I GOT A REVENGE STORY.
FUCK YEAH.
I've read literally hundreds of these types of stories and I can count on one hand how many of them deliver on their promise. This is one of them. I'm so happy.
The only blemish is MC not killing the bad girls. I was afraid MC would get all weak and pathetic and forgiving when a woman antagonist was introduced and I was...kind of right.
In one case we're told the female bad guy can't possibly make it with the wounds on her body, yet we all know fiction logic: if there's no body, that person's chances of still being alive is 99.9%.
We DO NOT see this woman die.
On the other hand when, quite literally, every man who is killed gets a panel of their dead body shown. Good guys. Bad guys. Doesn't matter. If it's a man and he died violently then there will be a very dead, very recognizable body to show for it.
So, I'm kind of pissed about that.
Women shouldn't be exempt in these kinds of stories. This bitch was killing people left, right and center by gruesomely chopping off heads, arms, torsos and faces in half before getting caught herself. She doesn't deserve sympathy or respect.
The "important" women are all cocky, demanding bitches or annoyingly whiny, clingy and useless. Nothing in between, not even the sister. The most decent female character would be MC's mom but, of course, she dies. The other one is an older grandma who was his mom's caretaker. She survives but we never see her again.
Thankfully, no harem. Yay. There's no romance either. Not that one of the girls didn't try REALLY hard for MC. But this is why I can't stand women in stories aimed at boys. They're unbelievably, relentlessly stupid and only bog down the story.
This is NOT the female character's fault. This is a skill issue and systemic misogyny that these writers have.