Episodic manga is an outdated relic. There's a reason you can only count the amount of currently running episoic manga/anime on one hand. No one likes it. Zero character development, side characters that are irrelevant, a watered-down plot by design that never gets deeper than a puddle. Just awful.

... Last updated on March 14th, 2024, 11:41pm

Kintaro is an interesting man, however, most interesting of all this, is how the author managed to make a sex scene last 10 chapters in a 100 chapter manga, or the fact that out of the last 5 chapters, 3 were part of a single sex scene, or even better, the series ends in the middle of a flashback with little resolution... despite this, I wanted MORE, I want to know what happened next... but the events in the sequel, seemingly, don't follow up on the ending... The good things this manga has to offer, at least for me, make the disgusting and morally reprehensible acts portrayed here, a little palatable, none of them can be justified, and the author lackadaisically handles most of them, but there is something very human here which I haven't found in other manga, however it can't be put into words... experience it.

(It been extremely long time since I read this so this review might not be 100% accurate., but I am still leaving this here as these are what I could remember)

I remeber loving this manga, but disappointed that he did not get to slay the pussy of the women he met. Regardless this was good manga till near the end, as they started spewing stuff about how shit the world is and the environment is fucked. I get that, and that is really relevant to this day and age. But that felt extremely odd to put in a manga that is about hot ladies falling in love with a dude who just studies.

After the anime, he meets a certain girl which changes the plot drastically and stops being episodic. Would be fine if the non episodic ones weren't full on garbage. There's a fucking sex scene which takes like 15+ chapters or something comparable to rape namek.

...and sexy! This is a story about a college student who's a seeker of truth...and women. Through its many chapters he finds some bits of truth and many fascinating women. And the drawing is fantastically expressive.

To understand what's going on in this seemingly over-the-top manga, please understand that when smart, thoughtful young students go away to college most are suddenly introduced to multiple new worlds simultaneously. They learn a lot of new information very quickly. Brand new ideas are learned and talked over with great intensity in long bull sessions. Formerly repressed "good" students, free of their parents' control for the first time in their lives, often suddenly get adult-level sexual lives. Egos struggle and contend, and the students often change a lot, usually remarkably quickly.

I remember this process. It was fascinating, tumultuous, disorienting, and thrilling all at once. Look at this mange as the creative product of such an intense period of growth and exploration in a person's mind and it will make sense to you.

I've been reading manga for three years now, and found it to be very formulaic most of the time. This manga is, if nothing else, something new and completely different! I think that's why it's so well-remembered by many.

... Last updated on December 19th, 2013, 2:07pm

The first volume, which the OVA is based on, is a good enough read and the art has its moments. Vol 2 is boring and Vol 3-10 are amongst the worst things I ever touched featuring a whole city becoming addicted to drinking the piss of a teenage girl, NTR, lesbian orgys, heaps of sexual slavery/rape of minors and so on. The narrative further focuses on nonsensical "academic" conversations that all go nowhere and make the author sound like a maniac. Some of the most delusional ramblings put to paper. Unless you think that living in a sex dungeon and getting off on being a cuck is the end goal of a functional society. All leading characters are disgusting creeps and the ending stops in the middle of a sentence during a multi-volume flashback.
The sequel is another directionless and quickly canceled waste of paper with no resolution to its or the original´s plot. Listen to the rest of the less-than-amused review section and stay away from Egawa´s manga at all costs. He wrote sex-based Seinen and all are almost as bad as Golden Boy. He further went on to write and direct actual porn. Why he became a mangaka is anyone´s guess. Read YOSHIDA Motoi´s stellar output instead if you are interested in reading a literate manga with a focus on graphic sex.

... Last updated on August 15th, 2023, 3:02am

As other have said, this series went from so good that you couldn't put it down to something so disgusting that you wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. The transformation happens so suddenly as well. You blink your eyes and the main character, possibly the greatest man of the century, completely flips his personality.

At first, the transformation seems like it would only last a few chapters. It was noticeably bad, and the faint hope that the author would make the necessary changes kept the readers around. There was the expectation that the main character would break free and leave like he always does. Instead, the main character deviates further from his personality and betrays those he loves.

Watch the anime instead or you'll be in for a lot of golden shower scenes.

... Last updated on June 2nd, 2019, 1:06pm

When I first started reading this several years ago it was just pure awesome, for the first 2-3 volumes that is... After that as so many others have said it just turned weird... Not only weird but it even started skipping stuff, not even between chapters but even in the middle of a conversation it suddenly skipped a major chunk of the events oO

Anime showed the first and awesome part, so you might just want to watch that... I really hope they bring it all together in the final 3 volumes that hasn't been scanlated yet... But judging from the past 3 volumes it's looking very very bad....

It's one of the few times that the anime industry has done sth correct.Yes,golden boy should have ended where the anime ended.It was great until then.Then the huge arcs with OVER THE TOP situations began where they had no meaning at all.Psychoanalysis my ass.When one talks and the other obeys all the time that's not called psychoanalysis,that's called a monologue and the one who obeys is called a pawn.

... Last updated on March 26th, 2011, 11:44pm