First heard about this work on the recommendations from Gantz and I decided to give it a try. The plot seemed great, 42 students will fight until only one remains, all of it being recorded for a TV show. And it was great, the story has high marks because it was what kept me from dropping it, however almost everything else was mediocre or bad and I'm going to list them:

- First of all, the dialog. Now I'm not sure if that's how it was intended to be or the translator for scanlations wrote it like this but there are WAY too many figures of speech in there. It makes characters sound like some american boomer that tries to act cool, especially when Mimura or Shogo speaks.

- Secondly, the artwork. This is probably a personal issue but the way characters are drawn is just not for me, even more so when they show powerful emotions and their face is distorted so much they don't even look like humans anymore.

These 2 were the main reasons why I didn't like this manga as much as I wanted to when I started reading it, but let's keep going with smaller details that were also not good:

- Kiriyama has too many bullets. Seriously, did they gave him a truckload of ammo for that Mac10? Its a submachine gun that eats 1000 rounds per minute, that means he would've needed like 10 bags of magazines for how much he shot.

- We know too little about Noriko. Did the author forgot to insert more details about her? We know more about random students from those little flashbacks when they are presented (which was a repetitive processby the way; meet new character > his/her story > dead) than about her. Apart from the fact that she has a little brother and her parents own a food store, there's nothing. Would've been nice if the method of removing the collars had something to do with her and her background instead of the Shogo hackerman asspull.

- Bad guy was dealt with too fast and easy.

And that's pretty much it, overall 6/10. Next I want to check the live adaptation and see how it is.