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Candy and Cigarettes perfectly nails my personal love for the stereotype of little girl+old man combo and the wit and dialogue that comes off the two of them all to the backdrop of an amazing crime action story about politics and secret societies. The story is about an ex-cop becoming an assassin with a schoolgirl who has known nothing but murder her entire life and how their differnet lives up until now influence who they are as well as their opinions on their new partnership in this world of kill or be killed. The Characters overall are solidly written with plenty of likable characters and ... an equal amount of hatable villains with barely any of either of them going too far and feeling cartoonishly evil or good etc.

The Story itself I felt was very well paced and all the arcs and twists and turns along the way combined with the solid pannelling, story flow and overall progression made it feel like a classic crime film from the 80s and I mean that in the highest praise possible sort of way. However, I do agree the final 4~ chapters or so do feel somewhat rushed and forced but in the way of it feels like they could have lasted another 2 or 3 chapters. The actual writing during these chapters I thought was almost perfectly fine not counting a few smaller details I felt like should have been expanded on further. No, the final volume of chapters felt rushed in how it felt like we were supposed to get an entire new volume still to develop this entire finale that was builtup for the last 15 chapters or so but the ending itself was still good, just lacking in its execution.

Overall, I loved this series for its great characters, dialogue, pleasent art style and wonderful story about shadow organizations trying to control the world from the shadows and its commentary on how we view conflict today.

Uratarou is sadly yet another great manga that was shaping up to be a epic story spanning hundreds of chapters with beautiful art and amazing characters but was sadly axed and ended after only a meagre 51 chapters when there was clearly going to be hundreds more. TL;DR The manga was axed so nothing matters in the story and there is little reason to read it. But if you wish to read this manga still then continue on, though I don’t advise it.

The story is about a immortal called Uratarou who is trying to die and a mortal named Chiyo who is trying to become ... immortal and they embark on a journey so they can both fulfill their dreams together. From here we spend 50 chapters exploring Japan hundreds of years ago and meet so many unique and interesting characters. The art in this story is also gorgeous, it’s one of the most visually interesting and unique stories I’ve seen in manga, so much so that it almost motivated me to go and draw in the style of it, that’s how good it is. The Art is the only thing that stayed amazing throughout though. Interesting themes such as what it means to live and what it is like to be immortal and the suffering that you would go through are a key focus of the story but sadly don’t matter in the end because it was axed so these interesting themes mean nothing.

In conclusion, the manga was axed was if you want to read a story with basically only 30 chapters of actual storytelling with phenomal art that ultimately doesn’t matter in the end then go ahead but I really don’t advise it.