I can imagine the slogan for this manga: "Ordinariness is a specialty in a world full of special people", maybe that's one of the reasons why this manga gets as many views as it does. People either want to feel similar to the characters or either look up to the characters. Something from between these two may make people feel uncomfortable.
Iris Zero is about Toru, who in world full of people who have "iris", special power to see something that varies from person to person, doesn't have any kind of power. He is ordinary in a world full of extraordinary people, or in this case he is the extraordinary one. Idea is simple: children in schools are too often like this: extraordinaryness in it's negative form is like poison to kids. Everyone knows that bullying exists, but no one knows what to do about it. This is a story about important thing.
Mangaka has made it so that he will always have stuff to make story about - instead of couple of people having powers he actually made everyone like that. But the most interesting thing is how he manages to make the most ordinary person of the story the most special in his own way. That is work of some kind of genius.
Due to everyone having special powers you can see some resemblence to the people in real world. This is one of the strengths that this manga has. In second chapter there's this girl who sees anyone lying having devil's tail, I almost immediately though her as someone who would think that people around him/her are lying in reality. That's called paranoia. The girl has it basically the same way, and in my opinion this is one of the messages Mangaka is trying to convey to the readers through this story.
Even though this is a manga about world full of people with special powers, it makes reader identify with some of the characters. I'm kind of person who is usually interested to unique ideas and stories that deliver. In my opinion Iris Zero delivers.
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