Holy fuuuuuuu... I think I'm going to puke.
What a chaotic jumble the ending turned into. I guess they DESPERATELY wanted to finish, and just started making things up. There's scraps of plot from the novel embedded in the mess, but the overall result is putrid, and has nothing to do with the...
This ENTIRE CHAPTER is a good example. In the novel Amon died and it was kinda Dan's fault. Details aren't given, but it happened because Dan was jealous because Amon and Marcho WERE together. The Black demon lord wasn't involved because he hadn't even been born at the time.
And the Black demon...
Yeah, it had some real problems with pacing and payoff. It would have benefited from a second draft, and an editor who wasn't afraid to make the MC fail occasionally.
But I still enjoyed it.
I really appreciate how faithfully the story is being adapted. It's really the same story from the novel, but even better at times.
It feels weird to praise this since that should be the basic standard for adaptations, but this is that 1-in-1000 manga that actually hits and surpasses that...
My first forum post, just dropping in to say; what a mess. I'm sure others have been complaining about this elsewhere, but I'm going to say it anyway.
The changes made from the novel are goofy. It's not even a "it's different and therefore bad" situation. I started reading the manga before I...