I am Cem Demirci, Sipahi of Thessaloniki, and I have been told I must write you this… email. Apparently you people (with your electric lights and soft beds) need someone to explain why your manga is philosophically worthless.
How you choose weakness when you could choose truth baffles me.
Your manga is full of weeping villains with “tragic backstories.” Pathetic. In Blood Tax, evil is real: Cardinal Cesarini’s creatures lure children into Serbian forests with sorcery and tears the Veil between Seen and Unseen. He does not need your sympathy. He needs his throat opened.
You think “transcendence” means a character feeling sad on a mountain? Wrong. Blood Tax shows you divine law: metaphysics that exist whether you comprehend them or not. Reality has structure. Violate it, and reality collapses. The Fae Harvesters prove this. Ask the families in Senje what happens when cosmic order breaks.
Sacrifice in manga is theatrical weeping. In Blood Tax, sacrifice means submission to cosmic order. Tahsin walks blindfolded into a cave of monsters because metaphysics demand it. The universe does not care if he feels heroic.
Your tournaments and friendships bore me to violence. In Blood Tax, the stakes are the fabric of existence itself. Fail, and the Veil shatters. Succeed, and perhaps…perhaps…you delay annihilation.
I would not waste breath on weaklings, but this story has earned my respect. Barely. If you remain a coward after reading this, you deserve what finds you.
Click here and get the Blood Tax arc before something tears through the Veil and makes you regret your cowardice: https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
-Cem Demirci
Sipahi Warrior
Killer of Transylvanian Bannerets
Annoyed
P.S. If you’ve never met Cem before: he’s one of the main characters in the Brotherhood of the Wolf dark-fantasy series. Blood Taxis your entry point into his world… and the Veil that barely holds it together.