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Psyren
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Description
Yoshina Ageha is a high school student who offers to help people with their problems for 10,000 yen. He'll take care of your stalkers, find your lost animal, whatever you want. One day when he's heading home, a nearby pay phone rings, and he picks it up. The only thing he hears however is his own voice echoing. After finding a mysterious card with the word 'Psyren' printed on it, his life suddenly changes as he is drawn into a crazy new world.
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Associated Names
PSYЯEN
PSYREN-サイレン-
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Latest Release(s)
Status in Country of Origin
9 Volumes (Ongoing)
Completely Scanlated?
No
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User Rating
Average: 8.4 / 10.0 (540 votes) Bayesian Average: 8.35 / 10.0
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Last Updated
February 6th 2010, 11:45pm PST
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Year
2007
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No
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Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos # 228  (+3) Monthly Pos # 152 (+117) 3 Month Pos # 91 (+3) 6 Month Pos # 81  (-12)
List Stats
On 2356 reading lists On 503 wish lists On 52 unfinished lists On 85 custom lists
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| It was good... until we had human by okigen on December 22nd, 2009, 9:51pm |
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Spoiler (highlight to view) The series started so mysteriously, filled with monsters amid a survival game, but then the terror slowly went down as the protagonists tracked down the source. As the human appeared more and more frequently, replacing monsters, I got a feeling like Psyren was losing its own genre, especially the horror and mysterious scene which was the most attractive point of this series T__T
Rating: 8.5 / 10.0 |
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| A good story with bad characters. by DarkSlushie on December 2nd, 2009, 6:28pm |
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Psyren is about a boy named Ageha who is roped into a game called Psyren, a battle royale set in a post-apocalyptic world with the very survival of the human race on the line. While it's not the most original idea to date, the story is well paced and fairly involving. The art's not bad either and there are some pretty cool fight scenes thrown in to top it off. In fact, Psyren could have easily been one of my favorite series if not for it's one glaring flaw:
Terrible Character Development.
To start things off, there's the main character, who does nothing to break the typical hero archetype set by the countless shonen manga that came before it. Now this isn't always a bad thing - afterall, if something works, you should stick with it, right? So I'm willing to forgive that much. But a little originality wouldn't hurt.
Next in line is the female protagonist Amamiya, who is introduced by the main character as an "ice queen" (See: Tsundere). She's a rather quiet girl who who struggles with her own personal issues, which are somehow also related to Psyren, and tries hard not to become too close with anyone, for fear she might lose them. But despite this, she possesses a strong will and always tries to keep her friends from coming to harm..at least, that's probably what the author was aiming for. To me, she came off as whiney, rotten and quite frankly mentally unstable. when she's not sitting by herself brooding over the fact she might die soon, she's bossing people around and having psychotic breakdowns. She may be cute (glasses girls are my type) but her personality makes her totally unsexy. But of course, being the only female character related to the plot, it's to no surprise that she's the potential love interest for pretty much every guy in the series. While this is very typical of shonen series and I usually don't have a complaint with it, Amamiya's character is so unappealing that I can't understand what they see in her.
And then there's everyone else. I can't name names nor can I even remember what they look like - that's exactly how uninteresting they are. New characters are brought in in nearly every chapter but are introduced in such a way that makes readers not care who they are before they are killed off a few chapters later. Sometimes, the characters are revealed to have past relationships, such as having gone to the same school together, but these realizations are so random that you'll wonder if the plot would be affected at all if it hadn't happened at all.
The bottom line, it's a good story, despite being somewhat unoriginal. The characters lack good personality traits and the story telling probably could have been handled better. If you're looking for something new and engaging, look somewhere else. But if you just want something fun to read, give it a try. I won't stop you.
Rating: 2 / 10.0 |
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| the heroine is just unheroic by acritic on November 28th, 2009, 2:47am |
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Honestly, I found the heroine of this manga unattractive. She's short, unstylish, and uncharming that makes her a snowman not an ice-queen despite the fact that the author gives his best effort to perform her to fit for such a big role. To be specific, simply I do not think it works well in terms of her outlook for what general shounen manga should express. For example, think about her glasses, where the heck on Earth would real male men fall in love with glasses from 2-D Earth? Here, I am talking about majority not minority. And what about that seemingly boring trait of hers which I think is incompetent nowadays against other heroines? I would prefer to see somewhat energetic and fresh personality that gives some relaxation and sensibility of loveliness that grabs the readers' attention while successfully doing her job as a part of the storyline. I wouldn't bother to read straight a whole night with that kind of heroine dancing before my eye on the distinguished setting such as this.
