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Hideout (Manga) add (All reviews)
Jun 14, 2022
Mixed Feelings
It was a strange little read. Best thing about it is that it's a short story that you can finish in a couple of minutes. The art was really well drawn. Feels like there could be a bit more imagination putted into art as the enviroment was mostly swallowed by darkness. Nonethless it still looks really detailed. It will make you keep reading despite its unlikeable and abhorent characters. The only person which I was rooting for in this story was death itself. I just wanted everyone to die. While mangaka tried to make MC more relatable and his actions more justifiable, that did not make me care about him. Thats not to say he was excusing him considering the ending.

THERE is one interesting aspect of the story that made me wanna write this review and lay all my thoughts into text. This story at first felt like an incel power fantasy. I might be going into spoilers here. MC's wife was a gold-digger and cared mostly about material gains. She put the full blame of what happened on MC while neglecting her own mistake of not closing the balcon doors when she was leaving. She never even wanted a child and described the existence of their son as an "accident". MC was expected to provide as the man of the house and once he was unable he was viewed as a failure. His father-in-law despised him as he viewed him not worthy of his daughter. Society itself was letting him down. MC tried to solve his difficult situation with violence. Most people would look at this part of the story and would view him as a monster. But I think that there is a group of people on certain forums that would try to excuse him and to a certain degree even support his actions. After a ruthless torture MC managed to free himself and emerge as knife wielding, hoodie wearing badass. Killing the monster, saving the girl and gaining a new son and a new family. Society turned him into a monster but within the depths of the cave there is no society. He makes his own society as he pleases. No longer trusting his new wife, she remained in shackles. His new son is listening to every word he says and not talking back. They remained hidden in this place which seemed like an atomic shelter. A nuclear family.
Or maybe not.
Maybe my wild interpretation is totally false and I'am just schizoposting. But I like doing this. Whenever the mangaka did this on purpouse or on accident does not matter. He still choose to write the story this way.


This says a lot about our society.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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