Kill Blue

A solid series, but a rushed ending doesn't help me recommend. The author goes to great lengths to establish what's going on, and why it isn't creepy (which it really needs), and it works! You believe Juzo's motivations immediately and really feel his enthusiasm for learning. As it continues and more battles pop up, it turns to various challenges that are more fitting for a middle school compared to just combat, which is great to mix it up, and introduces a ton of enemies, both in school and out of it. The classmates are fun and interesting characters, you typically don't see Home Ec students minglingwith stone cold killers so it gives this series some freshness. The majority of the assassin syndicate plot doesn't go anywhere, which is okay when the Unicorns are more interesting. But it really feels rushed in the end. It probably could've gone for another 50 chapters with all the material they set up in the final few months, but it just suddenly goes to the endgame without much payoff! Sours the whole thing, unfortunately, but still a unique, offbeat assassin manga among the sea of murderers in Shonen Jump and Jump +.