Omamori Himari

Generic, pretty much sums up this manga. A story of a boy, who inherited some powers and a cat demon, add in a childhood friend, a few more demons, and there you have it. The story doesn't have much of a plot anyways since there's just 1 bad guy in the entire series, ending was poor, MC doesn't really get that much stronger anyways, still an unreliable boy with naive dreams. I don't even think it's much of a conclusive ending. Fight sceneswere pretty lame too. All the other character is also pretty generic, there's not much background story that'll make you emotional or anything so i didn't really get attached to any of the characters. wouldn't recommend this manga, except you're just a harem completionist, nothing really stands out, a pretty borish manga I would say.

Story: 3/10 This is a very, very, overused, unoriginal, and tired harem story. Harem story is one term, because harem stories can be very interesting and cool. However, this is one that you could get from anywhere else. There isn't anything new, even with this sort of supernatural-twist that comes with every harem series that has no originality to it. Art: 4/10 Even as a person who doesn't really mind moe, there is moe prevalent throughout all the character designs. But I still wouldn't mind that. In fact, the girls in this series are quite cute. No, what makes this moe different is...nothing. This is art andcharacter design that is indistinguishable from a lot of other series with bishoujo in them. The manga-ka is a former hentai artist, which makes this the least explicit thing that he's done. Speaking of which, the reason this is decent is because the eye candy is quite good, expected from someone with the manga-ka's credentials. The fight scenes are poorly constructed; I can barely tell what's going on in one panel or another. Plus, you won't even be interested in the fight scenes because the story is so boring. Character: 2/10 I can safely say that Yuuto is the first harem protagonist I've seen that I didn't like not because he was a major fucking douchebag (Rin from SHUFFLE! and Makoto from School Days). No, it's just that he's JUST a nice guy. That's it; he doesn't have a lot of personality outside of that. And the density of the character isn't really examined, expanded upon, or played with. Ichika Orimura may be a moron, but his density is massive enough to make him at least passably interesting. That's right; Yuuto is boring enough to reflect poorly on Ichika Orimura, who I have mixed feelings about. Really, those are the points I have to cover. This series is boring, and you should avoid it if you don't want to be bored. As it is an ecchi harem and moe series, you'll enjoy it even less if you don't like that. In fact, in that case you'll probably hate this series.

tl;dr: A manga with a good cast and good art that was clearly forced to drag on for longer than it should have but still manages to do a decent job overall. This manga started off pretty interesting. The beginning introduces a good main cast of characters that are set up with decent personalities and backgrounds with what feels like the beginning of decent character arcs. The comedy is solid. The plot basically just amounts to introductions to the main characters, but these are pretty good and work well with the characters they focus on so it's all around pretty enjoyable to read. In volume 4 itreaches what is to be its overarching story and the start to this is decently interesting. However, then this story is essentially put on pause. It does a bit with pushing characters arcs for a bit which it does pretty well, but it feels like it runs out of things to do with them in volume 6. After that it enters a phase where it feels completely directionless. The plot doesn't really move forward at all. There's essentially no progress with the main cast, rather it feels at times that characters are being inconsistent for the sake of dragging out their character arcs. This is especially annoying with Yuuto, because it felt like he was finally progressing as a character but then he continues being useless. New side characters are introduced and side characters out of focus are focused more on, but outside of a couple it feels like they're completely insignificant, and the ones that do matter aren't all that great or well developed. The comedy is still decent, but it does start getting repetitive at this point. It basically feels like filler. In the afterwards the magaka essentially states that this was supposed to be a much shorter series that was pulled into being longer to benefit sales wise from the anime, and it really shows. Things pick back up in volume 9, where the overarching arc that was introduced what seems ages ago finally starts making serious progress and there's a pretty intense arc that's tonally quite a bit more intense than previous arcs which also results in good character and relationship development. This arc comes to a good conclusion that builds into the next arc, the final arc. This final arc is also done pretty well, and wraps up Yuuto and Himari's character arcs and relationship arc quite well. Though it also felt rushed in that it didn't do as good a job with anyone else, or rather it did kind of do a good job, but it skipped the most interesting part completely rather than fleshing it out which made it feel like a throw away scene rather than one that matters which is disappointing. The epilogue also felt too quick. In terms of overall thoughts, the action is decent, although generally pretty simple, but generally looks good at the minimum. The art is also fantastic with good style and good framing. And as a random note, it felt kind of weird though how much Yuuto's character design differs from the anime.