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oncemorewithreading's review
3.0
I liked the concept of this one but found myself getting fed up with the constant bickering between the two. However, I liked the art style alot and think that the manga has a lot of promise.
Overall a decent read and I'm intrigued to see how the story continues.
Overall a decent read and I'm intrigued to see how the story continues.
piperkitty's review
4.0
This story follows two spies working together collecting Tesla Fragments-- An invention created by Nikola Tesla that can cause teleportation when activated. For some reason, Tesla thought the best way to protect these fragments was to spread them randomly around the world. Very nice artwork, great detail, interesting backgrounds and line work. It fits the story perfectly.
piperkitty's review against another edition
4.0
This story follows two spies working together collecting Tesla Fragments-- An invention created by Nikola Tesla that can cause teleportation when activated. For some reason, Tesla thought the best way to protect these fragments was to spread them randomly around the world. Very nice artwork, great detail, interesting backgrounds and line work. It fits the story perfectly.
barberia's review against another edition
4.0
Thanks to NetGalley and Kodansha comics for letting me read this manga in exchange for an honest review.
4/5
I really love the characters in this story, each one of them has some annoying quirks, but the difference in characters gives the story more colour and shades. Relationship between Botan and Kuruma has lots of paths, at the moment they are bit of enemies, there is a chance it could take a romance turn, which I think would turn out amazingly. I personally adore mangas with touch of a romance.
In other volumes I would hope to explore backstories of each character. We can see that Botan has experienced a lot in her childhood, so I feel like it's really important to find out more.
Illustrations and art was truly beautiful it had a lot of details. Also the story itself was laid out perfectly, not too much text in pages.
The only reason it's one star less from perfect is cause it's first volume and you would like to be more attached and invested with the whole plot.
Definitely recommend, planning to read other volumes too.
TW: death, gore, burns, violence, blood, gun violence, death of a parent.
4/5
I really love the characters in this story, each one of them has some annoying quirks, but the difference in characters gives the story more colour and shades. Relationship between Botan and Kuruma has lots of paths, at the moment they are bit of enemies, there is a chance it could take a romance turn, which I think would turn out amazingly. I personally adore mangas with touch of a romance.
In other volumes I would hope to explore backstories of each character. We can see that Botan has experienced a lot in her childhood, so I feel like it's really important to find out more.
Illustrations and art was truly beautiful it had a lot of details. Also the story itself was laid out perfectly, not too much text in pages.
The only reason it's one star less from perfect is cause it's first volume and you would like to be more attached and invested with the whole plot.
Definitely recommend, planning to read other volumes too.
TW: death, gore, burns, violence, blood, gun violence, death of a parent.
planetlibrarian's review
2.0
*Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for providing an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review*
I loved the cover and thought the summary sounded interesting, but overall this volume was disappointing. The art is great good, the character design was decent and the action panels weren't too messy to follow. Where things really lacked for me was with the characters and the plot. The concept is pretty neat: Nikola Tesla, renowned turn of the century inventor, realized his inventions were too ahead of the times and locked them away in shards which, when tampered with, cause mayhem and chaos. There's a few different organizations vying for the shards, but real goals and motivations aren't stated. The first volume revolves around the hunt for one specific shard and setting up the main cast, but mostly things aren't well explained and I felt lost at times. I did like Botan's character well enough, but didn't care for most of the other characters. I also thought the attempts at humor were forced and fell flat, it felt like the author was trying to include a type of humor that just didn't suit the story. It created an awkward narrative and I didn't like how it informed character interaction. Overall a great premise, but not the best execution. I do think there is potential for the author to hit their stride and really pull out a good story in future volumes though.
I loved the cover and thought the summary sounded interesting, but overall this volume was disappointing. The art is great good, the character design was decent and the action panels weren't too messy to follow. Where things really lacked for me was with the characters and the plot. The concept is pretty neat: Nikola Tesla, renowned turn of the century inventor, realized his inventions were too ahead of the times and locked them away in shards which, when tampered with, cause mayhem and chaos. There's a few different organizations vying for the shards, but real goals and motivations aren't stated. The first volume revolves around the hunt for one specific shard and setting up the main cast, but mostly things aren't well explained and I felt lost at times. I did like Botan's character well enough, but didn't care for most of the other characters. I also thought the attempts at humor were forced and fell flat, it felt like the author was trying to include a type of humor that just didn't suit the story. It created an awkward narrative and I didn't like how it informed character interaction. Overall a great premise, but not the best execution. I do think there is potential for the author to hit their stride and really pull out a good story in future volumes though.
kari_marie's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
3.75
I am not much for manga, but I did enjoy this. This is story line right up my alley. I love stories that talk about Telsa's secret projects. Yes you need to suspend belief but that is almost always true for any Sci-fi/Fantasy story line. I enjoyed the artwork which is usually the hardest part of manga that is the hardest for me to get into.
