Shinju BL

It is only the theme of suicide that connects the three stories. Otherwise they are as different as different can be. The feeling that I get is that Yake Nogahara was going to be the only story but then someone got the bright idea of clumping two completely random manga to make this an anthology. There is honestly no coherence, narrative and quality-wise, at all.
The best story, and the only one which validates the cover not only in terms of its stupendous art but also it's theme (that is 信受) is Yake Nogahara; the cliffhanger is thematically perfect.
For Repeat Bad End, the panel work needs to be much more condensed; that’s the secret of one-shots. Too much space, for too few things and actions, is taken up over here. Also, given the type of story this is I think it would have been even much, much, much better if we could cut down on the speech bubbles a bit.
As for Honeyed Days nothing makes sense. Dude, what happened? Why and how did Yasuno kill your father, and himself? Poison and knife? What happened? Why were you in his house? Honestly, there needs to be much, much, much more explaining going on here. And the copious use of blood splattered across the page in the form of faded ink is simply distracting and weird.

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Not on the same level

by kidoraku
8 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

It's a collection of stories with "death" and "dying" as a common thread. A bit awkward I guess... but not necessarily a bad idea. Beside the main thread those stories are nothing alike. The art, storytelling, plot, execution - just everything is on a different level so it's hard to rate this book as a whole (honestly it's impossible).

I like the 1st story, but no 2 is shitty... it's a shame they're not the same quality. Anyway I'd like to see the last one cause I like the author for the cover. You won't give it 10 points

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