These goldfish float through air. At first, people mistook them for a VR installation. These fish also mumble single words like "Hungry" and "Yummy" and "Mommy". I recently had the pleasure of revisiting Shibuya Goldfish, and I must say, it still managed to impress me. Its worth a read, but not in the traditional sense. No, in the batshit balls-to-the-walls garbage dumpster gigguk fantasy sense. Honestly, the story SHIBUYA GOLDFISH IN A NUTSHELL: This series is High School of the Dead but with flying goldfish instead of zombies (and a little less fanservice). All in all, I did have fun reading this one. Even with a whiny MC, even with the gore, even with some hilarity, I still couldn’t stop reading. Will I continue reading? Mm, I think I will. Maybe not right now, as my stomach wants to have some recovery before heading into gore land again, but definitely soon. a b Dacey, Katherine (August 3, 2018). "Shibuya Goldfish, Vol. 1". The Manga Critic . Retrieved August 28, 2021.

The characters are decently fleshed out, but the inter-character conflict leaves something to be desired. However, the central conflict more than makes up for this, as it is surprisingly nuanced and thought-provoking. I found myself invested in the outcome of the conflict and rooting for the characters to succeed in spite of insurmountable odds. I will fully admit that I thought this was going to be a stupid manga right from the beginning. It is about flying talking fish after all and it is the second series I have read with similar dumb ideas, but surprisingly, I really enjoyed it. The characters were fun, the art was lively and found myself really hooked. I did have some issues with the occasional piece of fan service but I have been reading manga for years, I am used to it by now and it is only a panty shot or two, nothing too bad. I have read much worse.Am Anfang des Bandes würde ein sehr schönes Zitat genannt „Das Leben ist eine Tragödie, wenn man es aus der Nähe betrachtet. Von Ferne gesehen ist es eine Komödie.“ — Charlie Chaplin

This might annoy some hard core horror manga fans, but in some ways I enjoyed it more than Gyo. The story of Gyo is better, but when it comes to art and characters I liked this one a lot more. I think it might be because it is more modern and it is more of what I am personally used to. Modern manga stories tend to be more character driven, and this series even had a typical over the top manga badass character in it. Gyo had a great story but a lot of it was following around a normal couple watching them scream at everything. It works because it is more realistic but this is manga, sometimes you expect some silliness. Near the end, our hero discovers fish don't like fire, and screams "Don't underestimate the human power to survive, unlike goldfish!" Or something like that. I can't remember cause I was too busy laughing. The series centers on Hajime Tsukiyoda, a high school film student who finds himself in the middle of a terrifying event where giant goldfish suddenly descend on the populace of Shibuya and begin feeding on people. Hajime meets with popular classmate Fukakusa whom he immediately crushes on and tries to save. However, she is revealed to be deranged and unsympathetic to his plight and, in an effort to have him "sacrifice" himself, ends up getting killed by the goldfish. Hajime tries to kill himself by jumping from a building, but ends up killing several goldfish on the way down and survives. He is soon rescued by several survivors who inform him that a giant glass bowl has been placed over Shibuya and now they must try to escape.The art is pretty nicely done, the goldfish are plenty of scary (especially when they go in nomnom mode), and the gore is excellent done. You still see enough of it, but also not too much that it becomes over the top disgusting. Imagine, you are a nerdy high school student hanging out in the hip part of town. You're feeling isolated and alone when suddenly the cutest most popular student at school finally looks your way. But before you can enjoy this turn of events, GIANT FLYING GOLDFISH shouting mundane things like "Good Morning!" or "I lost my umbrella" start consuming people in the the most gruesome way possible. Equal parts terrifying and absurd, Shibuya Goldfish is a horror you have definitely not encountered before. Shibuya Goldfish really is the manga equivalent of a straight-to-DVD horror movie. The premise is silly (and so far, entirely unexplained), most characters only seem to exist for the sake of the body count, and style over substance is the rule of the day--especially considering the protagonist of volume two seems to be a homicidal homeless man who's inexplicably adept at killing the goldfish, when everyone else seems almost entirely defenseless. Loveridge, Lynzee (July 22, 2019). "Best and Worst Manga of 2019 Results - Comic-Con International". Anime News Network . Retrieved August 28, 2021.

The art is fine. Not bad, not good. I'm not sure how to describe this, but it's missing something. It looks too clean, like it wasn't drawn by a human, which I dislike.Hodgkins, Crystalyn (January 23, 2021). "Shibuya Goldfish Manga Ends in 11th Volume". Anime News Network . Retrieved August 28, 2021. Auf den Manga kann ich das Zitat leider nicht beziehen, jedenfalls fehlte mir hier jeglicher Witz, sollte es diesen gegeben haben. Das wäre wenigstens ein kleiner Trost gewesen. And then there's the plot. I liked the idea of goldfish being the villains. But somehow the goldfish doesn't become the main focus, the main focus is the boring, generic mc being around boring, generic girls, so having goldfish flying in the air while cute anime girls blush at the mc accidentally showing him their panties and some occasional gory scenes just feel strange. Who even is the demographic for this comic? At Anime NYC 2017, Yen Press announced they licensed the series for English publication. [6] Volume list [ edit ] No.

The drawings are really good, I would definitely love to practice sketching some. And I also liked some of the characters, I liked the end bit about Chitose and how she kind of cares.The series is written and illustrated by Hiroumi Aoi, and began serialization in Gangan Joker on September 21, 2016. [2] In November 2019, it was revealed the series would enter its final arc after a one-month break. [3] The series ended in Gangan Joker on April 22, 2021. [4] The series individual chapters were collected into eleven tankōbon volumes. [5]