Mar 10, 2020
Warning: Minor spoilers about the flow of events, but tl;dr: you aren't missing anything special by reading the reviews for this one before you accidentally waste the better part of an hour on this schlock.
The characterization and story really fail to show any potential, at any point in this manga. The entire cast of characters is unceremoniously dumped upon the reader almost immediately and with so little meaningful exposition (and although an attempt was made to dump a bunch of it on you early, none of it feels of consequence when you are expected to actually follow along with over a dozen same-y characters
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introduced to you within 40 pages), some of the characters even fail to live up to a single bad, cliched trope, and clearly almost all of them exist simply to further make us feel bad when something happens to them. It begs the question of why the author chose to use so many heroines in the first place when making more than a handful of them even just one-note characters was beyond their writing capabilities for this piece.
The story itself is a joke, too. Horror and tragedy rely upon the reader feeling some semblance of connection to the characters or buying in to the atmosphere of dread the author is constructing, but the core story idea is so poorly mismanaged that the actual tragic events (and the in-character reactions to them) easily slip past the barrier between tragedy and into pure comedy. Some of the only times the characters can be seen exercising a degree of common sense is when it occurs to them to strip to avoid unfortunate environmental hazards, which begs the question of why the author didn't simply make an h-doujin instead of trying to string together such a shoddy story.
Not to say it would be salvaged by being pure hentai, either, as the art is far from the "not great but better than average" I was led to expect coming in based on the work's MAL rating, but I suppose weighted ratings help obscure just how below average something really is. The faces are really all over the place, *especially* early on, and in several instances some liberties were taken in adding detail to the background art, which may have been the saving grace in pulling any aspect of this manga to the average category. It IS ecchi, and while the girly bits aren't stand-out, it wouldn't be out of place for an amateur h-doujin. Alas, this piece tries too hard to make the reader care about a poorly constructed plot, and misses the chance to just be a silly dumb pseudo-porn manga.
I can't in good faith rate this manga a 1 because it lacks anything that grotesquely offends the reader's sensibilities, but to even call this simply mediocre is an insult to the mediocrity I've still had the good sense to take some joy out of. A thorough waste of time for anything besides the occasional TnA (can I recommend just reading hentai instead?), and the memes that come from consuming really bad media for shits and giggles. I had more fun writing this review than I did reading the manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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