It is past midnight and we have acquired the prime research subject as they were attempting to enter the local Canadian donut and coffee shop. We will now begin our testing. Uh hello? Where am I? Im supposed to start working in a half hour I will now begin speaking to the subject. So sorry to interrupt your night but you will not be making your precious donuts tonight. We need you to study and analyze a foreign creation that has baffled and tormented our top scientists philosophers and physicists for over a year now. Excuse me? I just make donuts. We have seen your work. I cannot go into specifics but our group the Theoretical Generalizing Goblins wish to put your skills to a true test in analyzing this work we have discovered. Theoretical Generalizing Goblins? What? Look the anime reviews are all fun and games theyre nothing for some stupidly named secret society to abduct me over. We do not wish for you to review an anime. It is a manga we wish for you to review. What? I only infrequently do manga reviews Theres no manga that you can throw at me that Id really need to be abducted over Thats where youre wrong. Its this manga we wish for you to review. 440https://i.ur.com/3fCdJw4.png Wha oh no. I erased this from my mind I... I wont do this again You will be forced to experience it again to properly be able to analyze it. We will see to that. No NO NO Restrain the subject before it becomes violent. Begin Experiment R28. R28: Introduction The object in question is identified as Qualia the Purple and is a manga adaptationhttps://anilist.co/manga/81493/MurasakiironoQualia done by Shirou Tsunashimahttps://anilist.co/staff/97979/ShirouTsunashima of the novelhttps://anilist.co/manga/92177/MurasakiironoQualia by Hisamitsu Ueohttps://anilist.co/staff/97786/HisamitsuUeo. We do not know who is originally responsible for deciding they wanted to see the original work in manga form but it is far too late to dissuade any such person from bringing this into the world. We have provided a survey of questions to other subjects that we have exposed to Qualia. Although Subject T33 will be the one who will be penning the review we will disperse the questions and the answers of the other subjects periodically throughout this review. 440https://i.ur.com/NRd3a54.png But for right now lets take a peek and see how Subject T33 is faring with Qualia the second time through. Please. Please stop it. Please stop forcing these images and words into my brain. You cant just... you cant do any of this. The science... I cant even pretend to be qualified to point out all thats wrong with it but theres no way any of this is correct. Schrodingers Cat... SCHRODINGERS CAT WHERE DID THAT DARN CAT GET TO?? IS IT IN THE BOX?? OR IS IT NOT IN THE BOX?? OR IS IT DEAD?? IS IT ALIVE?? WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH PARALLEL UNIVERSES? HELLO? HELP? Ah yes those sure are some results were getting from T333. I believe we made the correct choice in choo Remember when this was about a girl who sees everybody else as robots? Remember that? Whatever happened to that? Why is... why is alternate universes? Why is anything? Ahem yes. Qualia the Purple is even were not too sure how to classify it. Slice of life scifi fantasy action mystery? 440https://i.ur.com/Dh4QaJj.png Or perhaps or perhaps it is simply outright nonsense disguised to be otherwise? For if one were to simply go off of the description alone one would imagine it would be a pretty generic if somewhat strange premise for a series. Why it even starts off that way. But then perhaps the original creator took a massive amount of drugs and lost track of their mental facilities the rest of the time they were writing it and thats how Qualia became the way it is. Such a strange creation with downright bizarre and insane elements requires a more scientific and methodical approach to dissecting it. That is where we Theoretical Generalizing Goblins come into the picture. However we had a bit of trouble finding suitable willing subjects... hence we had to get a little bit rough with Subject T33 who repeatedly refused to voluntarily review Qualia. Subject T33 shall now begin his review. Subject T33 has claimed that it will be impossible to review this manga without going into full spoilers. Therefore those reading this later should take this into note prior continuing past this point. The Theoretical Generalizing Goblins group recommends if you intend on studying this work no matter what you go into it completely blind first. But if you think you will not endure the journey then witness the sufferings of Subject T33 below first. 