STORY - [8/10]
I found the story to be very interesting. It takes place in the French revolution as you follow the Sanson family (mostly Charles Sanson), which is a family of executioners responsible for executing anyone found guilty by the French. The story is mostly pretty good, it really is. But you begin to notice something a bit off tbh. The story begins to just go all over the place, and very frequently. By this, I'm referring to how the story likes to do this and then do that and exc exc without really giving sincere enough closure to whatever was currently taking place. It usually does this with a time skip or something, and it begins to get a bit tiring. As a result, it begins to feel like the story doesn't really know what it wants to be about as it jumps from topic to topic tirelessly. When you think about it, this kind of makes sense when you consider you're following true events based off a real person, but that doesn't make it any less annoying.
Despite all this, the story is still very good and enjoyable. Just something I began to notice mid-way through.
ART - [9/10]
It's one of the best artists in the manga world imo. It's great. I did give it a 9 though because I just felt like some of the art was a bit off early on, but like 90% of it is top tier stuff.
CHARACTERS [8/10]
I found the development of Charles Sanson and Marie Sanson extremely interesting. I think they did a really good job at what they were supposed to do as protagonists but I'm not gonna lie... I personally thought Charles became a lot less interesting after his primary development. The conflict between his personal thoughts and opinions on executions at the beginning was really good, but once he developed and changed... it was just a bit of a sudden and random change and also not for the best imo. I do really like Marie's change though tbh. Her rebellious nature sets up really nice things for the story and TBH, I notice that other reviews rip apart Marie towards the end and her progressive tone, which I don't understand. Her progressiveness goes against the oppressive standards set at the time of the story, and the contrast comes out very nicely. It only benefits the story.
OVERALL ENJOYMENT - [8/10]
Overall, you should definitely read this. It's a very unique and enjoyable ride that sets itself up for a (probably) even better sequel. Sure, the story doesn't really know what it wants to be at times, but its still very enjoyable no matter what it is. I recommend it a lot.
