So I'm at chapter 10 and I'm not sure I can keep going. Positive first? The art is beautiful. The artist obviously spent a lot of time looking at insects and the character designs are full of care and detail. The really subtle rainbow effect the dragonfly wings have is stunning and always correct for the lighting.
But, I can already see the twist. The 'academy' is the one who made Jungle Juice in the first place. They are attempting to create an army/weapons.
My biggest pet peeve is that they treat 'predator' bugs as something with a strict hierarchy according to science. The problem? They are all tool using humans. The winner is the one with the biggest stick. The fact that NONE of them even thought to pick up a weapon until now except the 'delinquents' and 'weird old guy' is a waste of storytelling potential. Dragonfly with a sniper rifle would be mostly unstoppable to people who don't know hybrids are a thing.
The 'survival of the fittest' approach is proven to be the most idiotic way to run anything. You know what lets heroes and armies fight? LOGISTICS. An army marches on it's stomach, no food? No war. This bullshit beat each other up thing just removes your logistics officers.
That first day of training thing is also bullshit. I'm not sure if it's because the teacher is just an asshole and lying. Or if he's an idiot and telling the truth. Actively teaching them that it's every man for themselves means they can NEVER fight as a team. So what they are making aren't soldiers, but reckless loose cannons that can't be controlled. And going by that mantis guy, all it takes is eating another hybrid to become basically insane. That's a huge risk, it would be stupidly easy to break the whole thing apart just by contaminating the food supply.
There needed to be any kind of focus on how being a hybrid changes the way you think. It's sort of implied, but the main character doesn't mention any kind of new thoughts or change in diet after transforming and there should have been something. Hell even him interested in a new sport like soccer where you 'chase prey' would've been enough. Without it, it just looks like they loose all sense of being people because they are treated like animals. Which would happen, 100% people are adaptable like that, but it makes the higher ups 100% morons.
I'm skimming the next few chapters now and it looks like I was right about the morons thing. Seriously, third class ever, go do high level espionage shit. Learn and don't die. Sigh, I think I'm done.
