The art is fantastic, I love the time period, but something about how the plot unfolds feels a bit.. off-beat, like a paragraph on every page is missing. You can still understand what is happening, but it's missing that little extra that would make the story flow all the better. I was confused as to who the main character was supposed to be at first because the sister was granted the majority of the focus in the first chapter and the FL was introduced afterward. Typically you introduce your FL first, lest you confuse the reader as to who the primary love interest is. I understand it was an alternative means of introducing the FL -- characters speaking about her -- but again, a lot of discussion about her and a lot of the sister's problems being the main focus for the establishing chapter has somewhat set the tone of the story askew, because now I am left with this feeling like the FL is a supporting character in her own story.
No one gives a shit about your opinions about the comic. I read trash because I like trash. If you want to whine and complain about it, put a link to your twitter account no one will ever visit.
Ya'll been at it for decades with the "If you dont like it dont read it" personality. Anyone can read and finish it and still dislike it. Yall are like fetish porn nazis defending your kink.
What were talking about here are people who are actively supporting and disregarding rape, assault and non-con acts. Not just the idea of it on a fictional scale. So if you cant understand any of that then youre just too childish.
In certain parts the art is very good, detailed in a way reminiscent of woodblock, but I can't get over how sharp and simplistic the author draws the ML in certain panels, not to mention the colors being flat and not in sync with the rest of the environmental lighting. Why not keep the style and level of detail consistent? It comes off like someone stepped in and redrew certain panels without the author knowing. Going to have to pass on this one.
I know that Seth has gone through a lot and it's unrealistic for him not to be affected, but I miss cocky asshole Seth, even if that bravado was a mask to cover up his fear of loneliness and his own rape. I hope in the future he'll be the sassy confident man that we first saw at the beginning of the story, but having people who love and respect and value him at his back rather than feeling like he needs to put on a front to avoid looking weak.
This comic was so good but Sakamoto drastically changed the pace of the story. Instead of Jonathan slowly coming to terms that Dracula may not be how they appear as in the book, suddenly Jonathan is a prisoner because Dracula told him straight up "that story I told about Radu Tepes is about my younger brother and I was there 400 years ago. Also you're my prisoner now." It ruins whatever dread the original novel had of Jonathan growing increasingly suspicious and anxious regarding his stay at Dracula's castle. This Dracula doesn't even bother to give Jonathan a full what, 48 hours to carry the (mistaken) impression that they are even a tad normal, it's just straight to diabolical scheming and being evil. I understand the novel is long, but it's like Sakamoto didn't even try to truncate the story in a way that would be satisfying while keeping with the spirit of the original novel--that of creeping dread, mystery, and 'oh, I've made a huge mistake. How do I leave here without breaking etiquette AND tipping off Dracula I'm about to flee?" What a waste.