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I regret ever wasting my time on this. I really don't see why this has such high ratings and popularity. There is no plot. None at all. It is complete nonsense. People don't act like this. If it is some weird artistic metaphor then I don't get it.

The plot aside, the art is fine, the fighting scenes are EXTREMELY boring after the first time, because they are completely repetitive. Imagine if Luffy never fought with anything but a single attack through One Piece. Never got a new power up, just a single type of attack. Over and over and over again. The MC about to ... lose? He gets back up for no reason at all sometimes and still wins. They don't even justify it half the time.

The level of fan service, is insane. I'd say there is far far more fan service then plot. Fighting scene? In skimpy clothes. Flashback for a character? Naked. Oh, and no it is only the woman, not the men. No, the men are always in a suite. Fan service can be handled far better, like say they do in Dandadan. At least there it is half the time for comedy, or to denote action scenes or cool-ness of characters.

Writing horrible things happening to people over and over, trying to top it, is not art, as much as some might claim. It is not an expression of 'humanity is messy', it is just angst and gore for the sake of angst and gore, and fan service, and fighting scenes to cater to male teenagers without ANY depth whatsover. If you want to read something darker, go read Takopi's Original Sin, or something like that. This is just a bunch of violence, smut and nonsense packed together.

So overall: A brainless mess of fan service, with no real plot, no real characters, and the fighting scenes, while cool at first, get real boring once you see them once, since they repeat constantly. The mysteries are NOT worth the read.
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It basically rules you in with the promise of a mystery, of what is happening, what the MC's dream is and what his fate will be, of what the hidden mystery behind Makima is... basically it is a mystery theme. Think Death Note, like you'd keep reading to figure out if Light will win, what the thing behind the note is, why death gods are around at all, that kind of feel. But, the psychological elements do not exist, not like in death note, people act crazy, because they do not make sense. We have scenes where they cry, then do some utter nonsense like try to fight some super powerful enemy all the while crying I don't want to do this. Why do it all? None of it makes sense.

And then there is the ending, the real enemy all along was the main female love interest with all the hidden abilities and everything. Of course, how could I not see that coming! (sarcasm) Turns out she is a devil born out of the greatest human fear, the loss of free will. So everything is completely explained via that. Makes sense no? So how do they defeat it? Because the MC is insane, so he thinks cutting her up and eating her is a form of love.

That's right, as a classical Shonen anime, they defeat her with love... by eating her. That about sums up the whole manga, pure nonsense.
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