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While trying to bury the body of his mother deep in the woods, high school student Yuri is approached by a strange girl who offers to help him. That is... if he promises to be her "parent killing assistant." Meet Anne Freaks, a bright, attractive teenage girl normal in every way - except that she's on a mission to kill her father, the leader of the dangerous extremist cult: the Kakusei Group.
and i love it. there is no redeeming value at all in any of the main characters. anne is a complete psycho. it is never explained fully how she attain that level of insanity, however much like any good horror stories, we really don't need to understand the monster to know they are evil and beyond redemption. yuri is love-struck teenage boy who do anything for the love of his life, he have no outstanding quality except the insanity streak that make him just stood and watch his mother kill herself. another memorable one is the police that conduct her investigation like a soldier - she really don't care who get killed, as long as her job is done. she's the type of cop i always wish for whenever i read detective manga and just angry at the limitation of police work, but when she do it coolly and carelessly, it kind of irked me. on the whole, the casts are great.
the other good thing about this manga is it is not afraid in killing people off, even for the slightest reason. i love that it doesn't try to soften up anne or the other two guys making them only kill the bad guys - no, they are real killers, and they will kill whoever on their way. but, they don't kill for killing sake, every death have a reason, they are not drawn out or explicit for some perverse fan service.
but that also probably due to the art. however much i love the story and the characters, the art is pretty bland and 2dimensional. there is lack of tone or shading, that make the characters and the surrounding look flat. the characters have no outstanding or distinguishing features except their hair, and even that sometimes don't help. yuri, for example, is a failure of a main character for looking so bland and boring. sure, he is a straight-edge kind of guy, but at least make him look a bit memorable.
even though overall i love the story, i couldn't help but noticed there's a lot of things that don't fit, or not included enough, but if you just ride this insane roller coaster ride, those don't matter. the ending is the best i have ever read in a while. i love open-ending like that, because it promises new excitement and adventure than if it is spelled out.
this manga is highly recommended for anyone that love insane characters.
this manga is fucked up....dont get me wrong,i like stuff like this but this is just...NO it gives you the nedd to continue reading but the more you do the more you are pissed....what the fuck is this manga? i would give it +1 only for the drawing since is not fucked up ,but not my tipe,someone may like it but for me is just NO
Also, as to the person who was complaining about Yuri killing his mother. You obviously didn't read the manga very carefully. The Mother snapped and wanted to do a Murder/Suicide with her son, he didn't want to die though. The only thing he did to contribute to his Mother's death was refusing to help her and letting her die.
its quite different from the type of mangas i usually read. The girl, no matter what people say is full on psychotic and its hard to sympathise with her. She truly has the psyche of a killer and her reasons for killing just doesn't seem good enough for me. Yuri has fallen in love with her and well love changes people and this time for the worse. She influenced Yuri totally and this is shown by the ending which saddened and surprised me because at the beginning Yuri wasn't a murderer at all but at the end he developed into a cold blooded murderer whose only source of warmth is Anna and she is the only one he cares for. This also shown by the fact that the two felt no connection to others and Yuri felt no remorse. So there is character development. I thought that the comedy was out of place but perhaps it was there to point out how insane Yuri and Anna was. The art was great and the plot was mediocre really. I found the characters to be interesting enough.
kills his mother for abusing him, why doesnt he just stop her in the first place? hteres no need to kill her. also, that girl killed another girl for knowing that the guy killed hism other...
. not a very good story at all, it was boring and the characters were retarded. 3/10 for making me hate it.
Art was okay, I give it a 8 or a b+. The characters were fun, especially the bits of comedy scattered throughout. What I really loved about this was the ending.
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ANNE IS EVIL! It's such an extreme and unbelievable ending that I just freaking loved. No everyone's cup of tea, but it was an ending that I loved, although you could sort of consider it a bad ending.
I really disagree with people here. This manga isn't about the conclusion but about the girl and the boy. A girl that is quite psychotic in a very functional way. And the boy that sort of gets tangled in her quest. It's a weird mix of him needing her because he killed his mother and crossed a line, and now doesn't know what to do, and finding her attractive. It's like he's the keeper of a devil. It's more effective than the omen(remake). The more you read, the more you realize how evil she is.
It had potential, but it were kinda rushed or something. Lot's of pieces missing that should have been there, and lots of things that just didn't make any sense.
Ok, this manga wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. That however changed after the third volume. Really, the ending and the things leading up to the ending doesn't make much sense. The main objective were lost pretty quickly, and then everything went downhill... I'm a real fan of dark thrillers with anti-climatic "sad/dark" endings, but this clearly proves that it doesn't work in a manga.
Yua Kotegawa is good at concepts and at creating interesting characters. Although she has improved significantly from her previous manga(see Ottori Sousa) where everything was extremely bland, she still has problems ending her scenes and therefore, her stories often suffer from lack of closure.
Still, many mangaka started out with decent to borderline serialisations. Thus, it remains to be seen whether she will improve in her further works.
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