A truly pathetic conclusion.
Creative Staff
Story: Tsugumi Ohba
Art: Takeshi Obata
Translation: Stephen Paul
What They Say
Mirai has vowed to never kill another human, but can Mirai defeat Metropoliman without killing him? Will the god candidates be able to rid themselves of their greatest threat?!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Following up from last time, we rejoin Mirai in the midst of his duel with Metropoliman. And weirdly enough, the villain actually insists on seeing this through, firmly insisting he won’t flee and even going so far as to show his face to prove he’s the real deal. Anyway, Mirai’s plan ends up being to charge him more or less, only to find that his opponent already has a red arrow in him. Which isn’t exactly the coolest reveal, as it’s just the hero failing due to something that came completely out of nowhere. So again I say the way these fights flow has gotten pretty dumb and brainless for a series that seemed to initially place an emphasis on being clever. But regardless, Mirai just sort of swivels to grabbing one of Metropoliman’s hands, then Saki grabs the other so they can just sort of hold him in place while Mukaido guns him down as he begs for mercy. Which seems kind of excessively gratuitous in its violence for some reason too, but that’s kind of the least of this volume’s issues much as it comes across as rather odd.
In the aftermath, Mukaido’s cancer finally does him in, and we do of course get some discussion on his legacy, discussing how he heroically gunned down Metropoliman and all that. But the real focal point… is the reveal that the one childish god candidate who just kind of left the battle was the one who pierced Metropoliman with a red arrow. That was why he wouldn’t back down, and apparently it just sort of happened by catching him off guard at school. And honestly… this may well be the worst example of a reveal of someone else pulling the string that I’ve ever seen, which is saying something considering how easy those are to screw up. Not only does it have no impact whatsoever because the character is literally so underdeveloped here that I don’t even know their name or anything about them, their actions are also more lucky than clever, leaving little to hype them up as the new antagonist. And in the process of doing this, the series completely screws up the finale with the big villain who was easily the most interesting character in the whole cast. His autonomy is completely robbed and we got that completely idiotic final fight as a result, and it’s so… we can have another bland villain come after to stretch the series out I guess?
Will Mirai and Saki be able to take on this new foe? And even more importantly, will anyone still care enough to read on to even see what happens next?
In Summary
With this volume, the series hits what seems to be a new crushing low despite being what should be a huge exciting climax. The action remains just as poor and brainless as what we got last time, all the way up till the end. But you see, this time around, we get a big twist… in theory! And yet, that’s so mind-blowingly poorly done that it completely craps all over Metropoliman’s character, adds nothing whatsoever, and leaves me in dread of where the series is heading. So sadly, this is both a complete fumble of the end of an arc AND the start of a new one. If you’re still somehow hanging on with this series, just drop it now, as it’s hard to see anything worthwhile ever coming from it again at this point.
Content Grade: C-
Art Grade: A
Packaging Grade: A-
Text/Translation Grade: B+
Age Rating: 18+
Released By: Viz Media
Release Date: December 4th, 2018
MSRP: $9.99