440https://i.ur.com/hFrzcUN.png It should be explicitly noted that the above is actually from the manga itself and not a creation of our making which we included in R28. But the message works here as well as in the manga itself. R28: Schrodingers Plot They have me in a padded room and they forced my eyes open as they projected each chapter of Qualia on the wall and they have told me I cannot leave until I finish this review. After being forced to reread this manga it makes me realize that there are things much more preposterous than some secret society with Goblins in the name going around abducting people to force them to review manga. The original premise of this manga starts out simple enough. The two main characters of this manga are ordinary high school girls except... the one that has PURPLE eyes apparently sees literally everyone else and every other living creature... 440https://i.ur.com/RGMlrra.png ...as robots. See a cat? Guess what thats not a cat. Its a cat shaped robot. See your best friend youve known for years? Guess what theyre a robot. EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING IS A ROBOT EXCEPT FOR YOU. YOU ARE THE ONLY LIVING ORGANIC HUMAN BEING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST ROBOTS. THE PROOF THAT YOU ARE A HUMAN IS IN FACT YOUR PURPLE EYES BECAUSE THE TITLE OF MANGA HAS THE WORD PURPLE IN IT. 440https://i.ur.com/tpupSlm.png But you see this is weird in itself. Extremely so but if the entire manga was solely about JUST that then I wouldnt... I wouldnt be sitting here in a padded room because of this manga. No the plot has many twists and turns ups and downs... Schrodingers Cat makes a cameo appearance. 440https://i.ur.com/4PXiuOg.png My favorite chapter of this manga was the one where they just go on and on about Schrodingers Cat. I have always been so interested in Schrodinger and his Cat. Why I never once thought when I started reading this manga that it would just slather me in information about Schrodingers Cat. I was so pleasantly surprised as they took their time and went into this interesting subject matter and my brain was going wow this manga sure is interesting and GOOD if you have at least a basic understanding of quantum physics and metaphysics and SCIENCE THINGS. 440https://i.ur.com/OfGzuPf.png But then I had another thought... fucking what? Where did the plot go? What was this chapter? Why are you going on about Schrodingers Cat? What is the point of this manga? Why are you doing this to me? Why are you performing this assault on my mental FACULTIES? R28: YUKARI IS A FUCKING SIDE CHARACTER 440https://i.ur.com/VBQpHK9.png Hey guess what? HEY GUESS WHAT? QUALIA THE PURPLE? THE CHARACTER WITH THE PURPLE EYES WHO SEES EVERYONE AS ROBOTS? You might be thinking that character has to be pretty important to the entire manga. Right? You would think that right? I thought that. I truly did think that. Everybody is just treating Yukari like shes perfectly normal other than the main character. No actually not only do people not think shes fucking crazy BUT THAT HER ABILITY IS LEGIT OR HAS AN ACTUAL VALUE IN SOCIETY. 440https://i.ur.com/C4OCcfJ.png Like the police come and visit her and go oh yeah you see theres this fucking serial killer on the loose and we know how you can see everybodys robot bodies that are hidden to the normal NON PURPLE eye so yeah if you could help us with our case we would appreciate it and like theres this super special school thats actually run by this manipulative evil worldwide group that goes oh we need the girl who claims that everybody is robots. 440https://i.ur.com/CxUbnRR.png Beyond the first part of the manga when youre still thinking the manga is about her she basically almost entirely and completely fucking disappears. GONE. Like shes still in the manga and she is literally the entire motivation behind everything the main character does but... Why not... why not just calm down and do a manga about this girl who sees everybody as robots? 440https://i.ur.com/OLyeroX.png Why does... why does the manga just completely shift and all that shit about the robots and serial killer it just... it just completely falls to the wayside? Like it becomes about the main characters descent into... I cant describe the actual main plot of this manga as anything other than actual literal complete insanity. By the point where Yukari did return to importance I was just... Oh. Oh yeah shes the one with the purple eyes and sees everybody and everything else as robots? Wow how fucking mundane is that compared to all of the other shit I just experienced. R28: GAKU BECOMES GOD BECAUSE SHE BELIEVES The main character on the other hand... I hate her. I hate her with every fiber of my being. The way she meets Ms. You Are a Robot is she kiss collides with her in the hallway as Ms. You Are a Robot chases her down to confirm her true gender. But thats not important. None of that is important. What is important is that later on in the manga after she has her arm cut off and then rebuilt by Yukari and becomes capable of using her hand as a means to communicate with Yukari and alternate versions of herself in parallel and alternate universes she BECOMES GOD. SHE BECOMES CAPABLE OF ALL SORTS OF SHIT BECAUSE FUCK IT. YOU REMEMBER THAT CHAPTER WHERE THEY EXPLAIN SCHRODINGERS CAT? MAYBE THERES AN EXPLANATION SOMEWHERE IN THERE. 