#ellierant

I'm being a little harsh. I only read this because the title/concept was intriguing and I kind of like shitty vampire stories, and shitty yuri. But this is just boring and badly made.

The first chapter's generally good, but it becomes clear that this author has Side Character Syndrome, where they introduce a bunch of shitty side characters with no depth or rushed arcs. Altogether, the story is pretty generic. There's not even much cute yuri stuff to save it. They don't even kiss any scars of girls!!!!! Come on!!!! what's the point of the title?!?!!?

I'm thinking about putting together a list of manga that focuses on niche fields, subjects, or hobbies. Bakuman would be a good one for "being a Shounen Jump-serialized mangaka" but fuck that.

'Tis a shame, though. It has some interesting things to say about authorial autonomy-- some meta storylines that can be interpreted as things they learned working on Death Note. One of these lessons being that it's better for authors to end their stories rather than drag them on and make them worse by adding new characters.