Kamisama no Iutoori
As the Gods Will

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Well, this manga is an odd one.
It sounds just like another survival manga, the kinda "Everyone around me is dying" type. I can't say that it's totally original, but there's something special here- like the amount of cultural references, maybe it's the bizarreness level of this manga, or maybe it's just the fact that it's so unexpected! I mean, I don't know what this is about this manga, but it's absolutely awesome. Go read
NOTE: Because of the many cultural references, there are so many translator notes, so if you're not up for reading those, don't start.

A survival manga that tells the story of a mass murder that started in a high school, only to be found out on an international scale. Only a few students survive games -revolving around the Japanese culture- thus going to the next stage, in search for the "next god".

Unfortunately, the manga ended in the middle of a game because of a major plot twist. We didn't get to see lots of interesting events or what happened in the actual end. It wasn't satisfying, to say the least.

The characters stayed the same during the story minus minor character developments.

The thrill is there, but so much ... mystery and questions are left unanswered; for hell's sake, the manga ended while the investigation was still ongoing!

Art and Characters: 5/10, 5/10 (Mediocre art, fine when there's gore, characters clichéd sometimes ""driven by friendship"" and as I said earlier little to no development.)
Story: 7/10 (while not very original on the survival aspect, it differentiate itself with the Japanese games mixed in it)
Enjoyment: 8/10 (There was the thrill of finding out who will win, who will die next)

Overall: 6/10

If you’ve read literally any other work of the death game genre, Kamisama no Iutoori will offer no extra benefit to you.

The story is very, very basic. Very little is actually explained about what is going on, so it seems that the main attraction really is just “people dying stupidly”. Said people being generic mob, with very shallow personalities – and that includes the protagonists too. I was given absolutely zero reason as to why should I care about any of them. There is at least some attempt to differentiate between characters by varying character designs, but that too falls flat as most of them ... are as randomly introduced as they are killed off soon after.

The death games themselves are boring, and beyond the concept of turning children’s games into death games unimaginative. And it gets worse with time, last volume being the most boring of them all. There just isn’t anything to catch your interest unless this is first or among the first more explicit manga you’ve read. And it’s not like the art of that is any great. As is the story, the drawings are also subpar, with maybe one or two pages being alright.

There is also a sort of subplot with moe manga and annoying otaku character and it is the stupidest shit ever that only adds to the story not making much sense together.

Maybe all of this is explained in the sequel, but this part lowered my interest in reading the continuation for it quite lot, so I’m judging it as it stands alone, and it’s standing alone is terrible.