JESSETHEBUSH

Doubt tries to be your standard scary death game manga and the suspence/mystery is enough to keep you entertained if you dont think too hard but unfortunately it is filled with plot holes and unjustified character actions and will leave you underwhelmed. 

~Story~ 2/10

The biggest issue with the story is that the upon arriving in the set up death game, no goal is given to the players and they simply wonder around trying to find an exit which everyone including the characters should know is pointless. It is obvious that the person that set up the game, especially if they didnt say so is not going to give them an easy exit and nobody tries anything other than using the set up bar codes to go anywhere new. If any rules were set up or the game were actually the slightest bit like the phone game at least then there would have been some purpose in the plot but sadly that wasnt the case. The phone game is poorly explained from the start but from what i could tell there is nothing in it other than a random choice and if correct then the players all win and if incorrect the players all get killed. This would make an absolutely terrible game since over the phone there are no real hints that can be given as to who the wolf is but that aside in the real life death game there was never a choice anyway!? If the fundamental part of the game is going to be ignored why even pretend that its related at all? People just got killed one by one which is totally pointless and has absolutely nothing to do with the game, the killer may aswell have killed them and never bothered with the elaborate set up since that was their only purpose anyway, to kill the people. To its credit the story did have an ending even if a few things had to conjure up a small amount of bs and push some unexplained things under the rug to get there. I will not say what the things are because they are spoilers.

~Art~ 7/10

The art was okay, average quality but the parts touching gore territory were handled well.

~Characters~ 3/10

The characters were set up with the standard hidden tragic pasts found in this genre which is fine, but i found the justification for doing what they did totally lacking particuarly for the main villian.