pluckaduck's manga / #horror(42)

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 11. wow. this is good. like the events keep culminating into this climax, the hints were dropped throughout the story, my tension keeps rising. like i kinda had an inkling he was kinda a psychopath, so it wasn't a surprise, but I'm very interested as to how this confrontation will unfold. ch 35.5 holy shit. srsly tho, the ajin demi-human powers is rather simple to explain yet also very fleshed out, but it's ingenious how they use it in many different ways to fight, etc... and now this crazy "transportation" method? absolute nuts. also, the villain, sato, is freaking scary despite looking like a nice granpa, like homelander scary except he doesn't have any weaknesses ch 52. wowowowow the author is brilliant in pulling off these twists leading us around by the nose and then catch us completely by surprise. god, sato is freaking terrifying i literally stop breathing for a sec bro ch 86. great ending. jesus christ sato is srsly terrifying, all that effort and it was almost fruitless and they were ready to give up... also, i kinda like that the origin of the mystery of the demi-human is still kinda vague and unknown, but its allusion to human nature is done quite well, considering all the shit in this story.

honestly, the premise is super interesting, like a kindergartener destroying spectres? seems like a cute yet horror story. the art really makes the spectres eerie and creepy-looking in contrast to the cutely drawn humans, which is nice. the psychic and mc, kaya is cute yet also uncannily cold when killing the spectres, which is great as well. however, the teacher is the worst aspect of this story. not only is she slow, but she's also uninteresting and quite boring. annoying at times too. srsly, she'd be just an inconvenience if kaya happen to be older and not reliant on an adult. she's like "i want to protect you, kaya!" and yet she hangs up on mob when he is about to tell her something important about kaya's family... after he told her about the abnormality in kaya's mom's fetus, which poses an actual potential threat to kaya. like, girl. also, tbh, despite all the aforementioned pros of this manga, it is kinda boring, like the chapters unrelated to the main overarching plot are just filler, and it pretty much ends up kaya kicking spectre's butt. yeah, im much more interested about kaya's bizarre possession, her mom's fetus, and her granny's story.

so twisted. the narrative itself was weak tho. the author really knew how to draw these expressions, like the kidnapper is super creepy. never understood why hayan was kidnapped tho...he was unrelated to neither the victim nor kidnapper no?

the first arc was crazy good, so full of suspense and uncertainty, and the second arc (goldy pond) falls a tiny bit short, then it just downhill from there. poor storytelling, norman and ray (esp ray) turning into side charas in favor of emma, due to which the story started turning a bit too contrived, poorly established new charas, lacking chara developments, skipping over the details of how norman escaped the facility, lacking buildup and suspense, etc. sigh, the most interesting thing about this was the psychological, mystery, and horrifying aspects, but it completely just throws that out of the window. the high-ranking demons were handled way too easily compared to the early battles of wit against isabella, and the demons of goldy pond. and even if norman is a genius, it's hard to imagine that he can outsmart demons that lived for 1000 years, esp when he is still a teenager.

just rating based on my impression of the kdrama. one of the few kdramas ive watched, and it's freakig amazing