Killing Me / Killing You

[Luke_chase]

Man, love this manga
Almost every side character feels like they could have their own story (and they basically do) so the MCs end up being more the comedy duo or narrators, but they’re still a great duo and the chapters where it’s just them are great too. The manga has a good episodic feel to it.
The episodic-adventure-to-adventure feel that it has and the gore mixed with exotic alien life gives me made in abyss vibes, although this one is a lil more light hearted with the funny man straight man duo at the center of it all.
This is a great series, I love the art, the world building, the pacing, and everything else. I’m not sure if the mangaka will pull the storytelling off in the long term, so imma hold back a lil bit, but this is a solid 8.5/10

Thank you for coming to my TED talk 😐

 

[dhananjay]

this manga is sad and funny at the same time

 

[PortalSage]

Yeah, this manga really puts a spotlight on the side character backstories which really can get you the feels when realizing, literally everyone ever has a story just like you.

 

[Szerwonyskarabeusz17]

@PortalSage yep, it's making the world feel real, their stories are there, and to be honest, im by far more curious about them than about what is happening under that cone-shaped-mask?

 

[xplorer1958]

At first I was incredulous that their world could've changed so much in only 1 year after the meteor falling. It seemed like way more time had passed, since people seem to be used to the way things are now.

But then I remembered 2020. 10/10, very realistic.

 

[Katalinya]

@xplorer1958 I just assumed from Chapter 10 they mean its only been a year since they’ve been traveling together. I thought it was established that the meteorites having been falling for a long time? Since the dragon Cielo was once a simple lizard and said himself that the meteorite occurrence happens every couple of years. We don’t have an established timeline for how long the world has been changed by the meteorite we just know its been a VERY long time.

 

[elipo]

this manga is a gem

 

[Kredim]

Volume 4 coming out in july, final volume 5 in august

 

[bobdave19]

Bought and read the raw for vol 5. In case anyone is worried, it’s not one of those endings that betray the rest of the story. It was a properly done ending to a good series.

Spoiler

They didn’t die (at least not depicted or explicitly hinted

 

[RealAsl]

The end is near

 

[Andigo]

It's over. Here's a recommendation since I've skipped pages for reviews when I'm iffy on starting a readthrough. No spoilers probably.

I loved it. It's great for a story intentionally about constant, painful anticlimax. It's personal, philosophical, and consistently clunky episodic storytelling about loosely related incidents. It doesn't overstay its welcome nor end too soon. Long and beautiful chapters, and the color pages 🎨 great use of space and light for a poisoned world. Lots of tragedy, death, and attempted suicide. Even so it's mostly cheery about aimlessly stumbling into meaning in the moments punctuating the existential dread and absurdity and meaninglessness.

In the usual sense there's no romance between the "partners". And it gets deeply platonically romantic, the heaviest life partner philia. That is, after a little while and when Metea isn't being a too much a dunce and Youth isn't being too much a jackass for it to feel like an age gap. It's a full and gradually intensifying relationship to the point if it were same sex partners it would be queerbaiting like only soul sisters and blood brothers can.

And roughly equal POV and gender-balanced fanservice in most chapters that somehow doesn't trouble my suspension of disbelief much and isn't overly indulgent very often. Hot immortals with minimal self-defense travelling varied postapocalyptic vistas. Nice. Delicious. I forgive. Pecs or legs, take your pick. Both?

Though the ending may be divisive a bit, I think it's perfect and it made me respect the work much more as a whole.

9/10, favorited, since it doesn't quite speak to me but it does exactly what it set out for as art. I'll buy a copy someday. Compared to It's My Life set long afterwards it's less digestible and solution-focused but better as a whole. It left me wanting a third series in this setting, but no more from the perpsective of the partners Youthanasia and Meteor.