 Today on the channel, a not-so-for-work edition of First Impressions, this time on Succubus and Hitman. Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel, Geo here, and yeah, today we're talking something a little bit different. Now, from time to time, I like to venture into No Man's Land, if you will, when it comes to manga, and get something that's bizarre, bonkers crazy, at least with really good artwork, and such as the case with this book, Succubus and Hitman. Now I gotta warn you, this has a pretty big warning parental advisory sticker on it, or part of the back cover, I should say. This is definitely not for kids, it is rated M for a reason, and we're gonna get into that in a sec. So what the heck is Succubus and Hitman all about? Well it starts with the character of Gammo Shoja. Now this character passed away due to some tragic hardcore events, and he wanted this wish to get vengeance and payback on the people that murdered him, as well as his family. He does get that chance by meeting the character of Amelina, as he's about to pass on, and she happens to be a Succubus from hell, and she wants to get human souls, however they can't directly interact with humans on earth. So she makes this demonic deal with Shoja, you know, we're going to place your soul in the body of a recently deceased young man, and you're gonna come back and work for me as a Hitman, gathering souls. Now Shoja isn't necessarily a bad guy, he's going to use this opportunity to get some intel on the people that murdered him and his family, and feed the Succubus all these evil wicked souls. So yes, he is a Hitman for a supernatural creature, but it's more about sort of a gritty revenge anti-hero type story, where you have Shoja looking all kinds of badass with weapons and hunting these people down. So the Succubus can sort of quench her thirst, if you will. Now I do have to warn you, like I said at the beginning of this video, this is rated M for mature, basically, it is very extremely violent, I should correct myself there. It is really violent, gritty, dark, and not for the faint of heart, there are some tough scenes in here, especially involving cases of essays and r-warning individuals, if you know what I mean. So it does have scenes of that, and I know it can trigger some people, so I'm warning you guys about it. I think it was for like two panels where you see stuff like that, where it's part of the event that led to the heroes or the anti-heroes motivation and reason for being in the plot of this. I don't necessarily mind it as much, because I know what I'm getting myself into, and I can sort of disconnect myself from it, and it won't affect me that much. It's similar to like watching a revenge movie cinema-wise, where you have these characters that really walk the thin line, this moral line of what's appropriate and what's acceptable and what they should be doing in society. They're also trying to retain some of their humanity, and you see Shoja trying to live out this new life as an older teen reconnecting with this new family that he now has, because they thought they were going to lose their oldest son, and technically they did, but they don't know that, so the character comes back, and now he has a younger sister, and she's noticing something strange, something iffy about it, and is asking, Brother, you're not like you were before your accident, and now you have a character that has two lives and has to sort of balance that, while also wanting to seek revenge for, you know, his murder and his family, and I believe the disappearance of his father, which is a main plot point, because he may have been involved with some shady characters that aren't necessarily your standard humans, they might also be involved with demonic forces or stuff like that, so I do appreciate the main character, you know, being sort of an anti-hero, he's not necessarily a degenerate bad guy wanting just to kill everybody for the hell of it, he has a goal, a specific goal in mind, and of course you have, it kind of reminds me of a messed up version of Death Note, because you have a human, and instead of a Shinigami, you have a Succubus, of course there's going to be fan-servicing elements, because that's sort of in the nature of a Succubus itself, however the character of Armelina, she is playful and a tease, but will help the character, she's just excited that Shoja is unlike previous humans that she has worked with, where they cave to their desires and pleasures and all that stuff, and they just see the Succubus for what it is with the whole sexual nature of it, however Shoja is not interested in that, he's interested in that goal that I mentioned earlier, so he's not all up for that, so she finds it amusing and wants to keep working and helping him, now something that I found really cool is that the characters, you know, he'll make a deal and she will assist him with flight or endurance or minor healing while he's dealing out a freaking barrage of bullets against criminals and bad guys and Yakuza and whatever it may be, now the violence I thought was pretty swift, brutal and efficient, there's a lot of shootout scenes where the action is very easy to follow and it's very cinematic in scope and it looks right with the fluid movement of the panning of the guns and all that stuff and the actual gore in violence, it is pretty graphic but I don't I don't think it's too graphic where it's it's disgusting, it's a type of violence that you would see in a hard rated R revenge flick, if you know what I mean, also I should have mentioned this before, Makoto Fukami is the writer for this, you know, it's split, you have a dual creative team here and overall I think the dialogue is pretty fluid and snappy and it's not bogged down by anything so it's a very quick paced read and the characters are pretty interesting and hopefully they do keep evolving, especially the main character, now that he has a new facet in his life, not just because he's a hitman but also because he's now living a secondary life with a new family if you will and if he can fulfill the role of an older brother to the younger sister and stuff like that so it's going to be interesting to see how the story evolves and to see if these characters do make appropriate changes and lastly for my first impressions, the art I thought was pretty freaking excellent, it has that amount of shadowing to make it a greedy manga and great artwork overall from Seigo Tokyo, the character designs are pretty memorable, especially the contrast of Shoja with glasses and he's wearing a black raincoat with the handguns are also black in color and next to him you have Arnauina, this voluptuous succubus with fox ears or cat ears and red hair, it's quite the contrast but it works in the manga itself so it's one of those guilty pleasures I guess that I enjoy stuff like this it's pretty it's pretty freaking wild man again I do want to mention it is a very hard not to say for work manga so do watch out if you're reading this just be aware of what you're getting yourself into but if you don't mind these sorts of things I think you're going to have fun with it and you're going to want to keep reading it's a very fast paced read with great art, fantastic action and a really neat premise of you know getting a second chance and sort of that revenge style story that so many people like when it comes to action cinema so yeah overall those are my first impressions this was like I just said a very quick read and as soon as I was done I was already looking online at on write stuff and vol 2 comes out in late May so I am annoyed that I have to wait so long but I think it's gonna be worth it because yeah it's one of those escapisms yeah I know it's a pretty rough manga with violent sex and other stuff involved but it's pretty action packed and I can sort of just you know shut my brain off and just enjoy an action packed dark story like this how about yourselves have you read Succubus and Hitman let me know in the comments section down below and if you haven't let's see how I can word this what are some of your favorite supernatural themed manga that involve flying demons or succubus or shinigami and stuff like that no death note because that's an easy one something else let me know in the comment section down below so that's about it gang thank you so much for tuning in thank you for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of a weekend geek them I truly do appreciate your support share the video if you like it and of course be sure to hit the notification bell so you know when new videos pop up on your feed I gotta go take care everybody god bless stay safe out there I'll catch you on the next video