Bastard Bastard is a manga I've recently finished and can gladly say it deserves the second spot on my top 10 manga, right under Oyasumi Punpun. Without getting into too much detail, Bastard is about a boy named Jin Seon who's the son of a murderer, Dongsoo Seon(Which isn't really a spoiler because it's said in the first chapter of the story). He struggles to fit in at school due to his hard life, and as if things aren't bad enough, Jin helps his father kill the victims. When Kyun Yoon, a transfer student, catches the eye of Dongoo Seon, Jin has to decide whether to help his father kill her, or protect her. While all of this is happening, Jin wants to be free from his fathers grasp, but due to certain things he just can't do it. As the story progresses, you're introduced to a lot of characters who all have their own problems in life. For example (spoiler warning),

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we have Kyun Yoon, who is dealing with the loss of her dead dad, while being forced to pay his debt, and on top of that having to deal with her senile granddad. Dealing with all of this, she has to resort to methods that a high school girl shouldn't resort to.

As you see the characters backstory, it's easy to start building up love for them and understand them more. Let's take the MC Jin Seon for example. You could understand why he's the way he is through the little that you were given at the beginning, but as it progresses, you learn new things about him that play a huge factor in him as a character. You see him even going flat out berserk during some chapters due to how messed up his past was. It makes you feel sorry for a person like Jin. He's a boy who had no chance in life as a kid. He was thrown into a rough environment from the start, and it's honestly amazing to watch how he develops as a character. There are even some points where you're rooting for Jin, but know what he's doing is completely out wrong. Now, Bastard isn't as dark as Punpun is, but despite that still manages to do justice. Ihonsetly think you'd have to be cautious when reading the story because there are some scenes where it's darkness really shows. I personally feel like Bastard is a great example of how a Thriller and Mystery story should be. It's story development is so good, that you'd never actually get bored of the series. And the ending just completely makes the story come to a full circle, making bastard a masterpiece. The art style is good, though for a manwha, you wouldn't usually expect the same type of amazing panels like Punpun, Berserk ,or Vagabond, but it's still good. Out of 10, i'd give this manwha a 10/10.

Ending this review

Now that I've come to the end, I just wanna say if you've made it all the way to here, you're honestly a legend lmao. For real though, thanks for giving my review a read. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions or responses about my review and if this review encouraged you to read any of these stories, lmk I think that'd be pretty cool lol. If you haven't read any of these stories, I highly suggest you do, and if you have, let me know if you agree with anything I said or not. You guys have a blessed day or night wherever you are, peace.