Nov 9, 2023
This is a minor spoiler review.
The art and plot make me think of Nausicaa an of the valley of the wind and a dark world like dorohedoro or Tsugumi Project.
I do like those unique design but that's what is it only redeeming feature for me for now so far.
The author is clearly pulling some reference and ideas from some similar works for his work. But don't get tricked, this is where the references and themes ends. It goes down the path of: The Kingdoms of Ruin, with excessive violence, discrimination and free violence.
On the 13 chapters I read, the story has a very poor pacing.
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start with our main protagonist Ria Frontier, she lived her entire life on a floating island with "demi-human", fantastical creatures. Clearly cut off from most of the world, she is exposed to human colonial, discriminatory and fanatic behavior suddenly.
Anyone would be taken a back from such contrast which is good.
Sadly, the human ugly side is not really established, their motivation and behavior is very basic, the author just want you to despise them and side with our naive and weak protagonist.
What kills everything is that power, world logic and physics are not established thus "magic" can be anything without clear rules. Human seems to be overpowered without any cost for their power. They seem more like demigods with limitless power with the ability to see the future in nearly clear way.
There is a power unbalance and the author solves the issue for our protagonist by using the Macguffin that is Pandora Box with a sprinkle of Power of Friendship.
So far, it seems the protagonist has failed to "kill" the antagonist because the author wish to show her on the higher morality side.
The world is not really well flesh out, the backstory of many sides are left to desire.
Overall, the story is very rushed with some plot that doesn't really make sense. Like he is trying to condense 30 chapters in 10 chapters. But by doing that, everything is left unsolved. We have "sympathy" for our protagonist but just because the world she lives in is very ugly. That sympathy is force onto the viewer and not a natural conclusion the viewer makes.
The path to become a hero in that story is just a mega jump to the summit of the mountain thanks to Pandora Box, there isn't really a growth or challenge.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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