440https://i.ur.com/XBcS5Uh.png Shes... shes a high school student I know she had her arm cut off in a scrape she had with a serial killer and then rebuilt but with the added functunality of a cell phone capable of calling alternate universes but WHEN DID SHE GAIN THE INTELLIGENCE OR THE ABILITY TO... JUMP UNIVERSES? OR BASICALLY JUST TIME TRAVEL? Like she just goes oh I messed up in this universe better try another one over and over and over again. And eventually and EVENTUALLY SHE BECOMES GOD. SHE BECOMES ONE WITH EVERYTHING IN HER PURSUIT TO SAVE HER FRIEND. FUCK YOU FATE ILL BECOME GOD BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS AND ALTERNATE UNIVERSES AND SCHRODINGERS DOG AND I WILL BECOME GOD TO SAVE MY BEST FRIEND WHO I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ROMANCE FEELINGS TOWARDS BECAUSE FUCK IT THIS MAY AS WELL AS BE IN THE YURI GENRE AS WELL. 440https://i.ur.com/uvckWZw.png But then you look a bit closer and yeah. This manga is an adaptation of a novel. So to be fair maybe all of the metaphysics and the alternate universes are went further into in the novel. But even in a novel form I could not picture the emotional and plot leaps this manga takes. Theyre just ordinary high schoolers at the start. I would have never expected one of them would effectively become God and then become not God again. R28: THE SERIAL KILLER WAS THE ONLY GOOD PART Even then its still batshit weird. 440https://i.ur.com/1S4mALy.png Okay what if I told you there was one moment in the manga when I thought this was amazing? That everything else could be forgiven because of how genius this one singular moment was? It was just so fucking weird and out of left field that it actually briefly managed to get me on the mangas side. There just happens to be a serial killer and they target one of the two main characters and then robot girl comes to the rescue with... With an army of toy robots that then proceeds to DISMANTLE the serial killer. Her head is detached along with every other limb and shes still alive and talking and freaking the fuck out because this girl literally just took her apart. 440https://i.ur.com/1E9DvA1.png This part was just so weird but the correct type of weird that I was temporarily on board with the manga and thought it was going to lead into a great direction. Instead it completely flips around and starts heading in a different path and literally the only significance that the first section of the manga has is that Yukari rebuilds Gakus missing arm into an interdimensional quantum cell phone. The army of toy robots the serial killer fucking Yukaris ability to rebuild or dismantle human flesh robots... yeah thats all done and over with. Its time to fucking get into alternate dimensions and Gaku talking to other versions of herself through her HAND. 440https://i.ur.com/mrGLsDv.png R28: Is there an alternate universe where this is good? And where Gaku has a clear and consistent character? You might be thinking this review seems a bit scrambled or rushed. Or that this is one huge fabrication and Im just making all this shit up. I assure you padded room aside Im not. 440https://i.ur.com/cO7hJWY.png This is a real manga. This is a real series someone created. After the serial killer is wrapped up a pompous new girl comes to Gaku and Yukaris school and is aware of Yukaris gift and wishes to recruit and bring her back to a weird special school where her gift can be put to better use. 440https://i.ur.com/rImhcFj.png Gaku is supportive of Yukari and advises her to go if she wants and then the fucking story just trips the fuck out and it turns out the special school is in fact an evil society that wishes to run tests on Yukari for her gift and use her but GOOD NEWS. GAKU CAN USE HER INTERDIMENSIONAL CELL PHONE WHICH IS ALSO HER HAND TO TALK TO ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF HERSELF FROM ALTERNATE UNIVERSES AND SHE DISCOVERS HOW TO BECOME THOSE VERSIONS OF HERSELF SO SHE ENTERS A REPEATING CYCLE OF ATTEMPTING TO STOP THIS EVENT FROM HAPPENING TO SAVE YUKARI. Even if she stops Yukari from going to the school SHE ENDS UP DYING OR GETTING KILLED OR BEING TAKEN THERE ANYWAYS. Basically Yukari whom you would think is the poster character for this manga more or less just fucking disappears from the manga entirely as all this shit is going on. And Gaku just fucking... Okay first of all I dont care how much quantum physics and science jargon you spew at me Schrodingers Cat this Schrodingers Cat that YOU CANT JUST... SHES TALKING THROUGH HER HAND TO ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF HERSELF IN ALTERNATE UNIVERSES. Theres... THERES NO RATIONALIZING OR MAKING THIS SEEM SENSIBLE OR NOT CRAZY. 