Manga Details
Author: Akasaka, Aka
Who they were an assistant for:
Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondo (Deadman Wonderland)
Author’s other works:
Sayonara Piano Sonata (2012, 16 chapters, 3 volumes, Dengeki Maoh)
Arguably a full adaptation of a light novel but maybe still cover it
Kaguya-sama: Love is War (2015-2022, 281 chapters, 28 volumes, Miracle Jump/Weekly Young Jump)
Very good def worth reading and has an anime
Oshi no Ko (2020-present, 102+ chapters, 9+ volumes, Weekly Young Jump, art by Mengo Yokoyari)
A doctor is reincarnated as one of the twin children of a pop idol he was caring for during his life
Run dates: Jul 27, 2013 to Aug 27, 2015
Chapters/Volumes: 5/27
Ran in Dengeki Maoh
It tends to do stuff like chuuni tales of twisted humanity, sweet yuri series featuring schoolgirls, adaptations of hyper-weeby rpgs like Persona and Disgaea, and lolicon stuff. Like, a LOT of lolicon stuff. So think of these magazines as for a specific sort of sweaty nerd who goes on about purity a lot while also min-maxing their relationship side-que
It has some weird shit in it as well and Maxybee is not a fan
About the Manga
Plot
Kuro is sad and lonely. He has two imaginary friends, beats people up for fun, and wants to destroy the world. For some reason no one likes him. Then one day he meets Sera, a girl who has power over bombs and wants to be a hero. They are called instant bullets and I forget why. Kuro actually made the beast because it’s his power. He’s the bad guy kind of, but really he’s just an edgelord. Then they meet a witch named Yume who says there’s 20 instant bullets. She can see the future but it’s fucking useless cuz she can’t change it and everyone sulks about being edgy. Turns out Sera is also a bad guy who wants to blow up the world. Yume introduces him to a guy named Moroki with a pocket dimension and a creepy murder bunny girl named Kokage. Bunny girl also wants to kill everyone on the planet because her mom was a sex worker who died. People think she killed a bunch of people in something called the maria drug incident because she created a new drug, but the drug just makes bad people nice. When people couldn’t get the drug anymore they didn’t wanna be bad again so they all committed suicide in a way that framed her for their murder. She wants to make a giant plant that makes dicks stop working but Kuro and Moroki make her cry until she turns nice.
Yume foresaw her own death and also that she’d fall in love with Kuro so she enrolls in high school and asks him on a date. They go back to her place where she has a little sister who stays locked away in her room don’t worry about it, it's not important. She wants to watch porn and make out but Kuro turns her down. She’s gonna die in three days so he agrees to be her boyfriend til then. Then a group of evil ibs appear called Colorful and they kill the witch which makes Kuro sad because the romcom high school chapters were the best part of the manga, and he gets ULTRA DEPRESSED which makes him MEGA STRONG. However, the witch’s little sister was actually her from when she was a little kid because she also has time travel powers. That’s right, I lied. She WAS important. She went back in time and grew up so she was older in the present but her current day self still exists here as a 9 year old girl. Kuro had two neighbor girls who were sisters and they were the imaginary friends he’d been hallucinating. The older one, Toiro, burned down her own house and Kuro felt guilty about it while the younger one, Iroha, got put in a coma thanks to that fire, and then legally became Kuro’s sister. Turns out they’re actually not hallucinations. Well Toiro is. Kind of. I think. They’re also instant bullets with vague powers created by Kuro’s ability maybe?
Then Colorful’s Instant Bullet Lawyer gets Kuro to sign Toiro’s “life” away from them but Kuro suddenly changes her name which ruins the contract because the law is confusing like this manga. Sera then steals all the bombs in the world and threatens to blow everyone up unless Kuro can find her. Through a flashback we see that Sera was a sociopath who thought death was funny but her dad tricked her into wanting to be a hero until he got hit by the isekai bus and she thought that was funny too. Kuro finds her and tells her that his angst made him strong enough to destroy the world first so Sera gets to be the hero and fires all of the bombs in the world at him until they’re all gone, successfully enacting world wide nuclear disarmament and becoming one of the greatest heroes in history. But she’s gonna drop the mega ultra bomb until Yume reappears because she has time travel powers and for some reason decided to only use those powers like a couple times. Yume stops the bomb and that’s pretty much the end basically.
