Souboutei Kowasubeshi

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Synonyms: Souboutei Must be Destroyed

Japanese: 双亡亭壊すべし

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 25

Chapters: 250

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 23, 2016 to Jul 21, 2021

Genres: Action, Horror, Supernatural

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Sunday

Authors: Fujita, Kazuhiro (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.38¹ (scored by 608 users)

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Ranked: #4045²

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Popularity: #5066

Members: 3,945

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Ranked #4045Popularity #5066Members 3,945

MangaShounen SundayFujita, Kazuhiro (Story & Art)

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A mysterious mansion has towered proudly over the Tokyo district of Numanakarai since the Taisho period. Those who enter either never escape, or leave having experienced horrors untold, and with the desire to take revenge.

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Takoha, Tsutomu

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Tsuge, Kurenai

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Tachiki, Rokurou

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Takoha, Seiichi

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Sakamaki, Deido

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Kinoshita, Zanka

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Kaerikuro

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Kirita, Yokiyo

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Kuchime, Youji

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Takoha, Makoto

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Oct 25, 2021

Wendigo-

Recommended

The plot of Souboutei Kowasubeshi is just as the English translation states, Souboutei Must Be Destroyed. The plot of this manga? There is a mansion known as Souboutei, and it must be destroyed.

Ideally, I feel going into this manga only accompanied with that info alone will grant you the most enjoyment out of this series, as it has one of the craziest and convoluted yet consistent plotlines I have ever read. So I heavily implore you to stop reading this review here and just go read the first chapter. Taking the blind plunge into the insanity of what lies behind Souboutei's walls is half the ...

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Oct 14, 2022

xcwm

Recommended

Preliminary (244/250 eps)

It's been quite a while since I've found myself this hooked on a story of any kind. Souboutei Kowasubeshi excels at thoroughly engaging the reader through a maze of mystery and the unknown, as there's always a plot twist waiting around every few chapters, and one's entire perception of the narrative as a whole can be shifted in the span of a few pages.

This is a story best reviewed with the finer details left out, as the mystery of the "mysterious mansion in the Numanakarai region of Tokyo" unravels with each flip of a page, until the mansion itself seems almost infinitesimal in comparison to ...

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Oct 13, 2020

PixelB

Not Recommended

Preliminary (50/250 eps)

I really tried reading it through. I really did. I was really hoping, that somehow, the manga would get better. But no. Souboutei Kowasubeshi is pretty bad through and through, with little upside.

The story is pretty nonsensical and are just a few seemingly random supernatural events connecting everything together to form a "comprehensible" plot where a group of people try to take down an evil, mysterious, house. While at a moment's glance, the story seems pretty logical. Indeed, the events that happen in this narrative seem to make sense. However, when analyzing the likelihood of these things happening on tandem with each other makes the ... story completely unfeasible. What's the probability that this guy "coincidentally' meets with another person three times in a row? What's the probability that an unrelated supernatural event happens right after a decision is being made to destroy the house? In the end, the story is just a string of lucky coincidences that lead to a sort of cohesive simple plot, where the main objective is to kill the house.

For such a simple concept, you think that the plot events would be that simple, but no. They're complicated, kind of stupid, and overly complex for no apparent reason. This theme continues, and I just can't wrap my head around why this is the case. Alright, let's talk about characters. Honestly, all are pretty generic and not super memorable. You don't know which characters will end up being killed in two chapters, or the ones that will actually stay, so don't really feel like you need to be invested in any particular one except the male and female lead, who are also both equally boring, archetypal leads. The "cool, pretty, powerful, but sometimes clueless" maiden tag teaming with the "powerless, but actually has a unique power, dullwitted, but smart when he needs to be main character that empowers whoever he works with." Other than those, you have random characters that don't get a lot of development, and you basically have no characters you care about.

The art is decent at some points, and terrible at others. For a horror manga, I'd say that the horror elements, ie the house, monsters, creepy architecture and other ambience is actually pretty decent. however, the character art feels like it's straight from the 80s to 90s. Extremely lacking in particular detail in any characters, and of course, the mandatory panty shot once in a while, however, I do have to admit, these ecchi scenes are rarely emphasized or shown. My problem is that: why are they there in the first place, if they're not emphasized, and they're not even good? Especially for a horror genre type of series, it strikes me odd to have these rare ecchi shots.

Random supernatural events paired along with a string of coincidental events lead to an extremely convoluted plot that no one cares about. Pair this with lack of character creativity and bad character art, I really don't have any motivation to move on past chapter 50. There's basically only bad things to say, with one positive being: the art when it comes to the horror genre.

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