Munou na Nana
Talentless Nana

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I don't care what people say, this manga is peak. It's fucking amazing, with really well written twists and characters I adore dearly. I wish it were more well known and more respected, because it's easily one of my favorite stories of all time.
Every chapter has a cliffhanger to leave you on, with every twist genuinely being well laid out in advance without also being obvious. If you like thriller, this is PEAK thriller. I'm a thriller junkie, so I may be a tad biased, but still. The mind games, the mysteries, the twists and turns. This manga has it all and never lets up.

And ... that's the best part for me, is this manga never feels to me like it loses its way. Other thriller mangas and stories like this I feel often write themselves into a corner, where they don't know exactly where to go from here or how to up the stakes. But Talentless Nana from the very beginning you can tell they *knew* where they wanted their story to go and it works. The first arc of the story, that being covered by the anime, starts off being pretty standard, but slowly shows it's deeper complexity as it comes to a close, and suddenly this whole narrative that had just been constructed is taken apart, but in a way that makes sense *and* continuously raises the stakes. The story doesn't get stale because it allows itself to change, but unlike something like The Promised Neverland, it doesn't stray so far from what made it's first chunk so special in the process. I'd argue that as it goes on, this story just gets more and more interesting.

Really the only downside is that it's monthly releases which can suck to wait for, but it's honestly worth it if it means getting the level of quality writing that we have.

It's not the best thing you'll ever read, in fact, it got me furious at some points because it feels like the author is really testing my patience as a reader. However, it's not terrible either. It has its gut-wrenching moments, interesting plot twists and intriguing cliffhangers. The plot is unique (at least for a manga), and the art style isn't bothersome to the eye.

I hated the main character at first but as the story went on, they became less of a villain and more of a tragic figurine. Their flaws are understandable and doesn't make them shallow or excuse their action (at least ... for the first quarter of the manga).

Most of the antagonists don't feel like real people. They're severely messed up individuals that to the point where their murder is justified, and this feels like a cop out to me. It could be written in a better way perhaps, but the author wanted to quickly kill them and move on to the next antagonist (there are too many of them).

Most of the characters don't stand out from the background and only act when they need to do. It's almost as if the author added them make their story *feel* like there are people in this classroom. They're stock characters at best, or insufferable who stagnates the plot at worst.

One big complaint of mine is that it felt like it's longer than it needs to be, and the author is just dragging the story for a reason I'm not aware of. I read a good chunk of it, but it's simply not interesting to read anymore.

Review
Mutants/Heroes with special powers are sent to an isolated island where a special hero academy will train them. MC's mission is to kill her super-powered classmates one by one without getting caught while she herself has no powers.

How can she kill super-powered students without getting caught? Well, easy. The author will provide her with the best super power of them all - plot armor and author's favoritism. All the cast would be turned into idiots, just so MC can appear like a genius. The show has two braincells - one for MC and one for the rest of the cast.

Even in the most ... suspicious circumstances, the side cast would never arrive at the most obvious conclusion of MC being the killer. The entire plot bends over backwards to make our MC seem like some insane genius assassin. Even the characters that are supposed to be "brilliant" become fools just so the author can write himself out of a corner and save their precious MC.

There's a x-men like plot in the background, but nothing worth the headache of reading through the side cast's dumbfuckery.