Reviews

Suicide Girl mixes the hopeful and inspiring genre that is the “Magical Girl” trope with the existential and heavy-hitting themes of s—cide. From the first chapter, I was admittedly interested in the premise, but quickly lost said interest as I read on. Not only does its’ knowledge of s—cide seem to be scrounged from a few Google Articles, it instills the false notion that those who are dead can be revived. Now, this is to say nothing of the manga’s quality, as it’s a personal nitpick, but it’s quite the distasteful one. As long as you defeat the big scary monster, those who have rather violently committed s—cide will magically come back as if nothing happens. This isn’t hopeful, or inspiring, it’s not addressing the core of why people choose to commit— much too focused on meeting the quota for its’ other genres, instead.

The art is also pretty jarring and not in a good way. It’s hard to make heads or tails of what’s going on in the fights, as every monster seems to be some ghoulish, phantom-like figure who just throws out volley attacks before being defeated.