Review of Ikebukuro West Gate Park

I really liked this serie. Having a main character helping out delinquents and the like despite not being a part of a gang himself was super-intriguing. The layout of the eipsodes was nice where one person got help each episode. And they still mangaed to tie the episodes together for a wholesome storyline that made sense. Many people we got to see again and it was nice to see they hadn't been discarded immediately as supportive characters when they had fulfilled their purpose in one episode. They went back and forth with different issues and morals and showed how thoughtless actions can have (very) severeconsequences.

The characters felt realistic despite the fact that they exist in a different world, in the sense that they are mostly a violent bunch of delinquents. They weren't "just" violent, but could show kindness and reason with people which I like since sometimes characters only show one side to themselves, and that's not realistic at all imoho.

There were few parts I didn't appreciate as much, but all in all, Makoto made a super nice main character that was levelheaded pretty much all the time. It was a nice breath of fresh air. Their design was nice and the colour scheme of the gangs, while kind of classic now, spiced it up.

I recommend it a lot ♥