An interesting fantasy manga that I read recently which have some potential yet glaring flaw at the same time. Ragna Crimson is a story of a Dragon Slayer who started as untalented individual who becomes suddenly powerful after his future self transfer his special power in order to prevent the same tragedy from happening again. In this setting the Dragons are actively destroying humanity but possess peculiar weakness against sunlight and Ice magic weapon. At the first glance, Ragna Crimson remind me of Ubel Blatt but in terms of presentation style it is inspired after the popular Chainsawman series.
As an action manga, Ragna Crimson is quite good one but it appears lacking in proper direction after a good start evidently by mixing Sci-fi and High Fantasy genre. The manga tone also lacking in consistency by quickly shifting between grimdark and at times downright silly yet somehow didn't utilize the momentum to the fullest like Chainsawman did with the body counts. Ragna Crimson did have some good main characters especially the Silverware princess which hopefully have her ship sailing with the main protagonist.
So far Ragna Crimson manga ended in somewhat high note with the first arc, but the mangaka need to have a proper vision for the series or else it will just end up as wasted potential and remembered as discount Chainsawman. Perhaps the upcoming anime adaptation could bring the hype up for this series.
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