Godland Company

Oneshots usually have one of three purposes. Some are created to add supplementary information to ongoing or completed manga. Others are simply made for competitions, and the winning oneshot usually appears in some sort of magazine. However, the most common type of oneshot is made to measure interest in a subject. If the oneshot is received positively, then it may get a serialization and become a full blown manga. When I find a oneshot like this that didn't get a serialization, I enjoy trying to figure out what held it back. So why didn't this one make the cut? First off, the story is dull andoverdone. Mysterious neighbors move in, hijinks ensue, etc. There is nothing here that separates this from any other manga with this premise. Furthermore, the characters are generic. A hunky vampire, a naive succubus, a weird mascot character, and a hot headed young boy. Add onto this an utterly boring main character, and we are left with... not much. The art is as close as this manga gets to a high point. In some places it looks pretty appealing, but all in all it stays rather simple. With a story and characters as generic as this, the mangaka needed to have flashy art to distract away from those failings. Unfortunately, he did not. This oneshot isn't bad per se, it just doesn't prove itself. It doesn't try to be much more than a generic shounen, and that's all it ends up being. Still, there are worse ways to spend your time. If you like Toshiaki Iwashiro's other works (also the author of Psyren) it wouldn't hurt to read this just to say you have. Otherwise, I don't really see a reason to bother with this. There's other, better, things out there to read.