pluckaduck's manga / #Shounen(32)

ch 41. pretty strong beginning. it's already established that butterfly girl is the fmc. i don't mind romance, in this case. she's a great, not annoying chara, ill give her that. but jeez, if her only purpose is to serve as the love interest the mc want to protect and save, while also being pretty weak, then she's just a burden. granted, she did help mc in the beginning, and in their recent fight, but let's be honest. it wasn't anything substantial, and her role was pretty small- essentially it was to show the 'power of love prevails over inner demons' shit.

ch 2. what a solid beginning! ch 29. that plot twist! never saw that coming. so the alchemist who died figured that when he ordered the massacre of the ishibaal it was for another purpose?? now I'm questioning every interaction he had with the other charas. ch 41. dam the plot thickens, mc's father or whomever that is, is the founder of ouroboros group?? (edit: he's not, thank god) ch 61. truly i really cant hate scar. ch 70. really...did not expect that plot twist.

looks like mika's feelings for yuu is canon. but it's likely yuu's end up with shinoa. not that she's bad, she' very much so in love with him, but mika and yuu's bond is on a whole another level. they're willing to sacrifice the world if it could save the other

hilarious how his classmates and friends (*stalkers*) put him on a pedestal. funny how they idolize him to such an extent they persist to delude themselves and make handa shine out even tho he never actually held a conversation with them lol. kids in puberty lol.

I dropped this less than twenty chapters in, cuz i was annoyed at the love drama, like was it necessary to add a second love interest for mc? but then she turned out to be a much more interesting chara than i thought cuz she is badass and her banter with other charas are fun as well. her friendship with the fmc is touching, and their fights over mc is not to be taken seriously. the mc is so cute, he's nerdy, dorky, and sincere. but my impression of him really cemented when he was jealous of fmc's first love and despite that, he recognized jiji was sincerely friendly and became good friends with him. like, it's rare to make a good-looking chara who looks better than mc visually and the fmc's first love, to boot, a sincerely wholesome dude. anyway, the action scenes and art is amazing. the story, at some moments, bordered on absurd, bc these aliens are wacky (and scary). the worldbuilding/lore is quite interesting, the alien and yokai designs are unique (and for some, creepy), the cast of charas are unique and fun and their chara developments are pretty good (not to mention, they look hot when they transform using their yokai powers).

no bc this is actually insanely good. it started out as some school life romcom with a mc with trivial superpowers, but then the shift to action drama with the parents/adults' past as the main plotline was so fucking unexpected and perfect. a true masterpiece, if only the art style was better. but i also think making the parents and their kids look so ordinary like normal parents, was a fantastic choice. it made the plot twist so much more unexpected

a well-written bildungsroman webtoon, that follows mc's spiritual journey as he develops a more mature outlook on society and life in general, shedding his egotism and main character syndrome, from his short period of time in the bath house.