440https://i.ur.com/D2P0wJy.png Gaku and Yukari its not like their lifelong best friends. Or... even if you view this as a yuri like the sole reason the two met was because Yukari wasnt certain of Gakus gender and they kiss collided in the hallway. In actual reality if after this happened the person told you that they see everyone as robots you would distance yourself from that person as much as possible because they are fucking insane and you literally JUST met them. But no Gaku just fucking snaps and her character sprouts wings and flies far beyond the boundaries of logical and sensible characters. She decides that no matter what as a HIGH SCHOOL GIRL SHES GOING TO DEFY FATE ITSELF TO ENSURE YUKARIS SAFETY EVEN IF SHE HAS TO BECOME ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE AND ASCEND TO GODHOOD ITSELF TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 440https://i.ur.com/Xlwy3dx.png Meanwhile Im just sitting here internally screaming out of agony as my brain tries to process anything that is happening and FAILS TO DO SO. Because I just didnt understand... why... and how. Up to this point I will argue that I dont think we saw anything to inspire any sort of belief that Gaku would have any reason to go THAT far. Look Yukari is insane and rebuilt Gakus arm into a cell phone. She didnt have to rebuild it to also have the function as a interdimensional cell phone? Why did she do that? Your best friend genuinely believes that youre just a walking soulless automaton and you just go... oh... okay I guess? Then immediately right after that you tell them the following: IF YOU ARE EVER IN ANY SORT OF MORTAL AND TERRIBLE DANGER I WILL ENTER AN INFINITE TIME LOOP IN AN ATTEMPT TO REWRITE THE UNIVERSE SO YOU CAN IN FACT LIVE EVEN IF I MUST BECOME SOME WEIRD GODLIKE DEITY AFTER OVERCOMING THE SCIENTIFIC BOUNDARIES OF THIS UNIVERSE. Im sorry Im just not gonna extend that type of offer to the girl who thinks Im a goddamned robot. 440https://i.ur.com/TWjl8m2.png Also can I just say eventually I so turned against Gaku as a character that I was reveling in and hoping that she would fail and Yukari would remain dead. Let me justify this real quick Gaku straight up outright admits that she stops being herself and just fucking snaps in the manga itself but. Like she fucking starts manipulating killing and emotionally torturing the other characters and this includes HERSELF ALICE AS WELL AS EVEN YUKARI. Like she becomes Yukaris mother and then like locks her up in their house so nobody ever finds out about her eyes and shes like this fucking withdrawn asocial feral child and... Like the final Gaku the one that ends up being the successful one that ends up mattering literally takes over the vague evil science society and becomes a weird manipulative messiah being. And shes just like... oh I won the NOBEL PRIZE I traveled the globe doing GODS WORK because I am the MESSIAH. 440https://i.ur.com/b0TKU2x.png Im genuinely not sure Ive ever hated a character more than I did Gaku. 440https://i.ur.com/Rz51TQy.png I CAN DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING AS LONG AS IM OPEN TO THE IDEA THAT PARALLEL WORLDS EXIST. I AM CAPABLE OF SAVING THE ENTIRE WORLD AND UNDOING EVERYBODY ELSES DEATH BUT NOT MY BEST FRIEND YUKARI. AND YUKARI IS THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN BURN FOR ALL I CARE. The Gaku is immortal. Did you hear me? Did you hear the words I said?? THE GAKU IS IMMORTAL. 440https://i.ur.com/qJQtQH3.png R28: WHERE IS THE PLOT SCHRODINGER Is there a plot in the box or is it not in the box? Is the plot alive or is it fucking dead? 440https://i.ur.com/GRzPHDf.png Ive already mentioned this but I sort of want to underline it there is an entire chapter where Gaku talks to the totally important and relevant other girl character who is completely normal and therefore actually distanced herself from Yukari after learning about her gift and they just go on and on the entire chapter about Schrodingers goddamned Cat. What the ever living fuck was the purpose of that chapter? What the fuck was the purpose of this entire MANGA? 