Mar 19, 2010
Dismiss every knowledge of human rights and watch what happens to a world where the most deadly game is played. And it is only played because there are people who are willing to watch, either to bet on it or to amuse themselves.
This manga shows a possible future and explores every terrible part of it while developing the characters as they are pulled into a game where no one is really a winner.
Story carries this concept well. Firstly, the characters are introduced as they are going about their high school life only to suddenly be, while going on a trip, put to sleep and
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brought to a classroom where everything starts. Harsh reality is thrown at a bunch of sixteen year olds and the reality of being in a kill or be killed situation dawns upon them as they are thrown in a hell where every available choice is a wrong one and where friends hunt and kill eachother simply because they are in a frightening game. A game that must be played and this sense of inevitability and helplessness is what the story is basically constructed of.
Characters fill the blanks in the construction of the story. They are each introduced shortly at the beginning and throughout the story they each get a further development. In a sense, there are no real “main characters” since every character has their story and their view of the situation they are in which is thoroughly explained and even repeated on several occasions.
Since this is a death game naturally there are also death matches. Some characters have lived long enough to create fairly long fights, some of which have a fantasy and religious elements.
Art here is quite detailed and clean. Characters emotions are drawn well and they express what is appropriate in whatever situation. Since this is a horror and an ecchi manga it is important to note that the gore and sex scenes are extremely graphic and detailed.
Enjoyment here is, well, there should be no enjoyment here. This manga is all about a death game being played for the sake of amusing sadistic, bored or some such people. This manga basically is this game. What enjoyment can one find in a manga about a class full of teenagers killing eachother? There might be some who are interested in observing how certain people would react in such a dangerous sitation. You might find interesting the repeated retrospective each character has about their past actions or lives. Some philosphic conversations were also made. All we have left now are action and sex scenes. Since they are both explicit maybe some can enjoy the large amount of blood and organs flying around or maybe just sex. And maybe, just maybe, this can be enjoyable if someone out there has an awful grudge against teenagers. And, I almost forgot, yes, there is romance in this as well.
I was sceptic about this manga. I thought it would focus mostly just on gore action scenes. I was somewhat mistaken. There is action and gore, fo course, but all in all this is a big heap of every genre put together. Some scenes made me laugh, some scenes actually made me cry, some made me feel symphatetic, some just made me feel sick.
I think maybe it just has too much of everything which is the reason why I couldn’t really like it so to say, and constant repetition of some sentences at times made me feel annoyed. Although there is something awesome about this manga and that is the ending.
It usually bothers me if the ending is all wrong but this one here was, in my opinion, perfect. (It captures the whole story in just two words, amazing really.)
(Read if you feel you should, must, or have nothing better to do, hope this humble review helped you with your decision.)
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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