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“Teen dies, becomes cyborg; mad scientist friend joins his chaotic new life.”
Ichigoki's Under Control!!
イチゴーキ!操縦中
5.07
22,351 rank · 1,754 readers · 1 favorites
Shounen
Gag Humor
Action
Comedy
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Synopsis
Teen dies, becomes cyborg; mad scientist friend joins his chaotic new life.
Ichigoki is a regular kid who can't wait to start high school. But an unexpected encounter with the fists of an eastern lowland gorilla that has escaped from the zoo results in his death... He somehow regains consciousness only to discover that he's become a fullmetal-bodied cyborg?! Thus begins cyborg Ichigoki's wacky and aggravating misadventures with Misao, his mad scientist friend from childhood! (Source: MANGA Plus)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 2
σ 2.49
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.49 · split reception
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 2.67
Running avg · Apr 2023 → Feb 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Okay, look. This manga is stupid, it is absolutely ridiculous. A high school boy gets beaten to death by a gorilla within the first chapter. And it's a Jump manga that only lasted 19 chapters, can...”
- 2 “Though my personal rating for this manga is very low, I'm giving it a mixed rating because in this instance I can see how someone else with a different sense of humor could enjoy this series. Here...”
- 6 “Countless new manga have come from Shounen Jump’s weekly magazine, of which an equal many number have met an unfortunate and swift end from falling sales. Of these series, many can see the common...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 0%
Long · 67%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 19 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 32m approx
- Published Nov 2022 – Apr 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M66612 catalog