The story starts off with an interesting enough premise of people getting summoned into a deadly video game with a “player” and “character”. However, this evolves into a contrived melodrama of how edgy human nature can be, with a particular focus of male-on-female sexual violence (physically and psychologically).
That could be useful for shock value, but the pacing of the chapters will frequently dedicate 3-6 chapters at a time just to show a character getting tortured to someone’s amusement. Which is very tiring if this isn’t your fetish/kink.
The characters generally lack meaningful depth to them, usually presented with tragic circumstances and just repeating torture as-nauseam until the final quarter of the manga, where they finally display some sort of emotional growth/strength.
Artwork is competent, but unremarkable and forgettable scenes. Unless you enjoy looking at anime girls with various shocked and crying expressions.
Even if you power through to the end of the series for the sake of the actual plot, the final arc seems to be geared to justify the gratuitous amounts of torture, rather than feel like a natural plot progression.
If there is one thing I was left with by the end, it would be despair that I wasted a few hours of my life reading this. Unless this is your kink, then maybe it’ll be hours well spent.
