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Old 2014-03-16, 03:23   Link #16
larethian
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Originally Posted by Moe Connection View Post
Seriously, Kagami, please get back to your other works instead of starting another one already. Including this one, you now have four unfinished works in total.
Not really. Itsuten's already finished. Denyuuden is almost done. Many have suspected that it's a strategy by Fujimi to let readers transit to the new work. Authors have lost readers when there is a blank period in between series. As for Seraph, it's by a different publisher altogether.

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Originally Posted by bludvein View Post
I enjoyed it, but its nowhere near my fav. The premise is more than a little out there. A labyrinth disease, really? Why not just call it a curse and be done with it?

Also seems like the author went out of his way to exaggerate the MCs asshole tendencies(presumably because "it's cool"), while simultaneously making him seemingly the only one actually interested in curing the infected. So his tsundere-ness just comes off as fake.
What's wrong with calling it a disease? It's contagious, targeted, and removes ambiguity from the cursed songs.

That's called character development. The MC's background is still largely untouched. Remember that he has gone through shit in other countries as a raider. That's the reason why he is acting like an asshole. He wants to remain unattached to people. Being an asshole helps him. And he believes it's the way to survive and achieve his goal. One of the key themes in this series, if you haven't yet managed to catch it, is hypocrisy. And the entire world is a gigantic hypocrite. At least that's how the protag is seeing it.

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Originally Posted by Drkz View Post
Artist works on Blazeblue stuff.

MC has a accelerator feel .

Its like a dungeon crawler, but instead of a demon lord the final boss is little girl... Her minions are cute little toys that just want to hug you to death. And if you don't kill the little girl before the time limit millions of people will die.

So in the series they wear ear phones. The ear phones are their weapons, this has a strong persona vibe right here. Lefties are rational-minded and righties are emotional-minded which seems to dictate a person's temperament.

So far the MC has used offensive and speed skills.

The cover girl, or Gunjou is a defensive type.

Shiro the other guy in the promo video is a Offense type.

The final girl Kiri is also a offense type.

Off the bat the MC has three love interests, Kiri, Gunjou and his cousin .

Will we get a Ferris clone?

And thanks to the mighty Larethian
Cousin probably will die next volume. Synop of volume 2 says that the girl who caught the disease is in Kichijouji and a girl whom Shinnosuke knows well. It should not be any of the raiders as they may be too old. So yeah, Yayoi is prime suspect there. It will be unsurprising since she works at the lab and probably just made used of or there's an accident in experimentation.



On a side note, there are some problems with the writing here and there, though probably not glaring enough to a casual reader (but quite obvious to me who have scrutinize every line). I'd attribute it the schedule rush and Fujimi's lazy editors.

Another side note, manga adaptation has already started in comic gene. Will be scantalating it if things proceed smoothly.
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