- This is a Dystopia manga, hell, it's in the name. So the question is how well they execute it? Long story short, it's amazing and as the same time disappointing due to the shitty industry that force mangaka to kill their own work.

- The setting appear to be generic, but actually bizarre and intriguing. We all know the over saturated of RPG like fantasy worlds, but more often than not, the author just gloss over the world building and we're expected to Know the inner working of the world. Yakushoku Distopiary (YD from now) is one of the few which actually showcase the difference aspects of the setting. How it work, who's involve, and of course, how f*ck up it is.

- There won't be any spoiler here so feel free to proceed, though it will be kinda hard to talk about it, so bear with me

- YD used the setting, the RPG like world where there're Heroes aka subjugators to defeat the Demon Lords (with an s), and flip it on its head to create a dystopian world. Just from the description, you would expect the heroes to be justice and the Demon Lords to be the bad guys, and that's exactly what won't happen here, this is a dystopia after all. Instead, we're given the humanize and the villain sides of both the Demon Lords, and the Subjugators. In fact, the Demon Lords themselves are more sympathizable compare to some of the Subjugators. They're just doing their assigned job. Did I say that the jobs system was used briliantly.

- Everyone was given a job title the moment they born into the world, just one job, you can't change it, and have to do it. Some people were given power beyond imagine, time mage for example, while others are garbage cleaner, and the likes. And then there's the Subjugators job and the Demon Lord job. And that's the whole point, they're just doing their jobs, be it killing people mercilessly or clean the window. We sympathy with them because they has human emotions, despite their horrible actions, forced on them simply because the job title.

- And this lead me to the simple principle of how to create a good dystopia, or story in general.
"It's not the vilains or the heroes fault, it's the system."
This is the same principle that Madoka Magica, Bokurano, Shinsekai Yori, Made in abyss, or any good Dystopians used, and YD follow this it to a tea.

- THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE BIG NAMES, WHY JAPAN, WHYYYYYYYY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- the series was going strong for the first 4 volumes, then on the 5th volume, we're introduce to a whole new character arc and end on a rush ending. Needless to say, it got axe. The author were probably given red flag as the end of volume 4, that he only have 1 volume to finish the story. Realize he can't finish it, he shift to a difference character arc entirely, in hope that it will be popular enough to continue the story and also avoid a rush ending, some how.

- And even with what little he had to work with, the author did amazingly well. That out-of-nowhere character arc is another amazing portrait of this dystopia world. However, the last chapter is still rush ending to our main story. Can't really blame the author. that ending is probably what he had in mind for the real ending. The worst part is, I can see what direction he's going for, the potential that this seri has, if only he has more to work with.

- I can't really discuss much of the story without delve into spoiler teritory, my credibility isn't that high, but if you get something out of this review, just go read it. Despite a rush ending, the sheer potential and the great executions that this manga portraited is worth the read. My 9 rating on this seri is indeed bias, but this could seriously be a 10, if only the industry wasn't so shitty

Edit: I found it! The author didn't give up, he still upload the manga through webcomic. Best part is, the supossedly "last chapter" isn't even there, just a prove of how bullsh*t that chapter is. Now i can keep reading this amazing story. The update is a bit slow tho, but it's still better than nothing.
for anyone who want it: http://endelta.jp/gesellschaft/

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At first glance it looks like a story about a character with something wrong but then a lover eventually changes him, but that wasnt the case. This had me in for an emotional roller coaster with highs and low, It had me crying in a corner for half an hour in just 4 chapters

Personally the shock factor in the story got me and i was a bit skeptic on the RPG relations at first but it was a good reason for the characters actions. A Tragic manga that at every deaths gave me chills up my spine, highly suggested for gore/Loner MC/death lovers