SHOCKER!!!:Story isnt ORIGINAL!!!!!!!!. but tbh the story is your generic insane cult working in the shadows to try to take over the world and an unlikely hero which has virtually zero chance at stopping the mad cult will try to protect humanity. as generic as that might seem the execution with that story is wonderful and the first 50 chapters are by far the greatest piece of literature I've ever seen. the first 50 chapters had a great main character, exciting drama, great backstory, solid villain (for at least 50 chapters) and so on. The problem is the nosedive (in my opinion) the series takes for the rest of the time period. Kanna is nowhere near as cool and epic as kenji was,the drama and thriller downgardes,the manga becomes slower,story breaking unanswered questions (how does kenji manage to escape friend on new years eve 2000 and how does the altercation end between kenji and friend) , introduced characters not being as strong as the first arc were, and just overall got worse. The story is still solid though but they shouldve just ended it with an extension to the first arc but getting Ca$h Monie$ is always a priority
Art:7
Art was nothing special. Literally nothing special about it. gave it the most borderline grade i could
Character:7
Kill Yourself.Thats what i hear when i say "Character:7".and honestly i dont like saying that sentence either because if they just ended with an extension to the first arc this would be a solid 9.but thats only in a perfect world and tbh im being nice to this series. For being a significant size shorter,Monster was able to create a perfect,complex,entertaing,and badass villian that is many times better than friend. Friend, for being the major villian and being the most important character in the second arc, is the most underdeveloped character in this manga and MAYBE manga altogether. Friend basically has no backstory and his first identity was pathetic and his second one is ( i dont know if i skipped that page cause there is no way in hell they could if done this) UNKNOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.If that isnt bad enough he actually doesnt have much dialogue/screen time either in the 2nd arc which just makes him more of a wimp. Other than that, the characters were all solid.I didnt like Kanna to much mainly cause the drop in quality from the "God of Normal Main Characters living in a Utterly Realistic World" to her. and Otcho was pretty bada$$ as well
Ending:3
I was going to put this in the story/characters section but i saw so much to write about i had to create a new section. This ending was what MAL describes as "poor" and thats what im going by. This ending was poor.(THIS IS OBVIOUSLY GONNA HAVE SPOILERS SO YOU DONT GIMME DAT BS SAYING I DIDNT WARN YOU).First of all what the hell is Kanna doing at a concert??? This is her last conflict with friend so why is she hosting a concert. Better yet she is UNCONSCIOUS during the final encounter.This is majorly pathetic knowing the fact that Kanna is the main character for more of the show than kenji was and yet she isnt even awake when the final showdown takes place. I expected her to learn something about her "bending spoons" superpower that would be used to finish off friend and could give off some good character development and backstory off of it,BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO( too many caps doe but no fishes given) instead we get a suicide bomber who is basically a forgotten character for much of the series to risk his life to conveniently crash the ufo on top of friend to save the day(the hype that ufo had was unbelievable and for it to end as quickly as it did is just unethical). And on top of that, what was with friend? he seemed so weak and pathetic leading to the showdown and for him to die the way he did TWICE is just sad. And why did all the characters come back 4 the end? the series seemed as if it couldnt let go of all the characters that shoulda died or at least where forgotten so it just jammed them all together to make a weird and a bit forced ending. And friend deals with many problems at the end as well such as:having a weak sendoff, no mask reveal, master plan that he planed 4 years got shutdown in one weak blow, no revealed backstory, no revealed motivations, and just being wayyyy to overhyped for what he actually brought to the table and such making this ending "poor"
Enjoyment:9
Goddamn im tired from all this writing so im just gonna say for me the first 50 chapters were enough to give it a 9
Overall:8
first arc was a 10. second was a 6. average that out and you get 8. First 50 chapters are definitely worth reading and after that you can decide where to go from there
