Uratarou review

Roflmaows15
Apr 05, 2021
tl;dr: A manga with a strange but good art style and well-developed duo of characters with a plot moving in a really interesting direction that was forced to end at a terrible time. 

This manga gets off to a pretty interesting start. The first thing I noticed was the art style, which is quite strange though in a good way, and reminds me quite a bit of Danganronpa. Overall the art is quite elaborate, with designs that are very cute, but also designs that can be quite creepy, with both of these aspects coming through quite a lot in character expressions. The main duo of characters was also quite interesting, seeming to be opposites, but actually meshing quite well together. They were also both very fleshed out characters and exhibited good growth and relationship growth for most of the series. The plot for the most part was also really interesting, with solid pacing and some good twists. It took a major risk about half way through with some really large-scale events that led to a second half incredibly different from the first, in a way that kind of reminded me of Kuryokohime. I was skeptical about this shift at first, but as it went on it really looked like they would be able to make it work and pull it off. It really felt like something that could be really amazing if they kept taking it slowly and went through it properly. Unfortunately, at that point the manga seems like it got axed and it got rushed into a really forced ending. As mentioned, the direction they were going in wasn’t the type they could quickly just end things well at a drop of the hat because the shift involved intentionally screwing up the narrative because bringing it back together properly would work really well. But it being axed prevents that from happening, and hence though hints at what could have been remain, all that ultimately happened were that the it threw itself in a hole and never got the chance to crawl out, thus resulting in an ending that was a pretty unsatisfying mess.  It had a few good moments that felt like if they had been done properly they could have been great, but in context completely lacked impact, and in terms of the story it explained pretty much nothing with an entire tapestry of plot threads left unresolved. It was a great journey getting up to that ending, but the abrupt ending overall just left a really bitter aftertaste due to how it felt like such a disappointment and waste of potential. 
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Uratarou
Uratarou
Autor Nakayama, Atsushi
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