HUVAHH

Calling Huvahh a manga (or even a one-shot) doesn't really do it service. It's pretty much just a showcase of some character designs and environment motifs for Shadows of the Damned. For the five minutes or so it takes to read it and really observe the art, if you're a fan of Q Hayashida (Dorohedoro) or Shadows of the Damned, it's totally worth reading.

There is barely any plot, dialogue is all mumbling nonsense, and there barely even a through line between pages, but the art is really all you're coming to the book for, so none of that really matters. If you've played Shadows of the Damned, you can see some familiar designs and motifs floating around. It's definitely a great companion piece to the game, especially considering how long it is. If you're reading this review right now, you've probably spent more time reading about Huvahh than you would reading Huvahh.

I only give it a 7 because I would have preferred a few more pages and some of the art could use a little more polish, but that grimy sort of crust punk garage album cover art aesthetic is what Hayashida is so well known for.

Well, the art is nicely done! However, it is also a bit pretentious: something about the complexity of the art makes it seem less like manga and more like some sort of artist sketch book. That's really all I can really say about this one-shot, as the language is unidentifiable, there is no logical story line and the mood is kind of creepy, but more in a confusing way than an enjoyable one. Maybe I expected too much of a one shot, but even if there is some sort of meaning behind this then it certainly isn't easy to identify, which to me means that this is a bad piece of work.