>>237182164It was pretty good.
I really enjoyed the adventures that the cast took and the unique characters and set-pieces that they ran into and played with.
Kuro, Sen, and the Kitties were all fun and well rounded. With satisfying blends of melancholy and happiness to their stories.
The art was excellently atmospheric and emotional and the way bits and pieces of the story and cast were unrolled was very well done.
I found most of the Witch plot and everything with Plague to be a drag however.
Right up until the end we were left wondering how Kuro was going to deal with the Witch, and I felt that the author didn't know either. The remembering the names of the women inside answer didn't really feel that satisfying in that it wasn't like the cast investigated the Witch and figured everything out that way. Instead coincidences and instant identification stood in its place. While coincidences that border on fate are fitting for the series, they're not as enjoyable as actual investigation and deduction, which themselves could have worked in said coincidences.
Plague as a 'character' felt mostly pointless. It didn't do much of anything that the idea of dark magic itself as an personified force could have done instead and kept things far simpler. It just made things more complicated in a manner that it didn't even seem like the cast was cognizant of or cared about.
The large hiatuses were pretty obvious while reading as the style of writing significantly shifted and so did the characters' personalities some of the time.
It was solid, but had some trouble at the end mostly I think I'd say.
