Zihvuda's manga / #Action(47)

This was a great read. Am glad to have made it to the end, although I'm not entirely sure it was as satisfying as I would have liked. Still a great read with well executed action and jokes that land along the way. The ultimate power fantasy, where romance isn't annoying or objectifying and keeps finding new ways of achieving that over powered high. If over powered protagonists don't bother you, then I highly recommend giving this a whirl.

Good story so far, no annoying love interests, no harems, none of that shit. Intriguing plot and fun interesting characters. The pacing is pretty great too, and so far nothing has out stayed it's welcome. Now the art... it's good for the most part, beautiful even, however there is one failure, and that's older or old people. They look like crap, the wrinkles don't look like they organically belong on their faces, it just looks bad. Which is a shame cause the rest of the art is really good, but every time an old person is drawn their face just looks hilariously shit. (☞ ͡ಥuಥ)☞ EDIT: 08/2024 These latest chapters feel like they're skipping big chunks of story? It just feels choppy and I have no idea if it's actually like that or not since I never read the novel this was based on. I'm starting to feel like I would enjoy this more by dropping the webtoon and reading the novel instead. The art has apparently also changed. I only noticed cause people seemed to have noses suddenly and the old people were drawn much better. Some don't seem to like the new art style, I think it's fine. An improvement even.

It was pretty good, although some things in my opinion lacked enough weight to make me care properly. Some of the deaths felt very unearned (as in "farewell person, we barely knew ye" kind of way). And I wish the comedy relief screaming ninny of a coward would have died. Like at any point in the story would have been good. I was so disappointed he wasn't one of the deaths at the end of this manga. I never managed to fully warm up to him, and I remember on more than one occasion I just skipped his dialogue entirely. I honestly don't understand how anybody could have liked him, or why in the world the author chose to give him the ending they did. Oh well. There were a few other things I didn't like, but in the end it was pretty good, and I did read the whole thing through to the end, so. Wouldn't call it the best series, don't understand why the movies based on this story have been so popular, but whatever. It's definitely not trash like Bleach, so I guess it's ok. Plus it's been a while since I've read an action story about demons, so it feels kind of nostalgic too.

This is a really fun story! The art is great, the character design is damn good and the story isn't annoying. I do wish there'd be a manga out there that would handle the concept of giving up on dreams in a graceful manner rather than this "pursue your dreams at all costs always and never ever give up" business, but this story is too good to get hung up on that. The pacing is good, there's no annoying love interests or purely fanservice/mascot characters. There's some predictable plot turns, but they're executed pretty well so you can't stay too mad at it, and I do love that Kafka gets found out really quickly. So far the author's been very good at not making any plot beats, action or characters outstay their welcome. I find all the characters to be likeable, and it's also SO goddamn refreshing having a main character in an action manga that's in his freaking 30s and actually feels it.

This is another "reality is a game" kind of story a la Solo Leveling, only the mc in this is pretty much an asshole. And I do mean that in the most affectionate way. Like House from the doctor show from years back. He's a smirking badass who's also an asshole. Story is revenge driven and fun to read. Something that bothers me a little is that I get the feeling the character knows a little too much about certain things. I think it's just not well established, but a lot of the darker dealings of the Messiah guild the MC knows about, I was under the impression he'd have no way of knowing seeing as he was being used and MC thought everything was in service of saving the world and shit. =/ Otherwise, it's fun, no romance just intrigue and action. (ﾉ￣ᗜ￣)ﾉ✧*✲ﾟ*｡⋆