Shina Dark: Kuroki Tsuki no Ou to Souheki no Tsuki no Himegimi

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Okay this is my favorite manga i ever read
Well this is my fourth or third times i write review of my favorite manga

Story: The story is great every details of each chapter and simple and easy to read of the story.

Art : Outstanding i like it the drawing of every places of each chapter and the beast or monster drawing that i saw this manga.

Character: Well Outstanding too i like the face of character their expression,show the chibi mode, and cuteness i like it most of all the Demon King when he's angry but i want to see the more fear and angriest face of ... the Demon King.

Enjoyment: Great in chapter 14 or 13 to 15 my enjoyment has drown i don't know where the story go just like in Shina Dark place of the Demon king and the country of his people to argue of their money?.Well i don't understand the situation but i think it's not good to place like that.

Overall : Well Outstanding why? Because of the Art and Character but when the story become the end that Demon King why he is kind person? Because of his past lover and i want to read another season 2 of Shina Dark

That all

I know my sometimes my grammar are very poor but i think my review that make you understand a little

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Surprised that this doesn't have any reviews. Yet.....

Arararararararararara....where to start???
Intro!
Shina dark, as the description says, is about a guy called satan, living on an island called Shina Dark, gets a package call of boat loads of women and fair maidens from across the lands as sacrifices. Funnily ironic, he is the opposite of his rumors that were started. I'll get into better detail later.

-STORY-
Rather, there is a nice story that goes along with this manga. How the whole "Satan-is-going-to-kill-you-all-if-you-don't-give-him-all-your-fair-maidens-&-princesses" was proven wrong actually went well and the concept of an island of despair turning into an island of prosperity because of ... Satan just wanting peace was also a good concept. But the story doesn't fully focus on him. It also focuses on former princesses and the several maiden citizens that live on the island. All of them have a back story. Well, the important ones at least. Each of those main characters had either a tragic past or the reason they are there. It has a "problem of the day" formula or "character spotlight" for each chapter. Some times a mix of both. The comedy is suttle, but nothing to complain about. There are ecchi scenes in the first 13 chapters of the manga, but then it just mellows out a bit later.

Overall, it's a fine story. It has a good balance and does not overdose on its ecchi contents.

-ART-
The art style is, how to say, stands alone in its own shining light. Rather than that, it is very great! It has a good design for its characters and monsters, also a nice consistence with no sudden changes to its style. It has a natural feel and has a nice use of screen tones. It does have little problems but those are just clouds in the sky if you know what I mean. It's pretty much something I can't really comment on that much since I have no problem with it. Well, I would say that it lacks much luscious backgrounds and areas, but that's not really a big deal. You'll indeed enjoy this manga if you like ecchi art, beautiful girls and sometimes barren landscapes.

-CHARACTER-
I have to say, I like these characters. If you must know, the main two princesses that the story focuses have a sort of opposite composite type of character. Like one is very suttle, calm, shy, your near-typical-but-not princess and then your battle front-lines princess that is all for justice or such. Their personalities are pretty separate, sometimes don't complement each other but it's a good set up.

Now lets look at the other three protagonists. Satan and his comrades. All I will say is that they indeed complement each others personality. Jokes can be easily made with them around and are rather there for good mellowing out on bringing in the bad but funny news. They are characters that you really have to see to know.

-ENJOYMENT-
I have so far enjoyed this manga and have waited so long just to see the chapters. Of course, I haven't grown tired so I really like this series. I really have nothing to say here.

-OVERALL-
A well made, story that can mellow out between its ecchi, comedy and drama content. Though, not really the best, since it could work out if you like either even if one or two of the three contents that are weak, then the third might catch you. All it needs is just world turning events and some of the sort. It's a nice manga, but needs more substance to its story. If you don't like its ecchi content, believe me, I don't think you'll like the rest. But give it a try when your time is open after reading all those other manga.

Chapter 20 completed sensei

Story 6:
Concept is quite good, the idea of Demon King being misunderstood and the whole thing of reversed roles of kingdoms of man and demon kingdom. As for other things there are cliche moments everywhere.
The usual dualism of characters (female lead) one shields what other is lacking and vice versa. As for Demon king...Well it will be described in character section.
As i was saying concept was good but realization was bad plainly bad. Until chapter 10 i was still hoping to see something good but soon after we see filler episodes one after another while author throws away a vibe of ... depth unto this story...but it is shown more like a future event and can be described as a person knocking to your door having a fancy suit and spouting future happiness while deep inside you see through his shallow charade.
Only chapter 20 has showed something deep but alas author was probably too dumb and thought that you can make crappy filler episodes to boost popularity - Which in fact can help but only when series are too serious and a change of pace can be helpful but here it was +/- balanced out on cliche humor and seriousness while the latter was being pushed back until it revived in chapter 20 to tease you.
There are many plot holes if you think about, many things untold and are considered to be featured in the future (they wont series got AXED). Logically speaking there are a lot of problems with the world mechanic.

