#which is hilarious because if you want horror with christian thematic fuckery shounen and seinen are ripe with it

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@naoreco DUDE I KNOW... I also can't imagine copying off of ons and not taking mikayuu when that's the one thing that made most fans have any kind of interest in it in the first place, but, yknow, obviously I'm very biased on that

Imo all the characters are way less complex than what ons accomplishes within s1, which is... yeah. Ons is really not winning any awards for its character writing (and while it admittedly has had some moments/details/concepts I love, those aren't executed well most of the time either)

The minor characters definitely have it the worst though. At least the squad kids in ons early on have likable personalities and backstories and we have some idea of what motivates them and their group dynamic; for the most part, we never learn much of anything about who the other kids in The Watch really are or where they came from, let alone attempting to give them personal struggles. It felt like they were given labels for race and gender/sexuality and a visual description to show "how cool it is that they're queer/poc" (disclaimer: I am saying this as a gay trans mixed guy) and about 1 personality trait. I think if the author had used half of the time spent describing gore to flesh out the characters more, it would've improved the depth of the story a lot

This is by far not the first time an English work has copied a Japanese work and was praised for originality, but "gay trans YA novel rips off mediocre gay vampire shounen" has to be conceptually the funniest and yet there still seem to be 0 google results about it