By: Katsu Aki, 2008

Wow. Some stuff in this story could be considered implied guru (if you don't know what that is, do not read this.) -- despite having such a juvenile art style D; There's something rather perverse about this manga content even though it never outright makes references to any sort of sexual nature. The implications are sort of just thrown in your face without warning sometimes. The characters are pre-teens, and the gods that attack them do use some very, erm, wrong methods XD"

(Well, okay, my first impression in the beginning was that this was a manga containing men with odd beards, but later that didn't matter so much anymore so I continued reading.)

God Sweepers is a manga about - well, god sweepers. Ever-so-slightly implying shounen-ai and shoujo-ai (yaoi & yuri) of sorts, this Japanese original fantasy is rather dramatic, a bit fast-paced in depicting each turn of events, and has a few surprises every other page.

The style of this author is something comparable to a...maybe, junior high level, not-too-well-proportioned manga art styles. Surprisingly though (and I was honestly surprised) the story is a page-turner. The story is innovative in some of its details, and some characters in here are somewhat likeable (...) The way the characters in relation to the setting is one of the things I like about this manga. What I personally believe could be done better is the pace of plot development - too fast, omits details even though every turn is very dramatic. And the juvenile art style doesn't help. ...I admit I became curious in the beginning due to its very WTF beginning ---------- basically all the gods in Japan are trying to get the main character to take off his clothes.



Alright, fine. Not just any clothes - but a special temple garment that hides boy A from the gods' eyes. Inside the boy's heart, there lives a spirit that's basically The Spirit in this story. If a god eats The Spirit, that god becomes all-powerful and can then rule over the whole world, so to say. The boy A is - if you want to give him a stereotype - an Oh-no-don't-hurt-me-but-I-believe-in-you-anyway uke-looking young teen. I love how in the appendix of the first (?) manga there's a small parody interlude:
The gods: "Take it off! Take it off!"
boy A: (blushes) "Y-you guys... Aw! Alright, but just a little bit <3"
His knights in shiney armor: "No! Don't do it! (peeks from between fingers)"

There's an immortal tentacle girl in it --- D She spends 1/3 of the time naked DD
That's where I thought it got a bit guru-ish. One of the gods was trying to kill the god inside tentacle girl, and apparently the god inside the girl lives in her (of course, where else) uterus. So in order to kill the god in the uterus (...) the attacker summoned a what looked like two stories high hot, lava rock to drill into tentacle girl from the bottom up. Ouchiez.
But, you know, she doesn't die, ever, so ...

Her brother is a little-sister-complex 妹控 sadist that fantasizes about hacking his sister into little pieces with a blush and grin on his face. A rather initiative pervert, too, since he was the one who planted that god in C's uterus.

There's a little-brother-complex 弟控 in it. He's the sterotypical gentle-long-hair-protective-guard-dog-with-a-tragic-past.

Ginkun is a lolicon. He blushes when hugging 12-year-olds. What was he blushing over?! XDD

Everyone's at least a bit perverse in this story. How glorious. ... Or it could just be me.

The manga gets slightly philosophical - though at the pace it was going, this could be easily missed. It's the question of the possibility of the coexistence of gods in people's hearts and people facing a whole world full of gods. A had a conversation with the god of land about how human beings should live while opposing the existence of the gods (why he thinks such subject matter would be understood by a 12-year-old is beyond me) A and B are predicted by the dead gods in 'hell' that they'll never be able to have happy-ever-after. Also, in the end of volume 3, C says: "I don't think I can kill the gods forever. 'Cause...I saw...they're everywhere."

Now, did the whole story end at volume 3? Er, I'm a little confused. Either it has ended on a note that these god sweepers will continue to sweep out the 8 billion (or million?) gods in Japan and thus --- an open ending, or that "End" at the bottom right corner of the page is just the end of a volume (though this does not occur in the previous two). Could be that famous budget problem. They just killed Akahoshi Shua-Hu manga as well, so I wouldn't be surprised. D'aw. D;