Sep 14, 2020
I definitely wanted to enjoy this much more than what I did. When it comes to a good thriller, you should be kept at the edge of your seat wanting to know what happens next. Where Musuem 21 excels is its ability to make you NEED to turn the page. The strong points are the murders, but unfortunately, the weakest points are the actual investigations and characters.
The best way I can describe the main character is a Mary Stu detective who with minimal effort reaches into his butthole to come to a conclusion. He's meant to be a genius detective as far as the manga
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is concerned, but he stretches the suspension of disbelief to the point where it's aggravating rather than impressive. I had to actually knock off several points because of how infuriating it is to have a character who essentially takes out the detective work from an otherwise interesting detective mystery thriller and spoon feeds you the answers.
The art is also mediocre for the most part, but I'll give credit where it's due. The paneling and perspectives at times were noteworthy. The serial killer was also interesting and the killings always looked incredible and chilling. The creativity behind the murders was the major reason I stuck out the story till the end.
The other characters were pretty one-dimensional and flat, barely worth mention. This wouldn't be so bad, but in a manga where the mysteries aren't even being solved in a satisfying way, it became another bland factor that soured the manga for me. For the most part, I ignored the characters and the eye-rolling "detective-work" for the majority of the manga because of how thrilling everything else was. But for me, that becomes hard to do towards the end where the climax is coming soon and all you can think of is "are you freaking serious?"
TLDR; an almost excellent thriller that suffers from laughable spoonfed mysteries but excels at depicting terrifying murders and an interesting villain
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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