This was hard to rate and while I was originally intending on giving it an overall 7, I've ultimately decided it was an 8 for me. Exclusively because of how fun and enjoyable the whole thing was.

Story: 6/10

The story isn't anything special. A lot of people were praising it but it just felt like a shorter, lazier tokyo ghoul. At times, it felt unnecessarily edgy and everything was just so rushed, like the mangaka just wanted to get it over with.

In a game of cards, you don't show your opponents your hand until the very end but here it felt like the author was just emptying out his resources and then creating new characters and plots out of nowhere because he had nothing to work with anymore.

Art: 7/10

Meh... It was alright, I guess. Nothing special, kinda sloppy BUT since the manga was released in a weekly magazine, It sorta makes sense.

Characters: 7/10

All the characters felt weirdly two dimensional. They all had one sole gimmick and didn't seem to change much from there aside from the author making power act extremely ooc with the protagonist in the later chapters, I assume because he plans on pushing this pair in the later parts.

Though I guess it's kinda hard to develop a character properly when you keep killing them off for shock value (which this manga ka in particular seems to think is an amazing, revolutionary plot device).

The character designs varied a ton too, some were amazing and others were just the same character with a different scar placement.

Even the concept of characters sacrificing their body because "power comes at a price" was already done and outdone by a certain magical girl anime/mobile game.


Enjoyment: 9/10

This is where chainsawman's entire strength lies. Yes, it's far from the perfect manga, but is it enjoyable? HELL YES

If you want to lose yourself to a short, fast paced manga you won't be able to drop until you're done with it: you're in the right place.