I actually have a compliment once: I like that the author didn't glorify fighting when introducint the combat unit. Adding stuff like PTSD and torture there is nice.
How many tropes can we hit? After the irredeemable bad guy with a sad past, we get the likeable bad guy who just happens to be on the other side? Bruh.
@lilliwyt I mean, I dunno why Dengeki Daioh is tagged as shounen in the English manga community, but it really isn't. It's got 3 different target demographics with GL, shounen and seinen. It's basically variety. You can see that calling it a "shounen" magazine is plain incorrect by looking at...