Oct 8, 2025
Was that just a “trapped in a building” story written by the guy who did the Resident Evil movies?
It's the story about Hiromi, a girl who dies at the beginning of the story. Stabbed to death in a train station, she miraculously survives. It makes no sense, but the doctors convince her well enough so she can live her life with no worries. Strange, bewildering, nonsensical. She still has stuff to worry about so she signs up for an elite program for the smartest people in a summer school
It's the kind of manga which just makes you wonder if it's worth it to keep reading.
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The story has a promising beginning, but it becomes one that's so by-the-numbers, so cliché'd. Every character is a stereotype, and the weird sci-fi plot doesn't work to instill any intrigue about anything. Random-ass things keep happening, it's about a genome, about zombies, about superhumans, about monsters, genetic engineering, government conspiracy.
You cram everything that's usually good in sci-fi, but not the components it should work with. If it's a government conspiracy sci-fi, do that. If it's superhuman sci-fi, do that. Don't do that, and other seven genres which clash with each other in such a short story. That's the other thing, it feels like the story was fighting getting axed each chapter. There was a desperation on the author to create another chapter where something exciting happens.
It felt like a race against time to create a coherent, Resident Evil movie plot with not enough time to make it good. The art is equally not the greatest, but it's serviceable. In the end, most of my problems come from the terrible story.
3/10. It was short enough to finish, but I was completely checked out by the end. Finished it almost out of obligation.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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