Joshikousei ni Korosaretai

I can only judge on what is out thus far.

I clicked on it because my friend has a joke about wanting to be killed by a Japanese girl. I wasn't expecting much, just something to screenshot him for a laugh.

However, I really enjoy it as it is not as it seems on the surface. Every character has some time for development and the way the story is told helps interconnect the circumstances of this situation. I was expecting something less deep that lacked development when it really is doing a great job thus far on establishing characters and making a solid story line that keeps me guessing.

I really enjoy the art, I have begun to read other things by this author who draws women in a very beautiful and unique way.

I hope it updates soon. I really am looking forward to seeing where this goes.

tl;dr: A manga with an interesting premise but that's it.

The basic premise was strange enough to be interesting in that the main characters goal is to push a girl to kill him in a specific manner without doing anything bad to her and without leaving any evidence that she was the one that killed him. The way the story began setting things up was interesting too, in that from chapter to chapter it shifted perspective from character to character to show off a series of characters that all had decently interesting backgrounds and an interesting relationship web. After all that was setup, it moved on to him executing his plan and it looked like things would really get moving.

However, after that it fell completely flat. Maybe I just had the wrong expectations going into this, but I expected the protagonist to be someone smart and manipulative who would come up with an interesting plan and that things would go wrong during the plan and he would have to quickly modify his plans to adapt to the situation, something in the vein of the psychological thriller. This wasn't that at all. The protagonist is pretty dumb and not manipulative at all. His plan was simple to the point of stupidity. And everything playing out was pretty much instant and overall, far too easy, and thus it really isn't thrilling at all.

The ending has a bit of a twist to it, but it doesn't add much and, in the end, doesn't help at all in making the manga more satisfying. Ultimately, the manga was about people with mental issues trying to overcome them, but its half written like a thriller without enough development of the key characters, and thus it doesn't do well at that either. The art was decent.