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Shounen no Abyss \ Boy's Abyss Review

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****SPOILERS**** Shounen no Abyss\Boy's Abyss: Overall 7/10 Personal Reading Experience:  To be honest as much as I'm about to trash on this manga I was actually thoroughly engaged in it from around chapter 50-75 and 80-100. The foundation for this manga was extremely weak but I felt like the later execution saves it (Everything after chapter 50 tbh). A lot of the reveals that happen in the series really caught me off guard and surprised me, a majority of them also make perfect sense in recontextualizing things outside of minor character consistency hiccups. Criticism:   Major thing I'd like to mention is that I felt like the way suicide as a whole was handled was downright offensive to me. Firstly, if you keep throwing suicide here and there it loses impact in the story and honestly I felt really desensitised to that word once I caught up to the 110 chapters or so. I swear they say "commit suicide" at least 100 times in 10 chapters. Furthermore, the depiction of ...
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Harley Quinn Animated Series Review & Other Thoughts

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Harley Quinn: Overall 9.2/10 Why I watched Harley Quinn. I've been playing a lot of Multiversus recently and the character I gravitated towards ended up being Harley Quinn, she is an assassin with a combo-centric move set and something just clicked for me I guess since I've basically played nothing but her for my entire career. I also really like the character in general, the look, the talk, nothing too complicated about it, I just like her.  I watched the Harley Quinn show on a whim, I didn't even know it existed until I saw a TikTok about it.  Watching the show made me learn some things about myself and I had a blast watching it. Here are just some jumbled thoughts I put together that have to do with Harley Quinn. Harley+Ivy A large concern I had with myself while watching Harley Quinn was that I was a little concerned I was internally misogynistic because I never found the idea of 2 girls dating in a show particularly interesting before. This generated a pretty interesti...
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