ES: Eternal Sabbath

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Whenever I find a manga that qualifies as a masterpiece in my book, I feel the need to write a review. It is a silly compulsion, purely because I have little to say save "It's perfect".
The story and its development are smooth and natural, the characters are complex and lifelike. The ones which are not-so-human manage to capture the essence and ambiguity of what it means to be a human being. Eternal Sabbath is complex and simple at the same time, and it poses an eternal moral dilemma - is anybody born good or bad?
I loved everything in this manga. The sensitivity of the characters, their nature which is at the same time humane and animal-like. The action scenes packed with supernatural quality are mind blowing, and the analysis of the inner workings of the human brain is dumbfounding.
It's a must read.

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To be able to take over someones thoughts, to go into peoples minds - thats an unseen ability, and by the story we can experience what its like. In talks I admire some analytical thoughts: about love, growing up, and self understanding. Also story touches about sientists morale, about humanity morale.. that we would rethink our point of view towards such.

I liked ES, as it was very interesting of mans with those abilities thoughts, and Dr. Mine Kujyou thoughts. Story was realistic, yet I personaly dont like too much dramatical scenes, Id like to see more things going well. I also liked the development of love between characters. end.

((And I have some thoughts after watching, DONT read as there might be some clues like spoil, still you wont understand much and I might not consider it as spoil: Good manga, I just didnt want so much characters to die, why cant there be like happy ending, with that girls mother getting along with doughter.. I gues it shows that ES were so dangerous, and I dont know is it good or not. I also wonder if in the end Shuro will take over the mind of baby, or it will be a new person? Anywayz, good manga, good ideas, made some copies of some pages with the thoughts.))

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Eternal Sabbath is very intriguing story about the mental stability of people!? How if someone was created to solely for reason as stupid as mortality and at the end it backfired to control minds and hearts of people?!

This story depicts if in reality this really happened how people will react positively or negatively!?

The art and character development is simply so great!? The characters are so deeply connected with each other with very complex networks very hard to break and the same time fragile!?

Human relationships, psychology, jealousy, emotions and so much more u will observe in this manga!? If you are not so into much deep mental stuff i do not recommend this manga for u because some scenes are too much horrifying or terrifying very real to life?!

I hope you enjoy the manga as much as I loved it!? It is simply amazing and breathtaking!? try out yourself and see how it is!? I read it on one go?!

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Really interesting premise but I think it could have been executed a lot better. Lots of problems I have with the manga. I find it interesting that some other reviewers claim this is a masterpiece despite its blatant flaws.

STORY - [5.5/10]
You follow the journey of 2 individuals developed in a special lab. They were developed to have psychic powers and one of them was taught morality, while the other one was not. By psychic powers, I mean that they can read minds, control people, and even harm others (through doing mind stuff). With this in mind, you follow both of them and how they interact with the environment around them. For the entirety of the series, it seems like it wanted to take a philosophical approach to what it was trying to accomplish, and I honestly do not think it delivered on it. It just never really went in-depth on anything it presented and in all honesty, it probably couldn't. Every topic introduced regarding this part of the story was kinda simple. Maybe it's because I binge that kind of stuff, but the ideas and questions brought up just weren't complicated enough and also boring. At some points, the two individuals begin to question the meaning of their existence, but the story doesn't go in-depth on it as it could have. It comes out simplified too. Some of the drama, especially toward the beginning, wasn't very interesting as well. It does somewhat pick up but I think the first 20 chapters or so are a bit hard to get through.

Although sometimes, the story was just plain stupid. A very convenient and also very disappointing weakness for the antagonist is introduced which just comes out as incredibly lazy. There are multiple times where the antagonist could and should have died, but didn't because the series wasn't long enough I guess. plot holes. It had its share of general problems.

ART - [6/10]
I have very mixed feelings about the art.

On one hand, I think this author draws scenery and background details very well. The background of the panels always looked very nice. On the other hand, I think the people were drawn quite bad. This doesn't apply to every character, but if you look around at some of them... its like the mangaka has a base template she uses to draw facial structures and makes a slight change to it each time. I just don't like how some of the faces were drawn, and they sometimes have alarmingly similar qualities. But scenery and objects came out quite nicely.

CHARACTERS [5/10]
None of these characters were very memorable in my opinion. As mentioned before, it revolves around 2 individuals created in a lab with different mindsets. It focuses on the development of these 2 characters as they get out into the "real world" as much as possible. The development is predictable and since everything is somewhat simplified in this manga, also boring. It's a bit wholesome to see the main lab experiment, Shuro, get in touch with humanity as the story continues but... Izaku's was boring. Predictable increasingly destructive behavior.

A romantic development is introduced for seemingly no reason other then to arsenal the impact of the ending, if I had to guess. Side characters were not that interesting either. Really not much else to say.

OVERALL ENJOYMENT - [5/10]
I don't think I can recommend this series to be honest. It actually reminded me of Kiseijuu a lot, and I'd recommend you read that instead if you haven't. It has worrying issues in each of its departments, and as a result, I sincerely think you could just use your time reading something better.

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