SOUL CATCHERS

A manga about a high school boy who is cursed to see the true hearts of everyone and uses that ability to lead the concert band to the nationals as their student conductor.

We discussed this on a recent episode.

I remember reading this series when it ran in Weekly Shonen Jump and enjoyed it. It was sad when the manga was moved to another magazine and I couldn’t follow it anymore but I finally finished it this year.

Hideo Shinkai would represent various musicians with expressive visuals that the protagonist could see and that was definitely the most unique and interesting part of this manga. I did roll my eyes at some of the pseudo facts Shinkai threw in about concert bands to create drama between the members but otherwise it was an enjoyable series.

Glad I finally got to read the ending.

~dakazu