Title: Doubt (Not the Shoujo one)
Author & Artist: Tonogai Yoshiki
Chapters: 1-20 (Complete)
Summary
Rabbit Doubt is a popular game taking over Japan. The instructions are simple: each player is a rabbit in a colony, but one of them isn’t. A wolf in disguise is among the rabbit colony and in every round, the wolf kills off a rabbit. Every round, the group tries to figure out which of the rabbits is actually a wolf. But what happens when the players choose to meet in person? Yuu, Mitsuki, Rei, Hajime, Eiji, and Haruka have decided to do just that. Unfortunately, one of them has taken it to a new level. The wolf of the group has already killed once. Everyone must find the wolf’s identity while trying to stay alive.
The Good
Setting
The story is set in a Saw-like stage. It’s not bad, but quite intriguing. The characters are trapped in a cell setting which adds to the horror aspect of the manga. From then on, the Saw part of the story is slightly forgotten and the story starts to stand on its own.
Pretty Short
You know how I like the my manga (most of the time).
Starting Plot
From the starting to the near end, I was always second guessing who the killer was. There was enough interest in the plot to keep me reading and enough suspicious background stories to change my mind. No, I wasn’t one of those people that thought the killer was obvious from the beginning. I ended up suspecting everyone unless they somehow died (may have sound stupid, but it worked). But I have to say, the starting of the manga got my interest. The only problem was…
The Bad
The Ending
The ending was a huge problem for me. I did not like it, nor felt any slight evidence in the story it was coming. I’ll elaborate more on this. Throughout the manga, the story had a logical flow. The potential killers all had viable reasons to be the killer, as did the methods of keeping the group locked up. Yet when the story reached the ending and the killer was revealed, the main method that kept the game going was completely illogical.
******Spoiler Alert*******
And some censored swearing
How the hell can you end a manga on mind-control hypnosis? Yes it may have been unexpected, but like I said, the manga followed logical reasoning and out of nowhere used some made-up supernatural bull**** as an ending. Incredibly disappointing.
Overall
I find myself in a questionable position. I want to recommend this manga for others to read mainly because of the starting, but finds the ending to be a terrible migraine. I have seen a few people who seem to love the manga, yet can’t say the same for myself. I give it a 3 out of 5 (it barely deserved that 3).
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