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Psyren  
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Description
PSYЯEN follows the adventures of Ageha Yoshina, a high school student who is chosen by Nemesis Q as a participant in the Psyren games.

The games take place in a world known initially as Psyren, which is revealed to be the real world a decade in the future.

Ageha and his friends attempt to alter the future and save the world from becoming Psyren.

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
サイレン
PSYЯEN
PSYREN-サイレン-

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AniMaBON Team
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BlueDragonSP
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Latest Release(s)
c.Omake by Muda Scantrad (1806d ago)
v.16 c.145 (end) by Muda Scantrad (2123d ago)
v.16 c.144 by Muda Scantrad (2131d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
16 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

User Reviews
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Forum
10 topics, 162 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.4 / 10.0 (1870 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.37 / 10.0
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Last Updated
March 21st 2015, 12:56pm PST

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Genre
Action  Adventure  Drama  Romance  School Life  Sci-fi  Shounen  Supernatural 
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Author(s)
IWASHIRO Toshiaki

Artist(s)
IWASHIRO Toshiaki

Year
2007

Original Publisher
Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)
Shuukan Shounen Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Viz (16 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #587 increased(+45)
Monthly Pos #700 increased(+15)
3 Month Pos #761 (No change)
6 Month Pos #772 decreased(-44)

List Stats
On 2885 reading lists
On 1182 wish lists
On 4514 completed lists
On 177 unfinished lists
On 491 custom lists

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Forum Posts
Light Novels 497 days, 11 hours, 7 minutes ago
Psyrens originality is questionable...? 1148 days, 21 hours, 42 minutes ago
Release date for the 1st volume in English? 1819 days, 23 hours, 19 minutes ago
Psyren ending 1921 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
i say psyren deserve to be made into anime... 2074 days, 15 hours, 25 minutes ago

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 Mediocre   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by PZcolo
October 20th, 2015, 7:41am
Main problem here is the lack of motive for the actions the WISE take, it just makes no sense. Also, not having feeling doesn't make you a mass murderer. What's the justification for wanting to erase humanity from the face of the earth?? Supremacy is "understandable" but eradication?
In short, the setting is nice as is the initial idea but the mangaka made the chars way too shallow, it's hard to take things seriously like that, making everything lacking in sense and rather forceful. And when they try to make some sense of it towards the end it just seemed to me like a load of bull... so the plot development is also weak.
Other than that is a VERY generic manga with no particularly redeeming points.
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 Good read with exciting development   
Rating: N/A
by murasakihebi2
January 10th, 2015, 11:58am
I started reading this manga thinking it would be a purely Play or die type of manga ( similar to Gantz/ Bloodie Junkie). But the stories soon goes into a different and much more complicated direction. It was not what I expected however still an excellent series.

Some of the weakness of the series came from the fact that it was cancelled, thus the later half was rushed.
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the final battles are highly anti-climatic, characters potential were not fully realized, supposedly main characters disappeared for arcs just to come back in the end to help fight the mini villain squads, ridiculous power invention and power upgrade. Despite all of this, the final ending manage to be very satisfying. I find the solution the author had for the big problem ( how both worlds were saved, MC rescuing #7, the W.I.S.E left instead of having a quick heel-face-turn) was near perfect. However, since the characters were really interesting and engaging, I hope there was some epilog of sort that depicts their life afterwards.
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 why didn't baka update put axed ?   
Rating: N/A
by ayami123
January 6th, 2015, 4:14am
the end was rush because he was force to end it by the deadline shounen jump put them to.
beside this manga is one of my favorite such a waste to end it all Y_Y
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 Lacks direction   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by Neofit
December 24th, 2014, 1:52pm
A lot of it feels like like it's made up of temporary ideas that failed to stick and it fails to build a consistent world with a focused story. It starts as a game, then it becomes a story about time-travel, but the implications of time-travel are largely ignored, characters and situations that don't go anywhere appear, plot lines are discarded and then hastily resolved at the end. The main character is practically a blank slate - completely unappealing. It's not that he's unlikeable, it's that his personality is not even there and he doesn't even seem to be relevant to the plot. If he'd have had more presence, perhaps this series would have been more than just a mediocre action manga.
The series was canceled due to lacking popularity and I can sort of understand why that would happen - the pacing of the story was abrupt and the characters don't really make an impression.
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 Beginning was good, but dragged on for too long   
Rating: 7.6 / 10.0
by knockoutmice
June 9th, 2013, 11:36pm
First volume was boring as its attempting to introduce suspense. It gets interesting starting around volume 2.
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Basically, like Gantz, their ears starts to ring, then they are teleported to another world and when the phone rings, the game starts. after they kill the monsters, they are teleported back. Each trip will earn points. But the rules are loose, and characters have no reason or motivation to fight at all. The games repeat, the story progresses, and the mistery builts up. Who's doing all this, and for what reason?


