Urasekai Picnic (Otherside Picnic)

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Japanese: 裏世界ピクニック

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Feb 10, 2018 to ?

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Mystery

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Gangan

Authors: Mizuno, Eita (Art), Miyazawa, Iori (Story)

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Ranked: #1180²

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Popularity: #2588

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MangaShounen GanganMizuno, Eita (Art), Miyazawa, Iori (Story)

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In this sci-fi/fantasy survival thriller, the dangerous and deadly realm of the Otherside—where urban legends, cryptids, and folkloric legends roam—calls to two women, both in search of something. As they set out to sate their curiosity and explore this other world, will the most earth-shattering thing they discover on the Otherside be their feelings for each other?

While on the trail of alleged paranormal activity, amateur urban explorer, depressed college student, and all-around loner Sorawo discovers a door to a curious destination—the Otherside. There, she has a near-miss with a creature both repulsive and mesmerizing...but before she can fall prey to the strange beast, the beautiful Toriko comes to her rescue! What horrors await the pair as they continue to explore this parallel world and its bizarre and dangerous denizens?!

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Urasekai Picnic has been published in English as Otherside Picnic by Square Enix since August 31, 2021.

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Sep 26, 2021

Hyoukami

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/? eps)

Just a reminder, the title might resemble isekai genre but in reality it's more of a creature hunting/adventure. Treating this as" oh kool, a 'different' isekai, let's gib it a ten" is misleading. This is completely different genre and it's actually a pretty bad one.

Story: 3
It starts decent, then getting my hopes up to the moon with that elevator urban legend, but unfortunately it's going downhill from this point onward. Most of the exploring have nothing to do any urban legend, the adventure is just about hopping from one abandoned place to another by crossing grassy plains with 'wriggler' popping here and there, feels really ... static. The urban legend feels skin deep, there's no build up that lead me to guess what other urban legend creature would comes next.

Art: 5
Generally decent but lacking expressiveness in creating the mood. Let's get real, seeing a eight feet lady that shorter than a windows already destroy my sense to perceive her as eight foot tall. There's a dire need to learn about scale. Not to mention the awfully bright windows makes it hard to distinguish between' a summer lady with wide hat' and 'eight foot lady'. This is manga, a VISUAL medium. Use the visual to explain, don't heavily rely on the text alone. I need to go back and checking the scene AFTER I read the text about her being very tall cause she really don't looked like the eight foot tall lady from the real urban legend. You know, an h manga could draw her hugeness better by making her hunching and bending her body, why couldn't mainstream manga doing something similar. At least make her staring at structural beam instead of toward awfully tall windows. For god's sake. Why do I even give this a 5.

Character: 2
The glasses girl is practically a blank slate like what you see for people to insert themself in. Not fantastic but I can see why she's there.
The blonde girl is cringey and embarrassing to read,with all her touchy gesture and flirty cringey speech like what you see on womanizer character from 90's shoujo manga. She already knows the world well, shoot like a trained gunslinger, yet have completely no knowledge of some of the world's mechanic that make me question how could she survived that long to be that knowledgeable while she didn't know the traps/glitch mechanics that could KO her with one wrong move. So stupid. Also her find a frind back story is so cliche. Talking about overused trope.
The 'dealer' girl made the blonde girl worse. She's practically her money dispenser. Tired of overpowered character? Then don't bring this kind of money-is-growing-from-the-tree kind of character. Also another know-it-all character.
The old dude is another badly designed character. Another know-it-all type that stupidly obsessive with his wife (not to mention his godawful backstory), and the hell with him being fully geared with assault rifle. Is firearm that easily obtainable? They probably should take an extra mile and change the setting fom Japan to the US.

Enjoyment: 1
I'm tired reading this series, loopholes here and there, cringey moments, clunky world setting, cosmetic urban legend....Enough.

Overall: 3
Can't give this any higher than this, the series direction is all over the place.
Urban legend adventure.... kinda
Unknown creature hunting... kinda
Finding lost 'friend'(that already mentioned but not even sensed by reader... kinda
Doing everything half-baked makes it hard to get into this series.

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