Saihate ni Madou

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There's something special about this kind of uncomfortable story.

Yes, I got into it because the premise was disturbing. It seems like such an interesting plot description, and something not many could even DARE to touch upon. Not in the “this is a disturbing manga” category, I've read a fair share of those. This one feels much rawer.

It's a situation loads have thought about. “What if somebody was the cause of a family member's death?”, to which many would answer, “I'd kill them” without much of a second thought. What about afterward? What comes after the crime, after harming that which ruined your life? Well, the ... manga starts there. The MC decided to kill his sister's rapist in front of his little daughter. Twisted to no end, questioning everything about the event, and questioning if authorities should've put their hand there. It questions killing for vengeance, and the things that happen after are EVEN more interesting.

These people are linked forever, whether they like it or not. We go from such a tragic event, and such a challenge to the readers, to how both the MC and the little daughter develop something you can't just describe easily. Both need each other to live, to exist within the face of the earth. An objective, they cling to the idea that they can survive if they have each other, even if each of them believes they took everything from each other.

I loved this manga, not just for how it tackles its events, but how people unpredictably, but logically react to the surrounding situations. The feelings of guilt, suicidal tendencies, symbiosis, purpose, forgiveness, SELF forgiveness. It's a small manga, which could be made into an incredible animated film. While writing this, I felt the manga might've been a little overdramatic with some scenes, but man… you can't just assume these people can be that rational. This event marked their lives, and they're willing to die at any point if something changes in a single day. Living day to day, wishing for an answer to live or die in that day. How could I even begin to comprehend the implications of that? Well, I remembered well-lost memories. Memories I thought were gone.

Every character was perfect, and each event they lived through makes sense at every point. It got a little too shocking at times, reminding me that even after I've read so much disturbing stuff, there's still whiplash for an implication that goes far from what I expected.

Little mention on the art. Reminded me of Chainsaw-Man in its kind of… sketchiness? With so much beauty at the rawest points of emotion. The portraits of people suffering from the aftermath of an action. Their face, the perspective around them warping as they realize, it's always about realizing. There's so much meat in this small story.

This manga truly brings out emotions I couldn't describe. As I was seeing the characters evolutions, I felt something beyond the scope of the manga. Something I felt with “A Silent Voice”, and “Three Days of Happiness”. The willingness to change, and the power to look at yourself and agree, for once, that you wish to see the sun rise tomorrow, even if you didn't feel that a day before.

Watching characters bounce around their will to live was very upsetting, and a reminder to allow ourselves to be happy, even if we blame ourselves for other's unhappiness.

9.4/10. What a ride, and so quick too.

3 chapters out till now and It's pretty good

Initially the MC murdered the person who raped his little sister and caused her to kill herself

He is sent to prison for 7 years and once he's out he decides that he wants to kill himself, as he feels like he is to be blamed for the demise of this sister

Right before he takes the step to kill himself, he sees a girl praying at his little sister's grave.

*skip to last paragraph for no spoilers*

He then realises that this girl was actually the daughter of the rapist he murdered, and he is also going to be adopted ... into his family, so initially the daughter of the person who he murdered, becomes his sister

In the latest chapter he writes a suicide note and tries killing himself, but is stopped by this girl

Overall it's been pretty good and interesting. A lot of mysterious yet to be solved, and a weird dynamic between the mc and the girl.
It is very dark tho, so avoid it if you don't enjoy that type of stuff

When I read the summary of this story, I was quite captivated by it and figured it would be another amazing dark manga which covered some adult themes and hopefully a story where we see a person overcome such horrible difficulties.

The crime he committed and the reason behind it was covered too fast and the moment you take a second to think about it, it just doesn't make any sense. It left me feeling like the author just half-assed it.
While there are only a few chapters so far, they move at a really fast momentum, not giving much time to process the things that are ... happening.
Not many chapters out there, so there's not a whole lot to say about the characters so far.

However, the art is quite good, fits the story quite well.