Innocent Rouge

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Got to be real I am extremely disappointed. I really enjoyed Innocent despite its many flaws. The plot was disconnected, the pacing was pretty bad in some places, the sex/hallucination scenes were a bit overdrawn, and the time skips were too many. Still, the story was divided in mimi arcs which were really well done and even if the time skips fucked the pacing up, the arcs carried over the development of the characters while still being self contained. This is where Innocent Rouge makes a decision that turns a potentially amazing story into a really mediocre one. Even when the characters still hold up ... (at least as far as I read), what happens to them isn't even a plot or a story. Random events (which barely develop the characters) just happen at them. Sure, some of them can be related to the current status of their world but we don't see how it affects it because of the time skips and multiple perspectives. Also the sex scenes go way too far. I know why they are there but the author shows as much as posible all of the time for virtually no reason. Obviously the art is still amazing but when the main character of your manga forgets the abuse she suffered under her brother just because you want them to team up and execute a character then you might need to re-read your previous work.

Definitely a bit better than it's prequel Innocent but still, just like Innocent it lacks in character writing and depth. While Marie is cool her being mostly a one dimensional, predictable character sadly makes her kind of bland. It's definitely a bit better though as it does get more entertaining towards the end, but sadly, it's towards the end not really entertaining and gripping all the way through. Like Innocent I recommend you still check it out, you might like it more than me, and the art is still masterful.

Sounding like a broken record sucks, but I hoped this would've been better... Too bad..

Honestly, as much as I loved the first part, this one was a whole ass mess until the last volume.

The biggest issue is feeling as if Sakamoto-sensei decided to appeal to a different part of audience whilst the manga progressed.

The so well developed symbolism and (despite of the plot) visible delicacy regarding some topics in the previous part, now got reduced to references of modern times and infantile, over-exaggerated p*rnography.
Instead of keeping the visualization on the same level, to fit those mentioned topics - going forward the chapters were just a bunch of naked women, as if there was a race how many ... naked chests we can put in there, without reason and clue.

By the end the manga started going back on its tracks, unfortunately to fall again during the very ending alone.

Still, I decided to score it positively despite the afore mentioned parts.
The reason partly being the big improvement of the plot. It was much more coherent than the first part and the uptaken topics more or less got their conclusion.

Also the story got my full attention. I was looking forward to how the characters would act, how specific things would be portrayed.
With that I could simply not bring myself to say more bad words.