Only I Know the World Is Ending and Getting Killed by Rampaging Beasts Only Makes Me Stronger

It was a good mix of Solo Leveling and Re:Zero. It had great potential and world building in the beginning but it seems the author decided to throw it all away at mid-point and rush it like crazy to an unsatisfying and unexplained ending. Nowadays, it seems good art quality mangas often tends to be disappointing story-wise. It's a good read nonetheless but disappointing. You can read it for the journey and occasional fan service. Hopefully the author will take a lesson from this and start a new title where story will be the main flair, not fancy art dragging readers.

Look, it's hard for me to finish something and not "mixed feelings" it. All it takes is feeling like I wasted my time, and that it will waste your time. “Japanese Solo Leveling” people say. I disagree; Solo Leveling knows it’s pure hype moments of aura, despite the trashy, serviceable writing. This manga is taking itself seriously enough to consistently try and tug your heartstrings, each time failing more miraculously. What does it share, then? Art, my friends. It’s only art. There’s nothing in here worth a dime of your time but the art style. Hell, Imma gush over it, because I hate speaking negatively. Thedynamic art within fight sequences was probably the only thing keeping this from being less than a 3/10. It uses attack lines in excess, but the way characters fling across buildings, the city level attacks, explosions. The typical screams with attacks, I loved all of it. I had to stop at times to look at a page-spread, and there are SO MANY. Some 18-page chapters had around 3 or 4 spreads of pure beauty. The attacks had weight to them, I was imagining the sounds the weapons, or the magic could do. Great stuff, trapped in absolute TRASH. The artist must get himself another writer. Anyway. The first few chapters convinced me it was potentially good. The real struggle of a death loop is something I generally love, even if here the dialogue was heavy-handed as hell. The bad moments were just a “I think I can ignore that text-bubble”. The moment the cast started expanding, you can tell the writer couldn’t do character dynamics. Everybody is incredibly dull after their introduction, and the women are written to be only romantic interests with some trauma that does NOT come back until the story wants it to. Their great moments are snatched away by the guy, and his “narrative” superiority. I hated each time it happened. They’re also just fanservice, and not the good kind, it’s forced to hell. Sometimes the characters are about to go somewhere lethal, “oh my God, hot springs”, and the narrative pauses to get them naked for no reason. Keep in mind this is an apocalyptic world, and they find around three or four hot springs to have bullshit moments at. Just a bunch of that in the hopeful moments, pure bullshit I should’ve skipped. I should’ve just watched the cool art, browsed through the chapters, without wasting so much time reading bad dialogue. I can scream about how annoying the story is. It’s just not worth your time, nor mine. Read something else, hell, read Solo Leveling. At least the dialogue is more bearable there. The ending is also so rushed, and terrible. The mystery was slightly interesting. Enough to keep me there for a little more, but you can clock it as soon as halfway through. Again, I gotta stop trusting writers. Not many authors can find their stories and evolve them. It’s rare, and our time on earth is too precious to trust all the damn time. 4/10. Sparkling pile of dog water.