Tengoku ni Ikitakatta Dekisokonai - Reviews

Alt title: The Worthless Girl Who Wanted to Go to Heaven

Tengoku ni Ikitakatta Dekisokonai
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nathandouglasdavis's avatar
Apr 9, 2022

There's a twist within the story involving a letter. And I can genuinely say that I was not expecting that twist to occur, but I can also genuinely say that the story is probably worse off for having been laid out in that way. Instead of being a twist development, the letter thing should've been the very first thing that the author introduced about the story. It would've had the desire for a letter and the arrival of the letter bookending the girl's attempts at being "kind," which I think would've been a much more solid structure to the story. Anyway, the artwork is also not very good. And the message of the story is fine I guess, but it also comes across as kinda preachy in the most out-of-touch type of way. You can't tell somebody with low self-esteem, "just stop having low self-esteem." You can't tell somebody who struggles to love femself, "just start loving yourself." That type of advice kinda misses the point. And the fact that God seems willing to send someone to hell simply for having low self-esteem seems quite extreme, if you think about it.

Yea, honestly, this is one of those stories that gets worse and worse the more I think about it. Plus it's super short and has only the most shallow of characterizations. I don't think this is deserving of any kind of positive score.

1/10 story
2/10 art
1/10 characters
1/10 overall
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