Book Review: Fiji Random vol #1 (Manga)

Book: Fiji Random volume #1 written and drawn by Justin Ramey

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

From the creative mind of Justin Raimey comes the debut volume of his comedy comic series!

Venture into the world of Fiji Random! A kooky comedy featuring gamer-girl Fiji Maide and her epic struggle to arrive to school on time!

This story includes its own unique style with humorous 4-panel comics splashed between the main storyline. Are you looking for an exciting tale filled to the brim with milk, sweeties and random high school hijinks? How about half-zombie girls, accidental homicide, cosplaying moms, and aliens addicted to milt (look it up)? Well, there's that and more in the amazing world of Fiji Random! Get ready for a story full of laughs, video game references, and unpredictability. Fiji Random is everything you wish your high school life could be!


Rating: 1 star

Review:

The premise for this seemed really cute and also the cover but it's a different story when I started reading it. This wasn't as funny as I thought it would be and it felt like it was trying too hard to be like some of those other crazy and zany mangas. Instead of being original. From the book description you're told that Fiji is a gamer and is always late to school. The book showed her being late but not Fiji playing any video games or why she's so hooked on playing games.

Although, there is a main story in this book it's segmented by a lot of random short stories.

What made this a disappointing read is you don't really get to know who the characters are. And most of the jokes or humor feels like the reader should already know what's going on. Also, I thought the illustrations could have been cleaned up a bit before being published. They were a little rough and the quality wasn't as good as you would expect especially with the cover art being so good.

I understand that is a web comic maybe it translates better on the website than it does in book form. I don't know, all I know is it wasn't the best read for me.