Hakutaku

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The manga started strong, offered interesting characters and technical insight into the indie game-making process, it failed to maintain characterization (except for the main girl and the industry leader who resembles a boy), leading to characters who would be forgotten between chapters, and spent the bulk of its time on niche uninteresting concepts like VR-Games/ ARG games. At times it delivered on the premise (the neet girl who goes around, only doing what will benefit her in making games was interesting), but usually, there was too much text and too few interesting details, you could tell it was going to be axed 10 chapters before. ... I got the feeling that maybe the author didn't plan it enough before starting serialization, and was too stressed to think of anything once it begun. It's unfortunate, since the first few and last few chapters were pretty interesting. Best of luck to the author in his next work.

Welp, this manga became one of my first U19 manga. [If you didn't know what U19 means, it just means that this manga is canceled and barely scraped the 19th chapter.] Such a shame because I actually enjoy this manga and it's one of a kind. I wish this manga could be more than just... this because I'm not that satisfied with this ending. It's basically like they're about to begin their epic journey but then get cut short.
And what pissed me off the most is that this reminded me of one of my fav webtoons called "Brothers and Sisters". Like sh*t man, they also ... didn't finish it properly, they ended that series in the most bizarre cliffhanger ever, making me question why? Why would you make an interesting story but can't finish it properly?
Now I do understand why these events happen, especially since I have heard a lot of stories from these creators behind the scenes. {Popularity=more chapters} Hakutaku and "Brothers and Sisters" both didn't quite catch the larger audience therefore they had to force themselves to finish quickly and got canceled.

I'm not going to review this manga except for the illustration. I want to shout out to Noto because, my goodness, her design looks stunning. This is actually the main reason I read this manga in the first place. She captured my eyes immediately upon seeing her. Nothing can beat her looks. Other than her the other characters don't really capture my eyes. (Sorry Hikuma and Seo)
And also the background kind of looks blunt. It doesn't quite capture how good the environment surrounding them especially when they show the AR game.

Overall, I had mixed feelings. The story could definitely make this manga great despite its generic look and illustration, but it got canceled. Oh well.
5,7/10

Bonus: I actually have a request if anyone has read this manga. If you can, could you make all of the games that are featured in this manga? I would definitely play it and support it because they were absolutely interesting.