Beyond Evil

*Disclaimer* Just personal scratch. Advised, possible spoilers. Opinion & Informal Art: 6/10 It was fine. The character designs were decent but not interesting. The female character designs were very plain and standard. The male character designs were the same. The meta humans or whatever weren't interesting either, they just had black eyes. The inner-self, tattoos and actual demons were somewhat good, somewhat. Basically, the character designs were too plain for an action and fighting themed manga. The key-panels where it tried to be cool were not cool at all. The key-panels/impact-panels are supposed to have distinctly more quality or leave some sort of impact to the reader, but thatwas not the case in this manga. Panel Progression: 5/10 Nothing really impressive. Much of the panel layout was very plain and traditional and didn't use any panel-spanning art or panel cutting. Panel layout didn't leave anything confusing and flowed well enough for me to understand what was happening. This manga suffered by providing zero panel layout flair which hurt its action scenes a lot. Characters: 4/10 Zero substance and no flavor. Female characters were not likable and uncute (I like to look at female character designs and think about my own preferences and what is objectively cute, but I don't actually put too much weight on scoring that aspect since it's sort of subjective). Male characters didn't have anything to like about them and failed to be cool. The times they tried to be cool never really hit the mark. Characters didn't really have fleshed out weaknesses or foils which ultimately left them feeling like npc's. Bad guys were bland. Big boss bad guy didn't really exist thus no plot ever really formed. Good guys were bland and were sort of in the grey area. Plot: 5/10 Basically what the synopsis says but the twist is that that plot is dropped by the second chapter. Development: 4/10 This is one of those times where the problem with my own scaling system shows itself. The development in this manga was particularly bad but I can't give it anything below a 4. Anyways, this entire manga is pretty much a battle manga where all major developments or problems are solved in 2 pages. Big bad boss, defeated in 3 pages. Discovering "Prince" and reconciling with him and the past, solved in 5 pages. What about the love interest and protecting her or being content with letting her forget all about you so that you can keep her safe, solved in 4 pages. Basically this manga is something like Naruto or Bleach except happens 20x faster. Plot points, plot developments, big fights, major character growth, and major plot development...all are solved in 2-5 pages. Conclusion: 4/10 I can immediately tell that this manga was rushed to end because it was canceled, or at least that's what seems the most clear-case to me. Last 4 chapters were rushed to absolute hell. Overall: 4/10 This story never really found what it was trying to be: a psychological action, a psychological, or an action manga. It tried really hard to be cool but failed to draw any feelings of hype. Not enjoyable as an action or a psychological. Romance potential dropped in a single page.