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“Four suicidal strangers meet via Black Paradox, seeking perfect death but finding bizarre destiny instead.”
Black Paradox
ブラックパラドクス
7.27
5,685 rank · 30,174 readers · 415 favorites
Seinen
Psychological
Drama
Horror
Supernatural
Suspense
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Synopsis
Four suicidal strangers meet via Black Paradox, seeking perfect death but finding bizarre destiny instead.
Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny... (Source: VIZ Media) Included one-shots: Name Onna, Kaiki Pavilion (Strange Pavilion)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 10 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 10 readers settled on.
90%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 1.27
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.27 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.7 pts
Recommenders 7.7 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 0.70
Running avg · Nov 2012 → Jan 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Solid work from Junji ito, this might be my favorite piece of his work I’ve read so far. I found the plot to really unpredictable but that’s what made it really entertaining to find out what was...”
- 7 “Junji Ito's writing style can best be summarized by "literally". Take a common saying, cliché or play on words and stick to the literal meaning dialed to 11/10. That's the normal plot for any Ito...”
- 9 “This is one of the weirdest things I've read, and I loved it. Black Paradox is like a car that drove of the road, you know it's not gonna end up somewhere good, but you don't know where. The story...”
Verbosity
Short · 40%
Medium · 40%
Long · 20%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 8 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 04m approx
- Published Aug 2007 – Aug 2008
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M12826 catalog