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From the Red Fog, Vol. 1

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I’m not quite sure what to make of Ruwanda. It’s hard to hate him completely because even though he’s committing horrible acts it’s clear that’s only due to the fact that he’s a child who was raised terribly. I hope he learns that murdering people for fun is bad, but I have a feeling this will be more of a character regression story than a character growth story. I’m not too put off by that though since having the main character be the villain is an idea that’s not done enough. Plus, I find it interesting that he still craves human connection while killing practically everyone who gets close to him. I want to see what the mangaka does with those two conflicting goals of his. To add the fog that has an ID of minecraft:fog_soulsand_valley to the nearest player and assign it the name "DigMinecraft_test6" in Minecraft Education Edition: /fog @p push "minecraft:fog_soulsand_valley""DigMinecraft_test6" A fair distance away, Ruwanda is taken in by another murderous adult, who works for a “Lord Winter.” In the nearby woods, he meets a girl named Makarau who likes hunting and killing small animals. They hit it off, but she must leave for London.

The one adult that Ruwanda meets that seems genuinely compassionate is Will, who runs an orphanage for children who lost their parents during the recent war. Ruwanda doesn’t disabuse Will of the assumption that he too is a war orphan, but things go poorly when the lad murders most of the other orphans for fun. This manga is clearly the immature and pretentious work of an amateur, I struggle to understand why it has been published. From the Red Fog" had a lot of potential, with an intriguing plot and interesting characters. Its main issue, however, is its pacing and character development. With

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First of all, I'm the type of person who like character development. I won't read manga that is "killing for the sake of killing" or "This character already evil since birth". But I see this manga is not like that Ruwanda encounters a few people throughout this volume, but so far the only one who’s stood out to me is Ivan. He’s a boy around the same age as Ruwanda and is the only one who has had the guts to mess with Ruwanda. I love seeing tough characters taken down a notch by characters who are equally full of themselves. I feel like I’ll really come to like their dynamic because I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen so far. The monster seen in the final movie has the same base stats as the humanoids it commands. It is only stronger than them because of its level and advantageous type over the player's preset Pokémon. And then I found out...with the remaining 2 volumes, they just had to start an entirely new arc with only a strenuous connection to the first, introduce several new characters for absolutely no reason, and throw the already shaky characterization of the existing characters out of the window with no explanation. Rwanda said it himself "I live hidden in basement, it seems I never grew most of those feeling". And so the first thing we see is how Rwanda feel something (You can see a glimpse in chapter 1) and you can see more when Rwanda meet May. That's the type of emotion Rwanda never experience and he is scared of it so he run away by planning to kill the source of his feeling and in this case May. It will be more clear in chapter 11 and 19.

After leaving the organization, Ruwanda wanders around in the forest with his thoughts. Language: English Words: 1,075 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 6 Hits: 28 I keep repeating the word "time", but that's because I really feel like that's the main problem here. I know the author wanted to show as much as they could with what time and power they had. However, in trying to show both Rwanda's past and present, while also trying to give attention to other characters, even minor ones, everything ended up feeling rushed, and the pacing was awkward even when it wasn't trying to rush. Had it been a lenghtier manga, there would have been more time to properly develop every plotpoint and character. Maybe we would get to see more of Rwanda's childhood and his time at the hitman organization would've had more of an impact on him. Even the last arc could've been more enjoyable once we actually connected with the new characters, even if it would still have its flaws.And yes, this benefits XCOM and doenst penalizes you that much, you can heal or just do something to dodge its problems. And also that XCOM units are way less durable than what advent has so its not like your soldiers will hang around in low HP for too long, they either get killed or be at HP state where the penalties arent crippling that much. Thats why i play with the quadratic fog, the worse are the injuries, the better and that near-death units will be heavily penalized. Compared to linear scaling where there is slightly larger penalties early on while the near-death state isnt as dramatic as with quadratic scaling.

The name of the director, John Pokénter, is likely a reference to the real world film director John Carpenter. He directed a movie called Funhouse about a killer in an amusement park, similar to the plot of Wanderers in the Park. This manga is not for the faint of heart. Saying it was intense is a complete understatement. I warn you going in: there are no silver linings to be found here and I highly recommend you take heed of any trigger warnings you see for this series. While Will believes that no one is born evil, it’s notable that the murderous children have murderous parents, so there’s some implication that it’s “in the blood.” Having retrieved a certain object, Ruwanda meets a boy named Ivan who is both murderer and thief, who takes him to Lord Winter’s hideout. This turns out to be a den of assassins who work for the lord, with an eye to eventual higher power and control over society. To be honest, there’s no characters here that I am especially interested in following. Ruwanda murders defenseless children for fun, and there’s no antagonist who is less murdery/has limits for me to root for. Lord Winter may be more evil overall, but that just makes me want to have the cops arrest everyone.edgy worldview, I was willing to read through it. I thought that From the Red Fog might be a gorefest with a villain protagonist who outsmarts everyone. Some people here said he doesn't get any consequence. What kind of consequence? Go to prison? Tortured? Tbh I don't think Rwanda need that now. The reason is because he already experience too much bad things in his life. Until chapter 19, nothing is going right for him, even the thing he want the most, he lose it. What someone like Rwanda need is affection and kindness, if he got punishment, he will become worse, not better because he doesn't understand the significance of what he did. Can you imagine if someone suddenly told him he is a murderer and people hate him early in the story? I believe he will think something like, "So what?" But if this type of thing happen later in the story when he understand more about him, other people and experience kindness, it will affect him. If he will get punishment for killing, it will be later in story or at the end of story like Lelouch of Rebellion, Banana Fish, 91 days etc. Originally posted by Cadelanne:I don't know, to me it just make sense that someone (an alien or not) heavily wounded doesn't fight as good as when it's in good shape. Does it favor the player ? I think it does but not THAT much, you still want to kill them asap anyway. And when you have a soldier down to 25% HP it becomes such a burden that you remember it can be crippling for you to. Anyway I'm having enough difficulty in my commander with red fog to know that it doesn't carry this hard.

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