Kiryuuin Kaya ni Chi wo Suwareru dake no Kantan na Oshigoto

This starts off as an interesting vampire series, but winds up falling flat. Conflict between vampires and church isn't new, but this manga takes everything as given and never develops the theme DESPITE Vampire vs. Church being the main source of conflict. The manga abruptly switches to Man vs. Vampire for the final arc's conflict, but again nothing is explained, resolved, or changed.

The world, which is genuinely interesting, isn't explored at all beyond two small locales. Characters randomly appear and disappear with neither rhyme nor reason. The MCs past is explored only in flashbacks and lots of exposition. The vampiric female lead's motivations are never voiced. The final "resolution" is a total cop out and in the end I'm not sure what the heck happened.

Some ancillary characters are hard to tell apart, but on the whole people are well drawn. Backgrounds are sketchy, but are good enough to show what goes on on where.

Ecchi content is solely of the "stumble over nothing and fall in someone's crotch/breasts" variety. It adds nothing to the story and only looks out of place.

I'd revisit this series if it were rebooted with better storytelling, but don't particularly want to see a continuation. I think this was originally meant as a longer series, but between sloppy storytelling, both unintentional and enforced by no-doubt impending cancellation, and all the loose ends I can't call this anything but bad.

The premise of this manga seems a bit generic but there's a lot of different things that can be done with it so I thought there was potential. It turned out to not really do much with it though. The plot is a complete mess with no clear direction going off in random directions constantly and ultimately coming to a conclusion that resolved nothing of the many plot threads it seemed to be opening at a whim. The characters have interesting concepts in general, which was the main reason I felt there was potential, but the author seems to have a difficult time deciding what he actually wants characters to be, and hence they keep going through major personality switches constantly. I feel a major part of that is that the author didn't seem to be able to decide whether he wanted to portray vampires as good creatures or monsters that were redeemable, nor able to decide whether the church was somewhat misguided but good or power-hungry jerks. The flip flopping on that felt ridiculous. Hence, the twists were all pretty bad, character development felt non-existent, and just overall everything felt arbitrary. The battle system was also completely lacking any substance or structure and the comedy was also mostly a miss. I really did like the art which was quite good though.

A manga that has nice art but in terms of everything else is too random to amount to much.

6/10