This manga is one about a small group of kids that were abandoned by adults that they trusted, and thus became incredibly wary of them. Under such circumstances they do what they believe is best to survive while going up against a small group of adults. Both the cast of children and the cast of adults were pretty varied and had interesting personality quirks that played a major role in the plot. There wasn’t anything like character or relationship development though, the manga is focused solely on the plot. As for the plot, it was mostly told well to a degree. This is a manga that heavily relies on the suspense arising from a sense of mystery. As is sometimes the case with manga, it feels like how the mystery would be resolved wasn’t determined definitely in the beginning. Hence, there were a series of incredibly forced and somewhat nonsensical aspects to the explanation of everything that happened and how it ties into what the final answer to the mystery was. Still, I think it did decide on what the mystery was somewhat early on even if it wasn't at the beginning, which is a lot better than a lot of similar manga, and hence the majority of this forced writing had to do with writing around elements introduced really early on. The result of that is that when it comes to the majority of the manga, it does feel like it fully supports and builds up to the ending it heads into and I was able to predict what the ending and the ‘twist’ would be. Still, the twist itself I thought was a good one that I rather like and one that works very well with the cast of characters, being as they’re immature kids that don’t trust adults. However, the ending beyond that felt pretty weak, in that it made everything feel kind of pointless and dumb. I suppose that too ties into the twist and it would probably be pretty hard to write an ending that feels more substantial, but as it is it still didn’t feel very satisfying. The art was really rough but it mostly fit the tone and it did look pretty nice at times.
