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Medaka Box  
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Description
Kurokami Medaka, the strongest girl in Hanokiwa Gakuen (Academy), leads the school's student council. The student body can submit pleas for help, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, into the suggestion box that Medaka installed. Together with council members Zenkichi, Akune, and Kikaijima, Medaka takes on the challenges in the school that range from mundane tasks to supernatural battles.

Type
Manga

Related Series
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Associated Names
めだかボックス
最強學生會長
最强会长黑神

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Latest Release(s)
v.1 c.1 by CXC Scans (23d ago)
c.192 (end) by CXC Scans (23d ago)
c.191 by CXC Scans (29d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
20 Volumes (Ongoing)
Magazine serialization ended at chapter 192.

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1
Ends at Vol 7, Chap 55

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Forum
13 topics, 129 posts
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User Rating
Average: 7.1 / 10.0 (867 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.1 / 10.0
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Last Updated
April 25th 2013, 12:04am PST

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Action  Comedy  Drama  Ecchi  Martial Arts  School Life  Shounen  Supernatural 
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Author(s)
NisiOisiN

Artist(s)
AKATSUKI Akira

Year
2009

Original Publisher
Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)
Weekly Shonen Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #541 increased(+47)
Monthly Pos #69 decreased(-4)
3 Month Pos #74 increased(+13)
6 Month Pos #89 increased(+3)

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On 789 wish lists
On 215 unfinished lists
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Forum Posts
Medaka Box Ends This Week 19 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes ago
voiding a previous arc? *Spoilers* 34 days, 7 hours, 26 minutes ago
did medaka box just end at 185? 69 days, 9 hours, 57 minutes ago
Medaka Box Question 104 days, 6 hours, 18 minutes ago
Yeah....I still don't know 344 days, 21 hours, 56 minutes ago

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 Not for everyone, as any manga.   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by vyrhen
January 17th, 2013, 12:34pm
What is a friendship? What is effort? What is victory? Medaka Box is a must read manga wich questions Shounen Jump principles wich we are used to see, and for that alone it's a memorable series.
You don't have a male protagonist wich sucks and then gets stronger with training and his friends to fight the evil of the world by killing/beating his enemies, but you have a Monster/God/Overpowered woman that could just be alone and be fine that fights the evil of the world... literally. More than beating people and blaming them, Kurokami Medaka tries to reform everysingle person of the world, no matter what they did, no matter what they are, she will make them at least never do what they did again, and without hurting them permanently. Impossible? Too idealistic? Kurokami Medaka thinks the same... but it's still worth trying out.
Check out this impressive series where just beating someone isn't victory, where just training isn't enough, where friend/enemy labels are overrated, in a world where concepts define power, mixed with your usual brawling, but be careful... your mind might not be prepared for the twisting.
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 The First Chapter Killed Me   
Rating: N/A
by FormX
January 8th, 2013, 9:08pm
The first chapter is chock full of shounen plot devices. If this is your first shounen manga, maybe you'll make it thorough, but I don't remember if I survived.

Aside from that, the synopsis isn't that interesting to begin with.
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 What the hell did I just read?   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by NomCakeMangaNom
October 11th, 2012, 4:59pm
Spoiler Warning. May contain spoilers, may not. Meh.

Ok, Megaka Box. At the beginning, it was about the student council president, a perfect girl, and her childhood friend. She brought in a suggestion box, and began to form her council. Ok, that was good, it was a school-life based shounen manga.

Then it brought in the class 13 (well, I think it was class 13), people who are abnormal and have super powers basically, and there is some evil conspiracy about the school where something (I can't remember what, so it must've been something like death or something stupid) was going to happen to the regular student population. So they broke into the secret facility to fight them. Ok, moving to a school-life/battle shounen manga. That's good, it suits the abnormal student council president.

Then it was the minus arc. Ok, so there were powers that took rather than gave. That's cool, there is always room for two sides to a coin. So the team fought the new enemy, one of them who had a long history, since the beginning. Good continuity, not pulling plots out of their arse like some do. So once they clear the threat it's hunky dory.

Then came the not equals. It was a slight 'arse conjuring' plot development, but it could roll. With the future student council being made, yeah cool. This shounen actually planned for the future.

But then it started to go on about a weird test. What was that about? It was in the middle of an arc already, and it pulled what I like to call a 'Drum Arc' (a reference to the One Piece arc that split up the criminal organisation which name I can't spell's arc. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go read One Piece). It was a stupid trial, and my patience was at an end, so I dropped it.

I even look over the later chapters to see if the magic arse conjorur struck again, and it had. Lots. They were at the North Pole for crying out loud! How the hell? Even later, it talks about a magic warrior in a blood like which hits when they're 20.

Basically at around chapter 100ish, it went to shit. But what depresses me even more was the art. Not because it was bad, but because I thought it was bloody brilliant. If only the magic arse just stuck to the mangas that already abuse it...
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 Too much on the shounen battle track   
Rating: N/A
by Dright
September 22nd, 2012, 3:04pm
I really liked the start with the suggestion box and everything, the scenarios were always quite funny. But as soon as it started to get into the over-the-top battles it just got there and stayed there.

