The Legend of Maian

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*IF YOU DON'T LIKE SPOILERS, STOP READING NOW.*

This manga has a medieval setting that is actually set in the future after our current world. The main characters are Felix Maian, Felicia with a long name, 4 out of 11 regis knights, etc. The story is a rather fun adventure type of story that has many events going on... the pace of the story is pretty well controlled, nothing drags out too long or is too short... except the first part's ending I guess... I don't know about others but for me the character developments were good, and when I got to the first part's ending ... I had a little heart break moment. You get to learn your main characters rather well, especially Felix and Felicia... The story may be a little cliche at times, but who cares? How many new idea can you get after reading thousands of manga series?

The second part that is currently in development is also good... but not exactly to my liking... simply because I was rather fond of Felicia as a character and I kinda raged when Felicia fell during the first part's ending and that f@ggoty Diha Sion won through cheapshots... then we find out that our main character in the story, Felix, gets NTRed by Felicia cause she lost her memory and got controlled by Diha. That was my main problem with the ending of part 1 and the start of part 2. It was pretty heartbreaking and now I'm just waiting for Diha to die lol. Other than that, Felix is kinda turning into a rude little blastard, something to do with his devilshu blood (?) no idea wtf went on there since part 2 is 5 years after Felicia and the 4 Regis Knights fell. But hopefully it'll work out okay in the end... It's a little similar to Kurohime except you rage more in this manga because how can Felicia just randomly lose to Diha !@#1@#FNTR!@##!

This a quick review, because I tend to get emotional and add spoilers to scenes I dislike.

The premise was pretty good, and I was anticipating a very good climax, but then something happened a little past midway of the story. For that reason, I gave it an average rating and dropped it.

The male MC was useless for about 95%, he had his good points, but he was mostly all talk and no action. The best characters of the series was Felicia Rand, and her companions where not that bad, either. I dropped it because of the characters, and seemed like the ... story knew who I liked and disliked and wanted me to drop the series.

SO THIS REVIEW WILL CONTAIN A WARNING AT THE END! THERE IS NO SPOILER BUT I FEEL COMPELLED TO WARN FUTURE READERS ABOUT THIS MANIWA.

So I started this one on a whim and was instantly pulled in. However, I will say had I done my due diligence on this work before I started reading it I probably never would have started to begin with.

As far as the story goes I haven't been able to see much better. This is definitely a great work as far as the story goes. It has depth, humor, sorrow and is pretty much the whole package.

The ... artwork is second to none. I love how clean everything is no matter what is being shown on the page.

Character development is also second to none. I love how the characters in the story evolve and grow as the story progresses.

Is this enjoyable? Yes it was, until I got to chapter 75 that is.

So why am I saying such great things about this Maniwa and end up giving it a poor overall rating of 3. Well here comes the warning!

THE WORK IS INCOMPLETE TO A DEGREE THAT IT IS AN ABSOLUTE TRAVESTY! Some time about 4 year ago the author, Dal Young Im if I'm not mistaken, walked away from this story and never returned. Apparently this was around the same time that he started working on the FREEZING series. So he basically lost interest in this series and started another one and NEVER finished this one. I ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS!

As far as I can tell, the story itself seems to be about 2/3 to 3/4 complete. There may have been more but at this point it's anybody's guess. Unfortunately like I said earlier if I had done my due diligence and seen that the author had a bad habit about leaving his works half finished then I would never have read this one.

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS! I WANT TO SEE THE END! AND UNFORTUNATELY AFTER 4 LONG YEARS I DOUBT THERE IS ANY POSSIBILITY THAT THIS WILL EVER HAPPEN. SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT AFTER THE "FREEZING" SERIES IS COMPLETED HE WILL COME BACK TO THIS WORK. BUT AFTER A 4 YEAR HIATUS I JUST DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING.

SO HERE IS MY WARNING. IF YOU ARE LIKE ME AND CAN NOT STAND TO START A STORY AND BE ABLE FINISH IT THEN THIS MANIWA IS NOT FOR YOU. IF YOU DON'T CARE ANYTHING ABOUT THAT TYPE OF STUFF THEN FEEL FREE TO ENJOY THIS STORY, RIGHT UP UNTIL YOU HIT THE INVISIBLE WALL WAITING FOR YOU AT CHAPTER 75!

**SPOILER ALERT**
So I did do some messing around on the internet and managed to find out how the light novel ended and I have to say WTF! It ended terribly! The bastard author obviously wanted to make sure he would never have to do anything else related to this title so he gave it a scorch the world type ending. Just pisses me off to see a work with so much entertainment potential get flushed down the crapper with a nuke the world and kill everyone ending. I will never read anything by this author again because this appears to be a habit of his. What a waste of a good story and great characters. Wow! Wow!