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IvernRocks on I Tamed A Tyrant And Ran Away

"Someone has to pay."

Revenge is a debt, you see. Better people than me would say that its price should be compensation, but it really isn't. Revenge is paid in retribution only. After all, lifting the weight of a great sin is a miracle, and all miracles require sacrifice.

Do you like art? I like art. And if you like it too, you will drench your panties for this one. Style and quality are simply top notch. Costumes are insanely detailed. Expressions and scene direction are outstanding. The writing too, when comprehensible (YOU KNOW WHY), has nothing left to be desired.

What remains are the characters. Which are... Very dramatic. Old school. And with old, I mean Athenian, buddy. These people are larger than life, more ideals than humans. In another manga, they would've been said to be badly written and one dimensional. But not here, because I buy the struggle. I appreciate the dramatic tension. Some are the incarnation of Regret, others of Desire, some of Obsession, and then there's FL... Vengefulness.

"Someone has to pay.". But when everything is burned down by your own hands, who will be left to pay the price? The entire story revolves around this concept. In other words: an hundredth chapters of "should I move the fu** on, or should I devastate a country because I was fuc*** over by some pieces of sh**". The answer is not as simple as it seems.

I think the narration works. Since it's very interpersonally focused, I would've liked a better translation all the way through. Still, I recognize a great drama when I see one. 9½ on the Ivern Scale™️.

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