After All, I Became a Crow - Chapter 107

Such a good series. The art, comedy, feels, drama, and action were all so perfectly concocted and balanced, and it kept it up from start to finish without dropping the ball once. Starting with a funny concept is something that’s not the hardest thing in the world to do(the gag isekai reincarnations and dating sim-game genre are getting pretty saturated), but taking that ironic concept and evolving it into an unironically amazing story takes skill, and on top of that one thing I greatly admire in this series is it never forces the reader to suspend their disbelief at plot points, and it doesn’t ruin your immersion in the story despite having so many jokes and gags, which many other series while they might be able to come up with jokes or interesting plot points, they often fail to properly set-up or order those ideas which detracts greatly from their impact on the reader and puts bumps that jerk the reader back into bad pacing or timing.

Especially in shoujo/drama/romance based medieval stories, when there’s not a lot of action or intense fight scenes, the detail oriented art style of grandiose architecture and intricately woven dresses really take priority, and while I’m sure I’ve already praised the art in a previous comment, but I’ll do it again because it’s just that good. Not only is there so much time and skill drawn into these pages, but also the intent that goes behind them is also very impactful with their choice of coloring to match the atmosphere. While it seems obvious that light is good and dark is evil, this story followed that rule to a T, and while the reader might not always be conscious of it, all of their amazing drawn in auras, sparkles, effects, and glows really helped set the mood whenever there were the brilliant blue hues of Croban rocks, Karamut’s golden fur and shine, a mixture of a brilliant cosmic blue/purple gradient with a starry sky on top of a mixture of the previous blue and gold during Reinelle’s transformation into the goddess, and the murky purples and blacks whenever demons and curses were on screen and when Duke Howard or that Buffalo guy were scheming. While all of their amazing effects were brilliantly drawn, they also inversely knew exactly when put in as little effort as possible on some panels to give that extra impact on the punchline of some gags when the the noble character wearing thousands of dollars of jewels and fancy clothes is dissolved into a squiggly amorphous doodle that took 20 seconds to illustrate. And I honestly need a to make folder of just screenshots of Reinelle reaction pictures, there’s an immeasurable untapped source of meme potential just waiting to be used.

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