Zennou no Noa review

Drailean13
Apr 04, 2021
This manga reminded me a lot of Code Geass. It has a guy in high school that's seemingly normal using wits to try to overthrow the government essentially, with someone who is portrayed as being on the side of justice opposing him. Part of this worked, but parts of this did not. The basic premise of him using wits to begin a rebellion was interesting, and the individual situations that he came out ahead on also worked pretty well, and the suspense and action there worked well. The background themes relating to discrimination, what defines who someone is, and freedom also worked reasonably well. However, there wasn't really a hook with the protagonist, so there weren't really any moments that were truly amazing. Rather, beyond losing his memories, he seemed like a pretty standard character for such a part. Furthermore, the plans worked out way too well without explanation a lot of the time, and hence those weren't as amazing as they were properly fleshed out. Hence, a lot of the plot, once things got going, felt kind of random and really rushed. All of this comes to an ending that I think was almost good, but then got screwed up completely at the last minute. The situation right before the ending was perfect. Just extending that situation a bit further would have been perfect. But then it goes and tries to give it one more twist that tries to convey one more message about humanity, without any subtlety at all I should add, and it just kind of makes everything seem kind of dumb and pointless. The art was decent.

tl;dr: A manga with some good concepts that weren't implemented too well and an unforced error of an ending.
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Zennou no Noa
Zennou no Noa
Author Ono, Youichirou
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