First manga review time, yay! Like a lot of people I jumped straight into this after watching the first season of the anime. Naturally I enjoyed the first arc, otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone out of my way to read nearly 200 chapters of this in a few weeks. With that said, did the story live up to the hype after the escape from Grace Field? No, not really, and I'll go in detail further on in this review.



You probably know the gist of the story by now if you're coming into the manga at this point. Group of orphans discover they are being cultivated for consumption by "demons" yada yada. The problem we run into as the story progresses however, is that the main characters, Emma especially, are far too idealistic in a setting that would require way more drastic action to be taken in order for the group of children to escape this hellish land. The childrens whole plans hinge on the idea of more than a handful of demons to be accepting of the thought of no longer feeding on them since they have a substitute for them to maintain their forms. The latter arcs are absolute by the numbers shonen tropes and bring nothing ambitious to the table along with being clearly rushed with the conclusion. Lastly to mention, none of the villains other than Isabelle were fully realized, they were bad just for plot convenience. The only real good addition characters wise since the first arc if you ask me was Yugo.


The art maintains quality throughout, while being nothing amazing, it still serves its purpose.

There was a modicum of enjoyment to be had after the first arc of this series, but there was a definite drop in quality and it's a shame since there was promise (heh) in it.


I'd only recommend completing this if you're a hardcore Weekly Shonen Jump or horror manga fan,