Hametsu no Oukoku
The Kingdoms of Ruin

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Actually a lot better than expected. I came in thinking this'd just be your average edgy revenge fantasy, and in some aspects, it kinda is. The main protagonist is driven by revenge, they're not afraid of committing mass murder, yadda yadda, it does hit the notes in these regard. However, I was genuinely impressed by the art and worldbuilding. The settings in this look beautiful, and there are honestly a lot of novel ideas that have their own unique flair/distinction that makes it really cool. The fight scenes are also beautiful, though, come at the detriment of having a magic system that isn't really explained, ... so it comes off as just cool for the sake of cool most of the time (which it is, tbf, it is very cool). Characters are also fun, there is actual growth on the MC's behalf and the heroine, and the former, while not mellowing out in their schemes for revenge per se, does mellow out in their approach to life in general, and it's honestly pretty cool to see. And the heroine, while 'naive', at first, also goes through her own character arc, without feeling like they just succumed to edge and did a complete 180 on their character. Honestly, this manga is a banger and I'd definitely be down to read more. I'm really curious how they develop certain concepts.

I will review this without spoiler.

1) Story - It actually have a very good strong concept. They really write a very good dark fantasy story with how hopelessly it is to lose when they are powerless. Also every concept about humanity's greed is pretty poetic. This one I have no issue with the story however... Yeah this manga LOVE to rush everything so it will all felt too sudden and fail to deliver... You will start to feel that way after many reread... Like yeah I don't get why the editor letting out this clearly unfinished story...

2) Character - Honest the character is generic... Like ... they didn't developed them much at all until like 40 chapters...

3) World building - This one get a full 10/10. They completely well build. If you read it you will understand why for sure.

4) Powerscale - This one is a clear F score... Why? Despite how they explain the power they never really digging it... Even the Battle of Adonis vs Director too. Don't worry its so out of context that it won't spoil anything. Just saying they could have tell what the limit those two have. This leading into "weird battle"

Overall this is 6/10 and could be way better. It FAILS in character and power scale.

This manga is what you get when you have an artist who thinks they can write too.
This manga is like throwing marbles on the floor and then collecting them not in the order you threw them but at random. How can Keyaru go from revenge-hungry to the sympathetic gentleman and then back to the revenge-hungry psycho in like 3 chapters alone? If people had the capability to change that drastically in that short amount of time, life would be great. Just be in a world written by an incompetent author and there you go. Oh? You want to bring your ex-lover back to life? Actually, ... I believe you want to be friends with a random witch you just met... Wait! You can't do that, what about revenge? Yeah! She is not your friend anymore. She is your enemy. Okay, Imagine Dragons. Everybody wants to be my enemy... main character is written as well as musically talented Imagine Dragons is. Complete and utter garbage.

The art is amazing...
everything else is horrible.
Redo of a Ted Kaczynski.



INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE
Introduction

1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.