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Things started off pretty okay, even great. But I feel like Gege was told to stretch the story after the anime took off.

After the Shibuya Incident arc, the plots that drew in readers are put on hold, and much of the established worldbuilding is either ignored or seemingly dropped. The best example is the abandonment of the school setting. The reader also isn't shown how big the impact of the incident really is for common citizens, which alienates the story from the reader. How much of the world is affected? We just don't know.

I dropped this manga after chapter 188, which is well into the ... Culling Game part of the story. This arc focuses a lot of fighting scenes: between familiar and unfamiliar characters, or sometimes even between new characters only. It became very hard for me to keep reading however, since the fighting scenes and cursed techniques become more and more far-fetched during this arc. I could barely understand what was going on at some points, though that might also have something to do with the translations. But if you ask me, if you need to take a step out of the fight to explain to the reader how a power works (with tables and everything!), the power is too complicated.

Overall, if you asked me to score the portion of the manga up to the Shibuya Incident, I'd give it a solid 8 or 9. After that, the plot quality drops dramatically to about a 4 or 5, depending on the chapter. My recommendation: read up to the Shibuya Incident Arc.
I will keep an eye on future arcs to see if Gege picks up those plotlines again, but until then, I'm done with this manga.

It might be a bit surprising, but this anime was such a breath of fresh air to me. Other anime, and live-action tv series and movies for that matter, have such a taboo surrounding sex. They either only tease and dance around it because the series has to be PG-13 (cough- harem anime cough cough) or they treat it like it's the most edgy/romantic/enjoyable thing in the world. This anime, however, doesn't do any of that. It's just entirely true to itself and doesn't hold back for the sake of anyone watching. Yes, it's incredibly horny, but that's kind of the point. It's an experimental ... series (shouldn't be a surprise considering the studio) that tests how far it can go on multiple levels. So not only on the sex side, but regarding storytelling as well (the last episode for instance). Very interesting to watch, in my opinion. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes zany shows where not everything has to make sense and who doesn't mind all of the sex and violence.