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Quite disappointed with this manga. I was very excited when I got this as a present but after a few chapters in, the story started to drag and I wasn't really "scared" with the bizarre occurrences of the town. Rather, I found everyone's' unfortunate luck to be... unfortunate.

Most of the time, every chapter had me thinking "oof, too bad you have been consumed by the spiral" instead of having me exclaim in disgust or anguish. The only ones that did make me uncomfortable and had me sitting in my spot thinking about what had just happened were 'Jack-In-The-Box" and 'The Umbilical Cord'.

The art is amazing ... - that is something I can't deny at all - but the story felt flat as well with its characters. Kirie seemed to have some type of immunity to all of the horrors presented upon her, in which she would come out unharmed from. Also as she faces these horrors, she also seems immune from developing any kind of fear or trauma, in which I'm sure she would have developed considering how short of a time she had been living in this town and how each horror happened one after another.

Overall, great art but not really a horror story. Just bizarre.

*Dropped at vol. 1*
This is a bit of a fun and entertaining read, if you are able to overcome the awkward and uneasy interactions between Polar Bear and Lil' Seal. It is funny how they first meet and the awkwardness that goes between the both of them, but because of Polar Bear's HUGE desire to be Lil' Seal's partner and to eventually "marry him" in the future (it is suggested that Lil' Seal is not mature enough to marry, thus still a child), it can give off an uncomfortable feeling. Polar Bear's behavior gave me... predatory vibes (no pun intended) towards Lil' Seal.

In all ... honesty, it was hard for me to read this all the way to the end and I couldn't push myself to read the last few extra pages that are based on the chapter covers and are supposed to be for the reader's pleasure or enjoyment.

The story was going amazing for me - romance, comedy, drama and everything you would like in a romance, SoL manga. Our main characters are very interesting, the way their relationship is progressing (maybe a bit puzzled at some quite fast-paced instances but story still great!) is a nice change from other romance manga, and the side characters are great as well... until Ch.50.

In Ch. 50, something major happens between Morimiya and Hori which makes you excited for what's to come, yet the manga begans to slowly drift away the attention from them and starts to focus mostly on the side characters. By Ch.70, ... I was pushing myself to read this manga, hoping that the focus would go back to our main couple, but barely anything. Frustrated with barely anything new happening between Morimiya and Hori, who are supposed to be our main focus of the story (it's called Horimiya for a reason... right?), I had to drop this manga at Ch.106 (10 chapters away from the last, recent update). Don't get me wrong, I care for the side characters and their everyday stories, but that's not the reason I started reading this manga.

Overall, if you don't mind the main focus changing from the main couple to entirely their friends midway through the manga with little attention to the main couple afterwards, then you may like this manga.



*SPOILER ABOUT THE MANGA'S STORY. DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO KNOW*

Apparently I've heard that the story (from Ch.50 to onward) will not focus back to Morimiya and Hori anytime soon, since the web version of this manga is currently releasing chapters about the side characters and their lives and just that. Barely anything about our main protagonist.