Kamisama no Iutoori Review, sparks interest

Nowadays I find it very hard to get interested in to new mangas in span of one or two chapters. Series too often need in my opinion too much of like a forced read through like 5-10 chapters and then I have to re-evaluate whether or not I wish to continue reading that particular manga. Usually not.

Kamisama no Iutoori is a splendid exception to previously mentioned: it's unique idea got me hooked from the first ten pages. Maybe it's the brutal and interesting idea of this manga which makes me want to read more, but the main thing is that it does entertain straight from the beginning.

This manga begins with a normal and boring class in the life of Takahata Shin. But suddenly, the teacher's head explodes! The boring class becomes something else entirely: a game of survival. All the students in the class realize that something has appeared on the teachers table and for unknown reason now the students heads are exploding. How to survive from this and what is the reason for people dying such a gruesome deaths?

Art of the Kamisama no Iutoori is half of it's 'deliciousness', such a brutal story with people being killed in the most imaginable ways would be nothing but cheap comic without very good artwork. Thankfully in this series the art is very detailed and is very enjoyable to read.

 

 

Characters understandably aren't as important in this series as you could imagine: most of the characters have very short life spans so it mostly revolves around a couple of main characters who I found pretty entertaining. There really aren't any characters who I didn't like so it was nice to follow their 'journey'.

 As for the Story Kamisama No Iutoori manages to be certainly interesting. Like Gantz it relies a lot on brutality and mysteries, which work pretty well together. Even though the games that the people are playing in the series are very well known it still has the certain surprise element which involves people being in constant danger of losing their lives.

It has managed to keep me interested altogether. I can recommend this based on the initial spark it has on the reader. If you like Gantz, you will most likely like Kamisama no Iutoori as well. The characters are fine and well designed, but the best thing is that they don't even have to be - this kind of story brings any kind of character alive: they are always truly on the brink of death. Art is fine and reminds me bit of Gantz, but that may be because of the general feeling of the story rather than the quality of drawing.

I will be eagerly waiting for "Like god says 2", which is apparently second part of the series.