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Every mystery novel fan knows about Agatha Christie. If you are a hardcore fan, you would even know about how her quality of writing started declining until her last book was published, which of course, was written by her 40 years ago.

Anyways I felt the same feeling of reading that book after reading tons of mystery manga. To be honest, it's hard to find a good mystery manga as all manga writers tend to use supernatural elements more, but this one is a unique story.

I don't understand why this manga is so underrated here in MAL, but let me explain everything about why people must ... have had a bad opinion on such a beautiful manga.

The story starts off with our Main character Haruno who is a specialist cleaner who cleans dead-body and the stains remaining. It might be normal death, suicides, or murders. Suddenly there are a series of serial murders being all over his place, and our Mc's close associates become the victim. So our guy starts investigating on his own, he vows to find the killer in the name of justice, he is even prepared to kill him if necessary.

You see, almost all characters are flawed, but the main essence of the manga has brought out the feeling of reading a mystery thriller novel like that of famous authors. It also has portrayed the concept of suicide, the amount of trauma that gives to the people who are left behind due to it. Like to what extent people can stoop to if they have experienced such trauma of seeing their loved ones die. The main flaw in this story is that, it has vast amount of cast and less character development and also a new development in the murder case every chapter and tons of people dying like a joke. I understand the frustration but everything is explained at the end about the reason why things happen that way.

At the end of the day, this is one of awesome manga, which kept me on edge even though I partly knew the spoilers. So don't be bothered by the ratings here, just go and read it, I am sure you won't regret the time spent to read.

peace

The story revolves around the core concepts of Life, death and how death of an individual not only makes a physical absence in space & time but also how it creates an emotional void in the lives of people that are affected by it.

Story -
The story is between mediocre and good. It does a fairly decent job in showing how death affects different people in different ways. As the story progresses it might get confusing for some so you have to pay attention when you read and you have to really catch certain hints that the author throws in order for the ending to ... make sense.

Art -
I usually don't care much about the art because every artist has their own style but the faces of the characters in this manga were very similar. It was very confusing.

Character -
There are so many characters in this story, some are very important and some are totally unnecessary. You won't see any major character development in this story.

Enjoyment -
It does a good job to keep you entertained for a while. It's not lengthy at all so you can read the entire thing in a day or over the weekend. It can be a good substitute for a short mystery novel. It's not crazy good but it's not boring either.

Overall ( S P O I L E R S I N C L U D E D ) -

Now this is how I see it, the triplets were not triplets but in fact the same person. I don't understand how some people don't get this detail but it's pretty clear.
Tachibana was an immortal being. Every time he died, he resurrected. If I remember correctly he mentions that he even tried to take his own life but it didn't work and that this was an endless cycle for him. He also mentions that it has gotten to the point where any physical misfortune is treated as a mere cold. I think this is the reason why he works in the cleaning industry so that he understands death a little more as he himself is immortal.

He meets people like Taji, Omi Katou and Yanazame and gets attached to everyone at AUN. When Taji introduces Masato to Tachibana, Masato freaks out. Masato asks him about tachibana's "dreams" but Tachibana indirectly tells him to forget about the whole thing but Masato still ends up murdering Tachibana.

Tachibana again resurrects and this time ends up at Taji's place wearing a mask. There he asks Masato to stop again. I think he does all this because he actually cares about Taji and does not want him to get hurt. Tachibana also does this in order to take up the identity of END so that Masato's name comes out clear and so that he doesn't end up being a suspect. Masato, yet again, does not realise this and finds Tachibana and murders him and keeps on playing the END's role.

Tachibana then AGAIN resurrects and later informs the police about END and disappears. Tachibana who himself is immortal sees death of people around him, who are close to him and puts this whole ordeal to an "END" by murdering Ezaki who was directly responsible for the suicide of all the END Victims and the suicide of Omi who was close to everyone at AUN including Tachibana.

This could have been a really good manga but the author fails to make a good transition from it being a thriller/mystery to supernatural thriller/ mystery. It gets confusing for most of the readers.

Review Route End. I will put a spoiler tag below.

I'm having trouble finding anything positive about this manga. I read every single chapter trying to find something, after reading all those overwhelmingly positive reviews. I mean with such a high score, you would think it was at least half decent!

Art : 3/10.
Ugly characters, very basic background, faces all look the same. Not even pleasant to lay eyes on. There are some parts where you can tell the artist had no idea how to draw feet, eyes, action. It was amateurish and I'm being polite. I forced myself to read the 8 volumes. With such ... awful art I regret everything.

Characters :
All they do is cry and scream. The story is about suicides and murders, obviously I didn't expect any super happy moments but it's just misery from chapter 1 to 54. There's no saving Grace, nothing redeemable.

Story :
This is my biggest problem. It's supposed to be a police, detective story. It pretends to be realistic but there's a big SUPERNATURAL element that disrupts the police investigation and is never explained. The police work with finger print, blood taxes, DNA, evidence. But it's all out of the window once you introduce supernatural elements in the mix.

**** Now SPOILER below !!! ****

The police are like "the 2 victims are twins, oh no they're triplets! Oh but the same guy with the same DNA is alive, they're quadruplets actually!!"
Sorry but it felt like a big asspull by the author. Then it's never explained who this guy actually is out came to be, though he is the central pivot for the whole plot! Worse, he just called himself God.

Then a 30 year time skip, that guy comes back and everyone looks like they barely aged 15 years max. The end. No explanation, nothing. What a conclusion!!!
And you have reviews praising it as the best story-driven manga!?!

*** End of spoiler ***

Enjoyment : none.
It was really just me forcing myself to understand why do many liked the story. I found no pleasure in it. Just felt miserable from beginning to end.Would not recommend it.

3/10