Blue Flame

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I made a promise to myself to finish the next 5 manga I planned to read, that was a mistake. Blue Flame falls in the category of “absolutely vile insane drama I can’t stop reading, I just have to not start in the first place” and I’ve been trying to distance myself from that because they’re good reads once a year.

I really don’t need to go into the premise or story, for two reasons. One, if you seen one of these you’ve seen them all. Inu to Kuzu, Musume no Tomodachi, Oyasumi Punpun, Chi no Wadachi, and Shounen no Abyss just to name a few. ... Reason number two is you wouldn’t care anyways. I can’t even pretend to lie and say this has any redeemable factors that make it worth a read alone. I can’t even be critical about it like I can with more common drama plots. Every single character is a piece of shit, every possible action is a 180 from what a character should do, and by chapter 34 I found 11 serious plot holes that would make a fantasy author cringe in horror.

That being said you get the gist. I recommend this manhwa if you like any of the aforementioned ones I previously mentioned.

Blue Flame Is a beautiful story filled with deceit, manipulation, and love. The story follows a teen with a troubled past & broken home, falling in love with the beautiful queen-bee of his new school. However this seemingly perfect girl Is not all that she seems.

While Blue Flame Is not something we have never seen before, I think the execution on the premise, alongside the main duo, Is what really makes this manwha shine. The story Is pretty good when it comes to setting up Its suspense, and while certain parts certainly felt a bit obvious, and overplayed, as a whole the story still comes ... together in a great way and makes for a short but enjoyable read.

Now this is what I am talking about. This is a Manhwa!

Blue flame is a psychological horror manhwa about a boy living with his abusive parent, trying his best to lay low in the new school he has transferred to in order to prevent tarnishing his father's reputation. But fate had some different plans for him.

Starting from the starting, it has a good hook for the readers to look forward for the next chapter. And this is a thing which I have come to unconsciously try to find in nearly every manhwa and manga I am reading recently. With not too much time to ... spare in my hands, I try to read only those things which interest me. So for a hook this is an easy pick.

Now, due to my bad habit of comparing things, I wanna give you a head start on what you should be expecting from the manhwa cause it is quite similar to the much established manhwa 'Bastard'. And while it would be pointless to compare this and Bastard together because this manhwa quite does not utilise the environment and horror element so beautifully like Bastard does, it is also good in its own right.

Now that I have given you an idea about what this will be and hopefully convinced you to give it a chance to read, the real review begins from here.

Now about the horror, it was good in the horror aspect. I did not feel extremely tense or had my heart pounding profusely all the time. But it had the constant anxiety mode in me turn on. I think the only time when I had truly had my heart up was during the basement one in which the father tries to find the girl. That one was very good. But apart from that, I do not have any strong feelings regarding its horror aspect, which is depressing considering much could have been done during the involvement of conversations between the son and the father. Because my biggest gripe, if I have one, is that they could have gone balls deep to make the father as creepy as possible, but they didn't, and I just didn't feel the weight behind the tension induced by the father in this. But nonetheless, it has very good horror, because the gold standard which I am using for this is 'Bastard' itself, so it is bound to be good.

About the art section, I have told this previously at times and I will continue to tell it in the future too, to take my review about art department with a grain of salt. Because the thing is I like the art of the manhwa if I like the manhwa. If I hate the manhwa, I can give you countless things to prove that the art is bad, despite how much undeniably good the art is. And for a matter of fact, I liked this manhwa so already, I am gonna see the art with my rose tinted glasses on. So I recommend you to see it for yourself cause according to me it is very good.

Characters are good. I love the characters which the author wants me to like and I absolutely despise those characters which he wants me to hate. Yes, sometimes the attempt to make the character likeable or unlikeable may feel a bit pushy at times, but it gets the work done, so its fine I guess.

So now we have come to the ending. At the ending stages it becomes a fast paced mess. So much happens and we as readers are given little time to let the things happening sink in. Also I thought that the series would end up at a bad note, but thankfully we got the good ending and I loved it every bit.