Adabana

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A story worthy of a series, or something that no one should ever see.

Earn easy money? It's never true, full of plot twists that make you think differently each chapter.

Mako's perspective is totally sad, everything around her corrupted her to do that and Mizuki grew it by her side.

Would you be willing to sacrifice your life and future for a friend? Mizuki did.

I highly recommend reading this story if you want to cry and get angry for a whole night, it is one of those sad but necessary endings to reflect on life. I am totally impressed with the mangaka Non and I will see ... more of her, a jewel that you should know.

I didn't like how most of the twists were presented. It's great when you are given a perspective, and then you see another perspective which gives the situation another meaning. However, the earlier chapters in this manga straight-up lie to the reader. Both main characters do and say things that are completely opposite to what we are shown in the latter chapters, when the truth is discovered.

For instance, it's nice if you show a panel of blood splatter, then you show a character's face getting dirty with blood, and then you show them crying. What you CAN'T do is showing how a character kills ... someone, straight-up admits they killed them, and then you show the same scene but said character never does any of this. It feels really cheap and non-sensical, it kind of reminded me of Heavy Rain.

It does a good job depicting how miserable the lives of the main characters are, and how their lives were ruined by awful people who didn't give a shit about any of them, although I think it's over-the-top, a little too cartoonish. The manga tried too hard to be edgy and depressing, and in the end it came off as a little unrealistic. The resolution of the mystery was lacking, as it left plot holes everywhere. The ending was sad, though.

The characters are pretty plain and sometimes even straight-up stupid: there are times when you just want to punch them in the face so they use their brains a little. The main villain is particularly bad, they are just so cartoonishly evil you can't take them seriously. By the way, every men in this story are complete assholes, they're painted in an appaling light.

Even so, the manga has its strenghts; particularly the art, the atmosphere, and the tone. The writing could have been better.

Quick review without spoilers


Adabana is an awful pseudopsychological manga with a bunch of clichés, a banal division into black and white, and a terrible detective. Everything around the main character is bad for no reason. The drama is very cheap, the antoganist causes nothing but laughter. The presentation of the story is too exaggerated and innocent author tried to squeeze a tear out of the reader that caused me nothing but laughter.The ending in general turned out to be some kind of openly castrated. Just a few clouds for a quick description of past events and to close the storylines of all sorts of ... scum, like a major, who was frankly leaked as an antagonist.
The characters are very poorly written they are usually without any development or charisma.
The only good thing about this manga is art