Pandora hearts is a popular shonen manga, yes manga !! don't watch the anime it's absolutely trash and give it's own ending. Well I won't yap much. Pandora hearts has 104 retrace (yes it's called retrace and not chapters) and 24 volumes, the page count of retrace is a bit inconsistent maybe it was a monthly manga, it fluctuates from 32-66 sometimes 70+ or around 30, last retrace is around 100 pages I can say that much fs.

Tbh at start PH seems like a generic shonen to me, just another shonen with an optimistic shonen MC but I was wrong as the story start taking turns, Oz vessalius the protagonist of PH has to be one of the top written protagonist of shonen, I might not be wrong if I said he is better written than Big 3, new gen protagonist and some very popular protagonists which I don't want to take the names if I did I will be attacked with dislikes.

Oz is great not because he is different from other Mc's but he has an unmatched depth, especially his symbolism and interconnected dynamics and parallels let it be thematic depth or character depth he is very well written in both aspects.

The dynamics is one of the main reason why I loved it, unlike many animangas where Side characters get overshadowed by the MC and doesn't have any relevance on their own, in ph even the side characters got the story they deserved, they have side dynamics with the MC and main dynamics with other character and it is written so well, self acceptance, existentialism so many philosophies have been implemented here.

Xerxes break also one of the side character I think he can be consider in main cast is my fav side character icl he so peak 🥹✌️


Also one of the best thing of pandora hearts is it doesn't defame or make a scapegoat of character to make other one looks better yk there are some characters who are annoying, rude and very detestable just to make their rival look better tho PH doesn't do it, the author has reflected both sides of the characters and what their dynamics means deeply !!! no lack of romance too ! a good news to romance enjoyer, ph romance dynamic is very great !!!

Well let's talk about it's plot and story writing

Pandora hearts is one of those flawless animanga where you can't find a disadvantage even if u want to, u just can't doubt it's writing from the very first retrace till the last retrace it is flawlessly executed.

The plot is amazing as expected it dives deeper on it's world's lore, the story seemed straight forward to me at start but PH has one of the best plot twist ! it started to take huge turns.

The world building is top tier, especially the lore and power system ngl imo it's better than both jojo and hxh, while hxh is more structured but in terms of importance and lore.

Very good conclusion I love it, didn't disappoint me even slightest.

Well there are tbh almost no plot holes and very very minor flaws which I will point out.

One of the flaws is that sometimes I felt that it's a bit edgy, some characters who might had died didn't died at that respective time but tbh it's not like characters doesn't die in this manga coz end retraces impressed me a lot and some characters had even befitting end/conclusions.

At the end it was really peak and emotional manga 🥹✌️ I will give it around 8.7/10 so peak !!!