Boy, what a manga. It’s honestly unlike anything I’ve read recently. How to describe it… I suppose it’s a ‘horror’ but it’s not really trying to scare you persay. It’s definitely not light reading, it’s got very dark themes of abuse and neglect and a fair amount of gore so if any of that scares you off you’re probably not gonna be into this. That being said I found it pretty engaging. The plot isn’t really that unique, in short people can become ‘mummified’ where they essentially become evil and can mind control others. Although they don’t say it directly it’s basically demonic possession just alittle tweaked. The style sort of floats somewhere between mystery and action, never quite going full action, but also not really giving enough nuggets to be a proper mystery.
All that being said I think the plot and setting seem to be a backdrop for what the author is really trying to tell which is the ways humans can be bad to each other. It has a lot in common with those ‘nu horror’ movies like hereditary where the focus is on tension and allegory over old school jump-scares, surrealism or gorefests. It does a good job fleshing out some unique characters and drip feed’s you their personality so you wonder what they’re all about. I think there’s potential for a really unique manga if this keeps up.
The art is also quite clean and easy to digest which I think is essential for this kind of experimental work.