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Based on my experiences with shark movies, they’re usually very cheesy. Some films I’ve watched before include titles like Sharknado, Sand Sharks, Robo Shark, and more recently The Meg. I just find the plots so scientifically inaccurate and absurd that they become downright funny. Things like being able to swim at the bottom of the sea without pressure issues in The Meg 2, or sharks swimming in sand in Sand Sharks, are just impossible to happen.

A few weeks ago, while scrolling through Facebook, I discovered a manga recommendation by JustPepin, who typically introduces underrated manga and manhwa by explaining their synopsis.

That’s when I discovered his recommendation: Isekai Kuimetsu no Same (Killer Shark in Another World), which currently has 52 chapters at the time this article is published. I honestly thought it would be a pretty decent read, but I ended up finding this manga just as absurd as the shark films I’ve watched. Everything feels so random and out of place that I stopped reading after 10 chapters.

Synopsis

Killer Shark in Another World starts with a little girl summoner named Shiromi Rabuka Traf. Shiromi and her classmates are part of a magic academy where students aspire to defeat the demon lord army that is threatening humanity.

Shiromi isn’t the best academic student, but she tries her best. Moments before she summons her familiar, she remembers a cheesy shark movie she once watched. Because of this, she summons a small baby shark, and all her classmates make fun of her for summoning such a seemingly weak creature.

Some of her classmates’ familiars appear as beautiful demi-humans like mermaids and even succubi, and the students seem to fall in love with their familiars. Shiromi’s shark familiar, however, hates them and calls them “normies”.

Suddenly, Shiromi’s shark attacks one of her classmates and his familiar, biting off their heads. The shark then transforms into a three-headed giant shark with tentacles. While everyone teams up with their level 5 to level 23 familiars to defeat it, this shark is already level 893.

The shark easily defeats everyone, leaving only the teacher and Shiromi alive. Shiromi names the shark Same (sa-me), and throughout the story, Same goes on a rampage against both humans and the demon lord army.

What I Don’t Like About It

There’s a reason why I didn’t read beyond chapter ten. It started to feel repetitive and the plot basically died off.

Plot Runs on Shock Value

There isn’t much character or story development in this manga. Characters keep getting killed, and everyone Shiromi and Same encounter feels like a background character.

The pattern is always the same. They misjudge Shiromi’s familiar, they bully her, and they get shocked when the shark goes on a rampage.

Every arc feels like a supposedly powerful character appears, acts confident in their abilities, and then gets instantly defeated by Same while declaring what happened as impossible. In fact, there was even a scene where a seemingly overpowered isekai’d male character with girls fawning over him gets both himself and his entire harem obliterated by Same.

Plots like this make the story feel like the manga was created as a way for the author to vent his frustrations about couples, harems, and overpowered protagonists. I totally understand that idea, but with this approach, there’s almost no world building or meaningful character development aside from Same becoming even more absurdly powerful.

Comedy Focused than Plot Focused

I’ve recently been watching Grand Blue Dreaming, and it’s such a funny anime. I understand why my friends kept recommending it to me.

Killer Shark in Another World is also a comedic gore and destruction focused manga, but I personally didn’t find it very funny.

I’m generally unbothered by death, gore, and violent scenes in media, but the comedic execution here just doesn’t land for me. For example, there’s a scene where fairies are randomly shown snorting drugs for some reason, and they supposedly lived peacefully until the demon lord army attacked them. It just felt random and unnecessary to include something like that.

Should You Read It?

Whether you should read Killer Shark in Another World really depends on your personal taste. However, here are a few things you should consider before reading this manga:

• You’re okay with gore, blood, and death being used in comedic scenes
• You’re okay with plenty of swearing in the dialogue
• You’re okay with a story that has little character development or world building
• You enjoy the classic overpowered main character trope

I may be wrong, and the manga could improve in later chapters. But based on what I’ve read so far, it started to feel too repetitive for my taste.

More Manga Like This

If you’re interested in Killer Shark in Another World, you might also like these similar isekai manga:

• Re:Monster – A man reincarnates as a goblin and slowly evolves while building and leading his tribe.
• Reincarnated as a Sword – A man is reborn as a sentient sword and teams up with a cat girl adventurer.
• So I’m a Spider, So What? – A girl reincarnates as a spider monster in a dungeon and must eat monsters to survive and level up.
• Goblin Slayer – An adventurer dedicates his entire life to hunting goblins.
• Reincarnated as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon – The main character becomes a vending machine and helps adventurers survive inside dungeons.

Final Thoughts

Killer Shark in Another World is one of those titles that immediately grabs your attention because of its absurd premise. Unfortunately, the shock value wears off quickly when the same events keep repeating.

At least from my experience reading the first ten chapters, it felt like the story relied too heavily on constant killing and shock moments. I think it had potential, but the manga kept portraying every human as innately evil and disposable.

Personally, I feel like the story could have included more wholesome or meaningful moments instead of relying so heavily on excessive destruction.

Do you plan to read it, or have you already read it before? What do you think about this manga? Let me know in the comments below.

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