Jun 5, 2020
A quick, pretty average manga that is made more interesting by its rarely featured subject matter.
Story: 5. A traditional western story about the real life western Lawman Wyatt Earp, who is foundational to the American mythos of the "Wild West" of the late 19th century. The story is too short to really cover much ground, but its a decently entertaining story about exacting justice in a land where law and order has broken down. I get the hint the manga was meant to be longer (as it lays some foreshadowing that never gets followed up on) but its fine for what it is. I found
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aspects of the story a little ridiculous.
Art: 6. Not great, not terrible. I thought it was a poor artistic choice to depict all the main characters as handsome young men. Besides being historically inaccurate, the story and setting want to be gritty, but the main characters look like they just stepped out of Haikyuu. If youre going to tell a story about the WIld West, at least embrace a rugged, masculine art style, since theres alot of dissonance between the setting and the character design in this version.
Character: 5. Dissapointing. Kind of annoyed they were all very white-washed from the real life versions of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, both of whom were extremely interesting and flawed human beings, who have in this version have lost alot of their nuance.
Enjoyment: 6. Even though theres many flaws, its too short for them to really become unbearable, and its rare to see the Western genre in manga form (its this or Steel Ball Run) so it still managed to keep me entertained.
If you're looking for manga westerns, its basically this or Steel Ball Run. A
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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