Hopefully it'll achieve a better comedy school life vs shounen battle ratio later on.
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 Insanely Crazy   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by Drewbear
July 19th, 2012, 4:46am
I don't care what anyone says but this manga is so over the top and crazy that I find it to be absolutely terrific. It is fast paced and the plot barely makes any sense but thats what gives it its charm. Just take it for what it is and you will enjoy it. Once you start pondering and questioning the story progression, you will lose that insanely zealous, ramped, and crazy uniqueness this manga has. Just enjoy it at face value.
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 Medaka Box: What is This?   
Rating: 4.6 / 10.0
by Ohmanitsjojo
May 10th, 2012, 7:28pm
The school suggestion box; an object that is commonly existent in manga and anime, as well as in the manga Medaka Box. Most of the time, such detail is barely important, which is also true here. Seeing as that is not important, let me throw that aside and explain what to expect from this manga. Simply put, be ready to flip the pages to a tedious, boring manga with extremely long and pointless explanations.

Zenkichi Hitoyoshi is a student at Hakoniwa Academy. At the start of the manga, Hitoyoshi vaguely introduces the character, Kurokami Medaka, the student council president of Hakoniwa Academy, as to what kind of being she is. Without a doubt, a complete monster. Such can be said for the majority of the characters in the manga, Medaka Box, as well. Apparently, this manga is an episodic manga, that eventually turns into an action manga. Sadly, I have not read up to such a point.

From the beginning of Medaka Box, the outer appearance of the manga is a story with decent jokes, only to be shrouded with horrendously long details beside that. I do not comprehend as to why the author of this manga has to stretch the length of the jokes at all. This basically ruins the joke. Putting comedy aside, you basically have an episodic manga. What else is there in this "story"? Well... I actually don't know.

The characters can be considered a good point in Medaka Box, as well as a bad point. In Medaka Box, characters are unique in a way, but the ability to display them is mediocre. In every character introduction, we are given a large amount of information about a single person. In a way, this is great, although, giving us useless information is not. Continuing it with a long summary of the character with 100 words spread over 2 or 3 pages, instead of the possible 40 in a half page or one page, is also not. My favorite part of the characters is somewhat of what I said before, the uniqueness of the characters. Shown as having superhuman abilities, nearly every recurring character is unique in a way. Although Medaka Box can be displayed as being a story with a majority of the characters being unrealistic, at this point, such is a spark of light.

Now then, the art. The art is wonderful. Well-drawn characters, as well as backgrounds and details in art is included in such. In the entire manga known as Medaka Box, this detail is the greatest. Going from regular facial expressions to abnormally unusual facial expressions, you can easily tell what a character is thinking.

What else is there to say? Well, on first impression, I disliked this manga. As of now? I still dislike it. I have never been a fan of Nisio Isin, and would not be surprised to hear opinions being biased of Medaka Box due to the extremely high reputation of his. I have read twelve chapters of this manga so far, and before someone tells me to "read up to chapter 92, then express your opinion," I would like to know something. Who in their right mind would read eleven volumes of a tedious and boring manga just to be able to call it "good"?

... Last updated on October 8th, 2012, 7:26am
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 For middle schooler or Elementary consume   
Rating: N/A
by mowres
April 11th, 2012, 9:04pm
I read up to v10 and i quit, the climax just only with punch, you cant see something cool like shidenseen skill from gamaran or susano from itachi. because the end will just punch with super power migty suddenly appear. and after arc, all the enemy will be friend. it's anoying. after mass murder or crushing some school or rampage bloody hell from the victim, the enemy in the end will be friend. and the sin just gone. it's just your satisfy not fill in.

... Last updated on April 11th, 2012, 9:10pm
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 ..........wtf happened??   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by SSJR2
March 23rd, 2012, 12:27am
**a few Small spoilers warning**

at first i really liked this manga,even though i had some problems with the lead characters, i thought the story and characters were unique and the abilities were really inventive and well thought out, but roughly after the Kumagawa and minus 13 arc things went super down hill. the story makes no sense at all any more, the genre keeps changing like from action to trivia to some music shit and just every thing is getting more ridiculous. But besides all that my main problem is Medaka and Zenkichi, medaka first because her character is too damn ridiculous and majorly unfair to all the other characters, her ability should be "i never lose" because thats exactly what happens. who wants a main character whose always stronger than every one and is unbeatable, it sucks. i really dislike her character now.
Next is Zenkichi, i like his character but he is almost the opposite of medaka, hes too weak and unimportant. i felt like he would be one of the main battle characters and stand in medakas level eventually but hes still one of the weaker ones and in terms of importance he needs to stand out way more and stop riding on medakas co-tails all the time. all in all i want to remember this manga for chapters 1-92 and its art, before every thing goes to shit. you know what never mind i think this is my fault, i took this manga seriously as a good Shounen manga but now i will just look at it as a insane gag manga

... Last updated on February 2nd, 2013, 12:43pm
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 Was Good...   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by jt3z
March 15th, 2012, 10:35pm
The first half of the manga was great; i couldn't wait for it to be translated every week, but now it's just turned into some weird stuff and it just plain stupid although it not entirely bad it seems like it's trying to hard to be something it's not.
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 this manga more intelligent than you think   
Rating: N/A
by S.G.H
February 8th, 2012, 2:36pm
1. what most people have failed to notice is that it is a good thing that the genre keeps changing because it means that the story as a whole can develop, for instance look at dragon ball it is a shounen battle, super power anime and 5 or 6 hundred episodes later nothing has really changed, the bosses has gotten harder, their are some new characters and the explosions are bigger but it's really just the same medaka box however does't do that it changes so you don't get the same thing as all the time
2. people who dislike it because it's confusing are clearly morons and not because of they don't get it but because of they don't realise that it's supposed to be cryptic and confusing so it's more interesting that way, face it you where reading V for vendetta and it just tolled you exactly what happened to V in the past you would lose interest, the interest is in the mystery.
3. people who say it's exaggerated read the second paragraph and tell me their is't subtly in this manga.
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