Yuureitou

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Story

The story itself was fun to read along. The pacing is great, and the mysterious are enjoyable.

Art

I love the art style, it's unique! Not only with character art, but the art of buildings and whatnot is very well done.

Character

... A cast FULL of LGBT characters, that are well written, enjoyable, and interesting. Transgender characters represented well (despite a few overly-sexual-nude images but that didn't bother me much, and I'm transgender).

If you're looking for a manga with great LGBT representation, then this is the one you'd like to read. Not only does it represent the characters well, but makes it CLEAR that LGBT individuals are just like everyone else.

The villain is absolutely disgusting, but absolutely encapsulating. The main cast has a wonderful dynamic with eachother and other characters.


Enjoyment

I read it all in one day, I couldn't get enough.

This is a spoiler-free review!

The story started off strong until it went off the rails near the end which was unfortunate. It lost focus of the compelling mystery of the clock tower and focused on a different conflict that I personally could care less for. The manga would have been more enjoyable had it been cut short.

It was then hard to take the story seriously when one of the main characters would have porn drawn of him in the middle of inhumane events happening. Someone gets raped, or murdered, and the next chapter the cover will just feature porn. Like, what? Something bad ... just happened I'm not in the mood to look at anime boobs, especially when they belong to a trans man who experiences gender dysphoria from them.

The characters are fine, and I actually enjoyed the character arcs that all of them went through!

I especially enjoyed the MC development. He's absolutely unbearable in the beginning, but eventually he has his moments where he shows growth.

The strongest point of this manga though is the art. It is absolutely gorgeous! It reminds me of Ilya Kuvshinov's artwork, as both find a good balance of anime and realism.

I read this over the course of two days and it managed to keep me entertained, so I recommend it if you're very bored.

Even though I enjoyed the beginning of the series quite a lot, I'd have to say that the end was very disappointing. Yuureitou starts as a good drama, with lots of mistery. It is written so well that at some point in the chapter you jump of your seat. However, there are little hints of what the story becomes: a fairy tale for trans with MANY MANY abuses of hentai. I'll be blunt: if someone wants to jack off during an exciting reading, I doubt they want to suddenly jump off because there was some freaking scary part in the manga. I didn't like the ... way the author combined certain topics. It would have been reading Tetsuo's development without seeing her in such sexy poses. I even think that it's offensive for women who want to become guys. But I'll just say there's a great drama in the story.