This is a fairly short little comic about a girls time in the afterlife after death who partakes in missions from her overseer in the afterlife in order to receive various rewards. Readabilitywise Id say this is a fairly confusing yet short experience as combined with a general vagueness and mystery there are frequent panel and page jumps between which I believe makes it easy to lose track of what is meant to be happening with the plot. The character motivations are never clearly pictured and its hard to tell what exactly the whole point of everyone being here is or how they got to this supposed afterlife. The dialogue is fairly stilted and unnatural coming across quite mechanical when combined with the cold overarching tone and so it is hard to feel any emotional connection to the characters or their situation. I think one of the only times I felt particularly connected or moved emotionally to a degree was during chapter 4 Despite this though I was still confused as to why she was suddenly excited in this particular chapter after never showing any other emotion previously so it just ended up feeling like a bit of a break in her character. In the same chapter she says how she must hold on to her joy which I cant comprehend because she doesnt seem to have joy as she hated her life and then decided to end her life and then thought of it repeatedly up until this chapter so why is she suddenly joyful? Its very hard to understand the character or what they actually want because of all these contradictions. Adding on to the previous discussion of the confusing characterisations throughout I feel as if the worldbuilding is also particularly confused it was stated this is the afterlife but there are a bunch of other people here as well who kill animals and can be hurt or killed. Im not sure if this was just the image of the afterlife they were portraying or if during the writing they forgot it was the afterlife and just continued writing as if Missionchan had simply just been kidnapped and taken somewhere. During the final mission this is never explained or elaborated on its simply just a job she has to undertake but it raises the question of if these people do die multiple times throughout this afterlife? I think this setup couldve worked fine if it was just a little bit more finetuned and executed a little bit more clearly. The art is not impressive in terms of new age modern manga standards but I do find the style used particularly endearing for this type of short comic with crudely drawn characters with little in terms of clean line work embracing a very hectic and loose feeling to the whole story. There are sections with more realistic art or even portions of newspaper clippings in a type of collage but I genuinely enjoy the uneasy feeling from the chapter title pages. I think this sort of style is actually quite effective in stories with such a vagueness and mystery to them even if it is not the most technically advanced art that there is. All in all the plot world and characters are all particularly surface level and not much is given to these areas in terms of development. To me it comes across more as a way for the author to simply express how they feel about the world and their nihilistic observations rather than a telling of a story or a way of showcasing their characters in their world honestly it probably seems similar to a vent work. As for what I actually took away from this it made me think how really anyone can make something for others to experience if they truly want to and I admire the author for doing such although I think they would have benefitted from putting some more thought into the direction that they wished to take the story rather than simply what ideas they would like to bring up through it.
55 /100
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