A nice little adventure and it's a shounen to the core.

First chapters where fine, lot of pages and a well done background to develop a long and fun history with some serious plot. Yes it may remind of One Piece but if you gonna put it that way any anime where different characters have different powers, full of fights to death and humor will look like One Piece. It's weird (at least in the time i spend in the genre) to find a Yuri/shounen Ai manga that last long and this one has the potential to do it. However when things where not even reaching 1/4 of the way in the history the author rushed it like there is no tomorrow, i'm at least thankfull to saw the end (not the best end cuz i hate when you don't know how every character in the history ends but at least a happy one for the main characters). But seriously, it was like if you take a manga of 60~70 chapters and throw away the 50 in the middle so the characters just jumo from the begin of they adventure to the climax of their powers...
No other complains about it tho, god draw, likeable characters, good fantasy background... was a pity it has to be rushed like that.

Having never read One Piece, I will not comment on any comparisons with that work.

This had some good comedy, yuri content, and some cool action scenes all quite decently illustrated, but the fact is that this was axed when it definitely had the potential to be a sprawling long runner. Of course, the mangaka definitely had issues with plotting and setting (i.e. rushing through everything seemingly without a proper, overarching plan for the worldbuilding and adventure) which made even the less rushed parts seem not so compelling, but given time I think this issue could have been sorted out.

Personally, I actually really liked the ending.

... Last updated on August 25th, 2016, 8:32pm

It's kind of funny that some of the other reviews mentioned it too because I kind of think this is ripping off One Piece a bit, except with girls and a bit of yuri. That's not nessicarily a bad thing, because Banana no Nana does a pretty good job of making an entertaining world that stands out on its own even if it does kind of borrow some elements from a more popular story. The creatures in particular feel really inspired by Oda's works while still being unique since they're generally a bit more serious. Overall I really enjoyed this series, the characters were likable and there were some pretty creative powers at times.

There are some problems though, some pretty big. Here's one of the biggest issues for me: early on they set up that everyone has a special ability, and the stronger your ability the bigger the downside. That's fine and for a while the author keeps this up, but later on there's people with stupidly powerful abilities and they don't seem to have any penalties at all. Kinda makes me think that the author couldn't keep coming up with new interesting gimmicks. The only other major problem for me is the fact that ithe story was discontinued. I would have really liked to see this play out in full because while the ending is at least an actual things-get-resolved ending (well for the most part) so many plot threads are just left completely undone.

I recommend giving this a shot. It was pretty fun, short, kind of unexpected and the ending was satisfying while also being bittersweet.

It was a very good manga from all that I've read of it but sadly it was axed because of a personal problem by the author and not cause of popularity. Still I loved it it had comedy and it had some very nice artwork. Shame that it seems all the good manga series aren't popular in japan these days.

... Last updated on February 24th, 2013, 6:46pm

You're right about the 'Best sex scene ever!' XD The last few chapters were a wild read with a lot of fun surprises and light drama. I guess the author wanted to write an epic, but had to condense things. The ending yuri hits my soft spot too.

I feel the idea and the humor were worth looking into. I feel bad for the author who had to speed through (that doesn't do it justice more like super human squish a billion things in) all his plans in the last volume. It made me laugh and I would have enjoyed reading the entire series at the original pace the artist would have wanted. But I must say....BEST SEX SCENE EVER

Like below posters and some people elsewhere have said, it's comparable to One Piece. Adventurers having ability fights, regions where government authority doesn't extend well and might makes right, a protagonist who is dumb and good-natured yet capable of righteous anger, with unexpected endurance and power. In search of "Oz" rather than One Piece. However, with the 3 chapters currently out, the story's initial potential seems to have completely disappeared.

Spoiler: I'm about to vaguely describe those of the story's plot elements which are presented in chapter 1, and name a couple examples from chapters 2 and 3.

There may be persistent elements that appeal to you, and the first chapter is in some ways worth reading just for itself, but later chapters so far don't have as many different types of appeal as the first chapter.

By the way, I want to emphasize that many people are able to enjoy Banana no Nana for the humor and various quirky story/plot elements and characters (which are the persistent elements I just described), but others may be affected by what I described. (Readers should understand themselves and whether what I've described would be relevant to them.)

... Last updated on August 16th, 2010, 10:15pm

the manga is kinda silly but i like it..it remind me of onepiece early chapter but sillier.
i like how the mangaka insert some sort of parodies of other anime/manga/game which somehow explained the silliness..

with 3 chapter out i judge this manga is worthy to be in my read list...