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Genuinely one of the best things I’ve read in recent memory - even if the first arc shoots itself in the foot.
“Dead Mount Death Play” is one of those stories where it feels like everything is interconnected, and each character plays a part of a larger narrative. My own advice is DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE FIRST ARC. Strangely, it sets itself up as generically as possible - but don’t be fooled. Shit gets real with interesting dynamics, gripping plot twists and somehow everything STILL being connected.
Please please give it a chance I even made an account after a long time of contemplating just so I ... can strongly recommend this to more people (it’s my current #1 favourite manga right now for a reason).

As a fun of both baccano and durarara! , I really enjoyed this !

I higly recommend it to anyone who is a fun of baccano!

It started off kinda slow but as the cast grew the story became more and more interesting !

I think it is my favorite reverse isekai manga out right now !

The manga is really good at foreshadowing things , more than most newer manga !

... The author is a veteran and I think it is really shows!

Although the art is not godly , it still is really good and the action is quite easy to follow !

I did not feel that the story was in any way predictable , but instead that the constant twists always had me on edge!

My one compaint is that it can get a bit complicated at time but in my personal opinion this was easier to follow than both of the authors previous works (Baccano ,durarara )

This is highly similar to Durarara in structure. After the start/premise in the beginning, the manga slowly starts amassing cast of characters and keep switching between different perspective. Over time this result in more and more and more characters being added along with new points of view, pieces of story, storylines and so on, and eventually it will amass to become some sort of avalanche which will result in some sort of conclusion.

As of chapter 58, no conclusion in sight.

In details:
6/10 story, 6/10 art, 5/10 character, 6/10 enjoyment, 6/10 overall.

The story is decent, if you can handle Durarara storytelling with constant point switching. The problem ... with the story, however, is that over the time number of character and parallel storylines reaches critical mass, and then story slows down to crawl. However it is still interesting to watch this unfold and grow in complexity, so that's a plus. On other hand, slowdown due to high number of parallel storylines makes some events take many chapter which is a minus. Then again, compared to the incredible number of cookie-cutter isekai mangas recently, that's at least above the reset.

Art: 6/10.
The art is decent and is mostly highly detailed, however, there are plenty of dialogues with talking heads and completely white backgrounds. The art is also fairly typical modern manga style, without any significant differences. Necromantic moments do stand out when they're present.

Character: 5/10.
No character development. Instead, characters slowly unfold. Basically, each one start with a "role", and then the author clashes them together, showing the reader what happens. After 58 chapters I haven't found anyone evolve, and many characters are over the top. Which means, they're good enough, they're not cliched, but don't expect to find a lot of real people with life-like characters.

Enjoyment: 6/10. It became pretty fun once the story gathered more characters and switched to durarara storytelling. The beginning was kinda slow in comparison.

Overall: 6/10.
Worth checking out, especially if you're tired from the endless stream of nearly identical identical (modern) isekai mangas.