Shuumatsu no Walküre
Record of Ragnarok

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possibly one of the best mangas i've ever read even tying jojo's part 7.
the story isn't complexed or anything and feels like a reason to just throw straight action and unique and characters each with with amazing personality traits and abilities that sets them so far apart from each other and makes each character stand out in their own unique way like how qin shi huang is a true king and how adam is the father of everyone.
the story isn't the most predictable with most deaths and loses being hard to guess or how they happen and the enjoyment came was unique because it ... isn't what you normally expect from a tournament arc genre.
the artstyle is beautiful and detailed and sets apart each character from each other and makes every fight feel detailed and intense.
the characters had unique skills sets and mindsets that gave them both weaknesses and strengths with it, such as jack's ability to see emotions that gave him both joy and suffering throughout his fight and life.
although i don't think some characters reaction to this event is realistic it embraces their personality even more like qin shi huang want to protect his people as the true king of kings or adam's want to protect his children.
i think people would enjoy it after giving it a few chapters to pick up the pace and i would absolutely recommend reading this any day of the week.

The manga is, at most, okay. The power dynamics are cool and there are really interesting ideas. Some fights are cool (like the fight with Jack The Ripper, which is different from the others), but there are some tedious and more-of-the-same fights (like the Hades fight): that's why I dropped it.

I really don't like how the gods were written. Some of them should be really powerful according to the mythology, but in the series they are just average, like Ares (goofy god who, apparently, doesn't understand about fights?). The manga also creates stories and even a new god to explain its lore, so it's not ... "mythological accurate" - so don't take it too seriously.

On the human's side, the backstories are okay, but very over the top, and they have powers. I got to know some (kinda...) historical humans, like Lu Bu, which is cool!

In the end, it's not a masterpiece, but fun to read if you like to see men (and only men) fighting.

Pros:
+ Some of the fights are pretty decent if you ignore the whole premise and just imagine they are two superhumans facing off.
+ Incredibly detailed artwork fitting for an action manga. (though I'm not a fan of character's expressions)

Cons:
- Horrible writing in terms of the story, character backgrounds and character dialogue.
- Awful representation of gods/demi gods from various Mythos and real historical figures.
- Pathetic abilities given to the so called gods in the series, not even having powers related to their domain.
- Fight scenes constantly interrupted by character's narrating their poorly written backstories (Buddha for example) or the crowd piping in throughout the fights.

Overall score: ... 2/10