- new comment for ch.44 -
Can anybody stop these damn waned, tattered statements like “I can’t wait to see how you’ll improve” or “I will let you alive for now because you are too weak” or “I am letting you go for the future usage of yours” or “You are not yet to be die here because you are my rival” at the instant when our almighty protagonist is at the pinch?? Should I put this simply? “Oh my god, they are all overused in shounen manga”? Young mangakas these days should at least read some more mangas until they get sick of such statements before they do their job.
Rating: 7 / 10.0
... Last updated on November 28th, 2009, 6:12pm |
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| Hero sux by brave86 on October 25th, 2009, 9:38am |
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| Maybe im too old for shounen manga but i really hate brainless hero with senseless "justice". In a life and dead hanging on balance, they didnt feel any fear/scare and do a lot of stupid thing. I don't understand what the hell he thinking. Cant feel the suspend or panic when they stuck in trouble because you know it definitely wont go worst. The plot borrow a lot of idea from other manga, mainly gantz. |
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| .. by dreamer00013 on October 17th, 2009, 2:23pm |
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if you like shounen, go for it.
It's way better than most other popular shounen mangas though. (bleach, naruto, one piece)
little bit predictable. but also has very surprising moments!
edit: Okay. It gets like Bleach: Great at first, then getting boring, predictable and after a while it just loses its charm. It's a pity, it could have gotten better! The potential was there.
Rating: 9 / 10.0
... Last updated on January 14th, 2010, 10:22am |
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| predictable, by windwisper89 on October 8th, 2009, 11:58pm |
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from the beginning each chapter already give the clue what happen next example: Sakurako Amamiya is the character that i understand from the begining have sense of darkness that girl has some darkness on herself but she able to deteminded it without she knowing it then it's true the proof is after she lost of some of her part after batlle with the "false prophet" she starting lost control of herself...
and maybe this happen because the universe starting to balance the "axis".
Ageha is stupid he should know he should not change the future by creating parrale world..it's only making it worse he should fight at the future together with the child...stupid ageha..maybe the director want make story have more chapter by creating this conflict...
Rating: 10 / 10.0 |
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| Psyren by Virusbluemage on July 11th, 2009, 12:26pm |
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Psyren is a very good manga, it seeemed like a light action shounen manga at first but it quickly turned into a battle oriented Naruto/Bleach manga. I like this series a lot, it is one of the few series in which Iike the entire cast of characters. I think the whole traveling to the future and back is a fantqastic idea, and the psychic powers although not original is a compelling concept. My main problem with this manga is that the main enemy organization is too small, 5 members? That's ridiculous, it's as if the author is making a point to make this a relatively short manga(which is something I suspect he might be regretting now); I think it was clever how the author killed almost the entire cast on the first mission to create the atmosphere that any character could die at anytime(Gantz did something similar); this series has some very likable characters, good fights and a well done plot, I fear however that the series may be too short for the author to develop characters in depth. I reccomend this manga to any shounen fan. I expect I will love this series more as it progresses.
I give it 8.9 out of 10 |
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| I started to love this manga, by Lecros on July 5th, 2009, 2:27pm |
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I propably dont have a full score for it in my reading list yet but I should. Ive been reading it for a while and been hooked just as long. By now I completely forgot the bit that is in the description about Ageha though. Even though people have Superhuman powers *PSI*, the usage iof it is very interesting and fun to read and its not like some people are just super powerfull. On first glance a lot of things seem generic like The Wise being a group of 5 bosses.
But the personalities of the Elmore kids, the depth between at first glance strong characters and the actions of people I jus'don't know how to explain it other then GREAT. 
I feel that Ageha has a little less depth though but maybe thats how you really get sucked into it through his vision.
Rating: 9.2 / 10.0 |
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| Predictable by Gates on June 14th, 2009, 4:45pm |
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Although I enjoy the story very much, it is extremely predictable. Everything I think that will happen ends up happening within a few chapters. But as I said, I still enjoy it
Rating: 9 / 10.0 |
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| un%$#^ing believable. by revilenigma on June 9th, 2009, 7:17am |
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I have read somewhere around 100+ different manga, from Abara to Zombie Powder and this is by far the worst manga I have ever read, it bored me to %^$#ing tears. Nothing new at all just more generic shounen stuff, the art, characters and story are just tired recycled crap. First time I have ever giving up on a manga after reading only one chapter.
Rating: 1 / 10.0
... Last updated on July 16th, 2009, 3:10pm |
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