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I'm using HERO's version because I like the art.

;_;

For a Chapter called 'The Mephistopheles Murders' Meph hasn't killed anybody yet...and he probably won't.  'Maou' did kill two people though, he's so crazy.  I actually feel a little sympathy for Meph right now.  Saijou is his real name I think?  Kind of curious why he killed his sister in the past and started an insane one-man organization too.

Also my new theory is that 'Maou' is one of Kyousuke's brothers who didn't actually die.  They said one died of a heart disease and one died in a terrorist attack so I'm going to say the terrorist attack one faked his death and became 'Maou' to fuck with Usami for ruining his family...which I still don't know why.

I also actually feel really bad for Kyousuke.  I remember trying to care for Kenichi in Sharin no Kuni but it was really hard to because he's such a dick.  Meanwhile Kyousuke has to deal with a mentally broken Mother, two supposedly dead brothers, his Father killed four people and is rotting in jail, and to top it off Gouzou is breathing down his back to pay up the 200 million yen.  'Maou' just makes the situation even more ridiculous.

By the way I love Maou's theme.  Also I swear one song is Breakfast Machine.  Every song seems to be referencing another piece.  I also found them playing 'Ride of the Valkyries' and they even mentioned Apocalypse Now! which I thought was awesome because I had to watch that movie (extended version gah) and I remember all of that clearly.

Interludes are generally always good.  So I always look forward to those.

For a main heroine Usami isn't too bad.  Don't really have any preference...

I did take one image for Chapter 3 so let's get that out of the way first:

Pretty decent!  Saijou gets a cool scene with Usami and then Yuki (who came out of nowhere) gets a cool scene with Saijou and stuff happens and it's all pretty decent.


But then

the Kanon Chapter initiates

and everything goes to shit

Let's get the good out of the way.

1.  It becomes more clear that Kyousuke's "Love" for somebody makes 'Maou' disappear.

And that's about it for the good.  I suppose Ikuko hanging herself in the bad end was pretty shocking.  Otherwise who gives a fuuuuuck.

Just like in Sharin no Kuni I felt like Akabesoft were trying to be really dramatic and trying to make you cry or something but the writing and execution was TERRIBLE. 


Not everybody disappears in the Kanon Chapter unlike the Tsubaki Chapter but the ending was even worse.

The drama they tried to create with Kanon's image was terrible.  Yeah yeah she's popular but the fucking writing managed to bend the population's opinion of her into a fucking pretzel.  One moment they hate her and they next she's back to her fucking lovable self.  Pick a fucking side.  They just want to try to make it as melodramatic as possible like some shitty sports film.


Cough


For the iffy points.  Kanon and Ikuko's relationship was...strange.  I could at least see what they were going for but Kanon's final speech to Ikuko in the hospital (after an incredibly badly placed "car accident") managed to not affect me in the slightest.  Because it made no sense.  I could see that Kanon hated and loved her mother at the same time and just how mentally broken Ikuko was (suicidal basically) but Kanon's "true feelings" were completely un-moving and sparked nothing inside my frosty interior.  Maybe you need to stop writing shitty heroines Akabesoft.