I first found this about two months ago and I can now say with confidence wow I really shouldve given this a try earlier. The art is really something else. It looks unique and contains plenty of memorable pannels. It uses color wonderfully to convery feelings or concepts like the swords destruction being pitch black anger and mosquitos using this violent red Kisses being calm blue the never ending whites nothingness used for isolation and loneliness the change from the constant use of color everywhere to its minimalist use after Kisses loses those dear to her and her world loses color in a way it just all works so well to help better convey emotions enhance the story set the tone. Its use of scale is simply incomparable. I am someone who generally dislikes the use of two page pannels and lenghty pannels in the case of Manwha/Manhua but here we see huge pannels being properly used to convey destruction despair and overwhelming oddshttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/902374266220204082/1095346852024561725/image.png in a way that truely be impossible with normallysized pannels. Even text is used creatively. When someone speaks over someone else youll see them literally overtake their speach bubble when the author wants to give words more punch he doesnt hesitate to just give them space without anything else present to serve as a distraction from themhttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/902374266220204082/1095347626557329488/image.png the text and art arent used as two distinct parts of this Manhwa but together allowing both of them to do so much morehttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/902374266220204082/1095348892415045662/image.png. The art looks rough and the designs arent all that great honestly but its very clear that the author/artist carefully considered every aspect of this pieces visuals offering truely outstanding results. The story is also top tier. It flows seemlessy from one point to the next going from a serious story about desparing and hope as the last remenants of humanity fight for their continued survival to a comedy and charactercentric story to then become about determination and beating the odds to swap back to hopelessness before telling you of companionship power and fear to finally end on a promise of a better future and it does all this without you ever noticing it in a way that feels like one continuous thread. Everything is also to the point theres absolutely no filler and everything is as condensed as it can be without ever feeling rushed or forced. We are introduced to 7 characters in the first chapters and with only a few lines of text all of them are able to be clearly defined and completely fleshedout instead of trying to poetically go on and on endlessly about how humans have been waging war and killing eachother since the dawn of time using their intelligence only to develop only more sophisticated ways to end each other it just shows you what it means without a single wordhttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/902374266220204082/1095353878133874708/image.png and it still manages to get its point acress perfectly. Mosquito War doesnt repeat itself or feel the need to explicitely spell everything out as if you were a 5 year old it just tells you its story in its own unique way and it feels refreshing. I love the story. If we take all of the small parts I talked about in the first part of the story section individually they are all great I loved the way it sets up its world and tone I adored the over the top humor and selfaware jokes of the comedy part I was captivated by the more serious drama parts and I couldnt take my eyes off my screen for its ending leaving me feeling similar to what I felt before Dreamcides epilogue it felt like something that you could just have stappled a white screen with the words The End on while still being satisfying it was simply perfect. The story as a whole is similarly unique and enjoyable everything from its world to its characters and events just felt right. Low 9. I shouldnt have waited so long to start reading this.
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