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“A manga creator's soul is crushed by the industry's ruthless focus on sales over art.”
Downfall
零落
7.25
5,983 rank · 29,458 readers · 268 favorites
Seinen
Drama
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Synopsis
A manga creator's soul is crushed by the industry's ruthless focus on sales over art.
Selling copies is the only thing that matters. So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up, your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel reality of the industry and nothing seems to fill the sucking void inside you... (Source: VIZ Media)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 16 sampled reviews
7.6
/10
What 16 readers settled on.
86%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.80
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.80 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.8 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 4.5
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Score over time
↑ 1.63
Running avg · Oct 2017 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “The depressing reality of a middle aged manga artist. Vulgar, intimate, rough. Everything in his life is going wrong, the only hope he finds is in young prostitutes. It is just a short glimpse into...”
- 7 “I LIKED THE MANGA!! It was a nice look at the gritty side of the manga industry and the entertainment industry as a whole. The story-telling is very good, despite being more introspective and...”
- 9 “Well, I can see why Asano did this, and I know that this won't be the newers cup of tea certainly. reiraku is a serious introspective on a mangaka's mature life on the real terms, not the "bakuman...”
Verbosity
Short · 63%
Medium · 19%
Long · 19%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 8 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 04m approx
- Published Mar 2017 – Jul 2017
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M42540 catalog