Oct 24, 2021
Salman shines brightly and fiercely in a medium of unrealistic, infantilizing and childish stories, it is a shining star of effort and love in a medium of cash grabs and cheap appeals. It's good humor and consistent frame leaves you not associating with or putting yourself in place of but understanding and empathizing with the main character.
The crushing banality of everyday life is plainly shewn and the absence of a manic pixie type character pushing a social life on the unwilling aloof main character loser trying to relax on the clearly known japanese high-school roof, is refreshing in this modern age, Instead of caricatures you
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have characters living out their days some selfish or cruel at times but never truly evil.
The titular character Salman is a lost youth, searching for his father, meaning and a place in this world. Nervously trying to see if he can find life or will be ultimately despised and scourged by human society. He takes others at their word, unused to human treachery or cowardice, being used to the honest savagery of nature himself. The art is distinct and utilizes angles to make clear the seriousness of the story from the main characters perspective, you can take the trivialities of youth seriously through this frame. In this the manga doesn't flinch or rely on cheap comic gags to shy away from itself, 30 year old characters aren't given childish frames and the women aren't given ridiculous shapes set to draw lechery from the heart of the reader. The story so far is amazing and shows a new path forward for this stagnant industry known for popular titles these days as "Shishunki to Danshikou" and "Zenbu Kimi no sei" (filth). This manga will NEVER get an anime adaption ONLY because it bravely challenges all the rotten, feted archetypes of the medium and in doing what other manga rarely do these days it has won applause from me. As i have better things to do with my time so i won't be reading the rest of the manga, but from what i've seen so far, this kino, this masterpiece of artwork and writing will surely leave your favourite work ashamedly limping through an alley naked by comparison. I rate it 10/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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