i binged it within 24 hours and honestly? it was...fine, i guess. i understand the hype kinda, but i don't get why it's so overblown? maybe i don't have enough media literacy to decipher the themes and meanings of this story. the story wasn't what i expected it to be—i had a different image in my mind with how the plot was gonna go and this wasn't it. i feel like this manga fell into that trap of what i call the "solo-leveling effect" in which after a certain point everything just unravels in a very unearned(?) way. the part after power died was... weird. and makima died, just like that? what?? idk man i felt weird abt it. i really do feel like the slower pacing of the anime does this story more justice. can't wait for season 2 fr.
