This is the story of two very different people swapping bodies. The first is an elementary school boy named Minato, who has to take care of himself and his younger sister on his own due to how their mother is away from home for long periods of time. The second, Kuromatsu, is a professional hitman, who was recently screwed over by his employer and is now on the run from the police, his former employer, and the yakuza. The plot involves Minato doing his best simply to survive and ensure Kuromatsu doesn’t harm his sister, while Kuromatsu does his best to take over Minato’s lifewhile also trying to extort money from his former employer.

This manga is a very fast paced thriller full of twists and turns. It’s the type of manga that’s easy to get sucked in and just breeze through the whole thing at once. It’s all really messy, but there’s a charm to that because the chaos fits the premise really well. After all, you would expect Minato and Kuromatsu to be absolutely terrible at living each other’s lives. So it makes sense that leads to all sorts of unexpected consequences and unrelated story tangents, though most of them don’t go anywhere.

Minato is ultimately fleshed out incredibly well. He handles things much better than I would expect a kid to. But at the same time he is really emotional as you would expect of a kid, and that that can hit pretty hard. He’s just a child, but he really loves his sister and tries really hard for her. Nagisa is a really cute kid too, so this is really heartwarming and both of them are really likable and easy to get invested in. Kuromatsu on the other hand wasn’t fleshed out enough. It’s clear what the author was trying to do with him and you can see bits and pieces of it, but overall it wasn’t enough. As such, stuff related to him in the finale doesn’t really land all that well.

The final stretch overall was kind of rushed. There are some overarching plot threads that include some deeper connections between Minato and Kuromatsu and a true overarching villain, but the way they were written felt like they were being forced in. The mother who is absent for the vast majority of the manga also had her own story going on that was deeply linked to that, but everything related to her was relegated to an infodump in the epilogue. Still, in the end the ending does explain essentially everything that matters and resolves things well enough. Thus, even if the ending was rushed, I was satisfied with it.

The art is the typical Sanbe Kei style, which is kind of rough and plain. Though compared to his earlier works that I’ve read, I feel like in this one the mangaka wasn’t even trying to make it look good other than the cover art. That surprisingly seems to fit this manga reasonably well. While it never looks amazing, it’s incredibly clear and easy to follow. That combined with how you don’t need to slow down to appreciate the art results in it being a really fast read, which is a plus considering how suspenseful this manga can get.

tl;dr: A manga that’s messy and has a rushed end, but is still overall a pretty enjoyable quick read.