Apr 19, 2025
Well, well, well, take a wild guess what happens when a lyricist tries his hand at writing a manga. Guessed the answer? This manga happens, a mediocre cesspool of various other manga of the same genre, with the things that were supposed to provide it with a hint of originality just so terrible that it couldn't have made it past my remark as a thing not worth spending your attention on.
Starting with a brief summary of how we ended up here. So the manga starts by showing some teens on a vacation when they decide to hastily jump on a boat they thought would take
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them on a tour. Instead, they somehow end up getting themselves introduced to the death game. A crazy death game where only 10 people at best would make it out alive from a group of over a thousand individuals.
Now that the summary is out of the way, let's talk about the story, even if there isn't much to talk about. The staple of overturning the death game in the process of making it out alive. Right from the get-go, the way the main cast gets entry to the death game was so dumb, not to talk about the points system, which was not even utilized. Not only did the points system acting as a currency get mentioned in the middle stages, but apart from one instance, there was no clever use of it. Even that one instance felt more like a convenient plot device than anything smart. And the main thing, the death game feeling so lackluster and unconvincing, like anyone and their mother can freely enter and escape the death game. It looked like some third-rate imitation of a real death game.
It’s like we have death games at home.
The death game:
And how can you forget the characters? Nothing is better than pairing up annoying characters with an already bad story. It makes sense, though— when the author can't even give a second thought to the story, asking him to write decent characters is a tall order. The main cast is the most dipped-in-holy-water pure. Like the characters sound and act like they live in an echo chamber, where everything is sunshine and rainbows. And it so pisses me off. Everyone's out for blood, yet these characters are still eager to help everyone around them. Like, make it make sense. It got so unrealistic to the point that the MC changed the heart of a literal murderer like he's Gandhi or some shit. Plus, nobody needs a shitty sob story attached to a shitty character who is supposed to be your 'villain.' If you don't know how to write a character, making it morally grey doesn't improve anything.
There were also so many out-of-place moments, which made it even more laughable. The only satisfying thing was witnessing the death of the characters because the author made them so annoying to bear. Like peak nirvana moment right there.
The ending was shitty too, like the rest of the manga.
So, what’s the takeaway from all this that I wrote? Don't read this manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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