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This is my first review and English is not my native language

I read this because a beginning manga youtuber recommended it in a video saying that it was super deep and super mature. I even bought the manga and read it while I was in the train on the way to my faculty, and once read, I returned the manga and cancelled my subscription to that channel.

Story: 5
The story doesn't exists, or in other words: there is no present story. When I watch an anime/read a manga I want to see things happening, not things that had happened: the only plot motors comes from the ... past, nothing relevant happens in this manga: the main character hires a guy and... that's all, they try to find the disaperared husband and the final explanation is like "ok, i don't give a shit". I know this is planned so but IT'S BORING.

I know it is mature, for example: in Mushishi there are bugs doing thing to people, but Ginko doesn't explode in rage to kill all the Mushis, he accepts the reality, something that a mature adult would do. Shingeki no kyojin, in the other hand, tells the story of titans doing bad things to people, and Eren is all the time screaming "i'm gonna kill all titans, i'm gonna kill all titans", yes, they kill his mother before him but anyway it's a very childish behaviour. So once explained what is for me mature and what not I can say that Undercurret has a mature plot because the main character tries to face the fact that she has been left by her husband and also because there is no ecchi, otaku-comedy within, there are no plot holes and there is not Freud shit without fundament to look smarter than it is, but also there is something important that every story has to have in mind and that is "be entertaining", and it can not be addictive but the first thing I want when i read/watch something is that I get amused. There is no hook and in the end I had to thank for at last only be eleven chapters.

Art: 6
I don't remember very well but it hasn't a bad background work, it's light years behind Inio Asano's but it's decent.

The characters anatomy is... good, but the design is very idle, I guess that it's due to it's a slice of life but please: THE (female) MAIN CHARACTER LOOKS LIKE A MAN, I can't with that

Characters: 6
The characters are the best part of the manga, but "better than" still doesn't mean directly "good". All the character have all the time a poker face except for a pair of cases. There is no charm or charisma, I don't give a shit that the character change if before anything they are not interesting. I say that they are the best part because at last they transmit the atmosphera they try to give.

Enjoyment: 3
I DIDN'T LIKE THIS MANGA. Be mature doesn't always mean be fucking good, I have enjoyed a lot of animes that have a minor level of maturity but they are one hundred times entertaining than this. At the beginning i was like ._. then I was like ._. and in the end I was ._.

Sometimes I was lazy to take the one-shot and read and that is not good. I swear I have no problems with the "slice of life", my favourite anime manga is Oyasumi Punpun and if you go to my Anime and Manga List I enjoyed and enjoy a lot of slices of life like Yotsuba, NHK, Genshiken, etc.

Overall: 5
I DON?T RECOMMEND THIS, it's not bad but is it's far away to be something I could consider amusing.

Thanks for reading