Its been a while since I've watched or read anything, so please excuse my sloppy reviewing on this one lol. Anyways, Psycho Busters starts as a rather interesting manga. The story revolves around a group of 4 psychic teenagers who escaped an evil research facility that holds psychics captive. The reason for them escaping, aside from wanted their freedom, is to meet up with a boy named Kakeru. According to the leader of the escaped group, Joi, Kakeru is vital to saving the world from destruction. The reason for this, and the world's impending doom is not revealed until later on.
Kakeru is a very typical teenage boy, the type you always see in anime and other Japanese media. Shy, rather timid and feminine, little self esteem, you know, that sort of thing. When his mom and sisters go on vacation and leave Kakeru home alone, Kakeru hopes for some excitement in his life, and boy does he get it. A naked "ghost girl" appears in his room asking for help. At first glance Kakeru is wary but decides to investigate. He arrives at an abandoned building where is mistakingly attacked by one of the 4 escaped psychics. In that building he meets the psychics who ask for his help in helping their leader who is in a deep sleep. This sets the gears in motion, and turn Kakeru's boring life into a life and death adventure leading up to the destruction of the world...
The first couple of volumes were rather exciting, typical but exciting. Lots of action and some rather nicely used humor made for a good read. However, as I kept reading I started caring less and less about the main characters, the reason for this is the lack of development. There was some hints of romance, but nothing ever really happened beyond that, which is a shame because it would have strengthened the bonds between the characters, and would have overal just made the story better.
The story itself was pretty well done, like I already mentioned, lots of action, as well as some plot twists here and there. The artwork was pretty nice, nice crisp lines and character designs were on point. My only gripe is character development, had that been better this manga would have been so much better. A decent read regardless.
Score - 7/10
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