Josephine Fortune, writing for Mania Entertainment, disliked the artist's style of face and felt that the character designs were too similar to each other.

Mania Entertainment noted that Gaara and Sasuke's first fight shows how the former has a "fragile" psyche despite his violent attitude.

Mania Entertainment rated Conan as the third greatest anime detective.

The artwork was praised by Mania Entertainment as not showing the characters as unrealistically beautiful.

Writers from Mania Entertainment labeled him as a "good lead character" with good overall development despite certain initial problems.

Mania Entertainment praised his character development, noting that he becomes more trustworthy and reliable as the series progresses.

Briana Lawrence, writing for Mania Entertainment, felt that the range of stories presented made the anthology "sure to please anyone" who reads it.

Julie Rosato's Mania Entertainment commented the artwork "is pretty typical for shoujo works, with nothing particularly outstanding about it."