... we're still not done yet? Flan got her snack (despite somehow NOT dissolving), Marisa is crushed, and Reimu (mom) is goo (along with her undeveloped child).
... we're still not done yet? Flan got her snack (despite somehow NOT dissolving), Marisa is crushed, and Reimu (mom) is goo (along with her undeveloped child).
Wraps it up for me. Not interested any more. :/
Yeah, Takumi's artwork is God-tier, but his writing is pretty garbage. The title already spoiled how the story was gonna go, but Marisa's family managing to survive a fully-grown predator only to be done in by a fucking flood of all things. Dozens of pages of build-up, them being niceheads, somehow fending off a Flandre, only to get wrecked by the most ridiculous of things.
I don't get what's his thought-process, does he want us to get off on their suffering or empathize with them? It's not even exclusive to just this story. Hardworking Big Sister Marisa, anyone?
Yeah, Takumi's artwork is God-tier, but his writing is pretty garbage. The title already spoiled how the story was gonna go, but Marisa's family managing to survive a fully-grown predator only to be done in by a fucking flood of all things. Dozens of pages of build-up, them being niceheads, somehow fending off a Flandre, only to get wrecked by the most ridiculous of things.
I don't get what's his thought-process, does he want us to get off on their suffering or empathize with them? It's not even exclusive to just this story. Hardworking Big Sister Marisa, anyone?
It's not just that -- It's all the effort into the fight scene, for a flood (in the middle of a forest? How does that work after barely a night's rain?) to just sweep in and quickly wreck everything, then like I said, Flan to just Deus Ex right there, completely unaffected by the storm whatsoever, the unborn child because moreabyusewhynot...
It's like you said -- Takumi's art style is god-tier, but the storyboarding is just sooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaad...
Yeah, it's utter bull crap. Why couldn't baby Reimu have survived at least? She could still find a nearby family and live an easy life. It's just pain for the sake of pain.
The baby Reimu surviving could feel like a cheat considering the story is literally called 'How Marisa's Family Came to Annihilation'. The issue isn't the pain (abyusers gonna abyuse and we should be used to that by now), it's how bullcrap the bad end feels. If this was some sort of 'And Then There Were None' plot, it could have been the father Marisa to die first fighting off the predator Flan, mother Reimu dying while protecting the children from the rain, and the child dying due to being left alone. Maybe throw a twist in, like the baby Reimu surviving by a human adopting her, only to act like a shithead and being abandoned after misbehaving. I'm not a sadist so I don't have much room to talk about which path a suffering story like this should go, but it would have been more interesting to read through than just 'and then a flood happened in the middle of the forest and they all got owned lol'.
The baby Reimu surviving could feel like a cheat considering the story is literally called 'How Marisa's Family Came to Annihilation'. The issue isn't the pain (abyusers gonna abyuse and we should be used to that by now), it's how bullcrap the bad end feels. If this was some sort of 'And Then There Were None' plot, it could have been the father Marisa to die first fighting off the predator Flan, mother Reimu dying while protecting the children from the rain, and the child dying due to being left alone. Maybe throw a twist in, like the baby Reimu surviving by a human adopting her, only to act like a shithead and being abandoned after misbehaving. I'm not a sadist so I don't have much room to talk about which path a suffering story like this should go, but it would have been more interesting to read through than just 'and then a flood happened in the middle of the forest and they all got owned lol'.
... we're still not done yet? Flan got her snack (despite somehow NOT dissolving), Marisa is crushed, and Reimu (mom) is goo (along with her undeveloped child).
Wraps it up for me. Not interested any more. :/
As someone who actively follows Takumi’s Twitter, I assure you, this is not the end. It drags on even more after this.
As someone who actively follows Takumi’s Twitter, I assure you, this is not the end. It drags on even more after this.
I know. I'm just expressing how, at this point, I'm no longer engaged in this story at all. I was, early on, especially with the Flan fight. That was truly epic.