There are many stories about all demographics of comics, anime and light novels. In most cases, the protagonist of the story is desperate to have a chance to go back and solve the mistake or correct the problem, and many others have nostalgic ideas that many others believe life would be better in high school. But for the protagonist Juzo Ogami Kill Bluethis is not the case. He didn’t need to relive his life, he had no interest in the young girl in love with him, and wanted to return to his nearly forty-year-old body. It’s not necessarily a difference that plot tends to be, but rather enough to help the series stand out.
Juzo may not be the happiest middle-aged man in the world, but he is comfortable. Accepted by the highly suspicious organization he worked as a child, he never went to middle school and dropped out of school to be an assassin after finishing elementary school. He seems to have no regrets in this regard, because he still lives a decent life for himself. He even got married, having a daughter before a friendly divorce, and although he did wish he was a better father, he was still a friend of his ex-wife. But once he returned to his young body, having a daughter in middle school shapes his perception of his classmates: for him, they are all his daughter’s age. He is a few of these friends, but the plot avoids any romantic entanglement in these two volumes. Instead, his interactions seem to be to help him realize that the child is still human, which may further interact with his daughter, something that he is not completely comfortable with.
Another unpredictable side effect of his return to Thirteen was that he realized he real Like to study. Honestly, watching this man kill more people than he can count, is picky in world history or struggling with algebra or shocked by the existence of negative numbers. Juzo doesn’t make friends or girlfriends at school; he’s there studythat’s because he found himself enjoying it. His return may not have the same goals as many brethren, but he still corrects this by being satisfied with his education.
But, of course, the goal he stated was to get close to Noren Mitsuoka, the daughter of the pharmaceutical group, which developed WASP, whose venom changed Juzo’s age. Noren’s situation is one of the strongest elements in the two volumes, not because of her relationship with Juzo, but because of the creator tadatoshi fujimaki (of Kuroko’s basketball Fame) does a great job of understanding and describing the fears and annoyingness of being an attractive girl. As the daughter of a rich man, she has no secret of the fact that her ultimate husband will inherit his company, and Noren is constantly pursued by men and boys of all ages. Her father often introduces her to adult men as a potential husband and she gets hit whenever she is not at home, and the boys at school keep asking her. Her only defense is to hate men, and while Fujiki does try to mitigate the situation by making her determined to take over the uncle’s ramen shop rather than succumb to her father’s will, he also takes Noren’s feelings and situation seriously. In volume one, she tells Juzo: “My parents sometimes introduce me to men they think are good prospects for marriage…even if I’m still in elementary school, they try to set me like an adult. Almost like a woman I’m already an adult.” In her mind, rebellion and allies with her uncle were her only way to get a foothold and show her, beyond her parents’ money and appearance. It’s a running theme throughout the volume, and while the story becomes more detailed, it’s still a little lowered, but it’s still an important acknowledgement and key part of Noren’s character.
The increasing silly decline is not a bad thing in itself, but it does feel like Fujiki isn’t sure where he wants the story to go. When another assassin joins the cast (it’s middle school but gets stuck with anxiety that pacifiers can calm), then a self-important sportsmania, and the plot feels a little lost despite the last page of Volume 2 bringing it back. The art is a little inconsistent, especially when the head fits to the body, but the movements are dynamic, which helps. To the second volume, Kill Blue Although it still has time to balance itself, it is not as good as it started. It’s fun and has some solid story beats, but it seems to have lost momentum, which is worrying.
