Children - Reviews

im not gonna give a detailed review because this would be hard to describe. I'm gonna give what this manga has and doesn't have.

Synopsis: Some 18 y/o guy named Tooru gets a job for 3 million yen as a caretaker. It's a job but not the job he wanted im particular id wager

What it has

• It's just gory to the point where people would call it "comical" but past that point. Where it's just like whoever the fuck drew/wrote this needs a psych evaluation and they need it NOW.
• An few interesting characters like the headmistress who's only 14 and Mirai and also that guy with the sister towel
• Abuse. And abuse of all kinds. It runs the gamut on abuse. Physical, Sexual and absolutely emotional.
• A slightly engaging story 
• Some pretty solid art most of the time

What it doesn't have

• Rounded characters. These characters are flatter than Death Valley. Almost no substance to them all and thats how it works when your manga is two volumes and half of it is fucking dismemberment.
• A good ending. It's a solid plot twist but if rushed had a picture in the dictionary this would be it. Cuz god that ending was weird
• normal characters. Everyone and I mean everyone is principally and mentally absolutely toasted. Psychopath galore

basically this manga isn't good not even decent actually it kinda sucks but if u want an absolute desensitizing, blood curdling, absolutely fucked up short violence binge this, this is for u.

ok so i'm a fan of disturbing stuff, psychological or gorey, i do have my limits but i'd say i have a tolerance. this reaad was... interesting? i was genuinley disturbed by certain scenes but i guess it was more shock at what i was seeing in context of the story. anyway this seemed like a short read and i thought the premise looked interesting. i was wrong, but also not? the premise iis certainly interesting, but i would'nt say it was good. everything felt like it was only there for shcok value and the plot twists just kept coming, it ended up convuluted for such a short story. 

i only reccomend this if you're really into gore and general disturbing content and you've run out of things to read. theres better stuff out there.

this concludes my spoiler free review, the rest will go more in detail of the content.

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yet again, spoiler warning 

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yet again, im a gore fan and im not exactly opposed to gore just being used for shcok but i just wasn't a fan of it in this story, if you're using shock value at least do something interesting with it. the times where i was disturbed it was with the scenes with mirai. she was one of the only characters i liked i thought it was going to go in the direction where she escapes with the main guy. but then she gets DECAPITATED. like i was disturbed because y'know she's 4 but it was mainly... exasperation? however the scene where they stripped her corpse and dismembered her did get me. 

something thats still bothering me is who asked him to go there? is his real mum even alive? we know he lives with his dad and he said it was his mother that told him about the job but then its revealed that like it was the curse that brought him there? was he subconciously lying? was it the spirit of the lady he killed? maybe it was explained and it went over my head, by that point i was just kind of in awe at the plot twists. 

also why was that one delivery guy so ok with murdering these kids? not the one who was at the original daycare but the other delivery dude who was friends with the kids. i know the villagers see that place as evil and that the kids are murderers but he seemed to care about some of them and then boom he massacres them? 

I don't know why people get so mad about this saying it's trash and relies on gore too much. It's about children who dissect people, too much gore is to be expected. It's not amazing or the best out there but it's way better than some similar things I've read and people raved about. Give it a try, it's short and it has a warm ending. (and i think that's one of the problems and why the characters fall flat, it's too short)

The eyes are drawn with very large irises and pinpoint pupils, sometimes with some wavery etchings for texture around the edges. The faces are flat with little to no noses. The gore primarily relies on blood (as opposed to bones and guts).

The beginning part of the story is alright enough--creating a juxtaposition between the smiling, seemingly innocent faces of the children and the cruelty of their actions. Basically all of the kids have been brainwashed into thinking that what they're doing is okay, though it seems that many of them only comply out of fear. It's a pretty normal horror idea of having a normal person thrust into an abnormal, cult-like atmosphere--where psychopathic behaviors are normalized and where the normal person has to try to survive. The story's never amazing, but it gets even worse in the last few chapters when we start seeing major personality shifts in some of the characters. That lack of personality consistency makes those characters fall apart, which in turn makes the story as a whole fall apart. The author obviously did it because fe wanted plot twists and for there to be additional drama and stuff, but it wasn't worth it. Also, the main backstory along with Mirai's backstory are pretty dumb.

This is one of my new favorite manga's. I love everything about it, wish some characters were developed more though. Other than that 10/10