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Yongbyeong has great art, pleasing action sequences which surpass a lot of today’s status quo but that’s about it for its’ positives. The reason I dropped this so early on was because it was difficult to keep up with.

The story progresses so fast, not to mention that the arrangement of pages seems to be conflicting at times. Perhaps this is a matter of where I decided to read this, but I couldn’t really connect with any characters as they would act differently than the previous chapter, in no time at all.

And while I said the action sequences are pleasing, the power system seems to be ... random. Skipping through a few chapters, I’ve found that magic is somehow plunged into the world which was not spoken about anywhere in the sub-10 chapters I’ve read. Pretty mediocre manga/manwha that doesn’t really know its’ purpose and it shows.

Suicide Girl mixes the hopeful and inspiring genre that is the “Magical Girl” trope with the existential and heavy-hitting themes of s—cide. From the first chapter, I was admittedly interested in the premise, but quickly lost said interest as I read on. Not only does its’ knowledge of s—cide seem to be scrounged from a few Google Articles, it instills the false notion that those who are dead can be revived. Now, this is to say nothing of the manga’s quality, as it’s a personal nitpick, but it’s quite the distasteful one. As long as you defeat the big scary monster, those who have rather ... violently committed s—cide will magically come back as if nothing happens. This isn’t hopeful, or inspiring, it’s not addressing the core of why people choose to commit— much too focused on meeting the quota for its’ other genres, instead.

The art is also pretty jarring and not in a good way. It’s hard to make heads or tails of what’s going on in the fights, as every monster seems to be some ghoulish, phantom-like figure who just throws out volley attacks before being defeated.

As a Super Sentai Enjoyer and before that; Power Rangers, this manga immediately displays an interesting take on the many prevalent themes present in those shows. Offering interesting commentary and character studies, in preparation of what could possibly be a riveting story.

However, 10 chapters in and I am quite honestly bored out of my mind. The supporting characters are random and uninteresting, often rambling about who knows what and why. Solely created to be an obstacle for the equally uninteresting main character.

If you’re looking for flashy fights or intriguing combat sequences, don’t bother. I skipped ahead to the most recent chapter ( 100 something at ... the time of me writing this ) and it appears that there is still no evidence of the MC having anything else going for him besides an immortality factor and shape-shifting. What little fights do happen to occur are not enough to make me continue reading from where I left off at, as everything seems to be pretty minor in scale until the plot calls for it to be ridiculously overpowered to impede the MC who has to play 5D Chess in order to finagle a win.

The Art isn’t bad, but it’s nothing to write home about either. Pretty standard stuff and just about the only thing you can latch onto, since the dialogue itself isn’t doing the story any favors.

I really wanted to enjoy this, so a piece of me is disappointed. Ironically, the trite and cliche themes enveloping Sentai, seem to also restrict this story from standing out.