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I want to give a warning first: THIS MANGA CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE.

It's a lot more violent than the anime. I'm a sensitive person myself that despises the coarsening of our society, so I'm not really approving of this. The first chapters aren't that violent, so I didn't expect it to get worse fast, but chapter 10 gets really, really graphic and it made me sick just skimming over it. (And on top of that, it was violence against defenseless kids.) That chapter is pure psychological terror...
Sadly it's also one that has main character bonding in it... I wouldn't be so upset, if this manga had ... a normal amount of violence, but that was really extreme. It can cause mental issues for some people. And I never see warnings for this kind of stuff, thus this review.

Other than that the manga seems to be okay. I haven't read that far yet, I still have to catch up. There are a few more cases that didn't make it into the anime and I enjoy the main characters and the art style. The idea and story is done well, too. Seeing another side of Sherlock Holmes' main enemy and giving him a motive is refreshing. He's way more likeable than in other adaptions, thanks to the Japanese making him an antihero. He's more a Robin Hood of crime than an evil person.

(That being said, if there should be another graphic violence chapter I might drop reading this manga, because it disgusts me personally.)