Shi ga Futari wo Wakatsu made (Until Death Do Us Part)

Haruka Touyama is a twelve-year-old girl with incredible precognitive abilites. But her accuracy in predicting the future has made her a target for any number of greedy corporations that would use her power for their own profits. After she is taken from her family, Haruka uses her gift to seek out someone who can help her escape her captors and fixes upon a blind man making his way through the busy streets of Tokyo. Though it may seem an odd choice, Haruka's powers have not led her wrong. Despite his inability to see, her chosen protector's fighting skills become apparent when he draws a sword from his walking stick and takes out a corporation's thugs. Haruka knows she will always be pursued and begs the mystery swordsman to keep her safe..."until death do us part."

(Source: Yen Press)

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Shi ga Futari wo Wakatsu made was published in English as Until Death Do Us Part by Yen Press as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes from May 29, 2012, to November 22, 2016. It was also released in Spanish by ECC Ediciones from July 31, 2018, to March 9, 2021.

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Jul 1, 2017

blaze_1987

Recommended

You know the saying "bringing a knife to a gunfight"? That's exactly what Mamoru Hijikata does. And boy does he do it well. He's a swordsman fighting for justice in modern day Tokyo with his team of other uniquely strong characters.

STORY: It's a story about a girl who can predict the near future, who befriends a lone swordsman. Although the MC is blind, he uses specialized glasses to help him "see"; kind of like a bat's echolocation (through vibrations). I found a quite refreshing story, probably because it was completely different to what I've read before. There's some sci-fi information which may throw off a ...

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Jun 12, 2021

Gigavern

Mixed Feelings

What a phenomenal concept.

As a review this is my biggest compliment to this manga, the idea of all of it is amazing and to show off different characters with these unique strengths reminds me of other greats. The shonen-junky in me really enjoys all the fight scenes and all the rapid plot developments, especially towards the final act.

The only problem I had with it is things felt a bit off. I'm not quite sure what I mean but some chapters felt like they should've lasted 3 or 4 and some fights felt like they should've taken even longer. The end fight confuses me the most, ...

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Jan 30, 2018

Yautja

Not Recommended

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I enjoyed the concept and the first 30-50 or so chapters, however it quickly got repetitive and ultimately ended quite poorly. I also think this manga is miscategorized. It is not a Seinen, it's a Shounen with blood and a mild acknowledgement of basic realities. The main character has a childish 'no killing' rule, as if he is a blind Batman with the morality of a 5 year old and no logical justification for his philosophy. The manga does end up having very minor character death in the end but it's hardly relevant after 170 chapters of 'You can't kill bad guys because killing is ... wrong'.

Anyways, the concept of the manga isn't bad. Precog loli because hey, everyone loves a blonde loli, and it'd kinda be weird if it was a shota. The abilities and technology are often poorly explained. Like how can he see shit with those glasses when he's blind. The echolocation creating an image is somewhat believable, but those glasses creating an image a blindman can see is pushing it. There is no way those glasses push an image he can perceive through his eyes. It'd have to be directly transmitted to his brain, something which a pair of glasses can do seems highly unlikely especially when poorly, if it all, explained.

Putting aside that gripe and ignoring all the other ones, because we'd be here all damn day if I didn't, the story frequently pushes that typical shounen attitude of *The MC is super strong*, *Badass x3 Stronger than Protagonist Appears*, *MC gets his ass handed to him*, *Momentary power up, beats the bad guy*, *Return to status quo*, etc etc.
Many characters appear, disappear and reappear haphazardly and have little value. The finale though 'happy' was pathetic as leaving alive this, by human standards, literal superman is completely illogical and more 'no killing' bullshit that tries to impart some idiotic moral lesson that anyone with half a brain would immediately discard.

I think through the entirety of the story ZERO major characters died, and one named side character died. Though this could be incorrect as it's off of memory. Then Mamoru at the end of the story when the main villain is defeated, leaves the FMC alone for 7 years where she lives unhindered, which is complete bullshit for a laundry list of reasons. She is an extremely valuable asset, and has engaged in multiple high profile incidents which would made clear to any intelligence agency or country worth their salt to her value. This was just a poor excuse to push in a timeskip.
Anyways, to summarize the story. Nice concept, poor execution, poor explanation to technology and abilities, myriads of plot convenience, childish attitude and constant shounen cliches.

The art starts off not to good, but gets better as it ages, but otherwise isn't of much note. Art is scarcely perfect and this one is no exception and has plenty of "what the fuck is that shit" moments, but is otherwise passable.

The characters are piss poor. Precog loli is exactly what you'd expect of a child. Childish and fucked up due the effects of her ability on her life. Other than that, she doesn't change to any significant degree through the length of the series, the same of which goes for Mamoru. He experiences little change, and while he is interesting in the dedication to his art, he is otherwise completely boring and quite often contradictory a character. Whether that be in regards to his past, his present attitude or whatever else is situational. The author also frequently tries way to hard to pass him off as a badass, especially when in each new arc he often gets beaten to hell by some new big bad, and consistently fails. Igawa goes through zero change, and is pretty boring, the only character in him is the contrast between his abilities and appearance. Side characters are extremely boring, and, as previously mentioned, appear, disappear and reappear at random. The majority of them leave little impact on the story as a whole as well.

I could not enjoy the entirety of this series, it just started where it started and slowly got worse over time and not once did it regain any footing it lost. Most of the time I was just facepalming at how this is labeled a seinen, when it screams shounen. Or wondering how the fuck either this technology works or how we get these random ability contradictions.

Overall this series was pretty fucking bad. It could be stomachable for a child, or for someone with the morality of a child. It was pretty much blind batman protects a loli for the entirety of the series.

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