This comic shouldn't be here. This thing will ruin your life. I'm not kidding. I read the webcomic "Wish You Were Here". I have read Berserk. I have read Suehiro Maruo's twisted eroguro. I have seen the depravity of Mai-Chan's Daily Life. I can stomach a lot of extreme drawn art. Crossed as a comic series is one of THE MOST soul-sucking things I have ever laid my eyes on and a part of me was stolen after reading *that* webcomic. It's like the spiritual equivalent of a non-smoker sitting in a hot car with a 10-pack-a-day smoker smoking a cigarette with the windows rolled up. It is BAD. Brother turn back. I am telling you. I am TELLING you. It's not worth it.
two good things have come from this author:
1. the boys (show)
2. the preacher (comic)
(berserk is peak dark fantasy, the disrespect to mention it with along those others...)
the story beats just don't work. it feels really fast and disjointed compared to Deadman Wonderland which had a steadier flow of events and developments. I barely know what exactly is happening and off everyone goes to the next thing.
Love how the ML immediately invites the FL over to his place to give her an actual crash course on bondage. *rolls out whiteboard* ╮(￣▽￣)╭
The author clearly can only draw like 4 different faces/hairstyles, and it really detracts from the stories because you're constantly thinking "Wait, is this a continuation from the previous chapter?".
The first chapter was meant to be scary? It's just a guy saying his sad story over and over. At a certain point I'd zone out and just take the money. I don't really understand what's so scary about it. The family died in a fire, that's it. A sad story, but not a scary one at all so I don't understand why the girl was so freaked out by the guy. At a certain point wouldn't the shock and freakiness of it wear off? ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
I kept waiting for it to be revealed that she knocked over a candle and the fire was her fault. The father was pushing the story to get her to think about it or something?
It feels like quite a few horror manga lately is just "torture porn" that then turns into "revenge torture porn". Like, yeesh. It feels much more satisfying when the bullies are realistic and have realistic consequences handed to them (see: LIFE, or Onani Master Kurosawa).
The epitome of "violent, crazy wacky shenanigans" that is a fast read but not a very fulfilling read, per se. Less put-together than Ijousha no Ai but still just as schlocky.
I like the backstory of our ML. A necromancer who, unlike many necromancers in other stories, is actually a good guy that respects and cherishes the lives of good innocent people, especially children. I like Zaki's hair and coat but the school girl uniform feels really lazy. The mangaka could've done something to spice up that character design. Also, I'm confused as to why in Ch 3 Takumi is confused as to why Shinomiya rescued the kids but also treated Zaki's body like a rag doll. Did he just up and forget that Zaki was trying to kill Shinomiya? It really isn't that much of a stretch for someone to have no consideration for their attempted killer but to also turn around and be concerned about young innocent lives possibly burning to death in a house fire. Like come on babes, what's not clicking..
assuming u read way past ch3 by now, but tldr is that ml has a soft spot for kids bc he took care of some orphans after defecting from the empire. treating zaki's body the way he did...well, his morals is screwed due to several factors and he has come to treat human lives as playthings for him to manipulate their souls to his pleasing, the flesh is just what houses the soul. he gets better but he objectively sees all living life as something for him to control
Enviably gorgeous art.