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Helter Skelter

Kyōko Okazaki

3.84 AVERAGE

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

horripilante e estranhamente belo, assim como a personagem que o protagoniza. houve momentos que senti arrepios por todo o corpo e tive que dar uma pausa pra não me sentir sufocada. ter pena e ódio profundos por uma mesma pessoa não é uma coisa fácil de se processar

o mangá não é tão gráfico quanto eu pensei que seria, mas sinceramente, não foi necessário
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Plot or Character Driven: Character

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4.5

And up-and-coming celebrity is the product of secret, extensive, fragile plastic surgery. This is about the fickleness and violence of fame, beauty standards, pop culture, and sexism, taking them to surreal extremes; it's effective social commentary but not particularly nuanced or, as a result, memorable. What is memorable is the characters. Okazaki has an unfortunate same face issue that makes supporting characters difficult to distinguish, but the rancid mess of the central character (whose voiceovers intrude, sympathetic and vicious, into a usually-distant narrative) and her toxic, compelling relationships (explored through sexual content which teeters between coy and shocking but never settles for merely titillating) has a vibrancy that the themes alone lack.
dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

intéressant. j'avoue avoir tout aimé sauf le personnage du procureur et ses interactions quasi surréalistes avec ririko, ainsi que la fin. bonne lecture, malgré tout, avec une ambiance très inconfortable, parfaite pour la saison. le sujet de la chirurgie est abordé de façon assez peu original, de fait, le personnage central impulse à l'histoire toute son intrigue, en bien comme en mal.

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urbon_adamsson's review

3.0

Lilico is a beautiful young supermodel loved and idolized by everyone. All girls want to be like her. All men want to be with her. She is at the top of the world.

What she is also is egocentric, selfish, manipulative, superficial, narcissistic, cold and vengeful. She'll do everything to keep herself in the top.

And this is where my issue with the story lies. It's just very hard to read and watch the actions of someone like this. She is just too obnoxious, and I already have a huge distaste for the world of fashion to begin with.

If you can handle that and you're into a story of ascension and fall of a supermodel in a dog-eat-dog world. Then, you will probably enjoy this one more than me.

I also found the art a little confusing at times. The sequences between current events and flashbacks, and some of the characters are not easy to distinguish.

Other than that, it was a decent read, and a good edition by Sendai.