pluckaduck's manga / #Twisted(24)

it's...bizarre. the ending kinda fell flat tho- the way he died was deserved, but i wished we explored more of his mind. the storytelling is pretty great- it's first-person POV and it's interesting. the art is, well, not like those mangas, but it's not the wrong choice, considering some readers wouldnt be able to stomach thru if it was realistic-looking art (ahem, me). it's so abstract yet creepy... i feel horror yet fascination... is it supposed to reflect how he views the world, whom he deemed inferior? who knows, but it's indescribable.

the story is complex and twisted, but it could be executed better. for example, i want to see how they know the mc killed his son- bc no one else was in the room where it happened, and the narrative didnt show if anyone was near the scene to see what happened... also, it would be nice to flesh out the father's angst more- eg. adding more details depicting his conflicting burning hatred towards mc and his despair and love for his late son. overall it was ok, this kind of premise is interesting but could be hard to tackle so im not complaining much, but i wont be rereading

it's super addicting and entertaining, but it's hard to read ngl. i applaud the author for writing such an immersive work that even readers who haven't experienced SA (speaking for myself) can feel the anguish of the protagonist thru the screen. the imagery is quite good, and the characters, especially the villain, has a lot of depth, instead of being just a simple pedophile ch 58. i don't see how ian and jeremy could ever be together without ian feeling resentment towards him. i mean, i knew ian was supposed to be endgame, but as of now, and possibly in the future it won't be anything like pure love. ian truly loves nadia and what he feels for jeremy is guilt, responsibility, and at best, a bit of lust. now i just feel extremely bad for nadia, bc ian cant extricate jeremy from his life and that would ruin their relationship well, this had been very emotionally devastating. after completing this, i spent a day contemplating and tearing up when i think of all that occurred in this story. while it wasn't perfect, the emotional impact far exceeds the story's faults. the last 10-20 chapters felt directionless and filler-y. there was a lot of imagery and metaphors, flowery words, so to speak, that frankly felt abstract, confusing, and pretentious. (ie. some sequences of events were confusing bc they were mixed with hallucinations.) yes, it was still about the jeremy's trauma and his complex relationship with ian, and i liked how difficult the process of coming to terms with the trauma, but, still. everything before was really good, no short of a masterpiece. there are also a lot of characters and their plotlines that I found not super relevant to the plot. like the part when pascal was high and beating jeremy... i had to suspend my disbelief for that. that event was important for his chara development, but, still.

honestly it was so interesting but the ending was like... huh? i understand it but it falls flat. like ryo's motivation to pretend to be his twin and be with the mc is necessary to add more depth to the story. like it was obvious from the abuse and cheating that he didn't love her enough, and running away when she killed his twin would've been a realistic move, so why stay? ig he realized his fuck up and love too late, but that would be too contrived of a reason.

what is it about yaoi incest that's so interesting? the fucked up dynamic? it was definitely entertaining, tho i wish the art was better. we also see a somewhat reasonable portrayal of trauma bonding and even tho the story seems kinda overdone with the hackneyed tropes of dark incest stories with utterly miserable mc, the journey to the end in which mc picks the stepbro is believable.