Hone ga Kusaru made
Until Your Bones Rot

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When I started reading this manga, I couldn't get through first chapter, after I did I dropped it, but I felt like I had to read at least one more. Unfortunately I couldn't find English scans and the only online version I did find was very poorly translated, so reading the second chapter was so hard that I had to drop this manga. A time has passed and I thought about the characters because they felt kinda warm to me so when I was picking a new manga, I decided to finally give it one more chance.
This manga has a really interesting premise, as I ... have mentioned characters also feel real so that combined with great art and interesting twists, gives us a pretty solid manga.

Art (7/10)
I wouldn't say the art work is great, but it is good and it really fits the manga. I don't really have much to say, art is not something that really stands out but still it was good.

Story (8/10)
I found story really interesting, not only the main storyline but the romance one also, as it really reminded me of myself, not the main guy he gets all the girls:(. only thing that I hated was translation, I don't wanna sound mean, but usually the panels would be out of order, I would always get lost and don't get what was happening, and sometimes whole chapters were rearanged. (I don't mean official English scans)

Characters (9/10)
Characters by far are the greatest feat of this manga, they feel extremely real and reletable, one of the things that I really liked, well not really enjoyed, but I was happy that simillar thing that happened to me was in this manga. I as well as Ryu had a crush on two close friend girls, but both of them liked my weird short best friend, (it is a joke he is good looking but short af:)). The only thing that I don't really like about characters are the females.... as not right as it sounds, hear me out, they are not enjoyable, I don't really like how they act and it's not because of my personal feelings, you will get it after reading. Main guy is cool, Akira is great, Ryu was always my favorite, but the author doesn't really care about him and he is seemingly an outcast of the main group in manga so yeah, still great tho.

Enjoyment (8.5/10)
It was pretty easy to read, unfortunately as I've already mentioned, my translation sucked, so it was harder for me to understand the story, but still short and sweet chapters, filled with enjoyable characters made up for everything

Overall (8.5/10)
Don't mind the math, it is just how I feel. There were some things I didn't like, but after reading I wanted more. I know I've talked too much about the characters, but I really liked them, the story was dark and sweet and I really enjoyed every bit of it, the ending was questionable, I wouldn't say bad, but there were some things I didn't like and maybe wanted something different, but it concludes the story well. In conclusion, I would really recommend this manga and I would like to read more from this author.

good read. the characters are mostly great, love how their morals are tested throughout the story, and the fact the mc is also morally corrupt unlike your stereotypical goody-two-shoes mc.
it had so much potential, but i think it fell flat in many areas.
the detective, although a great character, i feel was underutilized in the story. maybe if the manga was longer he would have had a bigger role in the characters' conflict.
my biggest gripe is how one character isnt given enough justice in the end, a revelation that should fill the atmosphere with much more emotion, anger, and despair is instead replaced with empathy and ... a little bit of anger.
what one character did was a bigger deal than it was taken by the others, this character didn't just watch, it was cruel. it should've been a bigger wedge in their test of friendship.
but i digress, i still love how the mystery eventually unravels.

tl;dr: A manga with an okay mystery but with an awful and badly written cast and muddled themes.

This manga involves a group of five friends who committed premediated murder as children and buried the body. Since then, with both their guilt and the threat of being caught hanging equally over all of them, they have remained close friends. However, five years after the murder, the skeleton mysteriously disappears, and they receive a call from an unknown party threating to expose them if they don’t do what he asks. This results in them being put through the ringer of having to commit further crimes which they ... then need to hide from the police, while also doing their best to seek out and discover who the mysterious blackmailer is so that they can deal with him and go back to their normal lives.

There’s only essentially one mystery, though as the manga progresses it does get more complicated. It’s a decent mystery though not a great one. It relies on a lot of really convenient things happening or not happening in order for it to play out the way it does and the leaps in logic are a bit wild at times. At the same time, it’s paced well and keeps up the suspense by constantly throwing in new twists and leaving strong hints that make it feel like something bigger is coming. That combined with the paneling also being oriented towards flowing fast results in a manga that is a page turner and very easy to read through in a single sitting.

However, what felt more important than the mystery itself was the emphasis on the bonds between the group of friends. They’re put through a wringer which severely tests their bonds, but ultimately their bonds remain intact. However, that felt completely undeserved. The manga doesn’t do all that good of a job of showing the strength of their bonds. On the other hand, it does a great job of throwing a constant stream of events at them that should weaken and break said bonds. It spent more time on the bizarre toxic love polygon than it did on their friendship. There’s a lot of stuff that’s immensely unpleasant there and honestly it made me feel worse than any of the stuff directly related to the murders. That after everything went down, they were still close to each other felt incredibly unnatural, which made the ending overall feel somewhat bizarre.

A core theme of the manga is also that murdering people is obviously wrong. However, it does a really bad job of conveying that. It shows the characters struggling with their guilt and feeling pain in different ways. However, it does a terrible job at fleshing out characters and it felt like there were a lot of inconsistencies in motivations and such. The epitome of this comes from how two characters are straight up psychopathic for most of the manga, but suddenly have a change of heart at the end that wasn’t built up to at all. There’s no real character arc, it just happens. In the end it felt like the emotional beats it was going for just didn’t land.

The art was solid enough but not good enough for this to be a manga you’d read for the art. It conveys the story well and does a good job with the fast pacing but is never really all that nice to look at, nor are the gory and violent portions all that horrific.