Written by the legendary Nisio Isin, I had big expectations for this new manga. The story takes place at a cypher school where the main guy (yes, it's a guy) enrolled.
Reading a Nisio Isin story often takes a lot of brainpower due to the sheer amount of text, subtext, references and writer notes, but this manga takes it to the extreme. Almost every page has a note to explain what is going on. From an artistical point of view it's quite impressing to see the love and attention Nisio Isin puts into writing his stories. But from a reader perspective it doesn't make for such
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: 暗号学園のいろは More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 7
Chapters: 59
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 21, 2022 to Feb 5, 2024
Genre:
Mystery
Theme:
School
Demographic:
Shounen
Serialization:
Shounen Jump (Weekly) Statistics Ranked: #161322 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #3580
Members: 5,815
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Feb 11, 2024
I was never a reader of Nisio Isin story, so coming into this was quite a doozy, lots of wordplay, lots of puzzles, lots of "more on that later" vibes. It was nothing within my knowledge or wheelhouse, I just opened it because I heard of legendary status of the author so I thought, "okay I'll start here." I think because the story was not given the proper amount of time to develop (would an author only want nearly 60 chapters where it seems a larger looming war was being trained for?!?!?!) I cannot give this series higher than a certain threshold, not because it's
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