Tomogui Kyoushitsu
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Let me start off by saying this manga is not for everyone. There are so many things this manga has:
-R*pe
-P*dophilia
-Lots of death
-All around carnage

My full rating for this a solid 9/10

The first chapter starts off as any other survival game horror manga would. Nothing thrown at you, YET. As the plot progresses in the first chapter, we meet our first game and first death. Now this method of death was insane. By far it was the most unique death I have seen in horror lately. It blew my mind.

The story progresses at a nice pace. While it isn't the most perfect one, it is ... very consistent. The game doesn't derail. The story doesn't automatically shift into this whole spectacle about the villain and who's to blame. The one thing that does change it is the last chapters where the last few survivors face against this new threat.

What the story does is continue off each chapter like a flowing river. There are no real hang ups. Each character gets a back story (not all, but once you read it, you'll understand). Then, at the end, the true mastermind is not what or who you expect. The one thing I truthfully can confirm is that the deaths truly pack a punch. Some are shocking, while some are more.. well deserved.

All in all, this is one manga that you should read if you can stomach dark themes.

Pros:
-Interesting characters/minor development
-No shortage of pulled punches
it's not the game you think it will be
-The art is pretty nice

Cons:
-The story kind of goes to sh*t in the last few chapters (except the last one)
-Characters feel bland at times
-The new threat felt too rushed and brought in way too late
-The explanation for certain things can be... annoying
-Definitely not the story for you if you can't handle dark themes

If you're fine reading such themes : R*pe and sex cult, it's a safe to continue.
Warning, this manga also contains: Cannibalism, non-explicit ped*, non-explicit animal torture.

Here's my thought.

TL;DR: Many dark themes but too rushed, predictable, zero development, weird romance, no emotion.

The story itself isn't as unique as it is just another death game. But it's completely fine by me as long as it's enjoyable in the end. Yet, this manga isn't fulfilled my lowest expectations. I think it's nice to clarify that I'm not gonna against author's rights to build their fantasies into literature, I appreciate all of 'em (except Netorare, hehe)

The story is too ... cliched. Foreshadow isn't function as a sign anymore but a huge spoiler, too predictable, which is a fatal mistake in building a suspenseful story. Even the author named every chapter's title as one of its spoilers. The pace is too rushed, no emotion you'll get towards character's death, character's past, and even the rape attempt feels hollow lack of hate. Some character's actions are meaningless. It's kinda realistic that the author tried to depict mostly into sexual desires in midst of panic instead of cult religion like it mostly done in most literature I've ever known. But still I can't think those reasoning. Desires in female characters got involved in sex cult are unconvincing and seems like too forced. Fact that the story is too rushed in 39 chapters supports my idea. And finally, the ending is super cheap and hard to relate to the actual main story.

Too much characters in only 39 chapters while they got no development at all. Yuki might be my best for her feeling towards protagonist, but that's all. The romance element is weird, character's personalities are all too fantasy.

The drawing is also weird. It's not bad but just weird while I love the book cover.

If you ask about my enjoyment. Yea, I surprisingly enjoyed this manga, but it's just because I just want to read something.

Tomogui Kyoshitsu is... bad. I was looking for another word to describe it but that's the only thing I think of when remembering how reading this manga felt like.

The story? Nonsensical, cliched for the genre (what is up with the 'king's game'-like manga, anyway?) and absolutely disgusting. This is coming from someone who enjoys gore. I'm trying not to spoil it much, but there was NO NEED whatsoever for certain things to happen to the female characters. It wasn't done in a decent or meaningul manner and was clearly there to shock the reader and attempt to make the manga seem darker than it already ... is.

The pacing is dreadful and all over the place. One chapter the characters go around talking to each other about nothing and in the next one so much happens that you can barely understand wtf is going on.

Art? It's okay. It seems like the poor artist who had to draw this mess didn't write the story at least. It was pretty average.

Characters? My god. They are awfully written and developed. The main lead has as much personality as a sack of potatoes, and guess what? For some reason everyone is in love with him! Almost every guy is a douchebag who may or may not end up sexually assaulting the female students and said girls' personality amounts to feeling jealously over one another or, you guessed it, liking a guy and thinking about said guy. That's what most of them amount to. Jesus christ.

My enjoyment was almost null if it wasn't for the fact that this is so, so bad, I had a bit of a laugh reading it. Who approved this? Which poor sods had to publish this? I felt sorry for them.

Overall, if you like enjoying things and having a good time reading manga, skip this immediately. If you're a poor soul who read this out of curiosity like me, then godspeed, my friend. Godspeed.