Akki Goyou Garan

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Manga is like an ocean. It is deep and seemingly endless, and sometimes there are beautiful fish lying forgotten in the dark depths, just waiting to be discovered. This manga is not one of those fish. It is much more similar to the thousands of fish travelling in schools, making up the majority of the ecosystem with nothing more than sheer quantity.

To start with the story is incredibly linear. We don't even find out the back story of our only side character. Each chapter is just the main character sensing evil and running off to kill it. The villains are all one dimensional. There ... is no moral gray area here, the author writes all of these villains as evil for the sake of being evil. On top of this, there are bucket loads of gore and death that are incredibly graphic. Yet, there is one scene that is censored and I can't understand why, as nothing else in the manga (including the underage sex) is.

The characters aren't really anything to write home about either. The main character has one mission, and the whole manga is him fulfilling that mission without ever stopping and thinking about things. He has no development. The side character is a 14 year old prostitute who also doesn't develop much, and even though she tells a small portion of her backstory in one chapter, we don't ever get to really know what happened or even see it in flashback.

The art of this isn't a strong suit here. It looks like it was written in the 80s, which would be fine if this wasn't published in 2005. With that in mind, however, the art is hard to appreciate. The only thing that really stood out were the gore segments, as painstaking care seems to have gone into drawing them.

Perhaps I was in the mood for gore when I stumbled across this, because despite it's many flaws I managed to get a sliver of enjoyment from this.
For the most part though, it's an unremarkable piece of fiction that simply chugs along in the vast ocean of manga, eventually being reeled in for no other reason than pure chance.

This was not at all for me. The gore, the bloodshed, the massacre - it was all just...unnecessary. It was just too dark for my taste. The art style was...passable at best. Everything else I just did not care for. I get that Garan had a very troubled past that greatly affected him, but he seemed that he viewed all demons as terrible. It also seemed that he lost all hope in humanity. We went thought the entire story mercilessly killing multiple demons and bad men. Not showing any sort of remorse or regret for his actions. However, in the last chapter, he reveals that ... he actually has taken in the spawns of demons and help raise them to become better. If that was the case, he should have shown some sort of hope for the future. And while he did leave the kids in the care of that other demon, Mariko, he should have left a child with Mayu - one that would take his place upon his death. Also, why not make Mayu a little older, like nineteen, and give her an more mature body. And none of the villains were memorable, they were all one dimensional, and just vile to their core. Garan claimed to be a bachelor, yet we never see him with any woman. Garan could of had multiple sexual partners, as a way to keep his lineage going - the same as with Mayu at the end. With every single women he's been with pregnant with his child, they could have given birth to the saviors of the shattered world...and bring in a new era, where peace was restored. And does it really make sex wot censure some parts, but keep all the blood and gore? I don't know if other people will like it, but I suppose they should at least give it a chance. Though I personally wouldn't recommend it.