Love Bullet

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After reading three chapters of this manga, I decided to drop it right there and then.

If you want to read about modern cupids who engage in frequent gunfights with each either to arbitrarily decide the love partners of other people, you have come to right place, or did you? I believe the previous sentence summarizes the show pretty well. As matter of fact, it doesn't do it enough justice. Why guns? Why would the cupids shoot at each other as if it was just a normal Tuesday? Why this and that... A lot of things just does not make sense in this manga and ... maybe it will get explained down the road, but this was not even the worst part about the story.

For one, the guns are one of the big selling points of this manga. I am not a particular fan of this genre of things, but the authors introduces these gun fights in the most anticlimatic of ways possible. Small disagreement over the cupids' target? Guess we have to shoot it out to sort the matters out. Oh and what happens if your stray bullet hits a random person in the background (because yes, it is part of the mechanics)? Too bad for them, not my business and they can go screw themselves. The author does try to address this point, but if you decide to read it and find out his solution for the problem, maybe you will be thinking the same as me: what a lazy way to address a fundamental problem in your manga.

Characters
The 4 main cupids that form the team of this manga are not yet introduced properly in the manga, but with how little we know about them, I can already say I am not gonna like them. There is that one rowdy, over energetic girl that causes 90% of the fights, constantly overstepping her boundaries and acting as a sort of bully. Worst part, she gets treated as a fellow teammate by the other cupids, which makes it difficult for me to swallow. The MC's personality is still not hashed out as of yet, but she is meek and rather cowardish, and at the same time can make some pretty level-headed choices. If we were stricting evaluating the manga based on the MC, I would actually give it a decent score of 8. Too bad the side characters ruins the dynamics for me.

Plot
The plot is straight up an attempt by the author to gut the readers deep in the heart, right of the bat, as he is still making the introductions. The crueling and heart wrenching developments are not up my valley in the first place, and if you combine those with the spontaneuos and up beat gun fights that happen for no good reason, it completedly destroys its significance to me as a reader.

Overall, a 2 out of 10.