Akaaka to Shita Chi no Monogatari
Red Blood Red Legacy

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Sooo... I don't usually do this, but I can't sit still for this one.

I thought that this manga was AMAZING! At my stage in manga reading, I'm a bit tired of the typical shonen style stories with typical training arcs and villains that are too overdone. This manga however, starts off as one but doesn't end as one.

At the beginning, the events that occured, even without the atypical shonen developments, really set a good premise for the story. That in itself already gets me points. The potential for a great story is already really big and the author really used that to its fullest.
Every ... time something would happen, the decisions made by the author were always the most interesting ones. Although sometimes bitter, but that's what makes the ending so much more satisfying. Everything presented in the premise was explored rightfully.

In the middle of the story, everything is still fine, like it should be.
But at the end is were it split apart from the rest, I think. The story was a bit rushed, but it doesn't mean that it isn't good. Because of this rush, I wasn't so sure what the author was thinking anymore, as I saw how many chapters were left before the end. And the plot doesn't seem to follow shonen rules. So anything could happen for the ending, which is why I loved it.

As for the actual ending, whether the explanation is far-fetched or not is up to personal taste, I think. For me, it seemed a little far, but not therefore unacceptable. Also, it brought back some realism into the world, which I was not expecting.
Personally, exceeding expectations is something I really look for in manga, which is why I liked this one so much.
However, I will say that it could have been even better with some tweakings here and there.

As for the art, just beautiful! So much detail in everything. And really good character designs.

Overall, a really good fast read (read it in one session) for a lot of action and plot twists and girls.

(Yay, this was my first ever review, please don't judge too much, it is still just an opinion)

It starts off pretty well with an interesting premise: you know the usual cliches of vengeance and waif saving with powers which have a tsugumomo feel which I actually kinda enjoyed and the first 30 chapters feel like a sort of nice progression with good art.

However, chapters are short, around ch 30 you start seeing pretty big plot holes, such as fights you never knew were there, lack of reasoning, powerups without any sense at all. The reason why the scarves are powerful is never really explained, there is a battle which introduces mecha fights to then forget they ever existed just because, there is ... the usual hey the enemy isn't really the enemy but its not nice and wants to kill you just because plot twist.

tlddr: Like it coulda been a good story, especially given the artwork which is honestly pretty good (nothing outstanding but still), but its a skip, the story is bad, badly developed, character development is a major xd, plot holes, badly designed enemies without any reasoning at all and powerups which are worse than Naruto's 4th world war. Just save yourself the time

If you have the patience to slog through the ridiculous amount of cliches and boring, fanservice-riddled fighting, the only reward you get is the most insanely rushed conclusion in manga history, accompanied by chapters that are so short it's obvious the author just started cutting single chapters into 3 parts to pad the length out. It's got nice art and cool design, but it's a garbage story with flimsy, boring characters.

I mean seriously - 103 chapters? It felt like 30! And the amount of idiotic character micro-arcs in the last 20 (5) chapters alone is maddening. The author just gave up, but wanted to get ... to the conclusion so he shoved every plot reveal into what was effectively one encounter, then closed the book on this shitshow.

Sometimes I wish these artists would realize they're talentless writers, and find someone better to fill that role for them. Hard skip.