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This would've been a weak 2.5 but that ending was so bad it's a straight 2. Anne Freaks has gone from thriller action to cop drama and now into tragedy in the final volume. Anne Freaks juggles its characters fine enough through its shaky changes in directions. I think it was best as a cop drama which the mangaka seemed to agree with as well seeing as they made many more after this.
The first half focuses on the climax and fallout from the cultist HQ situation and I felt the handling of this was not great. By jumping forward and intermittently flashing back it extended it instead of allowing it to be this big momentous climax. And it's broken up by catching up on each of the characters and it's just sorta lame making the climax feel even more dragged out and like it's there to keep you going through the boring parts the author wrote that followed it.
The second half is quite bad. It goes for this open-ended Bonnie and Clyde tragedy. But it just makes the duo really unlikable, doubles down on the weak Yuri and Anna romance, and makes Yuri this just one-note character who follows Anna blindly even though previously he had wavered occasionally giving him some dimensionality now he's just completely her puppy dog. Oh, and they kill the childcare cop who was one of the best characters. So, yeah. Kinda not good. Which is sorta this whole manga's deal where I just didn't care for much of it even as the writing improved and they found something of a groove in a cop drama thriller.
The first half focuses on the climax and fallout from the cultist HQ situation and I felt the handling of this was not great. By jumping forward and intermittently flashing back it extended it instead of allowing it to be this big momentous climax. And it's broken up by catching up on each of the characters and it's just sorta lame making the climax feel even more dragged out and like it's there to keep you going through the boring parts the author wrote that followed it.
The second half is quite bad. It goes for this open-ended Bonnie and Clyde tragedy. But it just makes the duo really unlikable, doubles down on the weak Yuri and Anna romance, and makes Yuri this just one-note character who follows Anna blindly even though previously he had wavered occasionally giving him some dimensionality now he's just completely her puppy dog. Oh, and they kill the childcare cop who was one of the best characters. So, yeah. Kinda not good. Which is sorta this whole manga's deal where I just didn't care for much of it even as the writing improved and they found something of a groove in a cop drama thriller.
