Yakushoku Distopiary
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At first glance it looks like a story about a character with something wrong but then a lover eventually changes him, but that wasnt the case. This had me in for an emotional roller coaster with highs and low, It had me crying in a corner for half an hour in just 4 chapters

Personally the shock factor in the story got me and i was a bit skeptic on the RPG relations at first but it was a good reason for the characters actions. A Tragic manga that at every deaths gave me chills up my spine, highly suggested for gore/Loner MC/death lovers

- This is a Dystopia manga, hell, it's in the name. So the question is how well they execute it? Long story short, it's amazing and as the same time disappointing due to the shitty industry that force mangaka to kill their own work.

- The setting appear to be generic, but actually bizarre and intriguing. We all know the over saturated of RPG like fantasy worlds, but more often than not, the author just gloss over the world building and we're expected to Know the inner working of the world. Yakushoku Distopiary (YD from now) is one of the few which actually showcase the ... difference aspects of the setting. How it work, who's involve, and of course, how f*ck up it is.

- There won't be any spoiler here so feel free to proceed, though it will be kinda hard to talk about it, so bear with me

- YD used the setting, the RPG like world where there're Heroes aka subjugators to defeat the Demon Lords (with an s), and flip it on its head to create a dystopian world. Just from the description, you would expect the heroes to be justice and the Demon Lords to be the bad guys, and that's exactly what won't happen here, this is a dystopia after all. Instead, we're given the humanize and the villain sides of both the Demon Lords, and the Subjugators. In fact, the Demon Lords themselves are more sympathizable compare to some of the Subjugators. They're just doing their assigned job. Did I say that the jobs system was used briliantly.

- Everyone was given a job title the moment they born into the world, just one job, you can't change it, and have to do it. Some people were given power beyond imagine, time mage for example, while others are garbage cleaner, and the likes. And then there's the Subjugators job and the Demon Lord job. And that's the whole point, they're just doing their jobs, be it killing people mercilessly or clean the window. We sympathy with them because they has human emotions, despite their horrible actions, forced on them simply because the job title.

- And this lead me to the simple principle of how to create a good dystopia, or story in general.
"It's not the vilains or the heroes fault, it's the system."
This is the same principle that Madoka Magica, Bokurano, Shinsekai Yori, Made in abyss, or any good Dystopians used, and YD follow this it to a tea.

- THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE BIG NAMES, WHY JAPAN, WHYYYYYYYY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- the series was going strong for the first 4 volumes, then on the 5th volume, we're introduce to a whole new character arc and end on a rush ending. Needless to say, it got axe. The author were probably given red flag as the end of volume 4, that he only have 1 volume to finish the story. Realize he can't finish it, he shift to a difference character arc entirely, in hope that it will be popular enough to continue the story and also avoid a rush ending, some how.

- And even with what little he had to work with, the author did amazingly well. That out-of-nowhere character arc is another amazing portrait of this dystopia world. However, the last chapter is still rush ending to our main story. Can't really blame the author. that ending is probably what he had in mind for the real ending. The worst part is, I can see what direction he's going for, the potential that this seri has, if only he has more to work with.

- I can't really discuss much of the story without delve into spoiler teritory, my credibility isn't that high, but if you get something out of this review, just go read it. Despite a rush ending, the sheer potential and the great executions that this manga portraited is worth the read. My 9 rating on this seri is indeed bias, but this could seriously be a 10, if only the industry wasn't so shitty

Edit: I found it! The author didn't give up, he still upload the manga through webcomic. Best part is, the supossedly "last chapter" isn't even there, just a prove of how bullsh*t that chapter is. Now i can keep reading this amazing story. The update is a bit slow tho, but it's still better than nothing.
for anyone who want it: http://endelta.jp/gesellschaft/

Yakushoku Distpiari is a new twist to hero archetypes, some people classifying it with the "dark hero" label, but this is not all it is.

The main protagonist is what you'd imagine a dark hero to be, and like all seinen mangas, there are girls in underwear, abundance of naked skin and high levels of moe, BUT this is where it differs; these tempting elements do not change the protagonist. It has become cliche for the male protagonist to become stupid with lustful desires, OR to not be affected at all, the author has created a character that fits perfectly in between.

Now talking about different ... parts of the manga, story wise, you'll get hooked if you enjoy mainstream shounen-type of plot lines. It is certainly engaging and action based, but it makes everything more of what it is by adding the element of mystery to the setting and characters, making the reader really look forward to updates.

Art is a subjective point, differing from person to person, but this manga does not lack nor does its rating go down because of it. It is very detailed, and even has a relateable game-like feeling to it.

The characterization is what I highly regard this manga for; the main character is certainly unique, but I admire the stoicness of the character and how it remains static.

Overall, even though the manga has just recently started, I give this manga a rating of 10 because I see it having the potential to be a long term serialization. I would love to follow along with long journey to come.

