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Dec 19, 2022
This manga is very aptly named.
It isn't something that I would call a masterpiece; it isn't something that you'll think of, time and time again, or something that will weigh heavily on you. But when you're reading it, it feels as though you're a voyeur to a small, deeply intimate scene.
The plot is simple, and occasionally predictable, but not in a bad way. All of the characters, even the glamorous oiran, have the carefully written temperaments of real, genuine people.
It is in every way a modest story of love and sadness. One that makes you want to see more, to understand and
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experience more, but then ends; beautiful and fleeting, like a butterfly you can only glimpse before it flutters past.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Dec 19, 2022
Akai Kiri no Naka kara is a gory psychological manga that starts out pretty average and suffers an extremely bad second half.
Our main character is a boy named Rwanda. His mother is a murderer who kept him locked in her basement for all of his childhood. He manages to escape and realizes that he quite likes killing people as well. Rwanda's character is obnoxiously edgy, but he has an inner conflict that he himself doesn't seem to understand, which makes him occasionally interesting. Unfortunately, seeing as the manga is only 25 chapters long and has tons of other stupid bullshit going on, his character
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is never fleshed out beyond vague hints at his underlying loneliness.
Some other characters are: Macalo, a girl who was introduced as a kindred spirit to Rwanda and ended up being so underutilized that it made me want to throw my phone at the wall, Ivan, an annoying kid whose rivalry with the MC was so cliche, it reminded me I was reading a shonen manga, a very forgettable villain, and some forgettable side characters.
Plot-wise, the first 3 or so volumes were pretty average. The dialogue was the same cringe pretentious "is it bad to kill people?" drivel that you've read in every other psychological shonen horror manga (though, this one isn't actually horror, it's just gory). It has some weird battle shonen chapters, some almost-horror chapters, some drama chapters, all crammed into around 15 chapters to make an incohesive edgy hodgepodge. But, it wasn't horrible.
The villain reveal is when it gets good - the pacing is turned up to the max, resolving the whole conflict of the first arc in like 3 ultra rushed chapters of pure confusion, poor Rwanda's backstory gets retconned to high hell, and I was just sitting there wondering why they were rushing the ending so badly when there were still 2 more volumes left.
And then I found out...with the remaining 2 volumes, they just had to start an entirely new arc with only a strenuous connection to the first, introduce several new characters for absolutely no reason, and throw the already shaky characterization of the existing characters out of the window with no explanation.
If I haven't made it clear enough, this manga is bad. Regardless of whether or not it got axed (and believe me, it reads like it was), it is unjustifiably bad. It is not worth your time. I was honestly wondering if the mangaka kept getting bored when writing Akai Kiri no Naka kara and just decided to start new plot threads every 3 chapters.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 16, 2022
If I had to sum this anime up in two words, it would be cringey nonsense.
The plot is about as contrived and nonsensical as it gets. It's about 12 assassins who are assigned to a classroom with one "normal" girl, who they're supposed to find and kill. That make much sense to you? Me neither. And the ending very much comes across as "I didn't know how to justify the absurd story so this is some bullshit I came up with". It tries to play it off as a plot twist, but the story and the characters are so poorly written, the audience probably
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isn't invested enough for it to work.
There are too many characters, and each with her own shoddy backstory that's supposed to somehow explain her shoddy motivations. These backstories are both wholly uninteresting and increasingly ridiculous. Although, the problem isn't really that there are too many characters, because even the leads are horribly underdeveloped stock characters stuck repeating the same shoddy lines over and over again. One has about as much personality as unseasoned chicken and never changes whatsoever, except when the plot demands that she does; the other is a paragon of unconditional friendliness and virtue, which, in the scenario of this anime, means that she comes across as the dumbest person alive.
Also, if you're here for the GL tag, leave. It isn't really GL. More queerbait than anything. The only blatant romance is between the girl who looks like a 30 year old pirate and the girl who looks like an elementary schooler. Of course.
*Very minor spoilers*
There is no tension throughout the course of the anime because the episodic style makes it abundantly obvious nothing will happen to our leads until the end. And even then, nothing happens. For a show that acts dark and edgy, I was pretty amused by the happy nonsense ending. It might as well have never happened.
Anyway, don't watch this show unless you want something you can cringe at a couple times and then completely forget within a week.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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