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Made in Abyss
Made in Abyss
Made in Abyss
Made in Abyss review
Made in Abyss
Apr 15, 2021
Made in Abyss review
Well, it's time to drop Made in Abyss.

Two years ago I fell in love with the world of this manga, I was charmed by premise of mysterious, cursed pit, the sense of adventure, beautiful backgrounds, cool looking monsters and coming to age story of young protagonists.

Even if Idofront arc was a bit of step down in terms of exploration, it fixed a major problem with early parts - lack of interesting and compelling characters.
Not only Bondrewd is by far the best written character in manga, but through the interactions with him main characters finally got some very much needed bits of development. Despite some minor flaws, this arc was a great finale to adventures in the known part of the Abyss, and full of excitement I was ready to see terra incognita.

Oh, how wrong I was.

The sense of adventure is gone, because characters had to stuck in the same closed place for more than 2 years and ending is nowhere to be seen. Instead of actual exploration there are massive walls of text or endless flashbacks after flashbacks.

Riko didn't get any development; after 7 volumes long adventures in gruesome, horrible hellhole she is still one-dimensional naive, pure kid. Reg is somewhat here, I guess. Remember how his entire motivation to delve into the Abyss was to learn about himself? In recent chapters he missed every opportunity to reach this goal. Why? There is no explanation for this, perhaps author just wanted to drag the story for the sake's of dragging it.
What happened with Nanachi is just pathetic. I wish author had some balls and gave her fulfilling, climatic death as he originally planned, but as long as characters are selling tons of merch, they are immortal.

Ah, I see, following Nanachi's popularity mangaka added another cute furry, but now with 100% more tits and nonexistent personality. The first thing this character did was attempt to get into Reg's pants and it was enough to make this pathetic fandom scream about "best girl".
To be fair, not all characters of this arc are this bad, but the most interesting ones are sidelined, while story focuses on glorified rehash of Nanachi and Mitty backstory.

The shock value lost any weight. It's always the same story about the same naive little girl, who got screwed by Evil Man. If you've seen Mitty's story in anime, you've seen everything this manga can offer. New cute loli appears, something bad happens to her, everyone is sad for a while. Rinse, repeat.
And let's be honest, no one would care about these characters and their tragedy, if it wasn't fo the moe art style and their young age.

I'm actually kind of sad, while writing this review. This manga introduced to me one of the best fictional worlds and my favorite villain, but it's such a letdown in every other aspect. The awful pacing, release "schedule" and weird writing successfully killed my interest.

I survived several months of a filler fight with random monster, one year of boring flashback and after almost three months of waiting I got 10 pages of another flashback. I'm not invested in Big Loli Drama pt. 3, I don't care if obnoxious newly introduced furrybait gonna survive or not (I wish not), or how main characters will plot armor their way to the bottom this time. Now I'm exhausted, bored and disappointed. Someone may say: "but it's all build up for great climax! be patient!", but I gave up. There are a lot of great stories out of there, where I don't need to wait half of a year for a small portion of not so entertaining anymore content or to turn a blind eye on creepy pedofanservice.

May be later I'll check how the things ended on Wikipedia article and i think so far it's the best way to "read" Made in Abyss, since my eyes wouldn't bleed from loli nipples, shota boners and piss jokes thrown every five pages.
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Nido Tensei shita Shounen wa S-Rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu: Zense ga Kenja de Eiyuu Datta Boku wa Raise dewa Jimi ni Ikiru
Nido Tensei shita Shounen wa S-Rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu: Zense ga Kenja de Eiyuu Datta Boku wa Raise dewa Jimi ni Ikiru
Nido Tensei shita Shounen wa S-Rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu: Zense ga Kenja de Eiyuu Datta Boku wa Raise dewa Jimi ni Ikiru
Nido Tensei shita Shounen wa S-Rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu: Zense ga Kenja de Eiyuu Datta Boku wa Raise dewa Jimi ni Ikiru review
Nido Tensei shita Shounen wa S-Rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu: Zense ga Kenja de Eiyuu Datta Boku wa Raise dewa Jimi ni Ikiru
Apr 11, 2021
Nido Tensei shita Shounen wa S-Rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu: Zense ga Kenja de Eiyuu Datta Boku wa Raise dewa Jimi ni Ikiru review
We have all read and seen our share of Isekai stories. And despite the consensus that isekai is a genre filled with lazy writing, shallow wish-fulfillment, and unoriginality, there are a lot of excellent and interesting stories to explore the concept.