In a fantasy world, a realm with more levels there are two major forces. One the overlord who is chosen every xxx years and the subjugation forces. The subjugators are some form of party leaders who apparently need to have strong alies in their party. I will not say why their power depends on it as it would spoil the horrific power they have called Hero Compensation. First we meet our main hero, a very depressing looking guy with a cross scar on his face under his left eye . Cold and really like a puppet he is set out to fight the demon ... lord. Now from the first chapter, heads up there might be a spoiler in the things I am about to say. From the first chapter it seems like his teammates easily die, yet he does not.
Anyhow this new world that we are introduced in is filled with magic, it's basically an RPG like setting magic, swords you know the usual.... and this is what makes it so scary. Since it is an really rpg like setting, everyone has their role set since birth. If you born with the job of a painter, your soul will yearn to paint. There is no other way around it.
Now many of you might be interested in the comparison of this to log horizon and SAO, but I can tell you the only thing they might have in common is the game like setting. Other than that it's almost the opposite. But you will have to find that out yourself. For now I will leave an more in-depth article in the description, with more spoilers and more things that might make you want to read it if this wasn't enough to.

I absolutely LOVED this. I finished reading several weeks ago and I'm still sad that there's no more from the author to read.

It's sad seeing the low scores for this manga because it's so TOP-tier. The world building is 10/10, no boring and heavy-handed front-end explanations of the world, yet it has a lot of depth. More importantly, its has so many unusual ideas and concepts, obviously the main one is Troza's ability to consume his allies and the dystopian assignment of the jobs.

Asides from the abrupt ending (due to cancellation), the score might be low because this is a story is NOT for everyone ... BUT you should already know if this is something you'll like just by seeing the genre and a quick browse of people's comments. Like brutal, sad stories? Where you wish the character would get a happy ending but you know its hopeless? Can you handle gore and mature content? Then you will prolly love this because it's top-tier in it's category.

I think the author should have leaned more into the absurdity of the world. Over the top, edgy, whimsical, and fantastical. If it was ever serialized again, the best advice I could give the mangaka is to be more self-aware when writing and embrace the absurdity of such a setting. Sometimes I thought the edge was tongue in cheek and it did seem self-aware of what it was at times, but too little too late. There were some little bits here and there that did make it entertaining, but overall the seriousness of which it took itself made it a slog to get through at ... the time. It could have the same themes and setting, but with a bit more dark humor. Say the demon lord just wrecked a town, but decided to stop at the next to get something to eat. A Subjugator who kills rando's for their levels instead. Show how this flawed system that's been put in place is crumbling away since the nature of evil in this world is very fluid.

This manga started off amazing. It threw us into a original and bizarre world and right off the bat, entertained us to the fullest. The middle and the start were so good, but unfortunately towards the end it started getting real rough. You could just tell that the author wanted to finish it as soon as possible; multiple battle scenes were skipped, characters killed off, unanswered cliff hangers on parts of the story. It disappointed me so much since it had so much potential. I would have really enjoyed it more if the author didn't rush to finish the series and had instead took the ... time to fully immerse the reader in the story. I think that the author probably rushed it because of personnel reasons or something like that but that is besides the point. Overall I would still definitely recommend this manga for the art, characters, and storytelling aspects that it has. Just be prepared for the ending.

Yakushoku Distopiary is... interesting to say the least. It presents a fantasy "video game" world where every person is assigned a class. Anywhere from being a "gunner" to a "cook" to a "puppet master," and how everyone living in the world must contribute to keep this world going. Like any fantasy game world demon lords are brought in to the world and heroes must be created in order to stop them. The dream of a lot of of fantasy game lovers had in some point. Except that the in this world it presents a much more dark and grittier presentation of how such a systematic ... world would be and how such a world would become oppressive to people who are not the "heroes." People are manipulated and the heroes of the story are willing to toy with their allies to achieve victory.

Distiopiary subverts the typical video game hero and for the first few chapters it becomes a huge hook driving you to read further. But as the gritty gore, dark comedy, and continual death of characters goes on it quickly turns tedious. At some point it just becomes edgy for the sake of being edgy where chapters are dedicated to seeing random NPCs slaughtered.

Perhaps that's what the author of the manga intended. That as you start to grow more desensitized to all the violence and gore, you become like the "heroes" or "watchers" in this manga. Whichever the case the manga ends abruptly and it's pretty clear the author was running out of idea to continue the series on. At the very least the abrupt ending is done better than most other series and keeps the central theme of the manga intact.

But by the end of the manga you can't help but feel that there just could have been more to this series. It feels unsatisfying and incomplete.

The main reason that people gave this a low score is because of the ending but i think the ending was good so if you don't like sad stuff you probably won't enjoy thid but trust me when i say this is a hidden divine diamond in the universe of manga so im a really big fan of the mc,s problems because what if you were in his position but no you don't need to think that the manga will make sure you do and the artstyle is amazing i really enjpyed the fights and the ending just left me like WOW im amazed i ... highly reccomend this to anyone who reads manga even if you're not a manga reader make sure to give this one a try thx if you read until the end

Ooh man what a ride , i will try to keep this review short without spoiling the story that much for anyone interested .
Yakshuko distpiari (weird name ik) is a dark fantasy story set in a world where everything is under control and surveillance which is a metaphor to our current age , the story takes the commonly used concept of the power of friendship and twist it which is quite unique and good at the same . The mc was an anti hero with some interesting philosophies , other characters weren't that good but overall the main character carried the story . Art ... style used in this manga is quite cartoony , but it made the gore scenes more fucked and terrifying .
To conclude , although the ending was rushed due to the manga being axed , i enjoyed this read quite a lot 7/10