This is the best comedy manga i've read since King's Game.

It fails as a thriller simply because the story itself doesn't have a framework that allows for good character development to happen. Instead of the characters growing naturally and developing relationships with one another, the story prioritizes filming obscene acts for views for the sake of blood and gore. That might not be completely unenjoyable as a thriller, but none of the characters were engaging enough for you to care if they succeed or not.

If you're watching it for the blood and gore, prepare to be highly disappointed, as the violence extends to nothing beyond anything you would see in an averagely violent series like Terraformars or Elfen Lied. The characters are drawn in an incredibly generic art style with flat faces that don't pop out or look distinct beyond generic anime attractiveness and the gore is incredibly uncreative to the point where it feels less like watching viscera and more like watching a dummy being thrown in a woodchipper.

It's one thing to have your manga include heavy subject matter like rape, pedophilia and murder but it's another thing to rely on value of those elements in a vacuum to sell a story. Those elements add nothing to the story and provide nothing but half-decent drinking material.

Dark does not equal mature.

If you're watching this as a comedy, i highly recommend it. Characters are emotional and overdramatic for reasons untold, plot twists are thrown left and right like M. Night on speed, characters are introduced solely for the purpose of them getting raped or murdered, villains are portrayed as one dimentional cartoon rapists and there's one arc that literally revolves around getting a guy to kill himself. For a show that's supposedly for adults, it's very cartoony and entertaining.

Dead Tube is a solid 3.