Jun no Tamashii
Beauty Labyrinth Of Razors

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Mod Edit: This review was originally posted for Regarding Mika (13097) and has subsequently been merged into Jun no Tamashii (20353).

This manga was very disturbing in my opinion and tells nothing but sad stories.

Story: It's basically about unlucky women who are molested and/or murdered in the most brutal way. (6)

Art: The art was so detailed that I had to give it a 10. Every body part was drawn to the T. There's extreme nudity with pube hairs and split vaginas, so you might want to keep that in mind before turning to Page 1.

Character: The characters reflect on the personalities in real life. The ... guys are depicted as perverts and serial killers. The girls' personalities varied, but everything character was realistic. (10)

Enjoyment: It's not a manga I would be enjoy reading because of the constant molestations. It can basically just used as a reminder not to do stupid things. (5)

Overall: If you enjoy the things I described above, then be my guest and read it. In summary, I didn't like it too much.

Mod Edit: This review was originally posted for Regarding Mika (13097) and has subsequently been merged into Jun no Tamashii (20353).

To begin with, this is not an eroguro manga, even if it's tagged as hentai and horror, and is so stated in the synopsis. There is no sex, no visible genitals, not even breasts, so I must say it is falsely tagged as hentai. Even the cover page is highly misleading, and has no relation to the story at all. So I'd rather look at this one as a basic horror one-shot.

From this standpoint, if you would be looking for a gore horror manga ... (I'm not in a position to be judging) look elsewhere, because other than some cut-off fingers and ear, you won't see anything interesting here.

About the story: after school, a girl's walking home alone, meeting some people for the last time in her life, as stated by the author on every occasion, just to make us sure she's really going to die.
Near the end we come to know that Mika got abducted, tortured and ultimately killed, and... that's all, the end. No proper closure, no moral of the "story", just some commentary about how unfortunate she was.
16 pages are clearly not enough to present a proper story (even though I've seen some examples for the contrary), but the author didn't even bother trying to write one.

I'm really not a big fan of eroguro stories, so I didn't mind that it turned out to be something else, but false tagging is also not a favourable thing. Regarding Mika definitely fails even as a simple horror one-shot, failing to provide the essentials of a good horror story, like a proper build-up, characters we care about, or at least shock factor to make the reader terrified. Its style is bland, the art is average at best, so I really wouldn't recommend it to any fans of the two mentioned genres.