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Even children and women were not spared! When was the last time they showed even women and children being killed? Heck, even kicking puppies was quite cruel and rare back then.
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No sir, here the humans are sadistic little bastards who like tormenting little girls and are being slaughtered like pigs as revenge. Everyone was either crazy or evil there were no clear good guys and bad guys. Because after all, the more political incorrect something is, the more attractive it appears to young people. That was so political incorrect that drew people in by the thousands especially after the anime version came along. Sex and violence always sell and EL happened to have an extremely amount of both. WOW, HOLLY SMOKES, WHAT IS THIS? Instant hook! And here starts the rave of the series. You even see a person who acts all silly assuming to be the main comic relief character throughout the series to be eventually brutally murdered in seconds.
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It also starts with a bang since in the first chapter we see a massacre of the highest possible gore and splatter you could ever dream of witnessing back then, backed up by a scary naked woman wearing a demonic metal mask and horns. It also mixed lots of favorable elements such as nude and gore, along with interesting story ideas. There were already many violent manga around but this seemed to be the most broadly advertised and most didn’t know the rest so it’s like it was the only one. This used to be the series most recommended to newcomers as means to show them a amanga which was not some silly cartoony characters with spiky hair.
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