with Psychic abilities. The problem is, he doesn't have any powers (as for as he knows). He is however, the son of The Vanquisher of The Dark Overlord (no pressure), who also happens to be the newest teacher Aura teacher (Aura is the term used for magical ability). Upon entering, Ai meets Boo. A psychic rabbit with a telepathic connection to Ai, who decids to help Ai realize his power and provide mostly bland comic-relief.

My personal favorite aspect is Ai's forming relationship with two different girls. Orina, the childhood friend who tries to be nice, but gets blown off by Ai most of the time. And Mew, the sexy, mysterious girl who helps Ai realize his power. There is a small amount of fan-service, but nothing too big.

If you enjoy romance, fantasy, or comedy mangas in general, there is absolutley no reason you shouldn't buy this.

I really liked this book. I had been looking for a new series of books to read after Chobits ended. I can't wait for the anime series(you can get it dubbed at eBay).