3.75 stars because I would be willing to pick up Vol 2 and I really am not a big manga fan.
3.75 stars because I would be willing to pick up Vol 2 and I really am not a big manga fan.
Thank you to NetGalley, Kodansha Comics, Masafumi Nishida, Tadayoshi Kubo and Sannomiya for the free copy. This was an honest review.
quirkycatsfatstacks's review
3.0
There are certain subjects that will always tempt me into picking up a book. One of those subjects is Tesla. Naturally, that meant that I had to give Tesla Note Vol. 1 a chance, because obviously.
Botan Negoro has been training her whole life (literally) to be a government agent. She may only be a high schooler, but she is one of the most elite agents out there, which is good, given the situation at hand.
She's been called in to collect a "Tesla Fragment." These fragments have been scattered throughout the world (sound familiar) by Tesla himself, as he deemed one of his devices too dangerous for the world. Now it's going to be Botan Negoro's job to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
I went into Tesla Note Vol. 1 wanting to love it. And to be fair, there's a lot to appreciate about this one. We've got Tesla's brilliance, a strong female lead character, and tons of social commentary (which I always love to see).
Sadly, I didn't end up enjoying Tesla Note Vol. 1 quite as much as I had hoped. I think the biggest problem for me, ironically, is the characters. Or, more accurately, the lack of character development. Though I didn't like the way, the main characters kept sniping at each other either (it was not as charming as it could have been).
A lot of what happens here only works in manga, and I mean that in every way possible. It relies heavily on that charm, which is totally fine. It's a bit out of this world and odd at times, and then at other times, it is working hard to make important points. It would be a jarring transition anywhere else, but here it works.
Thanks to Kodansha Comics and #NetGalley for making this book available for review. All opinions expressed are my own.
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Botan Negoro has been training her whole life (literally) to be a government agent. She may only be a high schooler, but she is one of the most elite agents out there, which is good, given the situation at hand.
She's been called in to collect a "Tesla Fragment." These fragments have been scattered throughout the world (sound familiar) by Tesla himself, as he deemed one of his devices too dangerous for the world. Now it's going to be Botan Negoro's job to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
I went into Tesla Note Vol. 1 wanting to love it. And to be fair, there's a lot to appreciate about this one. We've got Tesla's brilliance, a strong female lead character, and tons of social commentary (which I always love to see).
Sadly, I didn't end up enjoying Tesla Note Vol. 1 quite as much as I had hoped. I think the biggest problem for me, ironically, is the characters. Or, more accurately, the lack of character development. Though I didn't like the way, the main characters kept sniping at each other either (it was not as charming as it could have been).
A lot of what happens here only works in manga, and I mean that in every way possible. It relies heavily on that charm, which is totally fine. It's a bit out of this world and odd at times, and then at other times, it is working hard to make important points. It would be a jarring transition anywhere else, but here it works.
Thanks to Kodansha Comics and #NetGalley for making this book available for review. All opinions expressed are my own.
Read more reviews over at Quirky Cat's Comics
awkwardreader13's review
2.0
I'm not sure about this. In itself it was fine, there were some funny moments and the art style was nice too. The plot seems a bit overly complex, but all in all it's fine I guess. I only had a problem with the one black character in the story. At first we meet the guy and I'm like "great, the only black character is poor and drunk and steals from others.." then the character was presented as an actually good guy who had a bad time of it because people are racist and because he was grieving. I then thought "oh hey, a commentary on racism, that's pretty good!" but THEN... it flip-flopped again because the main characters saved the black man's son, and suddenly he was like "oh thank you, now I will be able to turn my life around and live clean and stop drinking and provide for my son, and all I needed was you!" and it gave my White Saviour vibes, even though the main characters are Japanese. So maybe white saviourism isn't a thing without the actual white people, but it still felt weird to me.. I realize my whole review is based on a side character but it just... Ergh.
zanderstruck's review
3.0
This manga has a really unique idea and a great art style, that I really enjoyed. The character design is fun and the pacing fast, but I couldn't really connect with anything and the world building happened a bit too quickly for me. I still recommend to check it out, especially over the anime, cause after seeing how low quality that was, the manga really blew me away.