Jan 5, 2018
It's basically a better Hell Girl (Jigoku Shoujo). If you liked Hell Girl you can just stop reading this review right now and go read Funouhan, because you will definitely like it.
As it's episodic, characters don't need to be fleshed out too much. Aside from Usobuki, there is one other detective character that persists between chapters, but he's hardly fleshed out at all. There isn't much actual character depth in this series. it's basically all about Usobuki and his very mysterious character.
All the females are drawn the same way. The art is amazing and very atmospheric, but the women have some serious sameface. I'm just
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glad none of them persist between chapters or else I'd get confused really fast.
At first, the manga starts off with actually clever outcomes, but it very quickly slogs off and stops being clever just for the sake of telling the story of whoever is the focus of the current chapter. It was very disappointing and it's easily why I voted the overall manga a 7 instead of an 8 or even a 9. The whole draw of the first chapter was the interesting and clever outcome Usobuki plotted for someone, but after that it basically just turns into unoriginal hypnosis. Literally vampire eyes.
All-in-all, it's a fun manga to read. Usobuki is a fun, carefree homicidal character who prefers having fun with people rather than getting muddy in morality and what's right or wrong. There's really not much to explain about the good aspects, it's a simple story with ironic, funny (usually in a dark humor way than not) outcomes for the people short-sighted enough to ask Usobuki to kill someone for them. It's a pretty addicting manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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