Great thing about this comic: the world is insanely hard on MC and makes him struggle hard for even bits and scraps.
Horible thing about this comic: the world is insanely hard on MC and makes him struggle hard for even bits and scraps.
It has this refresing realism and feels like Joker's wet dream in which everyone is a psychopath ready to use the MC for their own interest and treat him like an utter garbage.
But over time, the toxicity adds up and becomes tiring.
The MC has only a few bright points in his life and you start to feel his story as a miserable struggle in an endless sea of quicksand...
MC never establishes any real connection to any other characters except his pet, as he is constantly forced to escape the ever growing despair that awaits him at literally every step.
My honest opinion is that this comic needs a bit more ballance between the hope and despair.
The villains need more slightly more fleshing out as they just feel as holow entities of evil that only serve purpose of making everyone around them to suffer.
The side characters need a bit more wholesomeness to make him feel sad for them and even miss interacting with them in a benevolent way.
And most importantly, MC needs to catch a break 🤣
It is getting too sad to watch him struggle and constantly have pretty much nothing except keeping his head on his shoulders.
I'm somewhat in agreement, and the thing that annoys me most about it is the author has proven they
can write compelling downtime arcs and benign characters, slowly build relationships, even while maintaining a sense of tension. All the right stuff is here! It's just it's tilted too hard towards him immediately having trouble in every town and being forced to move on.
It could really have done with us dwelling on just one or two cities he visits where he moves on for, y'know, some reason other than his life being in immediate mortal peril. Or a plot device explaining why he's so damned cursed, or even him just going "WTF" a bit more about how unrealistically shitty his luck is. As it is, it's the one thing stretching suspension of disbelief in an otherwise refreshingly down-to-earth series.
I don't really think the villains are that bad, though. Or rather, I felt like the series compellingly argues that this is a cycle of suffering; that MC is frequently acting on the verge of being evil, because that's how the (effectively mercenary) vocation he's chosen pushes people in this world.
