Grashros

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******The following review may feature a few spoilers******

Ok so I drifted to this manga because I saw a picture of a guy banging a chick not ashamed. But what I didn't expect was that they'd actually give me such an amazing story right off the bat.

The characters clicked, I was starting to grow attached, the story was progressing at an amazing rate and the art was absolutely gorgeous... That is before the huge fuck up

ok so Jesus man, kid literally shouts moves like kamehameha and such from different anime/manga while ripping apart his enemies. How stupid is that. From that point onwards, it was only ... a downwards slope for the manga. The story deteriorates, way too many characters enter the story (and die off mostly) along with the new characters themselves being extremely unmemorable.

I mean the story had so much potential, but what does it give us. A serious story turned into something even I don't know. One minute it's about vengeance and hatred and killing... and the next thing you know you have a guy NTRing someone while the NTR victim makes what is possibly the world's first onahole. Hell I don't even know what's going on anymore.

However, I'll give props to the artist for keeping the art pretty good

Here's my take after reading the initial chapter of the raw Grashros by Muneyuki Kaneshiro (Story) and Akeji Fujimura, (Art).

The moment that I saw the cover page of this manga caught my attention, it is resonating the feel of Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond but with a primal feel being set during the period of cro-magnons 30,000 years ago.

The story mainly focuses on the birth of the child that will go against destiny: Akuu. It may sound cliche but it totally works for me

Immediately, the story brings us to its primitive universe where everything is stripped to its bare basics. Everything is well drawn and the art ... does not separate from the narrative of the story and it feels cohesive.

The characters are easy to identify and differentiate from each other which is a great thing since it shows us that each of the characters is well thought out and researched for this story.

It was after reading the initial chapter of this story that I realized that it was created by a combo mangaka. I love combos!

With that being said I will give Grashros initial chapter 9 volga horns out of 10.

I'm gonna try to refrain from using the "so much potential and it's all ruined" point that I see used in here a lot. So instead let's look on the bright side... this is very stupid but it's kinda fun too.

I have made a whole video about this so if you are interested in something beyond a paper review you can check out my stuff from my profile.

Let us start:

Story - 3
A bit of a downer to start but damn this is some bad stuff. The only good element is the setting and since the manga is short we don't see too much of ... that anyway (primal cities, tree villages, or any cool concept that could be there is not... or if it is it's just for the backdrop). Soo the whole B.C. setting feels more like a skin to the manga than anything... still pretty cool tho. To go a bit into the bad the pacing really sucks stuff happens too fast etc. there are some good sides to that (watch the vid) but for the most part, it's not great. Oh, and the manga goes full-on stupid after some point... like "how is this ever real" levels of dumbness.

Art - 9
OOhh baby this carryed the whole experience for me... it's amazing at times and at others, it's just very good. Not the greatest thing ever but sometimes it's pretty close.

Characters - 4
Yeah since the thing moves very fast the characters just kinda blend together into "ppl that fight the MC" "ppl that are killed by the MC" and "ppl that have passionate love with the MC". There is kinda nothing beyond that... there was the potential for more of course but I am going to stop myself before I start going on "what could have been".

Enjoyment - 7
It was exciting, it was fun, and then it was a little too stupid. Not that I'm above the low-level humor I laughed really hard at some of the jokes but at the end, they leave the bad feeling that the manga kinda put on the clown makeup for to reason and started degrading itself... funny but kinda sad. Frankly, that is the only thing I found not enjoyable everything else felt good.

Overall - 5
Long story short I had a good time but that doesn't change the fact that the manga is very mediocre at the end of the day.

It's only 47 short chapters aka it's around the length of a small movie so it's definitely worth the read if you have a boring afternoon.

Grashros was that kind of manga that fooled everyone by the book cover of the five volumes.

The story begins with the premise of having happened 30,000 years in the past and follows the story of the character Akuu, the cursed child, born during the night of a blood moon, said to bring calamity upon all, and his attempt to fight destiny.

I ask myself this question before I start reading a new story of manga: - What is the purpose of reading; of the story itself?

In general, the characters work and the reader grows along with them, namely the children. With this, the story grows at ... an incredible rate to a point where it seems that for the manga not to be cancelled, the artist drew in a rush to finish this particular work (in much the same way that happened to Tite Kubo when he needed to finish Bleach at the end of vol.74), so I don't need to say more.

The biggest problem with this five-volume series is that everything Akuu does has happened in other stories, which means there is no originality. I don't understand why non-renowned artists in the industry use a form of writing that doesn't work for them, being independent (where 90% of readers outside Japan don't know them).

The story had a lot of potentials but time was tight to draw 50 chapters of an original story. I repeat, original. The Japanese manga publishing market is not ready to leave the comfort zone and this is one of the thousands of examples where the market is damaged, artists leave with a bad reputation and everything turns into a snowball. When the protagonist's purpose is revenge, then the artists must show that feeling.
Of course, not everything is bad since I became a big fan of the art of artist Akeji Fujimura. I will probably read more of his works.

Story: 7 | Art: 8 | Character: 7 | Enjoyment: 7
Score: 7/10

I can't really judge the story as it really doesn't provide you with much currently. Unlike series like To Your Eternity the pacing for this manga is quite slow intentionally. Its really hard to form an opinion about this series as really nothing has happened its all set up however i will do my best.

Art is great, the environments are well polished, just being a weekly manga the art is quite expectational it looks better than manga artist that do monthly.

Characters are fine, not enough character development to really judge its no vinland saga or berserk but it does have fun characters but i ... can see it going bad fast.

Enjoyment a really quick read, because its not dialogue heavy to can pretty much read it really fast like the black clover effect.

ohh boy what am i going to write about this manga... First i want warn you guys about this review, becuz' i am an amateur 'bout these kind of things, anyway lets get start.

First The STORY
The plot is too simple and too predictable, but it makes me laugh and think about the situation that we are going through today. There are many references to our Present day. Like there are vegans, feminists, rebels and religions. And it shows us that they can't live together and when they split the clan to four other clans, they just killed them selves, anyway the message that ... the manga wants to give is DO NOT SPLIT OR FIGHT WITH YOUR OWN PEOPLE. You have to accept the other people even he or she is thinking the opposite way of you are thinking, you have to respect OTHER people or otherwise the enemy is going to kill all of you bla bla bla.

The Characters
Characters are not too deep(actually thats a gud thing 'cuz i don't want to dig a backstory of an character. I am an simple man, I see manga I reading it) . The main character wants revenge, the Other character wants to be stronger than any other creature, Vegans are secretly barbarian- ehm anyway and Some characters wants to sleep with a woman who got big oppai.

Thats all am i going to share with you guys. I hope you liked my review kind a thing.