This was actually written on the 16th of April of this year (2014), I just completely forgot about it on the notepad and didn’t type it on the computer. Later today I’ll post my rant about “Paca Plus”.
As I had said, I decided to check Kengo Hanazawa’s other works.
So after finishing reading the already translated chapters of “I am a hero”, I started reading “Ressentiment“, and…
Good manga…
But it hit too close to home for me as I have actually been a shut-in (that’ll be as much as I’ll say about it) and so I know many of the feelings of inadequacy, uselessness and worthlessness displayed by the main char (Takuro)
Anyway, this blog is not for self-pity, so, things I liked and disliked, no particular order:
- The base idea: a virtual world so ‘perfect’ that some people just quit reality altogether.
- The way mostly everything in the virtual world seems to be made for maximum revenue (anyone who has ever played a F2P MMORPG knows how it goes), from key items to vanity crap, each more overpriced that the other. Good parallelism with reality.
Since I won’t go deeper into details, let me jump to the ending.
- Despite everything that happens between the protagonist and Nagao (Ms. Nagao), the sad truth is that in the end not much changed for either of them.
- The protagonist still couldn’t get a girlfriend/wife.
- And Nagao still kept going after guys she couldn’t keep (and taught her…’daughter’ not to like weird, loser guys like the protagonist)
And the fuhrer was
Holy shitsnacks.
Overall I liked it mostly because it was a self-deprecation fest for someone like me.
See, she’s a perfectly normal girl.
And that’s all.