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So Asura recently added a new webcomic titled Crimson Reset to their collection. It’s pretty great for action. Let me break down why I see a good future for this. Warning for spoilers though the story is fairly predictable so I won’t be spoiling much.

We need to start with the idea behind the story being incredibly cool. The story is pretty obviously an OPMC story. We start with the main character getting killed by some strong church thing. This scene establishes the “enemy” and the power of the enemy in a fairly quick manner giving the reader a very easy way to become invested in the story since there are many successful stories that are about some character trying to escape from a church. This makes the story relatively easy to predict but with a twist that the main character is some kind of special vampire since he had the ability to regress in time so obviously we’re not reading about a normal vampire.

This gives two major interesting points that makes me interested in continuing to read the story which is to see how this vampire survives the world and who this vampire even is. From here, the story begins to show us how our MC will survive in the world through half lies and other mechanics that are introduced to the reader in a rather slick manner. The way the world is breadcrumbed to the reader ensures that there is no info dump but ensures the reader always feels they have an understanding of the motive behind each of the MC’s actions.

By making the reader feel like they can predict and can understand the MC actions, the events that throw these predictions pull the reader in even more as these events aren’t outside what the reader believes is possible but is something the reader did not ever consider as a possibility. By continuing this, the reader is incentivized to keep reading to figure out what is going to happen.

This kind of approach that slowly leads the reader on through the story feels like a great strategy for retaining readership and I’ll probably try to integrate some of this breadcrumbing into my story.

The art is amazing and the translation is surprisingly good this time around. I’ll give it a 7/10. Cool idea, great execution, nothing that new. The story is mostly a mix of excellent aspects of successful stories and is worth checking out.