Admittedly I wanted to drop this manga very early, but for the sake of completion and judgement to potentially hold my original plan to read his other work; Yakedo Shoujo and End Roll Back ... I finished it.
From the start it's a clear immature written mess of a flawed subpar story with its cheap characters and plots.
The original plot of Aito Eyama taking revenge on his bully Aya Kirishima is interesting along with the hidden romance, and better yet afterwards, the twist of it all being a manipulated master plan from one of the supervisors (the secret true boss) Kei Niimura to orchestrate Aito Tsugami to become a "monster" like he did after killing Miyako Irise and everyone in the building after he learned of her being manipulated to order others to bully him unlike his previous thought that she was willingly bullying him.
The master plan itself is decent, albeit feeling unrealistic off the start where teenage Kei Niimura makes everyone believe that the owner of the facility is dead and manipulates children to become "monsters" (psychopaths) because his father and mother were killed... which is irrational and unclear.
There's no indication of exactly what his mindset is as to why he wants to turn others into killers because his parents died. More bizarre is how a teenager can then somehow control the people of the facility, whoever they are to do his bidding, while he plans 10 years of doing Prison Lab again with the right people, along with Aito Tsugami- with the ultimate goal to influence Eyama to kill Aya (Irise's little sister who Tsugami loved (Irise) to then somehow turn Tsugami back into an insane murdering psycho.
Meanwhile, while Aya and Eyama are aware of most of the truth, and the rest learn that Niimura is the real boss, Tsugami's goal was to stop Eyama from killing Aya. As a growth of change and self-forgiveness, while avoiding Eyama to become a murderer like him.
Which is alright, but his obliviousness to never think of taking revenge on the organization instead of ending this game and committing suicide until "Emo" Eyama tells him is stupid.
The slight occasional comedy is idiotic. The nonchalant attitude from the characters is a poor unrealistic contrast to their situation and the overall execution of everything, including the action of fights or arguments was awful.
The females becoming friends while planning to save Aya's friend and escape, everyone clumsily failing to kill Eyama, the character's personalities, Eyama's split personality, etc.- it's all shit.
The characters are the worst.
Seiji Katsumata as the good side against sin and Yoshino Misaki as the bad side of sin from Tsugami to influence Eyama to not murder was intriguing, but they don't seem to have served their purpose well from this flawed story. Miyako's origin of being a psycho by killing her abusive parents is rational, but her personality sucks. Cliche sexy chick who randomly loves the pussy-emo protagonist after they killed her victim together. Her love for him is dumb. Tooru Nagamine's innocent character is bad and dumb in its own way.
As for the romance, it's broken.
Her trauma to manipulate others to bully Eyama for being an easy victim to bully from her trauma as being raped as being "weak" was poorly done.
The fact that she loves him, causes this with the apparent goal for him to "become stronger" so that "he can protect her" because she's the weak one who couldn't defend herself is stupid.
Worse is her attitude towards it all, seemingly forgetting that goal, still being a bitch and never willingly finally revealing that she loves him until others reveal it for her.
His split personality change as an emo was a poorly done cheap rip-off. He especially and her personalities are very flawed in how they act, and the dialogue of this manga is so dumb in attempting to make these dumb characters sound smart. 2/10. |