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Doubt (Manga) add (All reviews)
May 28, 2013
Mixed Feelings
This manga is very good up to the last two chapters. It is very entertaining and the art is good. I don´t find the plot similar to "Battle Royale" as many people do... in Battle Royale the players are openly forced to kill each other. In the Rabbit Doubt game, the rabbits (the players) are not told to kill each other. In this game, there is a wolf hidden among the rabbits, and the players end up trying to find a way to escape from the building where they are imprisoned and trying to discover who the wolf is, in order to avoid being killed. In this sense, the plot would be much closer to Saw.

Although the characters could have been more developed, and some outcomes might have been a little expected, -in whole- most of the manga is very good. Unfortunately, the last two chapters ruin it all.

I found the ending deceiving, forced and unjustified. There are things which remain unexplained, or are not explained in a satisfactory manner. The wolf's motives are not convincing, nor are the method used to carry out the plan. I find the last chapter even absurd, in a way... I absolutely see no point in any of the things the wolf ends up doing.

I also missed the hints every thriller should have. In this kind of stories, in which the reader is invited to find the culprit, there should be clues that allow him to discover who it is, or at least accept the ending as an unforeseen but valid option. To be true, there might be some events throughout the manga that rise suspicion, there was a time -at the beginning of the manga- when I wondered about certain things which are connected with the ending, but most of them remain unexplained, and the connection between such events and the final outcome seems too forced and unrealistic.

If it wasn't for that I would have scored the manga with an 8, or even more... but when I see flaws such as these in the plot I am very disappointed. However, I will give it a 6 (fine) as the manga does have its good points: the general idea is interesting; the art is good, and -most of all- it is entertaining to read. Such a pity, it could have been much better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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