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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Manga Review: Red Riding Hood and the Big Sad Wolf!, Volume 1, by Hachoujou Arata


Rating (Out of 5): ~2.5
Publisher: Seven Seas
Release Date: 2017
Volumes: 2.
Spoilers?: No.
Volume: 2.

Goodreads Synopsis:

A kind-hearted wolf's life is turned upside down when he encounters Red Riding Hood, a gleeful pyromaniac who burns his house down and then falls in love with him.

Review:

I had rather big hopes for this series. It sounded so good. And it had such potential.
We meet the sad wolf first, as red riding hood is burning down his house. This was awful of her, and then we learn that she's a cruel sadist. She's pissed off some hunters, who are mimics of each other, and quite awful at their one job. We also meet a crow and rabbit later in the volume.
I really like the idea of this, the role reversal of little red and the wolf. And even learning that she was a sadist didn't bother me. But then the volume just turned into stupid jokes, and picking on the wolf for the fun of it. It's just random harassment, and episodic chapters, when I expected something completely different.
By the end of the volume, I just wasn't really caring anymore. I'm disappointed.

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