Can’t believe i finished this in one sitting.
Hell’s Paradise is essentially Fate but with a few seinen elements sprinkled throughout.
The show had its shortcomings, and almost all of them were related to its power system. People getting powers out of nowhere, discovering new senses in mere hours after learning about them – it just felt off. Do they think we’re stupid?
But that isn’t what I enjoyed about the show. For me, it was the conflicts, specifically the dilemma of what it means to live, that most characters had to question at some point. I felt the show handled these inner conflicts well. The visual storytelling nicely matched the inner monologues.
Even then, the show could’ve handled the characters much better. For instance, instead of thrusting them straight into a death royale, it could’ve taken time to invest us in them by showing their day-to-day lives with a trickle of exposition and slight introductions to the power system. After that, it could drop the ball and let us see how everything adds up. Like how the first three seasons of AOT invested us in the characters before the impactful events of the final season. Developing characters right before they die is overused nowadays, but at least the development was good.
All in all, I quite enjoyed this. Though I’d categorize this in the same box as Reincarnated as a Slime and Fate. I really hoped this would have gone the Heavenly Delusions route, which is the impression I got from the first episode, but you can’t always have everything, can you?”
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I have a feeling I’m gonna like this. Not that I didn’t expect it. When I first read the first two chapters of this, I knew I was gonna love it. The reason why I stopped it was because of that and because this was still released. And you know how much I hate getting into unfinished manga. Now I’m sticking to that like glue, ain’t ever want another devil is a part-timer happening again. Up until I caught up to its manga, it pretty much dominated my favourite manga list. After that, I read up on three new releases and the charm just left. I can’t handle the pauses between releases I simply lose interest. If I’m consuming something, I need to consume it within a certain period before I lose interest. The same goes for people in my life, especially women. No matter how much i get invested, I simply lose interest in the long run and that never ends well. Okay that’s quite a tangent, but you get my point.
Surprisingly i seem to understand what the characters are thinking. Which is… new if I’m being honest. I don’t know if that’s because I’ve gotten good at it even a bit or if the characters of this show are just that shallow. I wonder.
Not bad, this shit’s good. Wayy better than i expected. I knew it would be good, but good in a Noragami way. Not to say that this is that far off, but its got some merit.