Ares Maier - Art wonderful. Guy can draw, and draw action scenes, no doubt about it. However the entire first half is one long action scene that loses my interest before it gets to the twist, and the first page isn't intriguing enough to make me care to read longer - if I weren't reviewing these, I'd have given up a few pages in.
Argosy - Art good, but it's got the grey quality that makes me think it could do with a good application of far more blacks. Also, didn't get a sense of who the characters were or why I should care.
B is for Bishie - Good on the spotted blacks and the linework; made me laugh. The characterization is sketchy, but that works in a comic story like this one.
Bloomfield Memory - For some reason, the drawing on the young girl herself seems noticeably less confident than the rest. Not to say it's bad, but compared to the rest, which is striking, it stands out. The weakest part of the whole thing is the font and text. It distracts from the page, rather than adding to it, there's grammar and punctuation problems, and the dialogue and narration could have been tightened up a lot more. The story is OK, not outstanding - Story and art are the most traditionally shoujo manga so far (admittedly, I'm reading these in alphabetical order, so it's not like I've seen a lot of shoujo yet. XD)
BlueBlood - Art is nice. Biggest problem is: this is the first chapter of a larger story. That can be handled well as a short story, but only if there's some sort of resolution of tensions brought up during the story, and this doesn't have that.
Bullet-Forged Samurai - The first page is, to me, the weakest page of the piece. The character designs of the heads of the three protagonists are way more simplistic than any of the backgrounds or the other characters. I have two thoughts about that. The first is: if these three look significantly different from the rest of the people for a reason, that reason needs to be explained, and secondly: they need to be rendered more strongly. Their heads come across as amateur anime fanart, especially in comparison to the rest of the art. Characterization and story: generic. I'd have liked to see a detailed background featured on the first page, since that is some of the strongest work in it. And what does the title have to do with the story?
Dawn of the Undead Bunnies - Good art, if a bit confusing in spots, but had the air of a joke that went on for too long.
Fortune Finders! - Art's fine and fits the humorous adventure thing in the vein of One Piece. The story ... jumps around and gets a bit confusing. Also reads as the first chapter of a longer work.
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