Characters
Kuro Fukase
Tucker: Kuro means black, hammering home that this dude is EDGY and DARK
MC
Very violent
Pervert
Not liked by his classmates
Imagines siblings?
Edgy badguy
Abandoned by his mother
Sera Himeura
Wants to save the world
Jk wants to kill everyone
Special attack star bomb
Dead parents
Yume Furusuna
Seems to know it all
Witch hat
Can show people the future
Crush on Fukase
Dies lol
Kind of the most interesting character imo.
Fujinami kokage
Super twisted
Wears onesee
Controls plants
Drug kingpin
Wants to die
Her mom didn’t just deal drugs, or sex. She dealt worse: drug sex.
Why it failed
Art is kinda inconsistent
Pacing feels weird I’m have trouble following it
Ya know if you want a mc to not be liked by society that’s fine but THEY SHOULDN’T BE RIGHT TO NOT LIKE HIM
These chapters feel sooooo slow
I know the MC has a shitty life but he really does nothing to improve it
It is exhausting knowing every character is secretly twisted and evil
This series makes no fucking sense and the author didn’t actually build up to anything he just wants constantly edgy reveals
This series is constantly trying to make the mc a good guy when he clearly doesn’t which makes the plot feel very muddy
This series seems to have just rewritten its plot midway through
Again we see an author struggle with making monthly chapters work
I do not know what the plot of this manga is
What it did well
The monsters look cool and some nice page layouts
Has a nice sense of style and effects
It feels like a fun deconstruction of shonen manga
I did lol at the blowup doll distraction
Everyone being a terrible person is novel?
Getting out of the contract by changing names was cute, the series did do some minimal work establishing names are important
It had a few little fun moments not related to plot which was nice
LMAO THIS ENDING WHAT A TWIST
There are actually some really interesting concepts in here. The idea of people being addicted to a drug that makes them kind, for instance.
The time travel stuff is convoluted but it’s sometimes cool and interesting maybe almost.
The romcom parts are actually pretty good
Some effective scenes like when he’s crying playing the video game with young witch.
Where it could have gone
Be cool to have a shonen protag with schizophrenia that’s not used as a twist plot device
What if 1b played on how it looks like 18 and it's all about people having to emotionally prepare for adulthood
Lower the stakes why is everything the end of the world
Have a crossover with agrav boys and fix their depression
Been a series about cognitive dissonance between powers and characters, it’s an interesting idea that the protagonistic characters have very violent or evil aligned abilities
Misc Thoughts
Has a chapter 1b which is kinda weird, Bamb points out to make a Ib = 1b joke
99% of people in the world achieve happiness is utter bullshit
Big fax on the nothing being random
This makes me really appreciate how well OP handled Robin
THE BADGUY HAS THE SUPER SMARTPHONE
Hahaha. IBS like irritable bowel syndrome. That’s great.
Maxy Bee thoughts:
I am very incompatible with this sort of comic, because I like… believe in humans.
Cancellation after two years and five volumes is pretty good by our standards.
Aka Akasaka says this is something he worked on since high school, and calls it his life’s work in the afterword. Kind of cute considering the success he went on to.
Akasaka declares his intent to return to this one day, but has since retired as an artist, now only writing comics, so it’ll be very different if it ever happens.
Final Verdict
Six Word summary
Community
Tucker: Gentlemen, we’ve achieved it: peak emo!
Maxybee: A chuuni tale of twisted humanity
Orange: madoka magica but everything is black
Duderocks: Protags power is pupifed cream? Amazing
Chickenwarlord: Biscuit Hammer: Now with extra delusions!
Albie: Who wrote this Instant Bullshit? Ishigami?
Twolfwood: Not bizarre enough to interest me
Dragonitti: I feel nothing and remember less. (Special thanks to Resident Warhammer Nerd)
090z: Neat concepts, not expanded thoroughly enough
Resident Warhammer Nerd: a miracle this even got made
David: you all can't be this edgy
David: Alexa play Where Is My Mind
Jordan: they’re all angsty cuz of IBS
This plot’s the opposite of instant
Guest:
Flop or not
If flop, what they could read instead
Lucifer and the biscuit hammer BABY
Also Angel beats
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
If not, how it compares to Chainsaw Man
Is this the best/worst series we’ve talked about