Blue flame is a psychological horror manhwa about a boy living with his abusive parent, trying his best to lay low in the new school he has transferred to in order to prevent tarnishing his father's reputation. But fate had some different plans for him.
Starting from the starting, it has a good hook for the readers to look forward for the next chapter. And this is a thing which I have come to unconsciously try to find in nearly every manhwa and manga I am reading recently. With not too much time to spare in my hands, I try to read only those things which interest me. So for a hook this is an easy pick.
Now, due to my bad habit of comparing things, I wanna give you a head start on what you should be expecting from the manhwa cause it is quite similar to the much established manhwa 'Bastard'. And while it would be pointless to compare this and Bastard together because this manhwa quite does not utilise the environment and horror element so beautifully like Bastard does, it is also good in its own right.
Now that I have given you an idea about what this will be and hopefully convinced you to give it a chance to read, the real review begins from here.
Now about the horror, it was good in the horror aspect. I did not feel extremely tense or had my heart pounding profusely all the time. But it had the constant anxiety mode in me turn on. I think the only time when I had truly had my heart up was during the basement one in which the father tries to find the girl. That one was very good. But apart from that, I do not have any strong feelings regarding its horror aspect, which is depressing considering much could have been done during the involvement of conversations between the son and the father. Because my biggest gripe, if I have one, is that they could have gone balls deep to make the father as creepy as possible, but they didn't, and I just didn't feel the weight behind the tension induced by the father in this. But nonetheless, it has very good horror, because the gold standard which I am using for this is 'Bastard' itself, so it is bound to be good.
About the art section, I have told this previously at times and I will continue to tell it in the future too, to take my review about art department with a grain of salt. Because the thing is I like the art of the manhwa if I like the manhwa. If I hate the manhwa, I can give you countless things to prove that the art is bad, despite how much undeniably good the art is. And for a matter of fact, I liked this manhwa so already, I am gonna see the art with my rose tinted glasses on. So I recommend you to see it for yourself cause according to me it is very good.
Characters are good. I love the characters which the author wants me to like and I absolutely despise those characters which he wants me to hate. Yes, sometimes the attempt to make the character likeable or unlikeable may feel a bit pushy at times, but it gets the work done, so its fine I guess.
So now we have come to the ending. At the ending stages it becomes a fast paced mess. So much happens and we as readers are given little time to let the things happening sink in. Also I thought that the series would end up at a bad note, but thankfully we got the good ending and I loved it every bit.
