r/horrormanga

By now, I have only watched the anime. And I'm quite surprised how cruel D was in the manga, compared to anime. For context, I ADORED D after watching the anime. But now I have mixed feelings. In the anime, he was rather just - despite the cruelty, he never killed anyone directly and had displayed sympathy and gentleness towards those in grief. Yes he knew they're likely gonna screw up and he'll punish them with terrible fate via his pets. But that's vastly different than seeing D keeping literal, this time HUMAN, emaciated children in a dark room, wanting to take a spoiled child there in a form of punishment (yes the child did wrong but what on earth did he mean with giving her away for HUMAN EXPERIMENTS if no one will want to adopt her?!). I always thought he hates humans because of how disgustingly vile they seem to him, but then, he says human loyality is something he will never understand?? At that moment I was like pick a side bro 😭 Also yeah, usually those were animals that looked like people, but this time, ACTUAL CHILDREN?? I was like aw hell nah. Did I somehow misunderstood anything? Also may someone help me understand - did he kill a pregnant woman in the 1st chapter? That was crazy af. Call me stupid but I was a bit confused later, with the suspect getting caught and being revealed as some trans woman (who the cop, in the English version called the fucking T SLUR?! Ok that caught me off guard...). So... Um did D do this or nah? Because that was something that turned up the level of cruelty for me as well. It was always his pets that delivered the doom, not him killing people directly. Ah, and the cannibal cook chapter. I'll be nitpicky, but why on earth was D so fucking stupid to let the creature devour him?? 😭 That didn't make much sense to me. Romance is romance, but eh... I was quite disappointed with the manga by that time l guess that I had a negative view on everything by default. Maybe it's my fault. That would be ... It. I know I sound really stupid by saying this, but I just got kinda disappointed. I really loved the morally complicated, Fae-like (in the moral sense) D and despite his hatred for humans that I knew about, I saw him as more nuanced than just outright evil. And I guess it's just not what I expected. Feel free to disagree with me. Also I was reading in an environment where I could hardly concentrate or hear my own thoughts - it was so loud that when I was reading it I had to really force myself to focus on the words I'm seeing on the paper. Please be civilised in the comments, I don't want to offend anyone. Also, um, if my sentences don't make much sense or there are any grammatical errors - English is not my first language so ... Yeah. It is sometimes hard to put my thoughts into written word.