Gesellschaft Blume

I absolutely LOVED this. I finished reading several weeks ago and I'm still sad that there's no more from the author to read. It's sad seeing the low scores for this manga because it's so TOP-tier. The world building is 10/10, no boring and heavy-handed front-end explanations of the world, yet it has a lot of depth. More importantly, its has so many unusual ideas and concepts, obviously the main one is Troza's ability to consume his allies and the dystopian assignment of the jobs. Asides from the abrupt ending (due to cancellation), the score might be low because this is a story is NOT for everyoneBUT you should already know if this is something you'll like just by seeing the genre and a quick browse of people's comments. Like brutal, sad stories? Where you wish the character would get a happy ending but you know its hopeless? Can you handle gore and mature content? Then you will prolly love this because it's top-tier in it's category.

This manga started off amazing. It threw us into a original and bizarre world and right off the bat, entertained us to the fullest. The middle and the start were so good, but unfortunately towards the end it started getting real rough. You could just tell that the author wanted to finish it as soon as possible; multiple battle scenes were skipped, characters killed off, unanswered cliff hangers on parts of the story. It disappointed me so much since it had so much potential. I would have really enjoyed it more if the author didn't rush to finish the series and had instead took thetime to fully immerse the reader in the story. I think that the author probably rushed it because of personnel reasons or something like that but that is besides the point. Overall I would still definitely recommend this manga for the art, characters, and storytelling aspects that it has. Just be prepared for the ending.

Yakushoku Distopiary is... interesting to say the least. It presents a fantasy "video game" world where every person is assigned a class. Anywhere from being a "gunner" to a "cook" to a "puppet master," and how everyone living in the world must contribute to keep this world going. Like any fantasy game world demon lords are brought in to the world and heroes must be created in order to stop them. The dream of a lot of of fantasy game lovers had in some point. Except that the in this world it presents a much more dark and grittier presentation of how such a systematicworld would be and how such a world would become oppressive to people who are not the "heroes." People are manipulated and the heroes of the story are willing to toy with their allies to achieve victory. Distiopiary subverts the typical video game hero and for the first few chapters it becomes a huge hook driving you to read further. But as the gritty gore, dark comedy, and continual death of characters goes on it quickly turns tedious. At some point it just becomes edgy for the sake of being edgy where chapters are dedicated to seeing random NPCs slaughtered. Perhaps that's what the author of the manga intended. That as you start to grow more desensitized to all the violence and gore, you become like the "heroes" or "watchers" in this manga. Whichever the case the manga ends abruptly and it's pretty clear the author was running out of idea to continue the series on. At the very least the abrupt ending is done better than most other series and keeps the central theme of the manga intact. But by the end of the manga you can't help but feel that there just could have been more to this series. It feels unsatisfying and incomplete.

I think the author should have leaned more into the absurdity of the world. Over the top, edgy, whimsical, and fantastical. If it was ever serialized again, the best advice I could give the mangaka is to be more self-aware when writing and embrace the absurdity of such a setting. Sometimes I thought the edge was tongue in cheek and it did seem self-aware of what it was at times, but too little too late. There were some little bits here and there that did make it entertaining, but overall the seriousness of which it took itself made it a slog to get through atthe time. It could have the same themes and setting, but with a bit more dark humor. Say the demon lord just wrecked a town, but decided to stop at the next to get something to eat. A Subjugator who kills rando's for their levels instead. Show how this flawed system that's been put in place is crumbling away since the nature of evil in this world is very fluid.