If you haven’t seen it yet, please take a look at my review of volume 1 here first!
Do you believe that those who commit horrific crimes deserve just punishment? Or should we have faith that the justice system will prevail?
I, for one, am a big fan of stories where villains get what they deserve.
You can check out volume 2 here!
Who wrote this manga?
This series was written by two authors: Izawa Ryou, and Koga Kei. You can check out Koga Kei’s X here. While Izawa Ryou also has an X account, it hasn’t been active for the past few years.
What genre is this manga?
This is a horror, crime series. We follow a police officer as he brings about his own form of justice. According to Cmoa, this is a josei series!
This series does not offer any furigana for the kanji.
What’s this manga about?
This is an episodic series, with most chapters containing their own unique villains. While our main character, Dan, is present in every chapter, he is one of the very few constant characters. This series is somewhat similar to Criminal Minds in terms of storytelling, where we are first introduced to the villain and their crimes, and then we get to watch as our protagonist catches them.
In this volume, although there are four chapters, there are only two subplots.
A persistent journalist, and a teacher bullied by his students
The first subplot introduces us to a journalist who will stop at seemingly nothing in order to get his story. This involves harassing the families of criminals, to the point of directly causing their suicides. He thinks absolutely nothing of this, and even after causing one suicide, he immediately goes to another family member to inquire about how they feel being related to a criminal and a coward.
We then cut to a group of teenagers physically and verbally harassing a teacher in the bathroom. When the leader of the group demands he pull his pants down, he pushes her and runs out of the room. She screams that he will have a grave punishment for this, and we cut to the principal’s office. It turns out that the girls father is the journalist from the beginning of the chapter, and he begins making a public outroar of the teacher using corporal punishment on poor defenceless young girls.
The teacher is put on paid leave until things die down, but unfortunately his personal information is leaked to the press, and his house is surrounded by journalists screaming at him to repent day and night long.
The stress gets to him rather quickly, and he decides to take himself and his wife out of the world one night. We then cut to the police, and our Dan, investigating the crime. They discovered that a recording of the girls harassing the teacher was uploaded to the internet, and it’s quickly realized that the teacher was just a meek man who took horrific abuse from these girls until he couldn’t stand it anymore.
The ringleader is soon outcast from the rest of the school, and she decides to stay home for a few days. Seemingly worried, her father comes in to check on her, where she fully confesses her misdeeds to him. Rather than showing sympathy, or anything remotely fatherly, he instead asks her how it feels to have bullied someone into choosing that option. He insists that he needs to collect her record of account, as he wants to publish an article about it all. And he does – an article about how his own daughter harassed a teacher to the brink.
This is when Dan comes in, and enacts some justice.
A women-hating man
The second subplot follows around one of the most bitter men i’ve ever seen in media. He hates just about everything women do, and sees anything he sees as “offensive” to be a great misdeed. Some examples of these “misdeeds” that deserve his “divine punishment” include: a woman bringing a baby onto a busy train, a woman he deems ugly serving him tea, and a women trying to offer her seat up to a pregnant woman.
At first, his form of “punishment” involves aggressively shoulder-checking innocent women, but after he is reported at work for harassment, he begins ramping up his actions. Upon seeing a mom with a baby-holding contraption clipped onto her on a train, he unclips it as the doors open, hoping the baby takes the brunt of the fall (it doesn’t).
He then goes to a bar with a friend, where he beings loudly talking about how he dislikes women. All women over 30 are worthless, he says, they should just stick to making babies. Similarly, ugly and very old women shouldn’t even be allowed to live, he continues.
Just when I think I can’t take any more of this man, we see Dan appear in the bar, and we know that this man is about to get what he deserves.
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What I Like About This Manga
💜 I love a well-told revenge story, and the authors have such a magical way of telling a story! It really keeps you on your toes the entire time.
💙 The journalist turning on his daughter – honestly I do think she did deserve it, as she was using him as an excuse to be awful.
💚 Dan always popping up at the perfect moment.
🧡 The art is very beautiful for a horror manga – I especially like the consistency in showing the little twinkle in Dan’s eye when he finds a new victim.
🤎 Dan’s consistency in his revenge – I do love that he shakes it up sometimes, but I also like being reminded about his love for The Exorcist in both volumes.
If I could change something about this manga…
If I had to say something, I guess I would like being able to see more of Dan following around and investigating the criminals.
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