tl;dr: A manga that uses a good balance of lighthearted and serious moments for a mostly well told plot with an especially well-done friendship between the two main characters. 

The majority of the story was pretty well paced. After the introduction, it had a good dichotomy of the main characters Helck and Vamirio’s side going on a somewhat lighthearted and amusing journey, along with the other main characters Azudora and Asuta’s side having to take on a major foe and the large scale and overarching elements regarding that. Both sides were well balanced and that kept things interesting. This also resulted in slow and steady world building that built up a pretty interesting world with interesting mechanics, as well as allowed for a pretty varied set of side characters. It also allowed a good balance of comedy, action, and more serious moments.

Helck and Vamirio are two well developed characters with simple but solid characters arcs, but what I liked most about them was their relationship. It’s a male and female character pair, so usually that would mean romance, but it really never felt that way, but rather that they were just incredibly close friends, and Helck more so seemed to have a love interest in another character named Alicia. A male/female bromance type relationship is both pretty unique in manga and it was handled really well so I ended up getting really invested in it. The other characters didn’t have much development, but they were interesting enough.

The plot was pretty solid for the most part, however when it hit the end game it felt like it got overtly convoluted, and dragged on in that it had too many twists that kept it going after it felt like it should have been over already, but despite that it also felt rushed in that there wasn’t enough time to fully flesh out all the twists before it moved on to the subsequent ones, so it felt pretty badly paced. Still, where things ended up was incredibly solid, and it did a really good job at making the epilogue very satisfying. The art I wasn’t much of a fan of, in that the quality and general style was decent enough, but character designs for the most part were pretty boring and though I did grow used to Helck’s overtly muscular in context design eventually, I still won’t go as far as saying I like it. Also, as another note this manga has a crazy amount of random extra content like omakes and such which are of pretty solid quality.