As the God's Will (I & II)

• Author: Kaneshiro Muneyuki
• Illustrator: Fujimura Akeji
• Genre: Shounen; Survival; Action; Supernatural; Horror.
• Rating: 16+
• Summary:
  • “Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. After his teacher's head explodes, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games, such as Daruma ga Koronda (a game like Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win...”
• Review:
  • The story about how a boy, who lost his sun for a deadly disease gets into a death competition to become God. And how he finds a new sun, that he can lose just as easy as the first. But despite being fragile humans, apparently Ushimitsu and Akashi have a bond as strong as a God's power. Counts with the participation of the characters Shun and Amaya who also seems to have a bond that not even God can break.
• This is a heartbreaking story about us, humans. It may seem like just reading for the survival game, for the ecchi, for the dark comedy, for the slash ship. But it is terribly deeper. So deep you feel your bones getting crushed by the pressure and the air pulled out of your lungs until you are choking on your own caring for characters that once seemed despicable.
• Triggers:
  • Light/Mild Violence
    • I don't consider it very graphic, as in detailed, but it is always shown.
    • Includes but not limited to: Dismemberment; Heads explosing; Falling to death; Being eaten; Being smashed/crushed.
  • Multiple and constant characters death
  • Mild ecchi (erotic but non-explicit content)
  • Mind break
  • Existential dread and doubt
  • Psychological… just everything. It can be heavy

Observation: Ratings subjectively chosen by me because I really don't think younger folks should be reading some of these, I know a lot of us have strong minds but there are still some who do not and I'd rather a 14 y/o who could handle not reading than a 17 y/o that could have a hard time with it reading.