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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
I honestly have no idea what I just read.
I had heard before I started it that it had some disturbing elements in it so I was prepared, and it did deliver. I don't know yet what to make of the story but I will try a couple more volumes before I decide whether to finish the series or not.
Just know if you're considering starting it that it is very dark. I think a lot of people who pick up stories set in a post apocalypse setting don't consider how ugly things would get. It is not like Chainsaw Man- it's not humorous or meant to be. It's more akin to horror.
I had heard before I started it that it had some disturbing elements in it so I was prepared, and it did deliver. I don't know yet what to make of the story but I will try a couple more volumes before I decide whether to finish the series or not.
Just know if you're considering starting it that it is very dark. I think a lot of people who pick up stories set in a post apocalypse setting don't consider how ugly things would get. It is not like Chainsaw Man- it's not humorous or meant to be. It's more akin to horror.
"grimdark" doesn't begin to describe this, genuinely one of the most horrifying settings I've ever encountered in fiction, every 15 pages you think you've hit a new peak of the most genuinely awful thing this guy can think of and then it gets worse!
I will read more.
I will read more.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
This shit is fucking brutal. Holy hell. I was drawn more to Fire Punch than I was to Chainsaw Man and I finally opted to pick it up.
It is an intriguing concept to be sure, and extremely heavy to read. But, it does seem ever so disjointed at this time.
Definitely interested to read more, but, jeez Louise, I hope that there is more coherent a story to follow.
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is my review on the whole series
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Rape, Slavery, Violence, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, War
Hey um this was absolutely batshit (not in a good way) and I don’t know if I’ll continue the series
I put the entire review under spoilers not so much that I'm going to spoil the plot but that the content warnings ARE pretty much the plot in general. A lot of people (self included) might find their way to this via Chainsaw Man which is violent and sexually shady but this is on another planet. It more than earns its explicit content and if you're wondering why I didn't go ahead and put a star rating on this: I simply couldn't. I'm SO not the audience for this and I read my fair share of grimdark.
The plot is straight forward. People on this planet (which maybe some alternative earth based on the last few pages which were outrightly confusing) are freezing to death. Some people have Blessings which are super powers. The 'Ice Witch' used her blessing to plunge the world into a massive ice age.
The main point of view character is Agni (name no doubt chosen for it's meaning in Hinduism) and he's a young teen at the start of this. First thing we see is his sister Luna lopping off his arm with an axe. Agni (and Luna to a lesser extent) have a regenerative blessing so they keep piecemealing Agni and giving him to the townspeople to eat.
Content warning 1 : cannibalism
Luna is very close to her brother, so close she wants to have his baby.
Content warning 2: attempted incest
However when the dominate country's soldiers invade to get meager supplies, they're so grossed out by the cannibalism their leader a Blessed named Doma who conjures fire that can't be quenched so long as there's fuel, sets everything and everyone on fire. He doesn't think anyone is worth enslaving.
Content warning 3: genocide
Content warning 4: enslavement
And that's all in the first chapter. I read on thinking it can't get worse. Oh I was so wrong.
So now we have a boy who can regenerate from anything and a fire that won't go out. Cue ten years of him burning alive before he figures out how to ignore the burning and go after Doma for revenge as some naked burning man (Think Human Torch and Wolverine had a baby) Along the way Agni meets Sun, a young Blessed boy who's been exiled from his village and Sun tags along, convinced Agni is god and he's saving people. Any people Agni manages to save from Doma's soldiers is incidental to him. If a few girls don't get raped, Agni doesn't care either way
Content Warning 5: attempted rape.
We have flash backs with Agni and Luna as slaves having limbs hacked off for fire wood (hint, humans don't burn well)
Content Warning 6: child abuse on page.
Agni and Sun come across some more of Doma's soldiers and Sun is taken as a slave and Agni, let's just leave it as man those are some regenerative abilities. Sun's journey somehow takes an even worse twist as his new master gets off on watching kids getting raped by dogs.
Content warning 7: attempted beastiality/pedophilia
The volume ends when Agni finally meets up with Doma again and it's not as he expected. I suppose I'll never know how it goes because I found nothing redeeming about this so yeah, not reading further.
The plot is straight forward. People on this planet (which maybe some alternative earth based on the last few pages which were outrightly confusing) are freezing to death. Some people have Blessings which are super powers. The 'Ice Witch' used her blessing to plunge the world into a massive ice age.
The main point of view character is Agni (name no doubt chosen for it's meaning in Hinduism) and he's a young teen at the start of this. First thing we see is his sister Luna lopping off his arm with an axe. Agni (and Luna to a lesser extent) have a regenerative blessing so they keep piecemealing Agni and giving him to the townspeople to eat.
Content warning 1 : cannibalism
Luna is very close to her brother, so close she wants to have his baby.
Content warning 2: attempted incest
However when the dominate country's soldiers invade to get meager supplies, they're so grossed out by the cannibalism their leader a Blessed named Doma who conjures fire that can't be quenched so long as there's fuel, sets everything and everyone on fire. He doesn't think anyone is worth enslaving.
Content warning 3: genocide
Content warning 4: enslavement
And that's all in the first chapter. I read on thinking it can't get worse. Oh I was so wrong.
So now we have a boy who can regenerate from anything and a fire that won't go out. Cue ten years of him burning alive before he figures out how to ignore the burning and go after Doma for revenge as some naked burning man (Think Human Torch and Wolverine had a baby) Along the way Agni meets Sun, a young Blessed boy who's been exiled from his village and Sun tags along, convinced Agni is god and he's saving people. Any people Agni manages to save from Doma's soldiers is incidental to him. If a few girls don't get raped, Agni doesn't care either way
Content Warning 5: attempted rape.
We have flash backs with Agni and Luna as slaves having limbs hacked off for fire wood (hint, humans don't burn well)
Content Warning 6: child abuse on page.
Agni and Sun come across some more of Doma's soldiers and Sun is taken as a slave and Agni, let's just leave it as man those are some regenerative abilities. Sun's journey somehow takes an even worse twist as his new master gets off on watching kids getting raped by dogs.
Content warning 7: attempted beastiality/pedophilia
The volume ends when Agni finally meets up with Doma again and it's not as he expected. I suppose I'll never know how it goes because I found nothing redeeming about this so yeah, not reading further.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“YOU MAY BEAR ALL OTHER MANNER OF PAIN AND SUFFERING…BUT ALWAYS RESIST DEATH”
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very dark and intense, recommend taking your time to read them. Taking breaks to 'touch grass' as one would say.