This manga had the formula for greatness but the story was just a glorified "throwing shit around to see what sticks" and One good plot point (Enra's backstory). Everything seemed like they could become interesting aspects but they get so underdeveloped that the lack of substance makes the initial concept seem worthless – the mirror, the Enma/Yama scroll, most of Enra's siblings, the ""evil aura"", sinners that worked in hell, the never-seen-again temporary (???) Hell which seemed to purify souls and was deigned not fit for the test, even if they ended up purifying the souls anyway... well. There was so much. And none of them really go anywhere. I can see how some things might have been necessarily rushed (the ending honestly smells of axed manga), but even early on the author seems keen on keeping things ambiguos – probably for some great finale that never happened – and that is very, very bad writing. Whether purposefully leaving everything to be explained and solved at the end or simply not ever planning on explaining things, it was just a bad choice on the author's part. But oh well. The character interactions and dynamics were interesting enough to keep me going for 17 chapters (although they lacked the depth needed if this was ever intended to be longer), so there's that.
I really can't say I'm dissatisfied or disappointed with the ending too – which I see a lot of people complain about. I think the involvement of a third party (trying to keep myself spoiler-free here) in Komachi's story was not really a problem, it's the execution and what exactly she did that really stands out as... unbelievably anticlimactic. Especially since that's supposed to be worse than a *bio terrorist planning mass genocide.* Like, be so fr Even then, the manga falls off on a lot of aspects so this doesn't feel especially disappointing to me. I just feel bummed I won't see the true potential of this concept :/
This manga had the formula for greatness but the story was just a glorified "throwing shit around to see what sticks" and One good plot point (Enra's backstory). Everything seemed like they could become interesting aspects but they get so underdeveloped that the lack of substance makes the initial concept seem worthless – the mirror, the Enma/Yama scroll, most of Enra's siblings, the ""evil aura"", sinners that worked in hell, the never-seen-again temporary (???) Hell which seemed to purify souls and was deigned not fit for the test, even if they ended up purifying the souls anyway... well. There was so much. And none of them really go anywhere. I can see how some things might have been necessarily rushed (the ending honestly smells of axed manga), but even early on the author seems keen on keeping things ambiguos – probably for some great finale that never happened – and that is very, very bad writing. Whether purposefully leaving everything to be explained and solved at the end or simply not ever planning on explaining things, it was just a bad choice on the author's part. But oh well. The character interactions and dynamics were interesting enough to keep me going for 17 chapters (although they lacked the depth needed if this was ever intended to be longer), so there's that.
I really can't say I'm dissatisfied or disappointed with the ending too – which I see a lot of people complain about. I think the involvement of a third party (trying to keep myself spoiler-free here) in Komachi's story was not really a problem, it's the execution and what exactly she did that really stands out as... unbelievably anticlimactic. Especially since that's supposed to be worse than a *bio terrorist planning mass genocide.* Like, be so fr
Even then, the manga falls off on a lot of aspects so this doesn't feel especially disappointing to me. I just feel bummed I won't see the true potential of this concept :/