Usogui first thoughts

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Idk who to yap to :sob: This just exists if anyone does want to read my yap but I bet jogokirbo is gonna click on this project and type "jjk better" and then proceed to not read this at all :sob: Press space for the next image, I put my favorite panels from what I've read so far. Sorry for the low quality but I think you can still see a lot of the details. So now I will actually talk about my thoughts on Usogui so far. I have read only 52 chapters as I am typing this out. Usogui is quite the long manga and I usually save my first impressions for when I reach about 20 chapters but since it's so long, I decided that I will start talking about it now. First I want to talk about the art. Art: I heard that the art gets better over time and only 50 chapters in, I can see how insane the art might get. The first chapter was honestly not that good in terms of art but so far there have been some panels with intricate details. Panels with a focus on talking won't be shown and I'll just type the quotes down but those do exist. My impressions before I started reading: Before I started reading this, I wasn't motivated to watch anything or read anything so I decided that nothing would motivate me better than reading a seinen. I didn't know much but I did know this, Usogui is a gambling manga. I bet the average persons reaction is something along the likes of "gambling = funny" (yare yare... I'm so tuff right??) but I knew that Usogui is a seinen so I had high hopes that it would be fire. My thoughts after reading the first 52 chapters: Usogui is insane. As in the manga is insane, and the main character, Baku who is nicknamed Usogui, is insane. Baku is one of the smartest manga characters that I have ever seen. He's super charismatic and super confident in what he does. He's a legendary gambler who can tell when someone is lying (usogui means lie eater). There's also some fighting and the action is decent. For the gambling, it is insane. Usogui shows that gambling is more than luck. With all the different games that are shown, Usogui shows that gambling is the most insane mind game that you can play. Usogui is oddly inspirational. I feel like gambling rn :sob: and even a character in the manga is so inspired that he wants to be like Usogui and he follows Usogui and helps him out. I'm honestly not surprised that this is a seinen and I love this manga so far. Gambling, philosophy, psychology, and excessive amounts of violence; I can't read this in anything that isn't Usogui. (jjba..) Characters: I don't think the characters will be that great tbh. Baku is amazing and so smart but besides that, I don't think anyone else will be that good. I do love how Baku is a character with an ambiguous backstory and I know that it will be revealed later in the manga. He was a well known and highly feared gambler but one day he lost a gamble and lost everything. I want to know a lot more about his past. I also like how he isn't good but he isn't bad either. In seinens there's a lot of morally gray characters. They have suggested that there might be more to Baku than you think. Maybe Baku is actually evil or maybe Baku has planned out everything and is purposefully making a return after losing everything. I don't know too much so far, but I do know that Baku is a damn good seinen main character. Story and world building: The story is fire and the world building is very good. The world building is honestly simple and perfect. Usogui takes place in our world but with a few differences. Gambling is just more important than it is for us and insane people like Baku are willing to gamble with their lives. An organization called Kakerou exists to make sure that gambles are fair and money gets collected. Kakerou is a huge organization that only few people have access to. If you're doing an important gamble and you're a member, you can call Kakerou to oversee your match. Kakerou will arrive instantly with referees and Kakerou is just insane. These guys could take over an entire country if they wanted to. There's nothing you can do against Kakerou so you just have to follow the rules or else you're instantly dead. The story is also super interesting and I want to know what happens next. Baku is rising the ranks and the matches keep getting more and more insane. Seinen elements: (psychology, philosophy, and violence or other themes) The psychology and philosophy is deeply rooted in gambling. It's so stupid but I can't deny that it is somehow convincing. The psychology is obviously shown in the gambling. If you bet your life and you're about to lose, you will definitely have a mental breakdown. Baku is mostly calm and confident, sometimes a little too confident. You can see characters will bluff and lie but Baku can tell what someone is lying about. You can see the best panels and my favorite panels from what I've read so far. Normally I'd think it's just gambling, it's not that deep but these people have their life on the line. ↓↓↓