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A review by etienne02
Remina by Junji Ito
3.0
This manga had some incredible elements, but it also had some bad ones. The premise of the story and the weirdness of it was just awesome. A strange cosmic horror cannibal planet comic to Earth, wow this doesn’t get more intriguing than that!
Unfortunately, the story didn’t always go in the right direction. In the beginning, first third, instead going all in into this cosmic horror them, it goes back and forth between it and the pop star teens trying to escape a mob, which was totally uninteresting. Then something happen, and I won’t say to much for not spoiling anything, but let just say that the direction change again, but we still follow a bit too much of the Remina, the girl, and not enough of the planet Remina. It also too often goes into directions that were curious and I just would have like the focus to be else were. The last third was not really good. Final point, the story felt a bit rush, this could have been a small series instead of a single issues and it would have allows us to explore a bit more of the world, the story to take hold on us and even maybe develop those characters a bit more and add some complexity to them to help them feel more likeable!
So overall a very solid and interesting idea, but the way the author decides to tell its story, some poor characters and some strange narrative choice, make it lost a bit of interest to me. I’m sill glad I finally read this author how is well know for doing manga horror, weird and even cosmic one and I will look forward into his other works, but as for this one, it was still fun, had some great dark moments but I was expecting something more in the overall experience.
Unfortunately, the story didn’t always go in the right direction. In the beginning, first third, instead going all in into this cosmic horror them, it goes back and forth between it and the pop star teens trying to escape a mob, which was totally uninteresting. Then something happen, and I won’t say to much for not spoiling anything, but let just say that the direction change again, but we still follow a bit too much of the Remina, the girl, and not enough of the planet Remina. It also too often goes into directions that were curious and I just would have like the focus to be else were. The last third was not really good. Final point, the story felt a bit rush, this could have been a small series instead of a single issues and it would have allows us to explore a bit more of the world, the story to take hold on us and even maybe develop those characters a bit more and add some complexity to them to help them feel more likeable!
So overall a very solid and interesting idea, but the way the author decides to tell its story, some poor characters and some strange narrative choice, make it lost a bit of interest to me. I’m sill glad I finally read this author how is well know for doing manga horror, weird and even cosmic one and I will look forward into his other works, but as for this one, it was still fun, had some great dark moments but I was expecting something more in the overall experience.