Nov 18, 2013
Progress:Just past the intro on vol. 3.
I've stayed on the bright and cute side of Japanese light ACGNs so far. This one caught my eyes when someone posted a review / recap elsewhere. Since there is no official synopsis I am providing a quick rundown of the setting...
Caution: Rated R for graphical violence, sexual content, and just about every reason why you'd rate something R. In fact this is so twisted I don't know how it got published.
MC has a pretty standard background - parents in foreign country, living with his cute little sister. As a good oni-chan he has fought off many bullys who
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pick on his sister and ended up as an infamous brawler. Story picks up when he was accused of having killed 12 bullys (who he did beat up but spared), and was arrested, sent off to a correctional school for under-aged murderers.
He soon discovers that his 12 kill headcount makes him a popular celebrity in the school, where just about everyone is psychopathic - including the loli-looking teacher who enjoys showing her steel pipe into her students' bodies. Here he meets three girls - a red-headed beauty who hides mini-razors under her nails, a curvy, tank-top-wearing silver haired girl who wears a gas mask all day, and a seemingly nice klutz. The conspiracy behind the school and the backgrounds of the characters are slowly revealed, and before long the MC is in deeper than any other MC I've ever seen.
Rather than taking a ridiculous situation and fill it with regular drama, Psycome takes it up a notch. The regular ACGN cliches are still there - the fan service swim suits, the stumble-and-fall-on-to-boobs, the harem building - but every once in a while Psycome will remind you this is not a regular LN with scenes like having one of the main cast being tortured, having a running gag of a classmate being beaten to pulp (literally and described in detail) by the teacher, or having a senpai who killed 21 people because she enjoyed killing people in different ways.
Its gritty, its dark, its very sickening, and because all of it, it is very refreshing and entertaining. If you can find it (currently only published in Japanese...considering how terrifying the serie I don't know if it'll get licensed anywhere else), this is definitely worth a read.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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