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This is absolutely one of the best stories I've read so far.

Fights are interesting, although not overly abundant, but the philosophy about life and humans, societies and struggles, is over the top good.

The most infectious thing in the world is an idea, and idea is portrayed by humans, therefore humans must be eradicated or submitted to (This is mine, not from manga)

Everyone who comes across this manga should read it, it's a masterful storytelling, art design is brilliant and aside from mostly being black and white, when it is portraying the heaviness of the moment it starts mixing in the colors, which gives you an ... idea that, that moment is important and that holy sh*t moment is coming.

It's only 30 chapters in, and as it would seem it has a long way to go from here, but I do expect it to be new hype manga of the next year. Do give it a read, and you will get hooked! Look in to this mangas eyes and you'll never want to look away again ^_^

I'll try to make this review spoiler free. this is my first review, Please be patient.
I wrote this review when 22 chapters were out.

World building and setting
Okay, Let's start with the setting and the world building, It's
extremely unique. It is pretty much like the synopsis suggests, Creatures called "gods" have infested tokyo, the area where "gods" are labelled as danger zones. If "gods" make eye contact with you, your basically dead, thats why everybody wears masks. The manga does a good job at conveying urgency and it has great action scenes too. The "Light-hearted" moments are very nicely conveyed too, they dont have ... any forced-type jokes and it feels very natural. It could've done a better job at transitioning into the "light hearted" to "serious" moments, but It isnt that noticeable and it wont ruin your experience. This is all I recommend you know before going into this manga.

The next Few parts include slight spoilers.
Story
The story is well, pretty generic. The main character gets "possessed" By something, A idea we have seen alot with manga past decade. The main character loses control, and gets saved by a group of people, again very generic. Honestly, If the story wasn't executed like this and it didn't include the level of art, it would probably would of been a score of 5-6 instead of a 7.

Characters
The characters are well, okay written. The main character's motivation is somewhat unique , She does not have a stupidly tragic backstory and feels very human. Her personality is well, basic but in a good way, she acts like a real person but to some people that may be a downside. There is one comic relief character that people may find annoying, But it didnt really bother me.
One of the characters is basically the opposite to the main character, if you like chaos There is someone for you too. Overall i'll give the characters a 7.6 .

art
Okay, so the art its extremely pretty, the artstyle is semi-realistic while I usually dont read manga with that style , But i'm glad i read this manga. Even if you dont like the story, You could easily just stick around for the art.
The character design is realistic but very unique, I'm a big fan of two of characters design

I enjoyed this manga alot, It has Good action that you can follow easily and the characters are very entertaining. The world building really piqued my interest, since its so unique. This manga might not be for everyone but Hopefully you give it a try.

Wow. This is phenomenal.

My catalogue of consumed manga is fairly limited compared to some so this might come across as a bit of 'person who has only seen boss baby' type of comparison, but this feels like someone took the sense of humor and fascination with body horror of Q Hayashida, the interest in exploring the human condition and our relationship with spirituality that was present in 'I Am A Hero', and the character depth and drama of Tokyo Ghoul :re, and married it all together. If you've read 'Bibliomania' it's incredibly reminiscent of that both in terms of the themes it explores and ... the visuals it likes to indulge in.

Expressions and full page panels are something this author EXCELS at. Nyababa and Obikawa in particularly have a lot of great faces that I couldn't help but grab for out of context use, and a lot of the action sequences, while simple, remain incredibly visually striking, so much so I had to refrain myself from sending them to friends because it's something you really have to see within the context of the story.

And don't get me started on the chapters where it delves into romance.

I don't know if this will deliver when it eventually ends, but with what's here, I've been so thoroughly engrossed that even if it falls completely flat I think it will have been well worth the journey.