The story is completely predictable. Up to the point where i dropped it, there was not a single plot point which i did not guess. I could probably accurately guess which chapter a character will die in.
Many people call this a suspense and i think it does this very very poorly for several reasons.
First, the characters are not interesting and i do not care about any of them. They are one note and flat. For a story which is about the darkness within people and how everyone can have a monster inside of them for every character to be " i was bad but now im kind of good" or "im good and just framed" is incredibly dull. The characters have no individual identity and many characters exist only to make expository statements about other characters behaviors/
And thats the biggest problem with the writing. The author is incapable of conveying a feeling without TELLING you what youre supposed to be feeling. This is a common dialogue exchange which occurs once every 2 chapters.
"He simply is... <character trait>"
"How do you know?"
"I can see it in his eyes"
"heh, whatever, i dont believe you"
Congrats thats the crux of every arc.
The thing that annoys me the most of this trait is specifically the way they use it for suspense, hence its mention in the section of the review. When it comes to the murders or interactions with killers they always write "It just looks like a monster did it." Me, as a person looking at it with eyes with knowledge of the context, would never get that feeling without being told thats how im supposed to feel.
The characters deaths are also largely inconsequential. Characters are introduced to either die or move the plot. None of them teach the protagonist anything, or reflect any lesson that the first few arcs didnt. They are there to die and say "theres a darkness... theres a monster." Thats it.
At the end of everything the tl;dr is that I dont care. the manga couldnt make me care. Things just happen. Its all just an uninteresting plot. You could take out the characters and dialogue and jsut tell me what happens and the manga would be better for the fact that it wastes less of my time.
