Ahh what a read. And not in a good way. But actually maybe in a good way? One like this is rare but it makes me wish I could have two separate ratings for one entry. In terms of quality this was a negative 10 for sure, I really wish there was some way to actually rate it lower than 1. It's in the running, if not the winner, for worst manga I've read so far. But in terms of enjoyment? Absolutely a 10 out of 10 strangely enough, I couldn't stop reading and am pretty sure I've never read nearly 200 chapters of any series in such a short timespan. Sorry to my job that I was reading so much on the clock...
It was so SO bad in every single chapter. The writing across the board was so bad that I probably burst out laughing at least once every other chapter at the characters being ridiculous. Definitely not the intended emotional reaction the mangaka had in mind I'm sure but whatever. If it had ended
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when the trio went to Tokyo, even if it was an ambiguous ending as to what happened to them after they escaped their hometown, even that would have been a
little satisfying. It would still have been a total slop read, but at least it would've been one that respected the reader's time even a little. Instead it goes on for about 3x longer than it needs to, keeps amping up the "drama" by introducing more and more one in a million coincidences of the wrong person hearing or seeing something at the worst possible time for everyone involved. But even that isn't the worst offender to your brain - the super super late-game introduction of a character that comes so far out of left field that I thought it was a joke at first, and then said character is written in a way to try(key word being TRY because boy does it not succeed) at rationalizing
the most deranged character in the whole read was certainly a hail mary by the mangaka. But of course, like everything else about this manga, it falls short of it's goal. As spoiler-free as I can describe it, you're stuck reading about a cast of absolutely irredeemably mentally ill characters for 3/4 of this manga, but with one very obvious "cause" for everyone else being messed up, only for a random to get introduced last minute and are meant to suddenly think
oh they're the reason why the [the cause of everyone snapping] is so messed up. Awww now I feel bad. It obviously does not, or rather should not, make any sensible person think this way. This can be summed up as the poor man's Oyasumi Punpun. It is misery porn without a modicum of the quality that Punpun has though so it ends up being comical instead. I'd never recommend this to anyone but at the same time I'd recommend it to everyone if you're in need of a bunch of laughs for sure.
