Tokimeki no Ikenie

[anoman]

Every character that gets introduced I wonder if/when they're going to be horribly garroted or fileted for the sake of the shock. I wonder if this one will end up with more characters than the voice of the dead, that kid lost multiple family members over the course of the story and no one seemed to care lol.

 

[pyrolynx71]

This author’s plots are always so weird and out there I love it

 

[razielgreed]

ahhhh mah boi is back at it again!!!

i hope it wont be as open ended like shibitoe did ( i love it, but for me nothin beats a good conclusion ye gettin me? )

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

That is really quite the violent contrast of genres.

 

[daywithoutgames]

the lady mangaka 's names , hiyodori and uguisu , are 2 species of birds or something .

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%B2%E3%82%88%E3%81%A9%E3%82%8A .

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%86%E3%81%90%E3%81%84%E3%81%99 .

 

[ampnaman]

I'd recognize that art anywhere. Hopefully this is gonna be a fun horror-fest.

 

[4V29LN0n]

Oh no, it's this author again.

 

[Captaininvictus]

as of chapter 7.2 I'm really not feeling this series, it's way too erratic and jumpy with its tone yet feels almost stagnant, and even if that's the point it's lost my interest.

 

[Tcof]

What a bloody romantic story. ba dum tss
@Captaininvictus Jumpy tone ? you may not familiar with the author work. Like his/her other work, there are humor along horror. In this, i feel nothing out of place. Maybe the fact sometime it is like a shoujo, sometime it bloody violent. They work as the contract, the life the protagonist don't have. I also think it capture the emotion of someone in love quite well. Not sure there if you mean any thing else

 

[Captaininvictus]

@tcof this is the first of their works I have read, not a fan.

 

[StupidSexyOcelot]

So far her weakest work imho.
Her stuff works much better with mostly episodic stories.

 

[arx1994]

update when?

 

[RedMarks]

@QSS Will you pick this up, please?

 

[QSS]

@RedMarks high chance of someone else picking this up, plus not interested in an ongoing series. Author has four other untranslated oneshots, would rather concentrate on those.

 

[ExarchOfAfrica]

I see no reason for this story's existence.

I came here thinking this was an alien story, although horror is fine too. I've read few horror manga's before this but have read enough Lovecraft to have an idea of what I want in my horror. Specifically, entities whose motives cannot be understood by humans. Horror should show how little humans actually are in this universe, only these stories can truly bring an existential dread that really makes good horror.

In that vein, this manga was a toddler throwing a tantrum, thinking that gore and murder would make it horror. This is laughable and pitiable. All the characters, barring the father, ultimately had human emotions of hate, vengance, and what not. Mari's younger brother struck me as a misled and demented child rather than any horror being. The cottage arc was a major letdown when the murderer turned out to be a mere lunatic.The murder and gore scenes struck me as humans fighting other humans in petty swuabbles. The peak of this was the climax, which I did appreciate as true to the wishes of Lovecraft. Only for the romance to mute the ending's power, without any real date scene or kiss scene I expect from romance. Sad too, as the endings emphasis on poor romance muted the Lovecrafitan elements of the story.. The one positive was the father, whose conflicting values between duty and family gave me a deep empathy for him despite his murderous activities. Too bad he's not enough to save this manga. This was a waste of my time that would have been much better spent reading Lovecraft himself.

3/10.

 

[LeTsunami]

This is legit just the Addams family if it were in Japan.