The Legend of Mother Sarah · review
The story follows Sarah and her friend Tseu as they journey through a violent dystopian landscape. There are parts of this manga that are redeeming- a female action main character, Sarah is well-developed and the story includes moments of focusing on the tragic aspects of motherhood in a violent environment. The main downsides are the constant violence (including frequent rape scenes). There are several arcs to the story, but they are all largely the same. Each arc basically involves Sarah looking for her children and encountering military personnel who are violent and morally bereft. Mass violence ensues, Sarah kicks butt, and then moves to the nexttown to continue her search. There's constant fighting, but the reasons for it are barely ever discussed or explored to any degree. It might have been the intention for that to be a sign of the pointlessness of war, but it plays more as poor plot development.