Veritas

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS One Line Review: Don't waste your time. So this is my first manga review, and I only felt compelled to write one because I wanted to give potential readers a different opinion of the OVERALL series than the Top Reviews do. Honestly, I have no idea how they would rate it so highly, if they actually finished it. I decided to read this series since I thought it would be similar to The Breaker, and was well rated by the Top Reviews. As you can tell by my score, I did not like it and hope to spare other readers from wasting theirtime. Actually the manga was quite decent ..... up to a certain point. I'll briefly list what I thought was good, and what was not. Pros: - The Art was good - A MC who is sort of arrogant and enjoys fighting - How important events that played out in the past of the school, gradually get revealed from many characters point of view. This provides some intrigue and advancement to the plot, as events gradually build up to a supposed "final fight(s)" Cons: - MC is absent from considerable portions of story. He also does not get into as many fights as you might expect. - Quite a few plot holes and nonsensical things throughout story - Although it's a fighting manga, I believe that there were quite a few things that could be resolved through some conversation. It's like these characters are too stupid to talk to one another and realize that their goals are maybe not so different. - Many characters have pretty stupid/trivial reasons for their actions throughout story. Bringing me to my next point, and why I rated this manga so poorly: - The ENDING WAS S**T. THE WORST ENDING I HAVE EVER SEEN in manga or anime. I may have rated this manga a 6 or 7, if it wasn't for the utterly garbage ending starting from maybe CH 78-79. SPOILERS BELOW... SPOILERS NOW: So out of nowhere, one of the main characters decides to personally kill pretty much the entire school including their friends, for some stupid reason. Not only will this nonsense rub you the wrong way, but this has the additional effect of not allowing ANY of the fights you were expecting from the "final fights" of the Reunion students vs Traditional students, that you thought was going to happen just a chapter before. And finally, the character that will fight this other character, just barely starts the fight before the manga abruptly ends. Additionally you should know that the manga was rushed near the end and cancelled. So there will not be any sequel, further locking in this garbage ending. So I don't recommend you read this manga. I hope I have helped some people save their time.

With a premise that may sound overdone (male lead in a supernatural environment going through his high school life trying to get stronger), Veritas really separates itself from the pack (I feel that among many things, one key difference in the way Veritas attacked this genre was that it hardly ever focused on the classroom setting, while still maintaining a school atmosphere). Regardless, Veritas excels at many things us manga (or manwha) lovers enjoy. [10] : Art The artwork for Veritas is perhaps one of it's highest selling points. I feel it is far above average when it comes to things like anatomy (particularly scaling ofpeople's limbs / body parts), strong lines, clear action scenes, and most notably hair. Although hair might seem to be an odd specific to focus on, the hair in Veritas is perhaps the most well drawn of any piece I've read. The way the fight scenes progress makes it easy to understand what's going on, which even good manga sometimes suffer with. [8] : Story Don't let this "8" marking discourage you, Veritas is by no means just for show. The story is well written, fairly well flowing, and gives decent motivations for the majority of events. Characters weave in and out of their respective parts of the story very well, which to me is important. For example, when a character pops up into the story they are often revealed to be a certain rank, part of a certain group, or otherwise elaborated on to the point where you don't feel the power level they display is in any way unbelievable, awkward, or that their character is just thrown in for filler. Another part of the story I enjoy is that they DO have multiple "plot-twists," which are in some way alluded to before they happen, not that you would ever guess it. [9] : Character The characters in Veritas are nothing short of amazing. Backed by the exquisite artwork, and full of a wide variety of motivations and personalities, it's easy and fun to watch their interactions unfold and realize your favorites. The fighting styles in the story are mostly exclusive to each character which furthers their individual uniqueness. The main reason I don't label this aspect of the manga a 10 is because most characters despite their great design, don't have too much backstory. Childhoods and families are rarely touched on (with a few exceptions), but I don't really feel it takes away from the story overall. [9] : Overall Overall I would have to say Veritas is one of the best series I've read. The great character designs and well done fighting scenes really do the genre justice. If you're looking for a top-notch supernatural shounen, you're luckily to have found your way to Veritas.

With the exception of the main character, I found this series somewhat dull. The art is fantastic--easily my favorite in terms of artistic ability-- however the story's tendency to be repetitive with scenarios and an over-bearing focus on the female anatomy somewhat dulled my enjoyment of the series. The main character is an exception to that outlook in that he seems to be the only grounded/sane character--his honestly-selfish ambition is a necessary breather from the somewhat self-delusional ambition attributed to most of the secondary characters. In my opinion, this series earnsa 7/10 due to the artistic excellence and a well-conceived main character.

In very simple terms. The characters are bland. there's no depth in this manga, it'd complete garbage in my opinion. I've read thousands of manga tried this out because people preached how good it it was or comparable to Breaker. It..is...not such an insult to such a great manga this crap deserved to be canceled in my opinion. Everyone sees things differently but to me it was just so flawed and lacked real emotion. Characters: i didn't see anyone worth mentioning main character is dumb as bricks and does everything in which you should not do. Main enemies of so called mc lacked actual groundfor their feelings of pride anger or resentment. All of it seemed like pity emotions with no real meaning behide it. Plot: Seemed to me like they were trying to create some sense of pain and sorrow in this story but it was all to rushed and none of it actaul felt like it should be something to hold a grudge over. Here's a main point the student council worship vera but for no reason they say she brings balance but quite clearly she does not the characters don't even know what is going on and can't see that their beliefs are so flawed. Art: nice art always to be expected for manga's that are so talked about. Overall opinion: i feel the story needed more depth to it, real meaning and REAL reactions to certain situations. By this i mean if you were to find out ''hey my buddy just tricked me kicked the crap out of me. Then broke my ki core''. No biggie though i'm going to continue worshiping him like REALLY. Also this so called Vera doesn't like to take blame for anything and tries to push blame on to others , or act as if none of it was her problem to begin with. Somehow , amazingly enough everyone agrees with it. Story is frustrating if you have common sense to not be lead by such ludicrous actions.