440https://i.ur.com/larL27Q.png Because at the end after Gaku becomes God she gets talked down and decides not to be God anymore and reverts everything back to normal again but then smashes her hand against a window and then has the interdimensional cellphone disabled or removed from her hand. 440https://i.ur.com/2x59Uy8.png ...And she basically begins to forget all of the dimension hopping she did and all of the different lives she lived...? So basically Yukari is still possibly gonna die in the future and everything she did had absolutely no fucking purpose and were not even shown one way or the other if Yukaris bullshit gift was legitimate in any way shape or form. ...Now that I think about it who cares even if Yukari actually was the only human or if Gaku was a robot? GAKU COULD FUCKING HOP DIMENSIONS AND VERY EASILY ASCENDED TO GODHOOD. WHAT DID YUKARI DO/ACCOMPLISH EXACTLY? ...Actually now that I think about it Gaku wouldnt have been able to ascend to godhood without the interdimensional hand cellphone she gave to Yukari in the first place... but... wait? Okay hold ON. We need a chart. We need a chart for this to work out the progression of the plot of this manga. 440https://i.ur.com/3c05M1Y.png Wow that was fucked up. Creating that took actually more time than writing any of this review up to this point. So okay yeah none of it mattered. Literally none of it mattered. As a matter of fact the manga itself throws the word dream out there fully on its own accord which... You should never voluntarily go for a dream ending. It was all a dream... None of it actually mattered at all in the end... 440https://i.ur.com/QiNSf4H.png That part where Gaku goes back and becomes her child self and then creates magic so she can become a magical girl happens and then the manga is just like well that happened also lets move on now and... ...Wait did I even talk about the magical girl chapter yet??? 440https://i.ur.com/NsK8Azw.png Try having your whole body repaired with jungle gym parts. This... this is a sentence in the chapter... where they try to explain Yukaris gift with science and... like why why even try to explain it at all? Thats the most baffling thing to me still. You cant so just dont... at all... please. 440https://i.ur.com/sJPo1Hf.png Yeah a nightmarish world where a serial killer chops your arm off and then a purple eyed girl proceeds to slay her with an army of toy robots then gives you a cell phone hand which leads you into becoming essentially GOD. BUT NO THIS ISNT SCIENCE FICTION. THIS IS REAL. THIS IS SERIOUS. R28: Miscellaneous Points that Caused Me Agony When Gaku becomes deity Gaku and Yukari is alive again and is talking to deity Gaku there is a point where Yukari... 440https://i.ur.com/StqBoFm.png Is... is she saying she sees the goddamned text boxes of the manga with Gakus dialogue in it? Her eyes directly looking towards the text box and her hand is directly positioned underneath of it so what else is... happening there? Also Gaku straight up kills herself. More than once throughout the manga. Just outright... like one version of herself slips back into sanity and starts talking sense and then another version of her comes up and blows her brains out. 440https://i.ur.com/hSiqfbF.png She even tells herself through her interdimensional quantum cell phone to kill herself after another version of herself admits to her that shes falling in love with the poor girl who was a pawn that she herself was now using as a pawn as a means to an end. Additionally that she possibly felt romantic feelings towards her other friends in the past as well. 440https://i.ur.com/ME3TLXx.png Then finally finally there was the point of the manga that caused my brain to just completely shut down. I read this manga in one day and I went through a VERY wide range of emotions. I could not BELIEVE that this would get even WEIRDER after the parallel world Schrodingers FUCK was introduced. 440https://i.ur.com/i6jrMhG.png 440https://i.ur.com/6S4Pupt.png All of this weird shit and it leads to okay lets undo it all it basically was just nothing but a dream. . . . 220https://i.ur.com/RTFdupU.png R28: Conclusion ...Theres no winning with this one. The original act of reading through this genuinely felt like an all out attack on my senses and my brain itself. But the manga itself provided me a warning and I discarded it and pushed on because I am incredibly dumb. I give this like a 2.5 out of 10 or a 25 out of 100 but I cant actively not recommend this at all. 440https://i.ur.com/aAJlS7x.png 440https://i.ur.com/OvOaIdu.png Because... if youre into really weird and insane shit this series is definitely... it definitely fits the bill. I mean I hated HATE this series but I was never bored through it. Even when it was dumping MAD SCHRODINGERS on my head I was just baffled and trying to comprehend anything. Now can somebody please let me out of this fucking padded room? The review is done. Theoretical Generalizing... Gnomes or whatever? I need to get back to Tim Hortons I am VERY late. Were you under the impression we were going to let you leave the compound when you were finished? Because we never once promised that. ...Oh. 220https://i.ur.com/e2fgmWU.png