Reviews

Intriguing experiment in visual abstraction. The story doesn't have self-awareness thus even its "surrealism" wasn't cohesive neither rewarding, I hate how these projects want to attain everything, both the common masses and the intellectuals to finally have these monstrous creations, why do that? I do love the Japanese post-apocalyptic narrative, but so much of it is produced nowadays you'd have to be so gifted and dedicated as an artist to make a masterpiece, contrary to what was happening in the manga scene in the past decades since the 60s.

To sum it up, all the good aspects are contained in the main character Darkside, he (and Katari) are the main devices shaping and bending the folds of reality and imagination within the story. I loved the way he appeared and how he carried his darkness with him, also the visual aesthetic and ornamentation accompanying him, there's always a shift in reality whenever he appears. Also the clever visual implication of associating negativity with light, while darkness is rather vague if not positive, that was something.

I indeed want to follow the stories this mystifying figure might create, I'm crossing my fingers the original manga by Hideyuki will have what is lacking here.