Hinowa ga Yuku!
Hinowa ga Crush!

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Hinowa, the weird uncle of the AgK universe mangas. Its ok, but it seems to be picking up pace in the latest chapters!

TLDR: Hinowa is a pretty flawed manga, that is loosely connected to AgK. If you've got an open mind it's worth checking out. If you are the type of person who cant stand any really big flaws and is thinking of just checking it out since you like AgK don't waste your time.

It doesnt even vaguely feel like AgK or AgKZ, and there are very few story links, as Akame herself has taken a spot in quite the backlines. So anyways - feel ... - Hinowa feels different to AgK in outright everything, the atmosphere is completely changed, the battles focus a lot on strategy and teamwork rather than the superpowered duels of AgK and teigu are nowhere to be seen. The artstyle is not a welcome change in my eyes, but to each their own. I think like half the characters look like strange frog creatures. Though the panels flow much better and the overall detail has been improved by a good amount.

There is also a genuine problem with sex scenes - yes really! "Sex scenes? That seems like such a menial thing to care about" you're thinking - exactly! It is! So imagine how bloody bad they must be for me to have to mention this! There is fanservice like *never before* in AgK and it's there constantly and it absolutely KILLS the tone every time this happens!! It's horrible, there are times where we get full three page scenes with different poses and ahegao not even 2 chapters apart! And my god is it uncomfortable! Strelka and Takahiro are some absurdly horny dudes! Luckily this dies down in the later chapters.

A welcome change is in the characters, there really isnt any moseying around with half-baked villains. From the get-go we get a much more colorful array of characters, and especially the villains, I was glad Hinowa skipped the filler kills and went straight towards well built-up intimidating people with plenty of quirks to their name who get a nice amount of time on-screen.

A big change in content shows up in the manga's latest 15 chapters, as the non-stop fighting stops and the characters split-up into 3 main storylines, and we start getting a nice picture of the inner workings of everything and everyone.

Hinowa had a hard time finding its place. On one hand, it aimed to introduce us to a new story with its own personality, its own universe, and more. On the other hand, it tried to become an extension of "Akame Ga Kill!" and "Akame Ga Kill 0." The idea could have been interesting, but if things had been done better and if the manga had taken more time to develop certain aspects, that would have been better. There's also a problem in that the manga wants to do great things, has good ideas, but it doesn't have the time to implement them, probably due ... to the lack of interest in this manga. They made the decision to cut things short and quickly finish the story with something "decent." Despite the shortcuts taken, unfortunately, the manga stops after only 53 short chapters right in the middle of the story.

Hinowa had a lot of potential but couldn't exploit it as it should have. It's also a drawback that it tried to be an extension of "Agk" and "AgkZ." While the manga started with a small community already won over by "Akame Ga Kill," on the other hand, it struggled much more to attract new readers ready to start from scratch in this story.

Reading it is relatively easy. Strelka, the man behind Hinowa's artwork, even though he claimed to be a beginner at the beginning of Volume 1, I enjoyed his drawings, although, in my opinion, he had a hard time matching the style of "Akame Ga Kill!" If you've read "Akame Ga Kill" and "Akame Ga Kill 0," you'll notice a clear difference in the character styles, especially that of Akame.

We could also talk about some deviations in the work, such as the countless sex scenes. "AgkZ" already had quite a few, but in Hinowa, it's TOO much. In Volume 5, I think we have almost one sex scene per chapter, and you'll see nearly all the female characters nude at some point in the work.

In conclusion, it's a work with a lot of potential but couldn't fully realize its ideas due to the lack of enthusiasm from the audience and the poor management of what the work's direction should be.

Review translated into English using Google Translate, original version in Brazilian Portuguese will be below.

A work full of potential, just like its predecessor "Akame ga Kill". However, this time, it is clear that Takahiro, the mangaka, faces significant mental problems. It is not possible to ignore the countless cases of abuse of female characters, something that was used occasionally to provoke shock and indignation in his previous works, but which is now treated in a trivial way. There is no context or justification that can redeem this approach, making it just disgusting.

Takahiro has an absurd gift for action manga, I'm immensely sad that he became ... such a disturbed person.
If this hadn't happened, the work certainly wouldn't have been canceled and it would have been incredible.

I've read Akame ga Kill more than 5 times, it's my favorite manga, these are the painful words of a deeply disappointed fan.

-PT/BR-

Uma obra repleta de potencial, assim como sua antecessora "Akame ga Kill". No entanto, desta vez, percebe-se que Takahiro, o mangaká, enfrenta problemas mentais significativos. Não é possível ignorar os inúmeros casos de abuso a personagens femininas, algo que anteriormente era utilizado pontualmente para provocar choque e indignação em suas obras anteriores, mas que agora é tratado de maneira trivial. Não há contexto ou justificativa que possa redimir essa abordagem, tornando-a apenas doentia.

Takahiro possui um dom absurdo para mangas de ação, fico imensamente triste de ter se tornado essa pessoa tão perturbada.
Caso isto não acontecesse, certamente a obra não teria sido cancelada e seria incrível.

Li Akame ga Kill mais de 5 vezes, é meu mangá favorito, estas são as dolorosas palavras de um fã profundamente decepcionado.