Manga 306 Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara

I’ll be the first to say that this story was hard to follow, especially for a childrens manga. The story was set to read like an RPG; basically a video game format that just got too repetitive, dialogues were confusing, and each chapter would end with a monster or human saying “thank you, take this item, now we don’t hate (other) humans anymore”. The first 4 volumes were basically side quests, and those side quests didn’t establish much at all. The whole adventure process was incredibly bland and went in circles. The story doesn’t really progress until the final volume.

Yuuki is a terrible main protagonist. ... She was absolutely a Mary Sue with little to no personality, cries over Takaomi (MMC) in almost every chapter; screams at other characters to silence them-as if that’s her only character trait; her role to the story is to save the world, but doesn’t. There was this huge build up for her but she does absolutely nothing in the end. It was all Takaomi. She was an underwhelming character altogether. Her “romance” with Takaomi had literally no chemistry either. The fact he’s 15 years old and she’s only 10 is a pretty gross age gap; and he kissed her and tried to make moves on her before. Why even depict this kind of “romance” in a childrens manga? This is not a very good look lol

Tsukuyomi, our “villain”, was also very underwhelming. He was deemed “threatening” when he did absolutely nothing this entire time. His villainous acts were predictable and minor. In practically every chapter, his servant would magically know where the main characters were, reports it to Tsukuyomi, then Tsukuyomi makes some empty threat about taking over Takamagahara, and he eventually dies. This repetitive scenario prior to his death was not needed.

There are way too many characters in this series, which does get confusing at times. It was sometimes hard to keep up since each character has a different version of themselves in another world, with different personalities and memories. All of these characters are different people, except for Yuuki. And some of these characters were briefly used to move the story along and then gets thrown in the back burner. Those characters become irrelevant.

I always wanted to read this as a kid, but knowing me I probably would never have understood what was going on. The whole series was dull and confusing often. I’m glad I saved myself until I was an adult to read this. Unfortunately, I’m rating this 3/10. It was just not as good as I thought it’d be.