Kono Yo no Owari e no Tabi is a manga about a man who decides to go on an adventure to flee from his dull everyday life. On that trip he meets pirates a tribe of cannibals a blind Arab mean Jews and tries to not lose his sanity on the way. This manga was very strange to read. Not just because of how it was drawn but also because there were no speech bubbles. This might as well have been a novel with pictures to accompany the text. It differs from the usual manga with its art style and the way things are written: everything is read from his perspective and we dont have anything beyond that to read about. A large part of the manga plays on the island of the cannibals. Their rituals and behaviors are all laid out very nicely we get to learn about their backstory their view of cannibalism how they treat guests and so on but obviously our protagonist doesnt really want to stick around for reasons of cannibalism. The Arab and the Jews only get like 2 chapters and they werent really important except for small spoiler reasons Ill go into later and the pirates were... forgettable. This entire manga works like I said without any speech bubbles and with an art style that could barely be farther away from every other manga ever made by someone other than the authors of this work. This could have been a novel this couldve been a short movie this couldve been a damn wattpad story this couldve been anything else but it chose to be a manga without using what mangas typically use for visuals and so on. I think this might be good for those who have a hard time reading mangas lately and for those who want to slowly move away from mangas and start to read normal books but I dont think that this work is anything I would recommend as anything other than a bridge. I certainly dont hate this work but there was a lot of confusion on my part and I dont know yet if this is an example of a new way for mangas to work or just an attempt to do something else and not succeeding in doing so I will read more works by the same authors though. Criticism of the story: That being said I hope you enjoy this manga more than I did and thanks for reading.
60 /100
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