Levius

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Don't bother trying the scanlated version; it's unreadable. Whack translation. No offense, the facts speak louder than me.
 
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The art is very good; the story is well developed with interesting and uncommon mechanics; the characters are given a good enough backstory to make them engaging, except the major villain and his sidekicks (the girl,) the most important opposing characters.

Yes, the main character had a well-written nemesis at some point, but this one wasn't the crucial link to mc's and everyone's backstory that we needed. It was only a short-lived villain, and I'm not saying he died.
What we got instead as the most important opposing character was a too simplistically written one.

He's got a laughable face. He doesn't feel imposing nor thought out, just a showman who brings in violence when appearing, and that's making his acts look absurd.
It's not a bad thing that the main villain is coupled with violence when he appears, but he seems so useless and has a very weak personality... So his actions, however much sense they would make for his role, seem extremely puny and meaningless, which renders the storyline of there being an imposing and powerful mastermind behind everything void.

Same thing with the girl; she's just a tool used to make us feel bad for her (which is hard, considering she's given no personality except saying "help" a few times, which is the same as being a puppet character) or just to strip her naked without purpose.
The two times she was stripped naked, it wasn't useful for the plot.

The first time was in accordance with the situation, so why not, although it didn't really fit the vibe that was crafted throughout the series before, but the second time it was not, or it just made the main villains' actions look even more foolish and spineless, which is something you want to avoid in order to keep the tension up.

That's literally her sole existence that was shown outside of her fighting (while still being a puppet...).
Which means this character is almost nonexistent in our minds, it's just the sad war victim that had to be created for the plot because mc needed an opponent to fight, any opponent really, it could totally have been a boy or even a machine, considering she has zero personality or never shows her feelings (she's got teary eyes once for one panel, which is the same as nothing).

When the opposition to the main character's team and spirit is so pitiful, it lowers the tension so much it becomes laughable to continue reading, especially for a fighting story.
I would have dropped this at the end of the last chapter if there was more, and I put this in my completed begrudgingly.

Four out of ten. Although it started well (I'd say it was a seven and could evolve into an eight or a nine,) it didn't continue on the same level until the end.

I would say it already went to shit starting from chapter eight, page 303, because the chapter ends on an action mainly involving the girl, which it's impossible to care about at the moment (and in the future anyway) due to the writing.
 
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