Übel Blatt
Ubel Blatt

Edit

What would you like to edit?

SynopsisBackgroundAlternative TitlesPictureChapters/VolumesPublishing DatesRelationsTypeExternal Links  

I really enjoyed my time reading Ubel Blatt. I think if someone goes into it expecting a dramatic masterpiece - they could rate it far lower than I did. However, if you go into it expecting an interesting story, fantastic artwork, and fast paced action it will nail all of those marks. I found the paneling easy to follow, the characters generally likeable if many stay a bit one-dimensional, and some truly wonderfully drawn and dynamic art. I often find flashbacks a bit annoying in manga, but this story does a good job of keeping it informative but brief - allowing the main story to ... take center stage.

I can see some people wishing for a greater depth in the characters. I do not personally mind the level of exploration we got throughout the series. I didn't find the fanservice or sexuality injected into the series to add anything, but rather detract from it often. This element of the series does tone down a lot by about the half-way point though now and again it pops up. In the beginning it was a pretty big negative of the series resulting in a few eyerolls of the heavy-handed quality of it. There are also a few time-jumps in here that did not feel out of place to me, but I could see bothering a few people. Given how long it took for the mangaka to get this story to the finish line due to moving publications, I think a lot of these time-skips are due to that.

I see a frequent complaint from a lot of people saying that the end to the series is disappointing, I felt it matched fine with the rest of the series. I think a much more valid complaint is that this shifts from a Seinen to a Shounen concept mostly, where the characters powering up and transformations become a bit more pivotal. However, the main character is in and of himself built around a similar concept from the start - so similarly it did not feel out of place to me.

Before getting into the review, I have to give some background information about Ubel Blatt which will explain the reason many flaws this manga have. Ubel Blatt originally started as a Seinen Dark Fantasy manga but ended up as a run off the mill shounen story due to several cancellations. I think it changed 3 magazines, cancelled then picked up by another magazine. This is the reason why it had ran over 10 years.

Ubel Blatt is a revenge story; MC betrayed by his friends and left to death then raised from death to get pay back. As a fan of dark fantasy genre, I ... can say this with confidence that it has a great story, at least the first half of it. Top of that, it has very beautiful world building and art that can rival to Berserk (I know it is blasphemy to even think of that).

Story started very strong and fluid, introduced a likeable main character with good supporting characters, as well as well written villians. Everything was going well until the first `forced haitus`. Then quality started to drop when another magazine picked it up. After picked up by new magazine, editoral touches became more obvious. Characters become annoying and stupid, tone shifts from dark to pink. `Forget revenge, we have to fight against evil!` Wtf?Last parts of the manga is straight up main-stream shounen. Everyone gathers together to fight the `evil` then everyone lives happily ever after.

You cannot start your story with main character slaughtering 200 soldiers to whom he has no personal beef, then end it with he is becoming advocate for peace and harmony. It is too unnatural to explain it as character development. I dont blame the magaka for this. Clearly the magazine editors pushed him to turn the story to mainstream so it could sell. Still it is disappointing as hell for me.

Ubel Blatt had the potential to become Berserk but ended up like Shaman King. Still, it has great artwork and a good 70-80 chapters worth of story. I recommend to cheack it out but stop reading when plot strays from revenge or MC disappears after a fight. Just consider him dead and call it a day.

Have you ever read something captivating as fuck and suddenly author -san decide to step on your face with harmoured knight sole , if not, i recommend to read ubel blatt , you will surely have the most amazing training day at the gym of your life and become the strongest of the neighbourhood

So basically the first 60 chapters are interesting , his vengance is nuanced between duty , honour , and the best decision to take for the citizen ,sometimes you feel like , he is the bad guy , but he has any right to do what he is doing ... , it’s a good dark fantasy .

Then come the 100 last chapter, author-san just said fuck off , the story ? Let’s put time skip again and again , add new characters to have new fight again and again , redesigning old minor characters so that you can’t recognize them and it’s not their fucking german name with 4 time the same letter in it who’s gonna help you remember.
But i guess he need to sell it to not be axed , so here is coming the naked woman , unlucky for him i wasn’t down bad , strangely enough it was during these 100 chapters that the art became incredibly good

To synthethize it for people who don’t wanna read it :

70 chapter : good dark fantasy manga
100 other : an hentai with endless number of fights like one of those extended one piece episode fighting sbires .

Btw this is a fake seinen