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Review: BLACK TORCH 1

BLACK TORCH 1 BLACK TORCH 1 by Tsuyoshi Takaki
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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To sum up this series: It’s a mediocre story that we’ve already seen hundreds of times before, but its saving grace is its extremely appealing art style. The ONLY reason I didn’t drop this series after the first chapter or two was because the art kept pulling me back. It’s just so so so nice to look at… Also the main character is really hot, okay?!

The story is the regular: Teenager who’s part of a fancy-pants family who’s had a bit of fighting training suddenly gets caught up in some goofs and realizes the world is a bit more complicated and magical than they had previously anticipated. There’s really not much else to this series. There’s an evil cat, the really bitchy tsundere, the rival who’s a condescending dickhead who has short hair and wears glasses, and the dimwitted main character who is also half demon so he doesn’t fit in with the demons or the humans. Also known as every MC ever.

I was really surprised when I saw that they were releasing the first volume so soon and after only four chapters have been serialized, and that the volume only has three chapters in it. I've seen volumes of monthly series (which Black Torch is) contain only four chapters before, which makes sense since the chapters are longer since it's monthly, but I've never seen a publisher dare to print only three chapters in a volume! There is absolutely nothing striking or stand-out about this series yet that could possibly make anyone want to continue reading and buy a whole other volume. You’d think that by the first volume they would have done something interesting; But no, not really. All I can say now is that I hope that something interesting, new, or unique will happen soon that will actually distinguish this series from all of its shonen predecessors.

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