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Shingetsutan Tsukihime: Have you ever had to atone for your mistakes? Have you ever hurt someone with no real reason?
Shiki Tohno has to atone for a sin unlike any other, he brutally murdered a stranger with no reason or logic, and when the person he "killed" returns to settle things, his life will change forever.

So... I might have developed a bit of an unhealthy obsession with Tsukihime in the past few months, I've always enjoyed Type-Moon works, and their debut Visual Novel somehow managed to hit me in all the right spots.
So I've really, really been into all of it's media.
I can stop whenever I want to.
Totally.
Maybe...
Anyways, let's leave that up for the shrink.

Shingetsutan Tsukihime is the manga adaptation... of the anime adaptation... and anime so hated by the fandom that people like to pretend it never happened.
So this sounds like an inevitable trainwreck.

But... it's not, in fact it's probably the best way to experience the story for most casual readers. How?
Simple, the anime actually had great ideas on how to adapt the story, and it showed a lot of care and love, it just was burdened with awful production values.

The manga mostly focuses on Arcueid's route adding elements from Ciel's and Akiha's, which results in a more constant pace, more depth and a healthy does of extra characterization for the main antagonist, which is without a doubt the main strenght of the work, as it creates a stronger narrative overall.

The art adapts the world very well, the combat is breathtaking, the characterization is spot on, the action is superb and full of nods to the novel and fighting games.

Is it flawless? No, there are a few key concepts I wish had been expanded on.
Is it a 100% accurate adaptation? Heck no.
But it never aimed at that, nor does it need to, it's really good as as a standalone manga, and it made relive many feels almost like the first time.