Until the Moon Sets

Synopsis

"My father's last words were a curse, binding me even after his death." Genkyou is a city-state ruled by status and comprised entirely of nobles. Crime and underhanded deals seem to be an everyday occurrence and one in which many turn a blind eye. To fulfill his father's dying words, Iori travels to Genkyou determined to do whatever it takes to extract his father's revenge. However, their may be more to Iori than meets the eye. (Source: Fallen Syndicate)

I found the story to be poor. The ending feels like it was extremely rushed. More than that, I felt the story didn't make good use of the setting. It is overall a fairly standard revenge story with a twist that feels out of nowhere and leaves a lot of questions unanswered in a very unsatisfying way rather than as something that feels intended not to be answered. There is the occasional mention of how badly women in the country have it, but it doesn't really deal with that much and is more just in the background of the focus on revenge and as a wayto show how evil these evil people are. Character motivations never felt like they expanded or developed naturally over the course of the manga instead of quickly getting changed for one reason or another. The better parts of the story are where the protagonist thinks about more than the mechanics of getting revenge and it doesn't feel like the terribleness of various characters is there to continue to show how terrible the country is well after that had been extremely well established. The art was good.