This is one of those kind of manga that becomes interesting pretty slowly, but at the end of the volume it takes you with it's story. A story of redemption against all odds of the society, starting slowly and then evolving in a cathartic way for the main charatcher (that, again, it's not fully showed in the 6 chapter of the first volume i read not until the end of the volume). The story is about this orphan guy living on the edge trought micro-criminality, violence and abuse from his bosses, low levels scum from the yakuza, for paying some debts the sister of the protagonisthad to pay with them.
But his friend, a very popular rapper in the town scene, helps the guy quitting little piece at the time from the dark future he's been involved into, thanks to Rap and the huge collection of personal diaries he owns, togheter with other people he'll get into the world of Rap battles!

The world of this manga doesn't have fear to show all the sides of street life, showing you raw scenes of violence but also of friendship and of fighting for a better future.

The charatchers are all goodly realized and they feel pretty realistic and natural.

The art at first really didn't really get me AT ALL (i even compared them to shotacon in my head due to how REALLY young the charatchers appear), but it slowly convinced me and found a big comparison with western american comics (especially after seeing a pair of charatchers later in the volume), like Scott Pilgrim from where this manga took big inspiration artistically and other authors.