Until Your Bones Rot

panda567 May 6, 2023

4

The premise is very interesting and the artstyle is pretty. I consider myself pretty lenient on the more pervy side of anime and manga, but this one is pretty off-putting. We're basically watching a bunch of teenagers getting fucked (and raped), with a shaky story and some torture porn thrown in the mix. I read it all the way up to chapter 50 because I had faith that maybe the writer isn't really that depraved, but it just gets worse and worse. The author just likes depicting 16-year-olds getting raped. I skipped to the final few chapters because I wanted to know the answer to the mysteries, and it's...okay. The message of how wrong murder is regardless of the reason or situation is shoved down your throat at the end there.  Spoilers: The characters' decisions make no sense. They hide the corpse and don't want anyone to find out, and yet they literally PUT THEIR NAMES ON IT. And come back every year to it. They were 11 when they killed the guy, and it's pretty much self-defense, but they would rather dismember a corpse, strip naked and be humiliated rather than admit to what happened. 16 is old enough to be able to know how dumb that is. One guy who felt guilty about it got murdered for it, and the group forgives the girl who was an accomplice to his murder. I love grey morality, but this manga botched this main girl by forcing on us "how much she has suffered". There is just no nuance. There's also the question of how did this guy get murdered and no one is suspicious, leaving his son to live all by himself. It might have been explained in the chapters I skipped, but honestly, no amount of explaination can make it make sense.