Hiroin wa Zetsubou shimashita.

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Note though, regarding the 1 star spam this one has suffered, this isn't a bad manga.
The Male Lead is a disgusting waste of oxygen, but that's very much written to be intentional. None of his actions are portrayed in a positive light, but as horrifying.

And given what was spoiled, the manga itself is a classical comedy, with the ML being the one who will receive a carmic punishment for his refusal to clean up his act.
 
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what happens to mc at the end?
Gets stabbed by a pair of girls he tortured during the final arc. Before that, he was stabbed by the MC and the psycho girl and resurrected by the 'admins' of the game. Oh, and while he was stabbed, another group of girls also tried to stab him too, but they stopped.

The Male Lead is a disgusting waste of oxygen, but that's very much written to be intentional. None of his actions are portrayed in a positive light, but as horrifying.
My main peeve would be that the psycho girl doesn't really get much punishment, nor does she change her ways much. She tortured, killed and sexually assaulted the MC as well, as well as many others, but she gets to have a redemption by becoming the abused for a short while (and a sad backstory about how she was a victim too).

At least the slaver guy got some actual punishment out of his victims, but the psycho girl doesn't even repent and keeps harrashing the MC.


the manga itself is a classical comedy,
I wouldn't call it comedy by any means. Just your regular edgy battle series. We have of those, it's just that while they usually include some murder and rape, they usually have it be more gratuitous and don't indulge so much into the more mental torture part. It gets pretty heavy and I can get why it is a real turn off for many people, because the male lead is a real psycho. Not just a caricature like the redo healer MC or that other one about the hero going torturing everyone. An actual degenerate and control freak whose thought process alone is quite scary, let alone what he does with his power.
 
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Then again by the same author you can find this image of another of his works: "Boku Wa Kimitachi Wo Shihai Suru".
And you wonder what the happy characters are doing around the mad protagonist!
I haven't read the plot of the latter yet, but there are already 11 chapters translated and I'm afraid the protagonist will go mad there too.

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My problem with this is that, yes, the male lead is a vile psychotic, with no redeeming features, and is presented as such. But, presenting him as such, unimpeded, over so many chapters ends up not as a condemnation, but rather as a celebration of his vileness. The heroine’s sheer passivity in the face of his monstrous behaviour essentially endorses the idea that women cannot fight back.
 
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My main peeve would be that the psycho girl doesn't really get much punishment, nor does she change her ways much. She tortured, killed and sexually assaulted the MC as well, as well as many others, but she gets to have a redemption by becoming the abused for a short while (and a sad backstory about how she was a victim too).

At least the slaver guy got some actual punishment out of his victims, but the psycho girl doesn't even repent and keeps harrashing the MC.
Thank you for explaining that. I was waiting for the comeuppance they would both get, but now I'm just gonna drop the manga. It's not worth it if she escapes scot free.
 
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Everytime I read this I get uncomfortable but I'm too invested to drop the series now.

How are the male lead and the psycho girl not in juvies or asylum in the first place? What kind of background or upbringing did they have to go through that they develop these twisted personalities? I get it that this is fantasy but character development should at least be believable, or at least make sense.
 
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Should I continue reading this? I just read until ch 2, It's kind of interesting but somewhat hard to compromise.
 
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My problem with this is that, yes, the male lead is a vile psychotic, with no redeeming features, and is presented as such. But, presenting him as such, unimpeded, over so many chapters ends up not as a condemnation, but rather as a celebration of his vileness. The heroine’s sheer passivity in the face of his monstrous behaviour essentially endorses the idea that women cannot fight back.
by no means are they trying to celebrate it, it's very clear with that as the series continues. and i think that she acts like that from a trauma response.
 
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I don't really get the reason behind the users rating. The art is fine, is not good nor bad, the main story is not particularly interesting but it doesn't have major issues, the character are mostly piece of shit that you should hate, and boy if that works at least for me.
The writing is by no mean good, but it is not that bad either, even considering characters backstories there are still serius plot hole, asspull and several aspects that should be considered when writing stuff like this that are completely ignored.
It looks to me like a slightly above the average product, surely not deserving 50 persons rating this as a masterpiece or 150 persons rating this as appalling.
Without having seen the end my judgment may be premature, but ultimatelly this just looks like another work trying to explore power dynamics and social contradictions riding the psychological trauma bullshit train as hard as it can.
 
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I don't really get the reason behind the users rating. The art is fine, is not good nor bad, the main story is not particularly interesting but it doesn't have major issues, the character are mostly piece of shit that you should hate, and boy if that works at least for me.
The writing is by no mean good, but it is not that bad either, even considering characters backstories there are still serius plot hole, asspull and several aspects that should be considered when writing stuff like this that are completely ignored.
It looks to me like a slightly above the average product, surely not deserving 50 persons rating this as a masterpiece or 150 persons rating this as appalling.
Without having seen the end my judgment may be premature, but ultimatelly this just looks like another work trying to explore power dynamics and social contradictions riding the psychological trauma bullshit train as hard as it can.
Not everyone judge a piece of art like a critique, analysing it's concept, component, intent, etc.
Some, if not most, people judge just based on whether they enjoy it or not.
 
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The entire point of the plot is to juxtapose people who have psychotic issues which are conditional with someone who is functionally sociopathic.

It's not a masterpiece, but what the author was doing is pretty obvious, especially with how text/dialog heavy the torture arcs are.

The author was laying out examples of people that could be sympathised with, or at least pittied, and contrasted those with an example of someone unredeemably sociopathic.
 
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This felt like reading a fanfic by an edgy 14 year old kid who is terminally online. The characters are all traumatized to the point where it literally doesn't have any impact. Main guy is just Patrick Bateman but with no money or girls.
I would rather be forced to reread rent-a-girlfriend.
But just like how I read the new chapter of rent-a-girlfriend every week, I'm gonna continue to read this.
 
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The question isn’t “will the glasses guy be defeated”

the question is “who will the female mc end up with” ;)
 
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To be frank I didn't give this story 1 star just because it was too edgy or anything, the story is just extremely stale, and even the torture shit can only get you so far.

The plot threads were handled with all the grace of a hippo on meth. There is one plot cycle, which, as far as I've read, does not change. The psycho and the dumbass meet a new enemy/challenge, psycho pulls some vile bullshit and is showered with success at the expense of dumbass or some of the other poor sods who were psycho's allies.

Note how I didn't even attempt to use their names and you already know who I'm talking about. These characters are as one-note as they come, and the story at its core does not change, it just comes down to who's filling what role. It's stale, lame, and frankly boring, and not even the truly disturbing depiction of the main pair's relationship can salvage it, because in a world with psycho gods, the all too realistic abuse and torment that psycho inflicts on dumbass just doesn't sit quite right.

In general, the manga attempts to juggle a lot of different topics. In practice, the manga sorta smushes them together into a mess.

It's not that there's not asome good ideas in there, it's just they're being combined in an extremely atrocious way. It's like taking a prime steak cut of Wagyu beef, then boil it with basil and oregano, before pan-searing it until well-done, then serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

In a vacuum, none of the steps arr partucularly bad. Boiling and pan-searing are perfectly valid cooking methods. Wagyu beef, prepared correctly, is delicious. Basil and oregano are fine spices, and vanilla ice cream is quite agreeable. It is the combination of all of them that creates a dreadful dish that hardly anyone can tolerate. And that is this manga. An incoherent, repetitive mess that fails in so many ways we might as well not bother counting them all. Don't waste your time, there are better stuff out there.
 

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