Hero Complex

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This is one amazing little one-shot.

Probably Taizan-5's most typical story, still having the great style of conflict and deceit. I can't pinpoint what feels so familiar from this story to their other works, but it does somehow.

I can't really speak about the story itself without spoiling much, but I can tell you that it hit. Living up to expectations is horrifying, a tremendous task that not many people get to appreciate. Siblings, friends, many people pass you, and you see how successful they are, knowing you'll never reach that level, but you don't have to. "Hero Complex" tells the tale of those themes, and ... how achieving greatness isn't the right goal, happiness is something to conform in, not something you can always reach.

Taizan-5 makes tragic stories with the eyes of innocence, and ignorance. This one holds the same quality of art, the faces, the expressions; they can make you feel what the characters are to an uncomfortable degree. Even so, a familiarity is found in each one of their works, freshness, maybe the irony, the touches of humanity in personal problems. Reality is something that hits in this kind of story, in every one of Taizan-5's stories. Nobody escapes from the real world; an alien, amnesia, even Angelina Jolie (I recommend that One-shot immensely, same author) can't pull you away from facing the truth and moving on. The thing is, they frame this story from the very beginning in a reality gut punch. I can see every ounce of improvement since this point, but this one is great too.

This author is one to be followed from beginning to end.