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Nov 4, 2023
I could so clearly see who the killer was by the 4th-5th episode, which killed the mystery element. Lots of illogical things like mc flooding the scene when his mom is found dead instead of being devastated about it and complying to give testimony as how he isn't the murderer. I also couldn't care about surrounding characters because they always felt like they're just a plot device and don't have anything to add other than being boring and supportive.
Crazy things happen and characters act so chill and one-tone at all times, but are so emotionally strung when corny dialogue is delivered about life. So
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at certain moments MC is so mature that he isn't very affected by his loving mother's death who he has been with his whole life and how he has lost 15 of the most youthful years of his life to comma like nothing, and moves on like a sage saying "my friends lived for me", but at the same time acts so emotive and flustered when a middle school girl he never knew is showing bare minimum interest in him (he is supposed to have the brain of a 29y/o here).
This isn't as thrilling, mysterious or sad as it thinks it is, and it's boring much of the times as well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 29, 2022
It's a gritty and gory manga that doesn't hold back, the lead is a crazed army veteran partnered with a young skilled tribal girl, who has a whole white wolf at her disposal.
Plot Synopsis: It's a gold rush story, more gold than Japanese GDP at the time, and the map is in parts engraved on the bodies of a bunch of notorious outlaws, who are supposed to be ambushed one by one and skinned, dead or alive to retrieve the full map.
Moreover, a crew of ruthless martial artists and a whole army battalion with a lunatic commander is also after it, not to
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mention hunters, psychos, and serial murderers also keep nudging in for their own different agendas.
So the question is, how do you turn this kind of plot and structure into a bad, boring, painful slob to go through?
Simple, you make the story a disjointed mess with insanely slow progression, throw random characters in who have nothing to do with the main plot, put in irrelevant bullshit like Ainu tribal food recipes as a regular kneejerk, and make everything so unseriously serious that the characters themselves don't give a damn, like a horrible slice of life manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 29, 2022
When writing a story, it is very important to make sure that whatever characters you're working with, at least the MC, are at par with other characters in the story in some respect. They don't need to be great or the same as others, not at all, it's great if they all have different qualities, but if you make characters (lead characters at that) be absolute losers, you should add something redeeming in them as well, or make them progress to better standards with time, which could make readers care a little about them
Kazuya Kinoshita, the MC in this case whose life is followed in
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this manga, is written as a totally hopeless individual, void of anything redeeming, lacking in anything that makes you root for him, relate to him, or even understand him. How is it possible for a shonen anime mangaka to write such an uncharismatic character as the lead, even if that's the point you can at least give them something to latch on as contributing?
This person is a dumb virgin who has no shame being a weird pervert, can't stand up for himself, wastes his allowance in renting a gf, doesn't have a job, isn't good academically or anything else really, thinks he isn't a stalker but does exactly that, and also badmouths himself for being the looser he is, completely impractical, wandering in fantasies, and obviously has zero self-esteem. Ok, that's like half the shonen manga MCs, but the worst part is, he has zero character development as well which means he stays just as annoying from the start to whatever point you are reading this manga.
To contrast this, you have pretty much all (male and female) characters who are more sensible, have more redeeming qualities and are more charismatic, self-reliant, considerate, and helpful. MC on the other hand is trying to peek through the miniskirt of his ex who just came off insulting him to the point that even his bantering friends had to step in to make her stop. How is a character like this worth anyone's time?
The story is meh, started off decent as a comedy but soon becomes quite boring as you start feeling bad for the rented gf and what she's being put through really.
The art is girls looking good at times, and all other characters look lousily drawn.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 21, 2022
This is probably the least filler Manhwas will ever be.
Every single dialogue and arc serves a purpose here, either it's essential to the story, or it's just too good to be left out. This manhwa IS an out and out filler-less brilliance
Bastard follows a weakling handicapped student who gets bullied constantly and he hates his father for some reason. The reason being that his father is a psycho murderer who uses his kid to knock women out for him to violate, torture and kill. What a way to kick things off
A big reason as to why I am such a fan of this manhwa is
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grounded in the fact that how realistic this Manga is, it never gets ahead of itself. The protagonist Jin Seon is a handicapped weakling who tries to get stronger with training but remains the way he is throughout the length of the story and doesn't turn into a Shonen manga hero in a couple of months. Even though being a good person at heart, he is still an accomplice to his father and is brought to justice by the end. Father Seon, being a powerful entity and a total lunatic who treats his son like shit, is still cautious of police and law enforcers and deep inside still loves his son. Manny Kim is a big bully, but is also a human who has feeling. But right when you feel he's being too good of a person suddenly for what used to be a brutal bully, the story pulls you back to realise that yes, he still has a part of that twisted douchebaggery inside of him. Kyon Yoon is a simple yet stupid girl with needs, but takes stand for the people she loves. Also the protagonist isn't the only person she talks to, and has a life outside of this. She also isn't a total cutie either and has some edge to her. Characters in focus are limited (perfect for good thrillers) and have duality and depth in them, and aren't designated by author as just a perfect sample of good and bad only. The plot is very much possible to happen in real life too...
