Jan 1, 2023
Adapting an entire game into a single volume might seem like a very bad idea and something that can only feel rushed…but here's the deal: Shin Megami Tensei If is easily the worst game in the franchise and had little to no story at all: Ideo Hazama has linked his school to the demon realm and our 2 main characters, Nobu and Yumi, will have to go through a series of dungeons before fighting Hazama. Of course the manga gets rid of the dungeons since they're useless anyway and goes to the essential.
Working with a poorly made game can hardly make for a good manga,
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the story is very straightforward, it has every main plot elements in less than 140 pages. While simply adapting If in itself doesn't have any real purpose, its role becomes meaningful when you know Kazuaki Yanagisawa decided to link the events of If to those of the original Shin Megami Tensei reinterpreted in Kahn.
The biggest flaw in If is that it is merely a prologue to something bigger, characters are still bland and lacking motivation and some demons like Anly Manyu find no real purpose here but Kahn reuses everything introduced here (although not for the best and the series is not fully translated in english)
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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