人形の国 9

it's pretty clear the cancel order for this series was given as the entire tone is altered and everything rush-rushed to wrap everything up in the last few issues. after the measured, slow pace of the previous 50 chapters, here clarity, structure and atmosphere are shanghaied and ‘disappeared' as multiple main characters (of which there weren't that many to begin with) are killed off in rapid succession with barely a comment, fights that would take up half a chapter previously are now not even depicted, with just a one-panel aftermath scene or someone summarizing the result in a single sentence, and The Final Showdown occurring in the span of a few pages and then The End right after... it's jarring, cheap, amateurish and disappointing for a storyline i was mostly enjoying - until this happened. : /