Hone ga Kusaru made
Until Your Bones Rot

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This Manga is extremely enjoyable and I would implore anyone who agrees to assist in raising the score. Till Your Bones Rot is deep philosophical manga about the consequences of murdering someone. These consequences are experienced and conveyed through a group of young teenagers, who all had their own motives and deal with it in their own way. In the way that it's emotional, it's also a mystery roller-coaster. There are many scenes in this that will leave you guessing at what happens next, or took place that we don't know about yet.

It's drawn pretty well, and I rarely ever had a moment where the ... art didn't convey what the author intended. Beyond this, all the names should be easy to remember if you've got some familiarity with Japanese names. These generally lend themselves to the high rating I gave it.

Overall, this manga is an experience that will keep you reading without overstaying its welcome. Please read it and share your thoughts, if you can. I rate it an 8.5/10, rounded up to a pleasent 9/10 for MAL.

I liked this manga for a few reasons, but also had my reasons to dislike it too. In my opinion, it was a good time killer and decent manga, but failed as a thriller in many ways. I will write some pros and cons.

Pros

Very great concept, and succeeded in being very psychological at times. Really gave insight into the emotions of those who have taken a life, which I am sure most could not actually relate to. But somehow, it worked here.

I thought I had predicted the culprit, but it was actually somebody different. Some of the twists and turns were quite good.

The art suited ... the mood and atmosphere of the story, while not being my favorite style.

Cons

The first four volumes were quite slow in my opinion. Considering that is over half of the series, I have to dock some points for that. I couldn’t get really into it until volume 5 or 6. I do believe this could have been shorter by a couple volumes.

The romance in the story just didn’t work for me. I have heard of a love triangle, but here, there was kind of a love pentagon. Characters’ reasons for liking another character sometimes made no sense, or their reasoning to sleep with a character they had no feelings for were nonexistent. I think the author was going for emotional disturbance in a sense, but I wasn’t buying it, and much of the story was wasted on these romances.

The characters were somewhat weak. Everyone kept calling Shintaro brave and Akira charismatic, and the boys were all over Tsubaki and Haruka for reasons that could have been better portrayed. Ryu was my favorite and the most relatable by far for me. This was a very character-driven story, so this is where it really falls short.

Overall, a decent read. I wouldn’t recommend it, but I wouldn’t tell someone to stay away from it either. I wouldn’t read it again though.

6/10

I can see why people would leave good reviews, but I've read enough of this genre to not really see anything special in this story or that makes all the flaws worth the read. This is, first of all, too pretentious for its own good: a slight case of "virgin loser" type shonen writing that showed specially in the female side characters (useless and whose actions didn't make any sense) which was a shame since the protagonist wasn't as annoying as other cases of this, a great amount of predictability that the author attempted to solve by pulling dumb plot twists out of thin air, ... using a flat and hollow character as a villain (that remains hollow and flat and underdeveloped even after said plot twist) that can only be sustained by making up characters that were never before even hinted at as existing, thus compromising their previous story building and making more than a quarter of the manga feel rushed for no reason, since this wasn't a case of "you're getting axed so solve this now". A bunch of unused, flat, weird side characters that never really do anything for the plot, as well. Now anyone would say, well the plot is interesting, well the art is gorgeous, well at least it's entertaining, but it really isn't, the delivery is actually more annoying than entertaining, and once again, there are ENOUGH stories in the shonen, seinen and even shojo and josei tags with similar plotlines and wonderful breathtaking art that are far more entertaining, some of them even with the shonen tropes and nonsense writing if that's your cup of tea, so it would be a better use of your time to go on either of those and search something similar. But just to get the kick, this one's too boring and way too average, and for dumb stupid plot twists, this is too mediocre.