I have finished reading Super Ball Girls created by Muneyuki Kaneshiro As the Gods Will Bokutachi ga Yarimashita Jagaaaaaan Blue Lock and Akira Hiramoto Me and the Devil Blues Prison School. I am familiar with both authors bodies of work which makes this manga all the more disappointing. Among Hiramotos works Me and the Devil Blues remains his bestunfortunately unfinishedwhile Prison School is in my opinion an unfunny and painfully tedious series that mistakes excess for comedy. As for Kaneshiro As the Gods Will is a dull death game with little to say Bokutachi ga Yarimashita is an excellent portrayal of troubled teenagers placed in realistic morally complex situations Jagaaaaaan works well as a spiritual successor to Gantz and Blue Lock feels like a discounted Squid Game that shows little respect for the sport it is built around. Super Ball Girls somehow manages to combine the worst tendencies of both creators and amplify them to an absurd degree. Premise and Execution The story follows Ichiyoshi a man dissatisfied with his monotonous life working at a chocolate factory while suppressing his desires. On Christmas night he encounters a mysterious Super Ball emerging from the darkness. When he throws it with all his strength an impossibly beautiful woman appears before him. This premise is not only painfully familiarsomething that has been done countless times across manga anime visual novels light novels and gamesbut its execution makes it even worse. The series feels like an unholy fusion of Jagaaaaaan Prison School and Gantz as if those works had a onenight stand and collectively agreed to deny responsibility for the result. Pacing and Structure The manga has only around 60 chapters yet it rushes through ideas at a breakneck speed. The pacing feels like Gantz stripped of all character development and emotional buildup. As a result the story never feels coherent and nothing has time to breathe or matter. The excessive vulgarity and sexual content are particularly strikingnot because they are bold or meaningful but because they are relentless and juvenile. The level of crudeness makes works like Gantz South Park Prison School and Jagaaaaaan seem restrained by comparison. Characters and Themes The characters are painfully shallow. Most of them have the emotional depth and personality of expired yogurt: onedimensional deviants with no substance. The female characters are little more than hollow archetypes designed to function as waifus offering nothing memorable beyond their surface traits. The villains are equally forgettable so underdeveloped that you might forget they exist at all. Tonally the manga jumps wildly between harem comedy scifi action hentailevel fanservice and supposed social commentary about Japans declining birth rate. Unfortunately this commentary is delivered with the maturity of a sugarfueled horny fourteenyearold who has consumed too much harem anime and tokusatsu and now believes himself to be a philosopher. Final Verdict I am genuinely baffled that Super Ball Girls was even published. If it were not attached to two wellknown mangaka riding on the reputation of their earlier works I highly doubt it would have seen serialization at all. The manga has no redeemable qualities. Prison School for all its flaws at least allows you to laugh at the sheer absurdity of its situations. Blue Lock has memes and its overthetop aura moments. Super Ball Girls has absolutely nothing. Overall avoid this manga like the plague. If you are interested in these creators do yourself a favor and read Bokutachi ga Yarimashita Me and the Devil Blues and Jagaaaaaan insteadand skip Super Ball Girls entirely.