Taboo Tattoo

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Im re-doing this review because of how much i regret what i said the last time and im going to make this short and as least painful as possible.

The plot is about your average high school kid in japan (not very popular in school, female childhood friend, you know the type) named seigi, who saves an old man from some thugs. After saving him, this mysterious old man then gives seigi a crest, which burns a tattoo onto his hand, giving him special powers.

After this happens, the government gets involved. Seigi begins to learn to control his powers, fights random thugs/villains (there are ... some really awesome ones by the way) and gets deeper and deeper into this government world.

If you like the shounen genre, good battles, and the "main character gets powers and conquers his problems" types, then you will get an enjoyably good read out of this


Story 7, Art 8, Character 7, Enjoyment 9, Overall 8

This manga is ok, but nothing special. I don't regret buying it, but I will be selling it now, as don't feel I need to hold on to it, I won't be re-reading it.

I would tag this with:
- Action
- Dark
- Super Powers

Story: 6/10
To be honest, I liked the story up the point where the anime ended (same story as in the anime, the anime covered about half the manga), and slightly afterwards too. It was interesting, there are some real setbacks, and I like when some of the main characters don't have plot armor. The ending however, was just so bad in my opinion... ... The main character suddenly becomes capable of doing something super complex after being depicted as your average guy (specifically not being super smart) for the whole manga. Not only that, all his friends all allies decide to bet on that too. I don't want to spoil too much, so I will remain vague, but that was a weird ending... And it wasn't satisfying for me.

Art: 7/10
The art is consistent and good, not great. The backgrounds aren't always very detailed. I honestly don't have much else to say about the art. It doesn't stand out, but it's not bad.

Characters: 7/10
There are a few likeable characters, most notably the female main character and one of her friends, as well as the muscle guy. The main character is cool in that is your typical dumb protagonist, but he doesn't fit the stereotype you expect either. He knows he's not the smartest, nor the greatest, he doesn't have the "never give up and yell about it" attitude and feels very real. I had a positive impression of the characters overall. Some of the villains also had interesting personalities.

Enjoyment: 6/10
I really liked it up to slightly after the anime ends (slightly past halfway through the manga). I like a few of the characters, even felt kind of empathic for some of the villains. The final arc and ending really ruined it for me though.

I completed this manga, very poor story, just the art is best thing in this series.

The concept at the beginning is attractive and it seem to turn to be good story ....but !! once you go deep in the manga it will turn to be very horrible.

If you are insist to read it,just make sure to be ok with very dark story and once you go deep in manga it will keep going to be more bloody and dark, just make sure you are ok with those things.

Unfortunately i completed it and i regret the 4 days i wasted it on this series.