Sunday 2 June 2019

Chainsawman 24: wonder if the whole main cast was actually just killed off? Since Denji will obviously be fine I can't think of the other deaths as permanent either. This feels like subverting expectations for its own sake and I'm not currently on board.

The Promised Neverland 136: also not on board for all this nonsense. I hope whatever Emma has figured out makes this a bit more rational because lots of nonsense and characters talking about how it's nonsense is not compelling.

Kuroshitsuji 151-152: I see it as a kind of retconning, but I'm glad to see that Toboso has done her research now and it's being pointed out how totally wrong for an Earl the household we've seen so far has been. We got the general idea that the staff was acknowledged as absurdly small but now we also have recognition of the idea that an earl running a toy manufacturing business is absurd. It definitely would have been noted plenty before this, though, and there still the issue of surname and earldom being conflated. Still, both these chapters seem mostly to cast light on the fact that Toboso now seems to understand a lot more of how stately homes were run and is acknowledging that she was basically making it up based on vague notions before this and I suspect the title will get a lot more mature and realistic as a result. Too bad I still don't care for the current storyline or the idea of the staff finding work in Yorkshire. Lovely art as always, though.

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