Manga Thoughts: Limit volume 1

Vertical may have become one of the major reasons why I'm still reading manga instead of just imitating others and fulminating about how I can't trust the publishers over here but perhaps adding the stuff they're putting out wouldn't be worth reading any way. With that awareness, even though I have the feeling I'm now buying manga as well as anime faster than I can get through it, I picked up the first volume of a new series from them not too long ago.

While I'd heard about various "disaster manga," I'd never quite got started on them until Limit. Instead of a "post-apocalyptic" story, it seems more in the subgenre of "separated from society, things start going badly between people..." There did seem to be one surprise for me in that I'd imagined the main character on the front cover to be in something of a "neutral position" at most before things started going wrong and the downtrodden started taking a disturbing revenge; instead, she was one of the "in crowd."

As things progressed, I suppose I did start wondering a bit if the translation was getting a bit stiff or overwritten for the characters as they'd been established earlier. Still, things left off with enough of a cliffhanger that I suppose I'll be continuing the series.