Joshikousei ni Korosaretai

tl;dr: A manga with an interesting premise but that's it. The basic premise was strange enough to be interesting in that the main characters goal is to push a girl to kill him in a specific manner without doing anything bad to her and without leaving any evidence that she was the one that killed him. The way the story began setting things up was interesting too, in that from chapter to chapter it shifted perspective from character to character to show off a series of characters that all had decently interesting backgrounds and an interesting relationship web. After all that was setup, it moved onto him executing his plan and it looked like things would really get moving. However, after that it fell completely flat. Maybe I just had the wrong expectations going into this, but I expected the protagonist to be someone smart and manipulative who would come up with an interesting plan and that things would go wrong during the plan and he would have to quickly modify his plans to adapt to the situation, something in the vein of the psychological thriller. This wasn't that at all. The protagonist is pretty dumb and not manipulative at all. His plan was simple to the point of stupidity. And everything playing out was pretty much instant and overall, far too easy, and thus it really isn't thrilling at all. The ending has a bit of a twist to it, but it doesn't add much and, in the end, doesn't help at all in making the manga more satisfying. Ultimately, the manga was about people with mental issues trying to overcome them, but its half written like a thriller without enough development of the key characters, and thus it doesn't do well at that either. The art was decent.

Ok, just by its name I knew I had to give this manga a chance because it sounded like something that could be amazingly good with such a truculent but honest premise. The first volume was indeed very promising: the characters were portrayed in a very believable way because they had am extremely rich context development surrounding each one of them. Even the main character had a plausible background to his perverse desire and an extremely crafted plan to finally achieve his most obscure desire but trying to cause the least inconvenience to the assigned perpetrator. Also, I was pleasantly surprised to find such anextensive representation of disorders with such a caring insight and devoid of any kind of prejudice. That's why I felt really sad of how downhill the story goes all the way through the pages of the second volume. It felt extremely rushed and convenient for the plot how the character's knew a lot of things beforehand, and even though I appreciate plot twits or great reveals in thriller or detective stories, It actually felt like the author left far behind the well crafted characters from the beginning. I would still recommend that you give it a go because there's a lot of interesting things besides its conclusion. At least I can say that I'm positively intrigued about the author, even more after reading that this is not near one of its best manga. So I'll have to keep on reading, then.