Doku no Okurimono
Gift of Poison

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This manga ended almost a month ago, and i started reading right after that. Though i haven't read a lot of manga but this one is interesting enough to read it and finish it as quickly as possible. The first three chapters of this manga have very interesting characters and the plot. It's about artists and painting who struggle with their passion and not have enough money to follow their passion, which is about art.

Story-5.9/10

As i kept reading it. The plot and characters seem so stupid, and I think a bit exaggerated by the author himself. By the end of chapter 25, it does ... make sense of the title, which is "Gift of poison." It's a bit depressing how it's ended up. Mentioning the art style of the manga is just amazing.

Characters-6.1/10

Over all art styles - 7.9/10

I'll give it overall 7/10. Which means it's good.

As stupid as every little plot revelation was, I could see where the author wanted to go. It could've been an excellent exploration of how teenagers deal with things like expectation, desire, and dreams in ways that make them way bigger than it needs to be. Gift stealing paint and refusing to tell his friend the truth for the sake of his own pride for only that to escalate into utter madness because of one girl and her stupid complex and relationship with stickers, makes senses in the grand scheme of things. It made everything felt dumb and stupid, but the internal turmoil made sense ... for and to the character. I only wished the author had put more commentary into the piece, with more sensible characters (like the Taima and Kokomi) giving their perspective to strengthen the themes.

Because, I completely understand why people fell off when this became an insane soap opera.

The ending is predictable but not horrible. I only wished there was a better build up that made it more deserving and devastating. Even if there was a couple more chapters to flesh things out, it would've been at least...more than decent. Because, at the end of the day, it was an interesting albeit melodramatic premise about about tragic artist, poisoned by his gifts.

...Being subtle was definitely not in this author's trade.

After giving Doku no Okurimono several chapters to find its footing im dropping this series at chapter 7.

Doku no Okurimono starts strong, we get some good character designs, a semi interesting story concept and some beautiful chapter cover art/chapter art. It also establishes itself well and you know what to expect from the series. The dialogue also seems decently written so I was quite excited for this series. It really seems like the mangaka put a lot of effort into the first chapter to get readers hooked and it does seem like the series is set up to be something decent but....

The manga seems like ... it had a lot going for it but issues present themselves from chapter 2 onwards.

We get immediate art quality drop offs. The veil of a realised plot begins to fall away and we start to see the writing flaws. Aku no Hana (Flowers of evil) is a story that is quite similar to the plot of this story. If youve read Aku no Hana and read Doku no Okurimono youll immediately begin to see the similarities. The issue is flower of evil delivers and is an amazing story where Doku no Okurimono seems like a soulless husk inspired by both Aku no Hana and Blue period, with none of the things that make either of those manga great.

The writing is painfully bad and it doesnt really seem like they have an idea of where its going. The plot doesnt flow and after its been established every chapter the characters make stupid decisions that could be easily fixed. The mc does something bad/shameful, he gets caught, he gets pressured to do another bad thing, repeat. If the mangaka has a point to the story or a purpose to whats going on the set up is so boring and stupid that its not worth reading through.

With every chapter released getting more thoughtless and pointless id really recommend avoiding this manga unless you want to read see how bad it is for yourself.