Kuzu no Honkai
Scum's Wish

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This brutally honest and incisive manga explores the dark side of unrequited love. The inability of people to truly reach one another; the futility of waiting for a “no” to turn into a “yes”; the twisting of one’s love target into an abstract idea or, worse, fundamental part of one’s identity; the willingness, even eagerness, to be hurt by the one you love.

The six main characters in this story (with the possible exception of Kanai) are perverted in the truest sense. Not in that they have outlandish sexual preferences, but in that they consistently seek out what is bad for them, with disastrous emotional consequences ... to themselves and others. Most people at one point or another will desire something that’s not healthy, be it junk food, alcohol, or an ex, but will at least try to hold back some of the time. These characters embrace it fully. We see them choose over and over again to get hurt, and/or hurt others, rather than letting go. As a result, they may come off to the reader as obsessive, clingy, deluded, masochistic, cruel, or just plain illogical.

But just because the characters are questionable does not make this a bad manga. If anything, it’s the opposite. If Kuzu no Honkai unsettles you (and it should), it’s because the emotions ring true. You may not like the characters, but you can’t say they’re unrealistic or lack depth. What I especially appreciate is that while the characters may lie or equivocate on the outside, they never lie to themselves; they are fully aware of their actions/motivations, and that makes it so much more devastating. As an added bonus, Kuzu no Honkai also shows that you don’t need death, violence, trauma, or really any externally driven plot to make a fantastic(ally tragic) love story.

If you’ve ever felt unrequited love, you will surely find something to relate to here. It’s a great choice for those who don’t need every story to have a happy ending, and who don’t mind when a work of art hits close to home.

Generally a pretty bland overblown sex drama that doesn’t really have much to offer.

The narrative of Scum’s Wish revolves around the idea of “unrequited love” and how to cope with it, which per se isn’t exactly the most creative idea thematically but I still found it quite interesting going into this manga. But as I continue to read Scum’s Wish ended up to be a rather bland manga with an extremely overblown narrative and monotonous characters. We constantly get this same obnoxious sequence of X falls in love with Y, but Y is in love with someone else, then we get a cutscene to X ... having sex with Z who pretty much has the same issue, rinse and repeat. This sequence was fine at first but the manga just continues to use the same fucking events multiple times, just with different characters. As for the characters, they’re also basically just literal narrative copies of each other with different personalities and are generally very monotonous and again, doesn’t bring anything new except for the fact that they’re depressed cause their lover isn’t in love with them, so they proceed to take advantage of Z, like I just mentioned in relation to the plot. Not to say that all characters are literal copies of each other as there are more intriguing characters in this manga as for example, Akane. But that isn’t really much of a high bar, really.

Overall, If you’re interested with an overblown sex drama with a gratingly repetitive story structure, go ahead and read this. I wouldn’t exactly recommend it

Review both for the anime and manga, Includes a little bit of epilogue.

Not recommending Kuzu no Honkai.

Weird coming from someone that really found this engaging the first time i saw it. Remembering the days me and this bro would talk about that cliffhanger of an ending. And the Cool ass theme. BUT THOSE DAYS ARE OVER. IVE BECOME MATURE BITCH.

To start, there is only a MC and that is the girl So she Respectfully is MC and not "FMC"

Enjoy your respect mc, your a loser. The mc in this manga is portrayed to be someone we should care about and have feelings as ... readers that makes us understand her actions through the manga, but when she is almost wastes her life just that easily i really have no more feelings for this insecure crybaby that whenever something does not go her way starts crying like a crybaby. Its like a Loser realizing all that Gmod server VIP status doesnt mean shit irl. Or when a Loser weeb actually realizes he/she is getting bad grades, blames it on Their mom.

I really did not understand MC actions. Capable of lying to her best friend just so she can make herself feel good, completely abuses her power of what she has over her best friend. What an awful person. And for that i NO LONGER respect her. Although somewhat realistic, but this is anime/manga we are talking about, where the A male mc gets the gyatt gyaru gf no problem. Nobody is looking for that in post 2016 anime.

The Male mc is absent, no is is not a mc, a background character to pop up whenever something is plot armor is not working anymore. His love does not seem genuine. He wants to love her.... and accept her as a cheating slt, but he hates slts? Ok right. Sure. This today is Normal.
Reckon you've already read people addressing the male teacher and the female teacher. Not going to bother. Just slop.

This taking way to long. To summarize. It is bad, makes you completely hate a good build up ending. Just for a epilogue to present MC as a misogynist insert "feminist" character. In some shape or form HOWEVER, it is enjoyable. And better than your average romance, but come on man.