For a manga built around the tropes of almost a century old genre, the Ghost tower manages to tell completely unique scenarios and stories you can't currently find from anywhere else but it. The story itself is captivating, although some aspects of it are very by the book, the mystery somewhat trails off by the end, but in by that point you're more interested in the character relations. The mystery's connection to the characters keeps it incredible, not the mystery itself. Dialogs, conflicts and complicated, everchanging inner worlds of the characters are crafted with a lot of intellect and depth.
Despite some of it's horrid
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Mar 22, 2021
Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka
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There's this dilemma with most dark magical girl shows, in which i come specifically for dark material, but get put off by... dark material.
What I mean by this is that i have no problem with horrible things happening in a story, but its the tone they are done with that really disturbs me. Most of these shows are clearly done by and for people who romanticise and find some kind of pleasure in the torture of young girls. Pages are littered with these underage characters almost naked being tortured both sexually and violently in compromising positions and with great focus on things that leave little ... |
