Mar 7, 2025
This one-shot doesn't really do anything special. It could be on the level of any early 2010's internet short story with a wacky twist, if it did *something* that made me feel anything.
It's too bare-bone and cliché to be interesting; you could argue that the "twist" at the end is trying to subvert a cliché, and that would be fair enough, if it wasn't for everything else: the characters aren't sketched out enough to be intriguing - it's true that short stories really only need the bare minimum of characterization to work, but that minimum needs to be effective. Either subtle enough that the reader
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extrapolates it's other aspects, or entertaining enough that the reader just doesn't care. You won't get anything like that here.
Meanwhile the atmosphere (something that I'd argue is essential to a short story) that you'd expect from a horror, a thriller or at least a story with dark elements, is completely lacking. This isn't helped by the fact that the art and paneling (that would be innofensive, if a little bland, if it were in a different manga) just can't carry the mediocre rest.
As it stands, this manga reads to me more like a gag parody of the lesbian yandere trope than anything else. Unfortunately, it's not bad enough to be funny, and so the reader is left slightly disappointed and unaffected.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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