----------------------- Manhole review ----------------------

This manga is a police/detective one, not so much horror or psychology in it.

Story :
Not the most original, but not too bad either.

Art :
Below average. Some pages have no shading, some other pages have some photoshopped textures that felt really cheap. Towards the end the art gets a bit better but it was so mediocre overall that I cannot give it a good score. Some main characters looked pasty white and flat because the mangaka put no shadi g, nothing on them.

The characters' faces are almost always crying, fr0wning, suffering. For 3 volumes straight. Such a variety!!

The background is laughable. Just traced over a photograph. 4/10

Characters :
Shallow presentation, unexplored, generic. In 3 volumes we don't have the time to have so many useless side characters. Too much time is wasted on some nobodies that nearly advance the plot, yet the main characters are overlooked. What about their families? Their routine? Their house? They feel like props because nothing is explored.

Instead we are shown some of the bad guys/ victims and their backgrounds only to move on to something else right away. The whole plot cannot be for into 3 tiny volumes.
Either the writer should have made more volunteers or decreased to scale, reduced the number of characters.

Enjoyment :
It took me 4 days to go through 3 volumes. They were just half baked. It felt like the magnitude of the plot needed more volumes to develop. It felt very impersonal, as we spend more time on random people than the main protagonists. The pacing is another problem : sloooow then everything is solved in 2 chapters way too easily.

The conclusion almost felt like a parody. The writer tried to keep things scientific and grounded in realism but instead made a half baked mediocre piece.

5/10 would not recommend