Jan 20, 2024
Let's get the good out of the way first here. The art is incredible and very creative here. It's not to be understated how wonderful it is and how easy it is to immerse yourself into the world solely off of the art alone. Without a doubt the best part of the manga is its artwork and visual aspects. Props should also be given to this manga when it comes to the general idea and concept of the story itself. Wouldn't get into it in order to avoid spoilers, but the concepts for this story could have worked if it wasn't for one thing...
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being it really feels like the author thinks the reader is a complete idiot. The dialogue/writing in this manga actively frustrates me to no end. At every chance the author gets, instead of letting the reader understand what is being shown, there is a dialogue box to tell us what is being shown. It is hard to explain without an example. SLIGHT chapter 1 spoilers. So our ML is walking up to the workshop where our FL builds robots. When he gets there, he tells us that all of the 10s of robots were partially maintained by her constantly. This is fine internal dialogue by the ML. Not the most creative way to tell us that, especially when you were already showing us that. Then, the ML says something along the lines of "There are so many of them. It must be hard work" and then while looking at her smiling "She looks so happy laughing like that". See...this is annoying to me. You just SHOWED her working. The art perfectly shows how much effort she puts into maintaining the robots, and how much she cares for them. You don't need to say it too. SHE IS LITERALLY SMILING. YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME SHE IS SMILING AND LAUGHING. IT IS A MANGA!! I CAN SEE HER LAUGHING AND SMILING!!
...Okay. Now what if I told you it was like this for the rest of the manga. Every chapter. Practically every page. This example is like from the 2 and 3 page.
**This is Important** For the most part, anime/manga isn't a particularly subtle medium in what it tries to do for the most part. I can stand some stupid dialogue or something lazily explained in manga. It's a medium in which showing the story can sometimes be difficult to convey without an explanation. However, this manga far overcorrects for this problem. It partially removes all subtly and interpretation on the readers end. It feels like the author is holding my hand and doesn't respect the reader to interpret the work in any way. I know I am being harsh, but it genuinely ruined my experience reading this manga. It has interesting ideas and incredible artwork, but it doesn't let it speak for itself. Which is especially disappointing for this manga, since the artwork really does say so much for this manga in particular. It's too bad that the author didn't trust the reader to find the meaning by ourselves. This manga could easily be a 7 or 8 out of 10 manga if 40% of the dialogue boxes were removed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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