tl;dr: A character focused manga with characters that are almost all offputting. This story in terms of tone and atmosphere felt like it made no sense. Magicians in this world are in general terrible people that don't care at all about killing others. It’s possible to write a story about such characters in such a way that the reader can stay invested in such them, but the heroine Shou just being a normal person simply caught up in the insanity keeps the reader grounded in normal common sense and hence magicians just seem unlikable. The protagonist, Ouka, furthermore, is someone whose goal is to get close topeople and kill them because that’s the only way he can experience emotions. Once again, this is something that it is possible to write in such a way that the reader can get invested in such a character, but this work didn’t really accomplish that at all. At best what I felt for him was pity, but even that wasn’t especially strong. I had no investment in him actually changing because it wasn’t clear what such growth would look like and the manga really didn’t make any sort of argument for why he deserved it. Thus, the only main character that wasn’t off-putting was Shou, but she wasn’t particularly likable either. There’s a plot thread surrounding her and her desire to be a hero but it largely didn’t go anywhere. For the most part she is pretty useless too so it's hard to really get invested in her. Her change in attitude towards Ouka also felt like it didn’t make any sense. All of that builds up to an ending that was incredibly abrupt and forced and felt like it barely explained anything, so even for how little investment I had in the manga at that point it still felt unsatisfying. The art was okay.