Well, perhaps I have quirky tastes x)
My Kairo -> I hate artsyle which shows wide opened eyes and blushing characters all the time. Quite a few manga take a hit from that haha, mostly romances and suggestive stuff.
Yae no Sakura -> The story couldn't draw me in, primarily since Japan's historical culture isn't really something I'm actively searching for, so if there's nothing else piquing my interest, then I won't continue reading.
The Last Order -> Same problem as the first one, the gag of drawing an expressionless face around too much blushing and giggling characters each and every chapter gets old very fast, since it's a pretty popular way of drawing manga, no matter the genre.
So I don't even need to read one chapter to recognise the style and to know it will annoy me
If I find the art style annoying, whatever the plot might be, I'll drop it in a heartbeat.
Most of the time, when the approach used isn't expressing what's happening in the story well, it's because the plot also isn't elaborated enough to necessitate a good drawing technique.
On top of that, it's quite common to have goated art coupled with a brain-dead intrigue, but I won't really go into more details about which types of trope annoy me and for what reasons in this post.
Immortal Hounds-> Kinda the same with the first and third manga but a bit better, because there are two layers: the comic here is to make the joyful character not blush all the time but make them cry or despair really hard to give a lot of contrast or a strong emotion, when it's blantatly crafted to kill people just for the emotion spike.
The other character has always the emotionless or pained face, then either cries or gets angry a lot when someone close to them dies or whatever (gets kidnapped for example). It's also manipulated for the strong emotion spike.
Here apparently it's a turnover of these two types, which are constantly killing each other.
If the design of your plot is to induce an emotion spike and not build anything for the long run, it's not something worth reading (imo).
That's one of the reasons why I dislike mindless killing, it usually doesn't create anything interesting for the scenario and can even be recycled almost every chapter, rendering the plot brain-dead.
Of course if you want to enjoy some short-lived entertainment, it's your right to do so, and I won't judge you, as I also do this from time to time.
Mahou Shoujo Asuka -> Same as the one above, although there are more characters, displaing more than just one emotionless and one joyful character in a loop, but it's still the same, trying to create a show for entertainment, which is stopping me from immersing myself in the story.
Story, which is showing us supposedly happy characters (magical girls, all smile), then has them drawn with stern faces, and then people get hurt a bit to bring in a more stern and tense atmosphere, just to make us sympathise with the characters, like oh no, what terrible past they have and life circumstances they have...
If a work is too full of pain, I don't like reading it. And trying to give it the "all happy magical girl comedy" as a pain-relief inbetween the painful bits is in really bad taste, if only that setting is supposed to lift up the mood.
I don't know what your limit is with mindless killing, but these ones definitely have those
Welp, you tried x)
If there's a buildup and there are backgroud stories around some murder or mass murder, I won't mind reading a story with those elements.