This is not one of such stories.

With title to put light novels to shame, this story brings nothing new to the table and does everything you really expect from it but then also completely fails to follow it's own supposed plot.

The story follows a young boy, 15 years of age, and dreaming to have a peaceful life as a simple adventure. Except this boy is actually the reincarnation of a legendary powerful hero that has slain the demon lord! And that hero was the reincarnation of a legendary sage who knew all magic! Naturally, the kid remembers both his previous lives. Sadly and very wacky, he doesn't seem to grasp the concept of being normal and just casually kills a large dragon and stores it in his magic bag that he made and no one else can make.

In short, the hero is extremely overpowered and the joke is that he just wants a normal life but can't help but casually be the most overpowered being in the universe and fails to realize he is doing so. A plot we have seen plenty of times before and done better in generic isekai stories like Kenja no Mago.

Overall, don't bother with it. You deserve to spend your time on something better.
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Bradherley no Basha
Wagamama Chie-chan
Wagamama Chie-chan
Wagamama Chie-chan
Wagamama Chie-chan review
Wagamama Chie-chan
Apr 08, 2021
Wagamama Chie-chan review
tl;dr: this is a beautifully honest and detailed look into the daily life and emotions of a girl with BPD.

わがままちえちゃん (selfish / self-centred / hard-headed / fickle chie-chan) is a story which many people will have a hard time understanding. Looking through amazon.co.jp, there are lots of reviews saying things like "this heroine is crazy" or "the plot is too fragmented" or "this makes no sense at all..." etc.

Because this story is told uncompromisingly, laying out Chie's internal monologue without third-party exposition, it can easily pose a challenge to those not already familiar with her frame of mind. If you don't have personal experience with dissociative disorders etc, you'll likely come away frustrated or head-scratching. Taking this approach, however, means it can be told with more subtlety, and be more in-depth and poetic than other stories with similar subjects (Girl, Interrupted, to give a well-known example) which devote half their time to explanations for an unfamiliar audience.

--- story: 10 ---

This is a story where the "plot points" are used primarily as a setting to give life to the little details. Because of this, the "story" is really an extension of "character", so i'll go into greater depth in that section.

--- art: 10 ---

志村先生's way with faces has only gotten better over time, and it fits this story perfectly. This is a story told even more through images than words, and she's able to, with a single glance, answer questions and convey emotions that might take another artist a full page of text. Chie needs only turn and look back, and i'll find my chest tightening and spine shivering. Several of the cover images feel like they're about to float off the page, like someone who's forgotten just how gravity works, and anyways can't be bothered.

And, of course, the watercolour spreads are an added bonus.

--- character: 9 ---

If this were a story involving only Chie, i would give this section an easy 10 as well. I found myself repeatedly recognising in her feelings i know intimately but would never have put into words. This way of sharing, completely honest and unfiltered, has shown up in other places in 志村さん's works, particularly in the shorter, less popular stories, but in Chie it finally takes centre stage.

What felt slightly disappointing, however, were the tantalising glimpses into the other characters in this story. Chie's aunt, "girlfriend", and fortune-teller "friend" all have their own brief moments in the spotlight that hint at more complex characters underneath. This does help the feelings of realism and honesty, but still find myself wanting to get to know these characters better. As an aside thing, her aunt feels a little like an author's self-insert character, though that's not really a bad thing here.

--- enjoyment 9 ---

As a whole, this manga left me feeling drained, warm, and detached. If you're the sort who needs those feelings to somehow stay sane, this will definitely fit (would also recommend taking a look at 岩井俊二's things). The slightly truncated feel in the end, regarding the other characters, was a bit annoying, but that feeling may have actually helped. I'm not quite sure any more.
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