Art 8:
Characters were likeable (drawn i mean), background work was impressive but what was lacking is proper panel placement and dialogue bubbles were sometimes confusing (I have good examples of what is good and what is bad so don't go all pissy on me).
All in all art for those years was quite good especially when author showed medieval technology vs futuristic technology (best example when 2 ships were at the port one being colonial time other futuristic one standing side by side).

Character 7:
Was good to be perfectly clear (character progression, some depth with potential and felt a bit alive), that being said, not in this world and not in this setting. female leading roles (2 girls), are from one point of view good from other are horrendous. Tsundure elements are annoying as f*&k, because i freaking saw that they are not shallow dolls and then you see quite mature ones becomes a children and scales are being thrown in tandem all the time it's like split personality disorder (mild one). They have chapters when they are clearly shown as damaged people who become healed as the story progresses.
Demon king - AKA the lazy bum + op on the side (there is a major problem because of how he was made). He was made to be as a jester of the series where his story is being shown as deep one only in chapter 20, before that i was thinking he was made solely to be made fun off and as a support character with father figure premise tipping it all as a cherry he was doing everything from the sidelines (where it mattered he was helping majorly but from the shadows)

Enjoyment 6:
Hard to enjoy when you bump on plot holes and secrets (knowing now that it will be impossible to uncover them, since it is AXED like a cherry tree with the help of once certain president).
Also we have character interactions which are horrendous if you put them in real life perspective unless you are a person who gets off from masochism or a person who seeks inspiration from looking at things from other perspective.

Overall 6:
Would have given it 8 or 7 if it was taged as shounen but it is clearly stated as seinen, so burn like a forest fire on a summer day #(%h. Shounen like elements include:Beating OP Demon king for perverse moments, for misunderstandings on the beaters side since their opinion of him is bad (for no reason since he cleared up myths about his persona), being made fun of when in realty is majorly helping and saving things and etc.
Females or should I say now citizens (males came after, who would have guessed with that gender demography) are major douchebags, constantly abusing demon king (i think he likes it thought no other explanation for his reaction to this).
Let's just say would i be in place of Demon king i would most probably would like to help citizens if they would be thrown in situation that they were thrown but if they would be as ungrateful as those citizens on Demon kings islands i would either isolate my castle from them, teleport out myself or send them off forcefully (you may think it is childish, well yes and no if you consider that having a bit of pride and dignity is childish then yes if not then no).
It wasn't funny for it was cringy to the bones, i presume because i already had my share of these interactions in manga and my sense of justice doesn't allow it to be taken lightly for what is happening out here. Demon king called a lazy bum is contradicted by the author himself (who in the right mind would call King lazy when a man is planting rice? Of course author, who has memory of golden fish and versatility of a koala).
That being said were it shounen i wouldn't cry like a toddler who just did some nasty stuff in his diapers, but it being a seinen made me feel like i was lied to since it has 0 seinen logic 100% shounen logic when characters are dumb and smart at the same time, smart being with some problem solving dumb being with character interactions (it is like they imprinted your you in their mind and imprinted based on your shallow mind setting by judging book by it's cover)
Would i suggest to read it? Depends on you, if you like shounen being hidden as a seinen then give it a spin if you came for some seinen (mature stuff i guess you can call it like that) then forget it, author is like bulldozer who destroys your imagination that being fast and chaotic.
Reference to people of the island ---> If someone cry's and blames you for other peoples actions that were based on rumors and are spiteful even though they are given freedom and free food, that certain person doesn't deserve free food and freedom, slave labor in uranium mines are more adequate.
Reference to real world ---> I have my plot of land, then suddenly neighbors start to throw away their daughters that are hindrances to them, because of some rumors and convenience. Later those daughters even after being given housing and food start to complain and even start to endanger your life, because rumors were false and you are actually a kind man, we fast forward in time and now your homestead is occupied, your land is now not yours and your minions are someone else minions, while you are crowned as a dumb, perverted jester without any dignified quality's. After recreating situation like this in my mind it being a seinen i start to doubt that 6 was an objective rating......