Hey guys what is up welcome back to my blog I’m so thankful that you guys took the time out of your day to read my blog post. Hope you all are safe and healthy. This one really took a lot out of me and I still wasn’t really sure how I felt about it because the best I could do was 1 volume a day somedays even less and it took me sitting down and processing it all to actually piece together parts of what I think happened.
The story follows Kano Hiroshi in an alternate-reality Japan which is engaged in a war and is going through a recession. This Japan not being able to keep prisons running decides to create a Vengence Act which allows the families of victims to arrange hits on criminals. This leads to Vengeance Proxy Enforcer agencies being created to supply hitmen for hire to kill criminals. Working for one such agency we follow Kano in a story that is more of a commentary on the world and its people than anything else.
The characters in this manga are all morally grey which means that they are put into situations where they often choose the lesser of two evils and that doesn’t make you hate the characters however it will make you analyze them by being a little detached. Kano Hiroshi is our mentally ill protagonist, his mental state is revealed throughout the story and serves to become the main point of the story once we know him enough. However, his ex-military background makes this seemingly docile man a cold killer and that is just a skin-deep understanding of him. Higuchi is a character who is the most mysterious in the entire series, she shows a lot of things that when discussed spoil the story. Mizoguchi is another interesting character who has a predator and prey mindset in real life believing himself to be the predator and his story itself reflects that mindset. His breakdown when he faces things he doesn’t understand shows a very human side of him and a mirror to the audience. There are more characters since all the characters get decent backstories however talking about any of them just ruins the experience of the manga.
The manga in two words is (forgive my language) fucked up. It has gore, nudity all sorts of things, and at the very start it’s so confusing that you will definitely think about dropping it however the messed up world and its political situation makes for an interesting plot that builds up highly tense situations and touches on morality all the time. The manga shows survivor’s guilt, escapism, the morality of punishing criminals with death when they have repented, childhood trauma, its effects on relationships, and a lot more things. The manga touches on lots of themes and that is the strong point of this manga because along with being confusing the manga also has bad art and pacing that feels off almost all the time, it feels like a story that you read all at once.
A very basic understanding of Freesia would tell people that it talks about dealing with loss and whether it is right to punish a victim after they’ve been in society and started to turn a new leaf and whether it is wrong to leave a criminal into the world if they aren’t reformed but have served a specific number of years. However this is again a skin deep understanding, a deeper analysis of the manga tells that in the end the story speaks of the search for “something” in life, a purpose and the lies that the people of the world tell themselves to live comfortably. The manga shines a mirror onto the audience itself towards the end and asks the question on whether or not they could see themselves in the sins any of the characters.
82 chapters makes Freesia a short read but that in no way means that it is a light read because Freesia is a manga that is set in a messed up world touches on topics that might be trauma triggering for many people and also some people might just genuinely not find it interesting at all. So while I very much like what I think was the overall message of the manga I think that it sits at a 6/10.
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