Around volume 8~10, it starts to ramble on and on.
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Time traveling, parallel worlds, psi powers, these are pretty interesting. But when the author starts to introduce multiple personality disorder, aliens hidden inside a comic, that sounded like someone's pulling ideas out from their azz. And where is that cute ghost girl that every pop manga seems to include?


Overall, this would have been a classic time traveling manga had it ended around v10. But more became less and the result was unsatisfactory.
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 Good read, shame the series was axed   
Rating: 8.5 / 10.0
by renecop545
October 13th, 2012, 2:45pm
I enjoyed this series from start to finish. Many people complain that this is a typical shounen manga, but what's wrong with that? Especially if it's shounen done very well. My only complaint is the rushed ending, but that's to be expected as the series was axed by WSJ :S
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 Jumbled Mess   
Rating: N/A
by ParafinLove
August 18th, 2012, 5:58am
This felt as if the author had no idea how he wanted the story to go beyond the concept of going back and forth through time; many times threads would be introduced and just as quickly thrown away. The "feel" of the manga goes through a major change from how it began and then there's the end, where it was like the author was told to wrap it up so he decided to just jam as much crap as he can then crown it off with a terrible predictable fakeout ending.

Recommendation: Avoid, unless for some reason you have nothing else to do besides wasting hours of your life.
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 Good, But Could Have Been Better   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by P_O_C_K_Y
May 18th, 2012, 5:25pm
I thought the plot was really interesting and creative, but once I got started I don't think it was executed very well. I liked it, don't get me wrong, I just think it could have been better. There were moments that were interesting, there were moments that were boring and I DID skip a few chapters here and there, but overall i give it 7/10. The ending was also a let down. After all of that, I feel like the ending was just rushed. It summed everything up, but it just wasn't as great as it should have been. Well, I still reccomend it. It just took a lot of patience to get through some of it.
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 Really Good   
Rating: N/A
by creix
May 18th, 2012, 1:14pm
Unlike most people I don't really take issue with the ending. It's true it wasn't overly dramatic or suspenseful, but for what it was it worked very well, especially since it wrapped things up in both the future and the present. The only real thing I thought was dumb in the whole manga was

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That retarded ass fight with Kyle and that guy when Kyle was like "the fight I always wanted where I dont have to think" like...what? The fuck? Oh, and I guess the whole nova thing was kind of silly, but it wasn't too annoying for me.


Otherwise it was all good.
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 Nothing Original...   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by strixflash
April 7th, 2012, 8:45am
If you are looking for originality and creativity;then this is not for you.
You will find that it is a mixture of Gantz and X-Men.
I am surprised for the fact that people are saying it is a good read.
GENERAL SHOUNEN ->> WEAK-TRAINING->>NEAR DEATH/FRIEND DYING->> POWER UP->> ENEMY FRIGHTENS->>STRONG ENEMY->>TRAINING.
You can enjoy it if you dont mind these facts.
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