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only manga that manages to jumpscare you with a color lmao

I like it! definitely very conceptual, not quite as horrifying, it won't hit as hard if you're a jaded reddit atheist who doesn't know religious trauma. But it's very doomer, isn't it? there's nothing we can do. our sins are our sins. It's a continuation of the themes from last story.

Christ this translation is Shakespearean. It works! I mean, it really does work, for a horror story set in a rich mansion in the mountains! But wow, I genuinely wonder whether that tone is original to Kazuo Umezu or whether the translation team is just cracked.

I'm really liking this story! Putting Izumi as the main character, giving her a role beyond "person who disbelieves Sou", making her the one to save everyone, I like it a lot! It shows us her style of doing things, and her ability to be brash, her role as a girl in society, she clearly has a...

You know what? I'm really happy to see that Sou's sister, Izumi, will still stand up for her little brother against bullies! Yeah she gives in to peer pressure and the expectations of adults, but this complexity does make her character feel more sympathetic and real.

So what, did Sou just kill that woman in the trunk of the car?

Damn it's frustrating seeing Sou be disbelieved over and over by his older sister, who is also willing to just abandon him at the drop of a hat.

You know, generally, the murderers don't just get away with it like this. It also doesn't make a lot of sense for four like... eight year olds?? to plot a murder and execute it.

I think this story lost me when it expected me to buy onto the premise of "for a goof, four children plotted and executed the murder of their teacher"

it's deeply frustrating to watch Sou be a Cassandra, but that's the entire point of the Cassandra archetype, isn't it? there would be no drama if they were trusted! from this perspective, Kazuo Umezu's propensity to use children as protagonists really makes sense—it's a good way to instantly...

I'm glad the boy was resilient. I'm glad that this was a Lucifer story more than anything else. Someone prideful and willful manages to win, despite having so many hamartias that he might as well be a walking death flag.

You could see the "she killed her husband" twist coming from like page 70, the only thing I'm surprised by is that she didn't also run into him with the car, you'd think it was her based off the car that hit him and the car that she drove away from the hospital being the same

It feels a little weird that this man is dating a 16 year old. Or that women are ugly once they turn 18. It kind of bums me out to think about how many people are like that.

I love the way the mangaka has been using the red color this story! It's so restrained, so purposeful. I love how willing this author is to experiment and push the limits of his work, even if not every experiment works out fully. The standouts in this story are the repeated visual motif of the...

I love this manga so much. The fact that the mangaka KNOWS their audience, KNOWS the expectations they've built up... Almost throughout the entire story, we just get zero red. None. Isn't that odd? The mangaka has always used the red as a way to signal danger, and here it's just nonpresent. We...

Huh, the monsters basically never form cogent speech in Masaaki Nakayama stories. I guess I can see why—his creatures are so weird and alien, kind of ET, that when they talk in complete sentences it kind of takes the bite out of it. Part of the fear, which comes from fear of the unknown, is...

Ruth Benedict rears her ugly head...

Chapter 1 we see that his car advertises his investigations into infidelity. It doesn't make a lick of sense for him to now ask someone why can't they investigate their own accusations of cheating. Even with the adhesives thing, this just doesn't fit with the character who went so well with the...

This one felt a little silly. The girl assistant who only ever complains that she's hungry and cuts random pipes feels like... not even a character, more an absence of a character. A notable lack of good ideas.

Funny. Screw-Style eh?