The Plot here is a work of genius. It's essentially a well structured Suspense Thriller, with some interesting and much needed twists and turns throughout the course. The 94 chapters of length with no filler is ideal for it to stay interesting till the end. But beneath it's story, this Manga serves as a good sub-horror core with Father Seon playing a metaphorical devil. Jin Seons and everyone's facial reactions when they face Father Seon's reality, their horror is very palpable to the reader. Helps in further emersion of the reader into the story, to be really be invested in it.
It is very dark at times, it has entire scenes worth of multiple pages where characters don't say a word but still say so much more. It has moments when you genuinely feel happy or sad for characters (is great considering its a thriller still). It has near perfect character development and ending is one of the best in any mangas/Manhwas ever. I was very satisfied. This is fucking amazing! A must read for everyone really
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 21, 2022
As Incredible and amazing the JoJo series really is, let's be real here, the beginning of it isn't as good at all, rather than that, it's painfully mediocre (or just bad). It's average at best, a very bland story with the stupidest MCs ever. My biggest issue with this is it's Characterisation.
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Let's talk about MCs first. The story revolves around the rivalary of Jonathan "JoJo" Joestar and Dio Brando, they are presented as very black and white i.e. Jojo, the protagonist along with his father George Joestar, are incredibly good, brave, righteous, strong and kind-hearted gentlemen, while Dio Brando (and his father) are selfish and pitiful drunkard pigs, filled with hatred and evil. Dio hates JoJo, for just no reason, while JoJo presents a hand for friendship, always ready to Trust Dio, just to get betrayed again.
There is no depth in these characters, and the reason of them to be good/bad is due to their respective bloodline, and since Phantom Blood focuses a lot on character development (since first 2 out of 5 volumes are just an insight on the characters) this issue becomes painfully bad, unbearable.
In the beginning I felt that they will show how Dio became as is because of how he was treated what his father did to his mother, and would be given a chance for redemption, but after speed wagons claim that he was Evil from his childhood, it became very clear that there is no such thing in this Manga, Dio is bad for the sake of being bad, and that is very weak characterization.
Coming on artwork, it is quite good, from the standards of 80s, as everything was hand drawn back then. However the proportions do make your head twirl at times. How can a 12 y/o have such muscular and gigantic body, even for Manga based on masculinity and muscle strength, it's too much.
Finally, It is the weakest work in all of Jojo series. A super boring and completely passable one. I'd rather just read Fist of the North Star. The only reason I would ever read this is because it sets the base for later arcs for the series.
One should be passing this arc entirely, rather check out the anime of it, much more interesting and a better way to experience this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 21, 2022
Harrowing, just harrowing. I read this entire thing on 8th-9th of October, 2022, all in one sitting through the entire night in rough darkness, while listening to Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life.
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Yozo Oba was plainly put, inhumanely humane, inhumane in his antics, personal philosophy and desensitised emotions (which we find out at the very end, was in part due to the sexual assault inflicted on him at young age, made me realised why he was so unsettled in his normal life), humane in his imperfections and realizations. He is as pitiful and scorned as it gets, and with him being such a sociopath yet learning and evolving as time progresses, understanding or being at odds with how others feel, behave or act, establishing humans in containing traits of characteristics and changing his persona and emotions towards them (for good or for bad), just to change them yet again as he comes across new instances as he is still a young man experiencing things anew, humanizes him so much more. It was painful to see him go through what he went through but in the back of your head, you know that's the least of what he deserved.
I wouldn't even talk about other characters as they're all pieces of the puzzle, different but fit in so perfectly. They felt as real as they could get and go into such depths of abstraction in personality and traits at different times, but at so many points just plain observations by Yozo on them would just leave me in distress, how little things would connect from seemingly small nuances to character portraits unlocking layer by layer, uncovering them and putting all their actions and dialogues till the point in perspective. But in the end, all of it comes from the eyes and mind of the Narrator, who can tend to have different perspectives at different points in his life for different people, which can be very skewed in the narrative which makes it even hard to digest.
Another thing which I really loved is how Osamu has written the ever so growing disdain even amongst people who have inevitably sticked around Yozo for good or for worse, seeing how he kept on being a nuisance for everyone who was around him, yet many of them still wish for his well-being one time or the other as he wasn't bad by the virtue of being evil to people, he just had a terrible worldview and attitude.
The focus is on life long trauma, which leaves a permanent scar on your mental state, leaving parts of you crazed forever; and slow burn emotions, like internalised fear, frustration, trust, jealousy, desire, passion, emptiness which aren't visible to you immediately but play with your mind as long as your consciousness is alive, and they screw your up at the most emotionally vulnerable moments, where many seemingly everyday people loose their control over themselves and enter a state of utter madness, you just loose control. It's an account that can only be heavily inspired by real-life itself because of such a real depiction of actions and emotions.
Masterful work by Usamaru Furuya, who brings the craze into the light so elegantly. Truly Osamu Dazai must've been proud of this if he was around to witness it, and considering how according to Ito himself the manga couldn't put the story in its full glory here, I must pick the original work soon. This has been a chokehold of a read for me, pure insanity
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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