As the Gods Will The Second Series
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| No idea how I feel about this. I made it all the way to the end. I read series one back in Highschool, and now about 7 years later, I decided to give series 2 a shot. I started it maybe about two weeks ago, and flip-flopped between reading one volume a day to two, and finally today I read the last four volumes. I haven't actually read a manga in a super long time aside from this one, but I was definitely hooked. I sort of skimmed series one again before beginning this adventure, just to jog my memories a bit which helped. I feel like this series certainly had its highs and lows. Some arcs were better than others, and I felt it shined most when it was survival games and not generic battle shounen garbage. I ended up liking a handful of characters and disliking a large portion as well, but it was fine with most of them dying in the first place. I feel like the author also forgot how certain characters were originally and changed them in series two, sometimes for the betterment of said characters, and sometimes for the worst, in my opinion in the case of Amaya. I thought Shun was great through and through, especially since he is so flawed, and I appreciate how the author wrote out his end for Shun. The highlights character wise for me were definitely Shun, Amaya (before he changed), Ushimitsu, Shimura, Mert, Lily, Aoyama and Yukio (especially when he develops in series 2). In terms of the games themselves, I enjoyed most of the beginning games, Rock Paper Scissors, Sky-High Hopscotch, The Labyrinth arc, and even Judgment Old Maid, but I feel the series did poorly during the Demon Execution arc, and the three Kingdoms cops and robbers arc. I still enjoyed the Demon Execution arc to an extent, but a lot of it felt too generic battle-Shouneny. The cops and robbers arc felt really drawn out, and although it had a few highlights brought in too many concepts that didin't fit the story or felt really stupid in my opinion. Now the ending itself, I'm still mixed on. On one hand, I think Ushimitsu will be a more benevolent game master, but he also will never remember Roku-Chan again, which was what made him who he was in the first place. Secondly, I think him starting the games again is a really dumb decision on his part, and unfitting of him. Also this just means that everyone who did die will probably die again. It also means that the people who do make it might end up being the same people, and the events might not change that differently. We wouldn't know really. I don't think the series should get a part 3, I feel like 2 was long enough as is. It definitely dragged out at times and I wouldn't want to see this again, unless it was from the perspective of characters from around the world maybe, who we never got to meet, but I would prefer those to be short stories and not a 21-Volume Manga as I felt this was too long for what it was. In the end I would say Series 1 is still a nice fairly quick read and worth it, and if people really enjoyed it, 2 is worth it if not just for the arcs that are actually good. Oh also Akashi was one of my least-favorite characters and kind of a turd/idiot for most of it, just a generic Shounen Protagonist. |
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| imagine being soo addicted to happy ends that as soon as things don't go a convenient preprogrammed way, enraged people flock to forums throwing immature temper tantrums at an otherwise perfectly acceptable conclusion which albeit unorthodox was more than perfect. this is why the west et all is still incompatible with japanese culture. i'm not condemning this merely smh while pointing out the elephants in the room. |
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| The original run had this weird hornyness that felt out of place, it was on your face but at the same time it didn't really matter. The dude had a loli in bondage moaning rules but no one reacted to it or cared, or two different girls got horny with danger but that didn't affect things. I felt this was a semi-reboot hoping to turn it into something that would mesh with a live action movie audience. It made sense it'd explain stuff again if the goal is the bring new readers. But then it brings back old characters with designs and relationships that are almost identical to the new ones, and still wastes time showing things from the original that don't matter at all like the hiki ex-biker who never did anything. Way too much of this manga was a complete waste of time. It helped hit great cliffhangers, but those are all supported with the feeling of wasting time like crazy. At some point I was expecting an off the walls ending. Something so stupid that it would make everything else tame and forgetable in comparison. Like the Japan sized kaijuu in Hakaijuu, ore Mahou Shojo of the End and its ultra convoluted timelines. But instead we get a stupid "game" that's just a linear progression and a sort of time loop that doesn't make too much sense. What's this mediocre relaxed shit? How can you try to do that in a manga with bondage loli and gore games? You can't hit the breaks that hard and pretend it was always that way. |
| eh, hago cosas en youtube. Si te pinta pasate www.youtube.com/c/verduritasparasopa |
| interesting and bold move by author to kill the main character but will this vicious cycle of death ever end? a sad ending after all. |
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| Geez. I'm actually surprised at how much love I developed for the series. It was like a weed for me-- somewhat awkward, mildly annoying, unsuspecting.. but unraveled itself as a flower the author carefully grew. Themes of desire and ego, being your own god, a witness to your own potential. Oh I was thoroughly entertained! A stand out in a garden of other survival death games. Somehow the ending works for me. It felt satisfying in consideration of its concepts/philosophies. Selfishly I would've liked to know what the author had in mind for Ushimitsu's game tho. I wish there was a third part; I could read 200 more chapters of that. It's conclusive as a self-contained part, but there's a lingering feeling of awaiting an overall finale. I'd be so open to the end of a trilogy. The set up of a new game with new consequences bc Akashi's partner is missing is too good. Too enticing. Ushimitsu said he couldn't die til he expressed his feelings. I just have to sit with that forever and cope. |
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