Spoilers included inside of course.

What kind of story does Instant Bullet want to tell? It's meant to be a story of anger, regret, sorrow and redemption but does it really accomplish it? I personally don't think so.

So what did IB do right? It tries to tell a story about the forgotten people in society, the 1% who have been hurt and have nothing to live for, the ones who hate the world for what it's done and want it to end for all the pain it's caused. In a sense, it does accomplish that in terms of giving us characters we can sympathise with and whose backstories feel genuinely painful. I actually like that we don't get to see their full backstory and how they turned out. The manga gives the bare minimum for some characters especially the witch, and lets us use our own imagination to play out how the characters in general grew up and the suffering they endured along the way, which brings me to my next point; I liked how in general almost all the characters have had some form of childhood trauma. It's the most powerful period of everyone's lives and having a messed up childhood reinforces the idea that every single one of them are loco.

Now to the problems - I had no problem following the story at the beginning all the way up to close to end. Now I know it's probably because the story got slashed but that's when the story decides to go full deus ex machina and lost sight of the original plot. The IBs all wanted to destroy the world for their own personal reasons. I really expected the story to become really dark after the witch's death but it flipped the story on it's head. Now instead of wanting to destroy the world because of what happened to his childhood friend and his girlfriend, he now tries to save the world? The protag kept stating that he was the one who wanted to destroy the world, which I could've bought if it was flower girl, but it felt really asinine after all his claims.


On to his childhood friends, what purpose did they serve in the manga apart from reminding him of trauma? Were they supposed to be his redemption? It seemed to slant that way and now that I'm writing this out I do feel that maybe they were the reason why he decided to save the world but it came out of nowhere and felt like a bad asspull.

Oh and don't even get me started on how there's supposed to be 20 IBs but we only see 8 of em.


Now should you read this? It's only 27 chapters so why the heck not? Just give it a shot - Maybe you'll come to enjoy some thing I didn't.