There are certainly some good ideas here and twists that I like on paper. A manga about a guy who gets roped into a literal extermination camp disguised as a children's home in which children are forced to be murderers? And the MC slowly starts to uncover the deeper mystery as to why the children's home is this way and who the people truly in charge of it are? And none of the children (not even the teacher running it) are actively malicious but rather victims of a horrible institution? AND the MC is implied to have some skeletons in his closet that he isn't letting on? Amazing idea. Right up my alley. I just wish the end result could have been fleshed out and all the plot beats could have had impact. Like, the story ALMOST says something substantial about being trapped in cycles of abuse and being able to break free from them, but everything is so rushed that it comes off as muddled at best. I definitely get the impression that the author WANTED to convey a message with this manga, but simply didn't have enough time to do so. Without going into specifics if you feel like reading it, the ending sounds great ON PAPER, but so little time was spent with the characters involved that it just doesn't stick.
An obvious victim of the editorial axe. You can tell at even a cursory glance that after the first volume the author was scrambling to tell their story in whatever way they could with the little time they had left. I feel like this had the potential to be a good story, but it just wasn't meant to be I guess.
To end on a more optimistic note, I think the art is quite good. Very appealing mix of cute and creepy that I definitely vibe with. Even if I'm not really a fan of how the overall manga turned out, the art style definitely got me to check out the mangaka's current webcomic.
