ReviewRaptor's manga / #wtf just happened?(326)

The story was at first glance nice, but it quickly went weird in terms of logic and character behavior. It's not interesting enough to read and it's overall just too boring. Neither character is special or overly fleshed out and the art is only so-so. Give it a try but I'm already uninterested at chapter 5. I tried to keep reading but it's just a chore to me. Enjoy if you can, I'll be looking for something better.

Yeah no. The art is WAY too much of a turn off to work as fap material (the artist overdoes it with ugly expressions and angles they simply cannot draw well), the story is dumb as hell and really makes it obvious it was just thrown together to excuse different sorts of fuck-scenes and the characters are overall just not appealing/uninteresting since they have no personality. Very disappointing, but another reminder to not bother with these kinda comics. Give it a try, if you have no high expectations for borderline perfect art and good writing, this can be for you.

The art is decent but the writing is really sub-par. This is a good example of misuse of 'comedic' chibi drawings in the wrong moments. All while the characters behave really weird and random even, as if multiple people came up with scenes and we just went with all of them, whether they made sense for the character's personality or scene or not. It's not a good read if you're a more experienced reader who knows how good writing and well-made comic dynamics works/looks. Give it a go, but I for one see nothing of merit here. Even the art cannot save it unless you ENTIRELY ignore the writing and just flip through it like a picture book with hot guys in it. The story itself is very weird too (mafia/gangster movie writers? wtf?).

WARNING: In-depth critique, lenthy post- You've been warned To be honest, the writing went put the window after the second season. Instead of going with logic, the characters behave VERY weird and at times random. Stupid more often than not. Which completely ruins the story for me. At chapter 59 I am heavily inclined to drop this due to how idiotic the MC finally behaves (he did so before but this was just the peak) and how uncontrollably mental the love interest went seemingly random. It felt as if the author rushed things for whatever reason, or someone entirely different took over writing. To explain, the MC clearly explained (after an obnoxiously long time) that he KNEW the guy wasn't involved with his friends bullying, he simply didn't care about her (which is normal in that situation) and even after his so-called friend treated him absolutely horribly (mental illness does NOT excuse what she did and said), she offed herself and for some magical reason he then went to take revenge on the innocent person he's in love with just to be a doormat to his friend even after she's not around anymore? I'm sorry, but that's the dumbest shit I have seen in a decade of reading probably. Things would have been perfectly fine if he did NOT clearly know, but he did. Which ruins his entire purpose and makes all his actions shitty; turning HIM into the bad person in this story (the male lead is bad in his own ways, but that is disconnected from this issue). And when things finally come out, it's the mentally ill guy who has more reason and logic until he gets random and shoves his dick in him. (I can see that making sense for someone mentally fucked up to his degree, but the writing was VERY lackluster to get there). He became a dislikable villain within moments without it feeling natural for his character. Also, what's up with making the MC tell the truth and then randomly saying 'I did it because I love you'. That makes NO fucking sense. Not based on what he previously monologued about with himself, not based on his intention for doing the things we were told and sure as hell not based on the situation he was in. He did NOT display mental illness like some stalkers that try to kill their object of affection, yet in that moment he suddenly argued like THAT was the case. It's as if the author didn't pay attention to what they wrote or, again, multiple people wrote it and didn't coordinate what they picked for the story. It's nonsensical and weird. The story was good at first and I expected the story to go the course of the MC deciding against outing the male lead and after things get revealed the male lead develops emotions for the MC since he previously mentioned people behaving differently/leaving him when they see his real personality. It would have been THE perfect course to bring things together (bring the characters together), but for some reason the author went the completely different way and fucked things up more than it already was. And in a way that seems not only unlike the characters but also like the author decided to suddenly not go with a happy story but turn things into Harada-esque territory just for shits and giggles. Or worse yet; because they knew "ah, gotta put some smut into this after such a long time, or people will stop reading.". The writing is very unpleasant and bad even in many parts. Not based on the characters being shitty (you can have a good story even with shitty characters), but based on it all not making sense from one moment to another. It breaks immersion, makes the character we should like VERY dislikable and ruins any kind of emotional build-up. If I had to say whether I like it or not, I'd have to say now that I dislike it. Which is sad because I loved the story and how well they portrayed the mental illness of the male lead. But within just a few chapters the whole story fell apart just due to 2 mistakes/flaws in logic and writing. That's sad tbh. I was hoping for another gem that keeps you reading without having to resort to stupid tropes or senseless smut. Waiting ca. 50 to 60 chapters just to get that disappointment is really, well, a disappointment. I'll finish reading what is there and then decide to drop this or not, but as it stands now this is a pretty bad read after season 2 and I wouldn't bother recommending this to anyone. I hope it somehow, magically but still hopefully logically becomes good again, but the flaws won't go away even if it does. So I'm not sure if the author can salvage this....

Nothing new, nothing special, very predictable and the fact the author went with modern day pretentious splashing-paint-across-a-canvas-is-deep being THE new impressive artstyle in a medieval setting REALLY is a turn off. That shit has never been impressive, most certainly not more impressive than being able to redraw real life scenery 1:1. Lost interest very early on and really cannot recommend this.

Chapter 4 and I'm dropping this. The guy is a manipulative jackass with any sense of logic. He's just another nutjob wanting to have his way without consent from his supposed love interest. Really not a fan of this sorta character. :P Maybe it's a good read for people who like nutjobs, but I'm not interested in seeing this go any further.

REVIEW, but without spoilers (interestingly enough). The writing is a bit too rushed and feels almost random in how things develope even early on (them bonking for the first time happened without any sorta build up tbh). It's not an impressive story but not entirely boring either. So I do not have much to say there, it was just a bit bland for me personally. The art itself is alright but even there I have to say the expressions always feel....inaccurate or too weak, like they are not drawn as they should be to make the emotions that are supposedly there clear. A smirk is barely a _ line that's VERY minimally drawn upward at the edges, making it less of a smirk and more of a neutral expression that ranges more towards the positive. That makes it akward in many panels if the rest of the face is supposed to show an emotion but it doesn't play together to create an actual uniform expression for whatever emotion is supposed to be portrayed. And sadly this goes on through the entire comic (for all sorts of facial expressions, mind you, there was barely a panel I noticed with a well drawn expression all over). It's not a bad story, but not good either. The art isn't good enough to give it more points either, if anything it would give it point reduction tbh. So all in all I find it below okay and wouldn't really bother reading it again or recommending it. It's probably a good enough read when you're bored or are new and don't have much knowledge of storytelling and expression-based art, but that's about it for me, for more experienced readers I'd say give it a go but be warned that you'll not exactly find anything good both in writing and the art itself.

I'm not sure about this one. It's another comic that was half-assed after qriting down rough details from the novel. The art itself is VERY inconsistent and wonky too, but the plot has parts missing, jump-cuts randomly or simply leaves out stuff 'just cause'. The dynamic and baseplot are VERY nice, but the shitty writing, equally as shitty translations and the shittily written plot points the creators wanted in the comic while ignoring others just makes this uninteresting. Not boring or annoying, just uninteresting since you cannot get immersed in the story. It's rushed, half-assed and mediocre. But I'm convinced the novel is likely amazing, so maybe I'll check that one out someday. 3 outta 10 but ONLY because the baseplot and character dynamics are interesting, there is nothing else that makes this good.