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Well, since there are no reviews for this manga yet, I thought I might try writing one. Death game have always been my guilty pleasure and I, most of the time, have fun reading them, even if they are not very good. This is one of those cases.

Story - 4
Pretty much your average Saw scenario. A couple of strangers suddenly wake up in a room and they have to play various games in order to escape. Usually in this setting, we later learn that characters are all connected somehow. Strangely, that is not the case here. Characters are not connected in any way except the ... fact that they are all high school students. What I don't like is that games are quite chaotic and it seems like characters don't have any almost any chance of surviving. If the game master doesn't want them to clear the game and survive, why force them to play in the first place instead of just killing them?

Art - 6
I thought it was decent. This kind of story doesn't really require some amazing art work anyway

Characters - 3
MC - starts off as very annoying, but he improves over the course of time
Mitsuya - definitely the best character, brave and cool headed leader, he did most of the heavy lifting for the group
Usui - girl MC has a crush on, not much to say about her, she is nice, has some backstory and ambition and that's about it
Delinquent - most despicable character by far, guy literally did nothing the entire time but acted like he was so smart and strong. He pretty much just sits back during every game and comments how they'll all die and enjoys their suffering.
Game master - this girl tries to be Jigsaw so hard but fails miserably. Her whole characters is that her face is burnt after some accident so now she can't enjoy life and therefore despises people who can't appreciate life. She wants to teach the participants of her game to value life more and yet, she clearly has no intention of letting them live and what's even worse is that the people she kidnapped are not even the characters she, by her logic, should despise. All characters are pretty much just your average highschoolers and nothing about them tells us that they don't appreciate life. In the end, she juts comes off as a rich, spoiled psychopath
Others are mostly forgettable, at least they were acceptable and tried working as a team

Enjoyment - 5
Games aren't particularly amusing but they are passable. Characters sometimes make dumb decisions but I have seen much worse so those decisions didn't bother me that much. From the start, it seemed like MC's crush would turn out to be game master. Which later proved to be false and I am glad the author didn't go with that route. Delinquent is unnecessary and story works better without him. I guess the ending is fine, I neither liked nor disliked it. A good portion of the story is predictable but at least some things were a bit unexpected

Conclusion: I think this manga is a nice, fun short read if you are, like me, a fan of this genre and if you go in with the right mindset, without high expectations. Thanks for reading :)