Boy's Abyss

i will put a 7 only because of the entirety of the story, if I had to be completely honest the ending was shit, the last half a chapter was worst than bleach in my eyes . (score 3 or 2 ) The story was quite simular to Pun Pun but if a teenager wrote it. The last arc was scattered and incomplete leaving me with a lot of question marks. It started really good problems arised at around chapter 160 in my honest opinion. If only it lasted another 4 chapters to to define and outline like 2 things it would had been a solid 8 . I couldmaybe suggest it till a certain point of the story but u could drop it a couple of arcs before. Overall ima kms🌈

I think I found my masterpiece. Shounen no Abyss is a manga about a cast of characters stuck in a town – A town of despair and suffering. The manga masterfully develops and makes the characters interact. I won't talk about the story at all, but it is a psychological drama. I've not had a lot of experience with this genre, which might be the reason I loved it so much, but regardless, it was one of the best manga I've got my hands on. I'm still having flashbacks of some of the events and manga panels. It's not perfect, I've had my fair share of complaints,but the sheer engagement I got from it outweighs all of that. It's also the un-reconsumable type, which is frustrating. The art, the tone, and the story execution, how you get to the extra bits, even from the minor characters, to truly build the atmosphere and connect the story to the end. Lastly, I do think it's not a story everyone would like, BUT, if you want a psychological drama that keeps you engaged, this is the first title I'd be recommending to you. Halfway through writing this, I realised I suck at writing reviews. But the line above is what you can get out of reading this. Thanks for your time.

As someone who is a fan of "Hatsukoi Zombie" and is quite fond of "Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku", I was going into "Boy's Abyss" with a positive attitude and hoping for an interesting read as the author had already displayed with their previous work. But, something felt off as soon as Nagi and Esemori's beginning character personality and development was introduced. Despite being a major part of the manga, the dark themes such as self harm, rape, and adultery serves very little purpose in character development or plot progression. They were usually there for a sort of deep emotional emphasis, which was not successful at all.The only effect it had on readers, in my opinion, with such a large amount of atrocities happening one after another is that it numbs the readers and makes decencitize to these horrible, borderline criminal (well some are criminal), actions, which just dilites the dark themes and turns the manga into a torture chamber for the readers. The premise of story was actually quite interesting. The mystery of an idol and her obession with double suicide with the main character was a good hook, and a strong theme around "people borning into a town never leaves the town", and the mental anguish of the main character's struggle between prioritizing his future by going to uni in Tokyo or taking care of his struggling family at a young age was very interesting. However, the paths and methods that the author took to tackle this premise and these themes was unbearable. The way that the characters' motives and reasoning behind their actions were presented was convoluted and always ill intented. This ill intent could be conveying the evil nature of people or just people from this cursed town, but this barrage of evil, atrosicities, and other distusting shit are really not enjoyable to read. To add on to these weird and uncomfortable character traits followed by convoluted plot points, the characters are just unlikable. The characters are irredeemible. All of them just slowly decend into despair. At the beginning at least the author gave us a little hope for some of the main characters to turn around and change things. But by the end, they all keeps getting weirder and hopeless, which honestly feels like their in despair for the sake of the mood of the story because these characters just make no sense. The solutions of each character arcs were very dependent how likable and much we cared about these characters, which was nonexistent for me, so the conclusion was extremely unsatifying and empty. Personal opinions. I mostly either hated or just did not care about the manga, so I really did not enjoy reading this. Buy by chapter 100 I was locked in to finish it because I know I will definitly drop this if I stopped at any point, and some moment were like watching riduculous car crash, so it's not completely unreadable. I also liked the character of chako and sensei at the beginning because of the struggle of helping themselves or important ones around them while juggling around family problems and potential societal backlash (well the sensei is breaking the law, but as a fictional plot device...). But then they just went crazy... thanks. To conclude While having an interesting premise and theming around the human relationships of a certain countryside town with decent art and well designed characters that started at a 7/10 (good) for me, the story and characters really dragged down the score to around a 4/10 (bad), but since this manga was a little infuriating to read (hate reading),which avoided complete boredom soit got boosted to a 5/10 (still bad tho).