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tobyyy's review
1.0
Meh. Platonic brocest. Not my cup of tea. The plot was super confusing, too, and honestly creepy. A “good god” and a “bad god” are brothers... they duel and then whoever wins, earns the “King’s Soul” as a reward... the loser enters a “deep sleep,” and when the winner’s son is born (conceived with a woman whose only purpose is to have the winning god’s child), the losing god wakes up to battle the offspring of the winning god to see if he can win the King’s soul back.
Except the brothers fall in love with each other...? And the good king decides not to fight his brother because he loves his brother... so he kills himself to purposefully lose the duel but keep the soul... and is reborn (immaculate conception). Except the women who bear him (the three times he lost the duel on purpose) are women that he loved as an adult...
Eh. Weirdly incestuous and just bizarre overall. No thanks.
Except the brothers fall in love with each other...? And the good king decides not to fight his brother because he loves his brother... so he kills himself to purposefully lose the duel but keep the soul... and is reborn (immaculate conception). Except the women who bear him (the three times he lost the duel on purpose) are women that he loved as an adult...
Eh. Weirdly incestuous and just bizarre overall. No thanks.
dreamerfreak's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Can be read as platonic or brocest, but either way, I adored it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Incest, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy
puddingtaco's review
3.0
Pretty, pretty, pretty. Jumps around a bit and doesn't the relationships really gel. Still a descent book. Wish there was more.
reniareads's review
1.0
FOR THE PLUG AND READATHON!!
So minus the implied incest (I know...just wow) the story wasn't that bad. It was good concept but I felt like it was poorly executed. I had to say I hated the dialogue, I know most mangas likw these are a bit melodramatic which I don't mind, in fact sometimes it really works, but with this one it doesn't. It felt forced and recyclwd from other mangas. Another thing im very nitpicky about is the blatant sexism. I get that these men are (it is implied) to other men but how they talk about women is gross.
Also I'm not a fan of the art. I have never really been a fan of anime/manga art from the 80s, 90s, and late 2000s the only exception for me is Inuyasha. There wasn't much to tell characters a part but curly hair and uncurly hair. The action scenes were subpar and I got bored very easily.
In conclusions I basically skimmed the end of this manga. . .
So minus the implied incest (I know...just wow) the story wasn't that bad. It was good concept but I felt like it was poorly executed. I had to say I hated the dialogue, I know most mangas likw these are a bit melodramatic which I don't mind, in fact sometimes it really works, but with this one it doesn't. It felt forced and recyclwd from other mangas. Another thing im very nitpicky about is the blatant sexism. I get that these men are (it is implied) to other men but how they talk about women is gross.
Also I'm not a fan of the art. I have never really been a fan of anime/manga art from the 80s, 90s, and late 2000s the only exception for me is Inuyasha. There wasn't much to tell characters a part but curly hair and uncurly hair. The action scenes were subpar and I got bored very easily.
In conclusions I basically skimmed the end of this manga. . .
asphaltcowgrrl's review
3.0
This is not quite what I was expecting, but was enjoyable anyway. If you can get past the bit of repetitiveness that starts each chapter, it was pretty decent.