Ikenie Touhyou

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Synonyms: Sacrificial Vote

Japanese: 生贄投票

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 7

Chapters: 70

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 18, 2015 to Sep 14, 2018

Genres: Drama, Supernatural

Themes: Psychological, School

Serialization: e Young Magazine

Authors: Kasai, Ryuuya (Story), Edogawa, Edogawa (Art)

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Score: 5.78¹ (scored by 1,855 users)

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Ranked: #21380²

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Popularity: #5375

Members: 4,430

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Ranked #21380Popularity #5375Members 4,430

Mangae Young MagazineKasai, Ryuuya (Story), Edogawa, Edogawa (Art)

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Chapters: /70

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Minato lives a meek but passable high school life. This all changed when an application named "Sacrificial Ballot" appeared on her phone one night, forcing her to vote for a person from her class. Whoever "sacrificed" was said to be given "social death."

Being upset with her classmate Kana who never bothers to reply to her messages, Minato voted for her without a second thought. When the result was announced the following day, it became clear that the one vote she casted caused Kana to become the most voted person in the class. Thinking the sacrificial ballot as no more than a prank, the class quickly dismissed any uneasiness raised. Little did class 2-C know, this was simply the start of a series of disturbingly immoral events...

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Imabari, Minato

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Iriyama, Kanna

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May 26, 2025

renardTrickster

Recommended

This is definitely a B-manga, but it's a high B. Voting games where a large cast slowly gets whittled away into nothing are pretty common, so Sacrificial Vote shakes things up a bit with "social death". Embarrassing, incriminating, or otherwise compromising blackmail released to the internet. A gesture at realism which gets at Sacrificial Vote's strongest suit; suspense, social dynamics, and the breaking down of a society.

The manga's first half focuses on how a single classroom is affected by the voting game, grudges carried out into life ruining consequence, popularity hierarchy inverting as cliques form and people try to use the threat of exposure to ... their advantage, and attempts at rooting out the perpetrator and why they're doing it, hindered by the fact that any action taken must necessarily either be an individual one, or a group action that lets the perpetrator in on it. Despite that, this isn't really Death Note, where everyone puts their brains into overdrive and get into 5D Time Travel Chess with each other to solve the mystery. It's how people react to the voting game and break down in the face of it, turning a bunch of well-meaning and scared students into uncaring monsters who become more and more complicit in the cruelty, or exceed it.

The second half, meanwhile, expands out into the entire school. While less of a court of knives than part one, it carries on with the same tone in a tug-of-war, faculty attempting to re-assert the legitimacy of a rapidly decaying social order. Both are carried by a realistic art style, further grounding the tone and shooting it into grotesquery as shocked and horrified expressions contort in uneasy ways. I also appreciate that, while the premise is inherently cynical (everyone has a dark secret and everyone becomes complicit in punishing those they don't like), there are enough moments of hope and humanization that it doesn't just feel like an elaborate Aristocrats joke.

Not to say that it's a masterfully crafted narrative. There's so many characters milling in and out that it can be difficult to keep track of them at times. Timelines either don't match up precisely well or skirt the edges of believability. I feel like the central mystery of the second part got introduced way too late such that it kind of came across like ass pulling the last piece of the puzzle. There are no supernatural elements at play, but the hacking is borderline hollywood magic (this is less egregious than other people make it out to be unless you have a hard on for uber accurate IT or whatever). And what I think is most alienating, it can be a bit exploitative at times. With one exception (maybe two), every female character's blackmail has been sexual in nature, meanwhile the men's blackmail seems to be 50/50. It was a bit jarring to go from "leaked sex tape", "leaked sex tape" to "this guy tampered with food at his convenience store job". It's not pornography, but there's a rank smell which I think largely improves by part 2.

If the shock incurs a "storyteller's debt", then the rest of Sacrificial Vote pays it off well enough. I don't know if I'd re-read it, and the road signs on the cover accurately signal what you can expect from the story (putting aside that at no point does this happen), but there were some evocative moments and a good experience. Like I said, it's a high B.

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Feb 6, 2022

Vanillashaketime

Mixed Feelings

overall it wasn't that bad.

the art was very expressive especially when there were heavy amounts of expression in destress or anger.
the first part of the story was interesting and drew me in, yet the second part made me fall off of this manga. personally i'm not a fan of shows or manga that seem like they're done, becuase it would be perfect to leave off on a certain note... but, the creator milks it, to where its lost its spark.

i wish we got more time to see the main character interact with the maker of the game, but we didn't.

the story was ...

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Jul 8, 2019

Franck_Nicolas

Not Recommended

Preliminary (23/70 eps)

This is a bad casino royale.

Each week students have to choose one student who will be socially killed by revealing a video of him having sex or whatsoever.

Problem is, there are so many plotholes i had to drop the manga because it made no sense at all. In addition the characters are really really bad, why are they all perverts and criminals? I mean what s the point of revealing videos of them having sex if everyone in the class do the same perverted things and even worse things, how is that supposed to kill them socially? Everything is just pretty dumb in the manga. ...

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