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[Manga] Final review of Yuureitou: Volumes 1-5 are fantastic. Volumes 6-7 are highly iffy but I might've been persuaded to like them if volumes 8-9 didn't backflip into a dumpster fire only outmached in intensity and odor by fucking Wonder Egg Priority
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to be fucking honest i am, in fact, a little bit fucking pissy at the people who gave me the warnings and failed to tell me anything about murabe's... fucking... everything at the end
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i hated it so fucking much
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like that shit legit fucking hurt as a trans woman
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i don't fucking care that it was implied by the end that taiko was trans and happy despite that plotline being completely fucking dropped midway through the manga taking a dive
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that was shitty
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fuck
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god and it's not just the bullshit with murabe it's
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the plot started falling apart
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everything with yamashina being gay was handled really fucking weirdly and framed him like a pedophile despite that not actually being it and i am just
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fucking incandescent with rage right now
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god i hate this i hate this i hate this
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god and all that bullshit about akira just being "an eternal boy" and ACCEPTING it
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combined with all the fucking creepy shit about murabe
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you know despite supposedly being an Empowering Trans Narrative parts of it just felt intensely fucking transphobic and condescending
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one itty bitty scrap of dubiously fine representation at the verrrrrrrry fucking end does NOT counterbalance everything that
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FUCK
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i think, on a technical, pure mystery, level, jinbabue was a fine culprit for the serial killer. whatever.
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but it just
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didn't fit with the themes of the story at all to me
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or the themes it was pretending it had up until that point
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idk maybe umineko just made me expect too much of mystery stories idk
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i am just so angry at all aspects of this manga right now it's hard for me to find a single spot to focus on honestly, haha!
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just
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god
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i think this stung more than wonder egg priority because, like
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with wonder egg priority all the representation i was looking for the find factually didn't exist, at least not with the authorial intent
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but with yuureitarou it was there
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it was good for a while
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and then it was so horribly blatantly bad that i-
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fuck
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there's so many other things too, like
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the depiction of akira or tetsuo or whatever on the chapter cover art getting gradually more weird and sexualized
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i don't even know why the thing with murabe hurt so much it's just
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i don't know
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fuck
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the worst part
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the worst part the worst part THE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WORST PART
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IS THAT
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WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SYMPATHY FOR MURABE BY THE END OF IT
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FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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god i really clung onto hope for an unreasonable amount of time that it was some crazy gambit to expose the true culprit and made up a bunch of theories regrading that and it just
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wasn't worth the effort
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fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
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like it's really stupid but i hate myself more and my enthusiasm for characters i usually love has been significantly dampened by this stupid fucking manga and i just
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i really hope i feel better once i do calm enough down for some sleep because this shit just sucks, man
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idk! idk. maybe it's just me being overly sensitive to this one specific thing and it's really not that bad because i'm starting to feel insane because apparently fucking EVERYONE looooooooooooooves this fucking manga and people keep giving me weird looks while i'm yelling about how upset i am about it
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in so sorry I I thought you were told about that murabe fucked up everything when I asked about the content warnings yesterday, otherwise I would have warned of you that
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and no you're completely valid I also hate this manga and was furious when I reached the end when I first read it years ago