Apr 20, 2023
Just like the author said. “I wanted to do a story about superpowers, but then decided to make it realistic”. He seems to have stayed in the most detrimental middle possible.
“Ultimate Outcast” is a series that many people can enjoy in many ways. A piece of media escapism about revenge against the psychopath bully. There's the implication of rape, an edgy protagonist that turns psycho, violent gang members in high school, full of kids that can kill adults. The big, gigantic problem, is exactly what I said at the beginning.
An author has to make a choice in tone, or a system we can follow
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that's logical. If he picked a realistic tone, this story would've felt extremely grounded, focused on slow, methodical fights that end with climactic, logical ways. The fantastical tone, on the other hand, allows dynamic fights, the art can explode into weird, exaggerated movements, similar to JoJo's. Why would the story try to combine both? It could've worked, but the idea of highschoolers destroying a metal and wood table with a single elbow blow seems extremely stupid. The story teaches these techniques that work in the real world, but then a kid breaks a grown man's collarbone with a single blow from their hand. This is not how bodies work, this is not how anything works, so then, why do that? You can then go full fantasy, but even then, this is the real world. Not every single person on a street wants to kill you, not every school has a top dog that needs to get destroyed, and not every bully has the potential to kill a human being out of nowhere. The amount of deaths avoided by the protagonist arriving just in time was ridiculous.
The characters are pretty mediocre. Tropes that learn a thing or two, nothing more, nothing else. There isn't even that much to mention, since the main story happens in the very first 68 or 69 chapters, the rest being a side story that said nothing important. I felt disappointed about the lack of stakes, since they reverse every bad development that anybody suffers; again, a matter of not going all the way with anything. Death? Make it, but it's fake. Terrible heart problem? Forget it, it's cured now, let's go to the next thing. I hate when they fix everything that appears, with the potential of a story about juggling those things in a fight effectively.
The art was pretty nice though. An impressive use of paneling, with impact being represented with the color red. Lines being heavily used to show movement on a person and to where. Not much to say, it works and managed to carry me to the end.
Overall, 5/10. There's a space for trashy, edgy series about the OP protagonist and how they'll prosper against the bully. The world doesn't work like that, but again, what is the world, a real one or a fantasy one? I hope next time the author decides properly.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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