My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought

My Dearest self with malice aftertought really was interesting to read. I couldn't help but turning pages over and over; the lector really is immerged onto the story. Though I enjoyed discovering the many plot (twists) which fabricated the story...I feel like there's this little something which can't make me fully enjoy it. The professionalism of the story maybe gets its own point on the "personal enjoyment of the reader"; what I mean is, for sure, characters are interesting with their many personal stories which create emotions to the reader...but still I find it hard to really appreciate one character, this little je ne sais quoi whichcomes to complete the overall emotions you could feel toward a story, a world and make it dear to your heart, memorable. Plus, even if all the characters are needed to create the story picture, some feels underdevelopped, leaving them to be there as "super useful but...yeah...why are they really here?"...still I get it...so I don't know how to really feels toward this problem I find haha...this is the reason I put a 8 to this manga, personal curiosity prevailing. But, for sure this story is worth reading, well played, well written with a semi realistic style which comes to complete it quite greatly.

I legitimately think this is one of the most underrated mangas of all time, I won't understand anyone giving this manga a score lower than 9. Anyways, if want to know why this manga is so good, just look at other reviews that have enjoyed this manga as much as I have. (This was where my review was gonna end but MAL doesn't let short reviews get posted, so here I go I guess) I think the thing this manga does the best is genuinely surprising you and keeping you on the edge with its repeated plot twists, and these plot twists are revealed so fucking masterfully thatthey all make sense from the perspective of our main character and the information we have as a reader. The other thing this manga does great gives you genuine horror while reading it. This could be the most underrated aspect of this manga but the art is genuinely drawn so horrifyingly well that the plot twists have literally given me more chills than most horror mangas failed to do. The psychological horror aspect of this story is what makes it a fucking 10/10. People say that perfect mangas don't exist that's why they don't give anything a 10, but I follow the idea that if a manga does anything beyond what I expected from this medium of art then it has pushed the boundaries of what manga as an entertainment medium can achieve with the story, and this manga does this with being one of the most cleverly written plots and characters with genuinely horrifying art in the best moments. I think this is one of those mangas that you should definitely try to read in your life time.

I really like psychotic thrillers about crazy people, yet this one is somewhat disappointing. Not because it is bad per se. The art is quite good, the writing is fine, the characters are layered, and the story itself is quite consistent, yet the whole manga felt like a homework. It follows the standard script step by step. As superman once said: "Not impressed". Characters: How should I put this? They are complex, well fleshed out and their motivations are well founded, yet despite their complexity their actions still remained one-dimensional. So in the end I didn't find any of them particularly interesting. The story: Again, the writingquality is pretty good, but because of the countless ex-machina and convinietly introduced new characters, it felt pretty subpar. Not to mention, the fact that the MC's split personality was shamlessly exploited to keep the mistery going. I find this a really lazy way to keep the reader guessing. In my opinion, in a good mistery story the answer is hanging in front of your nose, yet you don't notice. Here, however, everything that happened felt like a deliberate attempt to misdirect the reader from the blatantly obvious answer. Regardless, it was futile attempt, since you could easily guess most of the plot twists. In the end I wouldn't call this one bad, because it is not. It is just unoriginal. If you are new to the genre give it a try, but if you are looking for something new and fresh "this is not the manga you are looking for".

Holy absolute peak! I can't put into words how much of a banger this was to read! I will try to though. Here we accompany Eiji Urashima, a boy — the son of a infamous murder — that discovers that "something" or "someone" from inside him has been taking some freedom in regards with his body, and using it to (probably) commit crimes. He can't remember what happens in the time this other being controls his body and he starts to uncover what this is all about, piece by piece, clue by clue. This is an incredible thriller, mixing psychological aspects with the narrative. Now, towhat I dislike and like about the Characters, Story and Art. Characters: 7 For me, this is the biggest problem with this series. As another reviewer commented, the characters are mostly plot devices. They don't feel like real people. I live by the motto: "Characters are the soul of a story", and I think that the cast on this manga is — mostly — soulless. The reader isn't attracted to the characters by who they are or how they behave in relation to themselves and the ambient; they are only pieces in a chess game, pieces used only for the sake of adding things to and moving the story. You feel for them as much as you feel for a pawn, or a rook, or a bishop. To get my point through, the characters aren't really enjoyable. They are interestingly built, but they are only plot devices and nothing more. It's sad really, they had way more potential, but none of them is really developed. They are all "explained" beautifully, but not developed. At the beginning, the characters were more enjoyable, more human — characteresque —, but later they lose that quality. Story: 10 Here it SHINES. You are presented everytime with more and more details of the plot that don't necessarily connect. You keep getting confused but curious on how that makes sense. You keep asking yourself: "What is really true?", or "Is the MC actually... wrong?"; the story just keeps you on crossroads everytime and you — little by little — get intel on what is/has happened. At the end, the ending is beautifully wrapped and the whole explanation for the whole story is absolutely brilliant. The last chapters answer all the doubts the reader had. While I think that it maybe happened way too quickly, I didn't really dislike it. But preferences are preferences, maybe another person will think the ending was rushed — and therefore, bad or worse than it could have been —, and I think that is a fair and reasonable point. The writer made an absolutely brilliant job in orchestrating every character, events and the sequence in which those are showed to tell a story that keep the reader on the tip of his toes. Just as a chess player thinking of every move for ecery piece, or a composer thinking of how to arrange for each instrument. Art: 9 The quality apparently progresses in quality, albeit it is already good in the beginning, but towards the end, it is just magnificent. An unique artstyle with some interesting face shots. While I think it excels in shading, lineart and composition, it's pretty basic in panelling (which is not a bad thing) and also with cinematography, but this story is not one which would need that, like CSM, or Naruto, or pretty much any battle shounen. That's it for today guys! Appreciate you for reading this shit.