Before I get started, I haven't done many reviews. As much as I could talk about the stuff I watch/read, it's hard to keep things condensed without going on a rant, so I'll try to keep it brief, and I really don't have too many thoughts on YnN. I prefer watching anime as I feel more engaged, but if the ongoing story manages to hook me, I jump straight into the manga to know how it continues.

And such was the case with YnN. I finished reading it last night and I'm not even mad, I'm just... disappointed. Am I getting out of touch for expecting a more mature story or themes from a manga that started as a battle of wits, or is it the shounen who are wrong?

The warning signs were all over the place after the end of the first arc, but I held on, expecting this morbid story of human cattle in a world of demons to actually be dramatic. The background of the world that awaited outside Grace Field was so grim that I expected Emma to be broken by the world. But she achieved one success after anothe, and the more the story progressed, the less she and her comrades lost along the way and the less invested in the story I was.

The only thing I could say is that the first two arcs are good. They are tense, there are stakes and there are consequences. Goldy Pond was where everything went downhill for me, although what followed after that arc picked up a bit of steam, and then started losing it.

I don't really know what else to say. Did I expect too much from it, or is the story just not that good?