Reviews for Kaedegami

At first glance, the manga presents an ordinary premise, but it is skillfully directed by the author, making this first chapter interesting and with a good reading flow, even though it has 50 pages. The artwork is good, occasionally a bit confusing, but the two main characters have solid designs, and their interactions make them engaging. Judging by this first chapter alone, it is not an exceptional work, but it has the potential to offer a dynamic and enjoyable read. Based on the premise presented, it probably won’t be a very long manga, but that could change if it builds a strong fanbase (which isvery likely, considering it already has 90k views on MangaPlus).

Kaedegami follows our protagonist, Kou, and his demonic companion Chiyou as they traverse through a historical East Asian setting in search for missing artifacts to restore Chiyou to full power. To put it bluntly, this story does nothing new with the fetch-quest battle-shonen formula, but it doesn’t really need to. The premise is strong, albeit clichéd, and has solid potential to flesh out an engaging narrative; it’s been a fun ride so far. Kaedegami’s art and paneling is simple yet charismatic, with easy-to-follow action sequences that make nice use of dynamic poses and varied strokework to sell the combat and setting. The same can also besaid for the character designs thus far, simple and effective, though I find Harukawa’s outfit designs particularly compelling. It’s a bit of a shame then that characters like Chiyou are almost constantly played and posed for cheap sex appeal, especially this early on into the manga’s lifespan.

The elements that give me pause are the relatively flat cast of characters. Kou and Chiyou’s dynamic is well-established and allows for both fun and heartfelt moments (though it’s strange that the story can’t really decide between their relationship being just familial or potentially romantic, which can sour their gags involving physical affection). The problem is that they’ve yet to progress past the tropes that define them, but that can change with more time. As far as villains go, it’s pretty much the same story with its mix of monsters, demons, and human antagonists, but I think it’s really interesting how early the narrative decides to introduce its “final boss” and their motivations. While I wouldn’t say I’m hooked on this manga yet, I am curious to see what direction Nüba's character takes moving forward. We’re only 10 chapters deep, so there’s certainly a lot left to be said.

Simple, honest, and just a little rough on the edges, Kaedegami is a fun time. Thanks for reading! ✧∘*

Five chapters is a little too early to be dropping this, but I kinda’ stopped caring about it on a week-to-week basis pretty quickly. I’m not sure what the power system— if any at all, is. Fights kinda’ end as quickly as they start. But take this with a grain of salt, the manga could become the best thing since sliced bread in the future chapters. I just know that for myself, I don’t really care about the characters, the journey, the fights, and Harukawa’s art style— which isn’t bad, but it doesn’t really emit any particular energy. Everything here is just standard.

Another manga taken too soon, it had decent potential. The character dynamics were fun to read, very sweet and adorable but not overly silly, especially not during serious moments. Great art and a compelling premise, somewhat similar to dororo, though to be honest the "power" system here wasn't set up all that well. However I did find the relationship between the "villain" and chiyou interesting, as mentioned in the final chapter it was sort of a script flip, I would've loved to see how the author expanded on this later on, maybe by returning the original "roles" to the characters by the end of thestory... If you get what I mean.

Such a shame, just as it was starting to find it's footing story wise it gets cut short. If SJ had some patience the manga would've naturally been wrapped up in under 100 chapters... Worth the read though. Goodluck kou, chiyou & goodbye.

Oh, it's amazing how many people are praising this series.... First of all, this is the most boring and poorly done piece of garbage I've read in a while, to the point where I forgot everything the instant I finished reading it. The story and characters are something I've seen a million times before, with no creativity or novelty worthy of any praise whatsoever. But that's not the biggest problem. Since I've seen many people praising its art and design (which they rarely talk about much else, because there's nothing to mention), first of all, this manga is a good example of "beautiful pictures" but lackingthe proper elements to be a good manga. Okay, I'll mainly complain from an artistic perspective. Of course, the overall art isn't bad, but what's bad is how to make those beautiful arts into "something readable." Yes, this terrible manga has art that is incredibly difficult to read, follow, and distinguish between things. Of course, the characters are also difficult to tell apart because they all look alike in terms of design. And another thing that makes it difficult to follow is the terrible composition and panel layout. It's like you take food from a 5-star hotel, mix it all together in a bucket, and pour it for me to eat. My eyes hurt every time I have to read each page.

All of this, your "good art, good design, good characters" is absolutely shit. This manga is godawful and only low-IQ gooners would defend it because they can't stand to see beautiful female characters but they can't touch them IRL because they're fiction

My review is marked preliminary but the series ended today. MAL just hasn't marked it as over yet. I really liked Kaedegami and I wish we'd at least gotten a couple more chapters out of it but it was a decent ending. I liked the characters and I liked the premise. I liked the setting and I liked how that lent to creativity in the antagonists. However, the writing was indeed weak and it had trouble getting itself off the ground with the story. Just as things felt like they were improving, it was too little too late unfortunately. That said, the reason I can'tmark this as recommended is because the story was clearly paced to be much larger than it became and so the ending of course is rushed. It's worth poking about if you want to think about craft and how to avoid similar flaws. Other than that, it's another Jump series that could have been, which seems to be the 2025 theme with almost all the new series so far.

I dropped this manga after 9.5 chapters, so the story may yet change. The art style is pretty and character designs range from perfectly fine to interesting and unique. Chiyou's design for instance is very appealing, and I can't think of any other manga character that wears such a head accessory. However, the male gaze looms large over any women characters' designs, and so far their writing as well. This can also be seen in Chiyou's character design and writing. Her cleavage is super low and her bodysuit barely leaves anything to the imagination. This sex appeal would be fine if it was relevant to herpersonality but she barely has one. And Kou is even worse in that aspect, although this might be less of a problem if you like imagining yourself as the protagonist of the story. Having not much of a personality makes it easier to do that.

I found the chapter flow and especially fight scene choreography confusing at times. I feel like the author is still learning how to best choose what to put in which panels. Which is fine, I wouldn't be able to do any better. But it is something to note.

I was very disappointed by the author's decision to make the two main characters toe the line between family and lovers without choosing a side. It implies incest, which you'll have to be comfortable with to enjoy this manga.

All these reasons eventually made me decide to give up on this manga.