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“Akaboshi and a petrified-foot boy journey to find a three-line-pierced man and save the boy's family.”
Diamond in the Rough
アラガネの子
6.72
14,468 rank · 3,505 readers · 21 favorites
Shounen
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Mystery
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Synopsis
Akaboshi and a petrified-foot boy journey to find a three-line-pierced man and save the boy's family.
A world where "stone" is at the center. Akaboshi, an ore craftsman visits an underground village and meets a boy whose left foot is petrified. The boy's goal is to find the man with a three-line piercing but he holds a secret...?! The two of them set off on a journey to save his family! (Source: MANGA Plus)
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Derived from 2 sampled reviews
6.5
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What 2 readers settled on.
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recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 6
σ 0.50
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Running avg · Feb 2022 → Dec 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Im only the first review on this and not great at writing stuff like this but I’ll try my best :), So far im really enjoying the characters and the plot seems really interesting (but isn’t hard to...”
- 6 “Aragane no Ko is a Diamond in the Rough in the true sense of the phrase. The series has the building blocks of a strong adventure. The world has an old school Final Fantasy feel to it and the...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 79 × 9 ch × vol
- Total read 10h 32m approx
- Published Nov 2020 – Dec 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M55782 catalog