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Murderers meets child labour

Yeah that wraps it up. Had a lot of potential to really enter unique plotlines but everything was thrown under the rug for the ending. Ah well. It was a good read nonetheless, the author really wrote the children with enough life you couldn't help but mourn for them.

I do have to ask though, why couldn't she have been 16 or 17? Makes no sense for her to remember at four or even carry feelings from that time. Seems incredibly forced to make her so young.

so if you're fine with gore and decapitation of children, it's an easy short experience.

Characters: 7/10
Worldbuilding: 1/10
Plot: ... 4/10
Art: 9/10

This is one of those manga where you can definitely tell that the author had a story planned out, but got axed after the first volume and so the author had to sprint to cram in all their ideas in the latter half.

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.

Ugh.

5/10 for art, 2/10 for the story, character, enjoyment and overall.

This is a gore fest going for dismemberment, torture, extreme violence and general shock value right from the first pages. Honestly, it is best described as stomach churning.

The story... there's not much of story told, as due to manga focusing on gore it largely only gets a two pages or so per chapter to put a hint about this or that character's background. While there's a story progression, due to gore taking most of screen time, by chapter 8 it didn't advance quite far.

The art is average, and characters are not exactly believable, although ... the don't exactly get a lot of time to properly "unfold" due to most of the pages being dedicated to violence.

Overall... this is quite bad, and not enjoyable in the slightest. Violence approaches guro level, although not quite detailed, and there's nothing good about this manga.

My suggestion is to avoid. It is quite bad, its main gimmick is attempting to shock, so in the end there's nothing worth reading here, and it is not for faint of the heart or weak stomached people either.