Murdist is a manga with so many twists and turns that the philosophical and existential question posed at the beginning; of the boundaries between sanity and insanity, and the normalisation of death and murder is sidetracked for an M. Night Shyamalan style - pull the rug beneath your feet - twist. While the twists here make for an incredibly entertaining manga that constantly keeps you guessing what other unexpected notions would be thrown in, this seriously reduces a lot of the intriguing questions posed at the beginning to superfluous sprinkles. For the most part, Murdist manages to constantly ride that fine line between drama andB-movie shlock. The death and mystery scenarios are so over the top that it's hard to believe in them as 'reality', yet the way the story deciphers its protagonist's psychological turmoil and moral questioning is handled surprisingly well that there is still a degree of believability within the drama.

However, this is all thrown out the window near the end of the series with an impressively 'no one was thinking about it' twist that completely throws all balance into full-on B-movie shlock. This is made worse with an ending that wraps everything in a neat bow, completely contradicting its overly edgy tone, and failing to make any intelligent commentary on the nature of murder or any aspect of the human psyche. Murdist was never an intelligent work, but it was always intriguing in the way it handled the human reaction to spectating an abyss, and in the way, the manga kept you on your toes with twists, turns and absurd depravity. Sadly, this ending just made whatever superficial enjoyment I had diminished into disappointment. This ending confirmed what was hovering in the back of my mind with each chapter- the mangaka never really thought out anything properly. It shows in the empty philosophical discourse and in the contradicting meanings in his story. The mangaka probably just thought the twists were cool.