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A review by pastelwriter
MADK, Vol. 3 by Ryo Suzuri
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I continue being on my knees for Ryo Suzuri for giving me the gift of MADK 🧎🏻♀️
This mangaka has solidified my absolute love and need for manga that explores queer horror 🙏🏼 Truly need as much of it as humanly possible to be in my hands. I absolutely need more stories about obsession and terror and yearning and destruction. WE DESERVE IT 🌈
Still. It’s bittersweet that this has come to an end. I wish we’d gotten more volumes because I genuinely believe that with a little more wiggle room, this story would have blossomed even more incredibly than it already did. At the end of the day, though, this ended exactly how I wanted it to and expected it to.
This was always meant to be about cycles of obsession and how obsession and hatred only breed more. It was no surprise how the relationship between Makoto and J resolves. It was the only natural resolution to their dynamic.
Honestly, part of the true gift of this volume was how much we got to learn about J’s past. I wasn’t sure how much the mangaka would give us, but we got plenty to reinforce that there was only ever going to be one specific conclusion to the story.
Anyway. Long live my king Makoto 🙏🏼 He became an evil bastard and now everyone fears him. As they fucking should. I needed him to destroy J, and in the pursuit become that which he sought to destroy. Now that is what obsession is all about! He let J destroy his soul, and he’s left with all this power and no one at his level. He let J destroy his soul, and only for J to still have the last word. Only for him to live knowing J made him who he is, and he can never snap that tether. I love WINNING 😩👌🏼
*satisfied sigh* Now if only I could be Fjord and be Makoto’s bestie at his side forever 😔 Wouldn’t that be a dream?
This mangaka has solidified my absolute love and need for manga that explores queer horror 🙏🏼 Truly need as much of it as humanly possible to be in my hands. I absolutely need more stories about obsession and terror and yearning and destruction. WE DESERVE IT 🌈
Still. It’s bittersweet that this has come to an end. I wish we’d gotten more volumes because I genuinely believe that with a little more wiggle room, this story would have blossomed even more incredibly than it already did. At the end of the day, though, this ended exactly how I wanted it to and expected it to.
This was always meant to be about cycles of obsession and how obsession and hatred only breed more. It was no surprise how the relationship between Makoto and J resolves. It was the only natural resolution to their dynamic.
Honestly, part of the true gift of this volume was how much we got to learn about J’s past. I wasn’t sure how much the mangaka would give us, but we got plenty to reinforce that there was only ever going to be one specific conclusion to the story.
*satisfied sigh* Now if only I could be Fjord and be Makoto’s bestie at his side forever 😔 Wouldn’t that be a dream?