This series is really special to me in a weird way. I could not tell whether I actually loved it after having finished it because I was so immersed in the story that it felt much more like an actual experience than something I was reading. I couldn't consider it in the same vein as most of the other manga I have read, and I think that in and of itself makes it a great manga. The characters and their motivations and their growth alongside each other are extremely riveting. They felt like real people to me. I love how cutthroat Tetsuo is. The plot is extremelyridiculous at times (especially the Tesla subplot), so I docked a point for that, but it did make it easier to suspend disbelief.

Some people might be uncomfortable with the risqué chapter pages with Tetsuo on them, but personally, I felt that given the resolution of the manga, these were a challenge to a mostly socially normative male audience who is used to titillating advertisements in seinen magazines to accept Tetsuo as a man. Given that Yuureitou was serialized in a magazine that features gravure models, those chapter pages and covers could also be a critique of the way seinen magazines objectify women to get sales. Anyway, the main character passed the acceptance and affirmation challenge, so I hope readers will follow his example.