It takes a lot to get a score under 6.5 on MAL, but man does Battle Royale II deserve it. Battle Royale is hard hitting and serious. Battle Royale II is... not. It's set in the same universe as the movies.
To start, the art is awful. I do not say this lightly. The ears are massive, the noses are practically falling off the face they're so low, and the center of the face is a giant blank space. The art is so jarring and bad that it makes the extremely violent content downright bewildering, like turning on Barney and watching him murder people. The artist
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Jan 13, 2017
Kushami: Urasawa Naoki Tanpenshuu
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Mod Edit: This review was originally posted for DAMiYAN! (102432) and has subsequently been merged into Kushami: Urasawa Naoki Tanpenshuu (128620).
I'm a huge fan of Naoki Urasawa. This one was a quick one shot and his most recent work. It has some supernatural elements, some gangster elements, and... well, it was pretty short. That said, I love Urasawa's art, and the storytelling really won out despite how short it was. I'd have preferred it if it was a full volume, though. Some people have speculated that he might expand this into a full series, but Urasawa isn't normally one to do pilot chapters, so I have ... |
