I like this manga. The art style and character design is really expressive, and the writing is good enough that it generates enough atmosphere and intrigue for me to be excited about what might be on the next page. There is no next page after volume 2 though, so all anyone can really do is try and piece together the mystery from the bits of setup foreshadowing we got. It's very good setup and foreshadowing too, as evidenced by me still thinking about and returning to this manga once in a while despite having read it nearly a decade ago. There was definitely something uniquehere that deserved to be explored more than it was. The world our protagonist lives in is bleak, dirty, perverse; and it's only him and his family that really have to live in it. What's more is that despite obviously knowing how abnormal their lifestyles are, none of them really seem to feel all that strongly about it. It's just a fact of life. What drives the plot is their bleak world leaking out into the one that everyone else is living in, which—at least for the foreseeable future—is where the story ends. So, all you can really do is sit and wonder, then think about something else. Oh well.

Maybe it would have turned out to be bad, but I feel like this manga had a lot of potential. I hope Tanigawa decides to pick it up again at some point. That's just a hope though. It probably won't happen.