This is the first manga I have ever rated a "1" so far. I love psychological stories and, while I know they are often confusing and do not always have clear conclusions or lines between reality and make-believe, "The Voices That Call Me" just has absolutely nothing going for it. It is very confusing, has an extremely open ended ending with almost absolutely nothing having been accomplished, has a lot of pointless philosophical banter that goes on for about 6 or 7 pages, and it's also kind of a hentai.

Let me rephrase that for anyone quickly skimming through here, this one shot is extremely explicit (despite MAL not listing it as such). It does not focus much on the nudity but there is still a blowjob, fingering, and a little other stuff for a couple pages.

This is a one shot, so of course it's a fairly quick story, but it wastes a lot of time on things that really don't seem to have any purpose. Anyway, about the story, it follows a hikikimori (loner who hardly ever or never goes outside) who one day hears voices calling him (this part was so quick I forget what they even said to him if it actually mentioned it all). So, following the voices, the man decides to leave his room for the first time in 15 years. He wanders around and ends up at a convenience store. He hears someone say something and asks the man next to him if he said anything, to which the man responds "No." However, the man is one seriously fucked up guy (can't think of a better way to put it). He starts rambling about some philosophical thing that seems to apply to him and makes it sound like he recently divorced his wife. The hikikimori kind of ignores him for a while, but eventually gets dragged into even weirder stuff with the guy (one of my main problems with this one shot is this weird guy because his rambling goes on for far too long and he's just plain psychotic). Some more stuff happens and the hikikimori ends up following the voices he hears to a girl's house. And that's where the short hentai stuff happens so you can probably guess kind of how that goes.

I'll stop talking about the story there to avoid giving away any of the few somewhat important parts of the story. As for the art, it is also very weak. The characters are drawn poorly (the main character looks especially weird and bland). The short hentai part isn't even long enough for someone to really "enjoy" it if that's what your reading this for (which I wasn't since I didn't even know it was like that beforehand).

The characters really just consist of the hikikimori protagonist, the philisophical psychotic, the girl whose house the hikikimori invades, and the girl's friends. None of them stand out in the slightest aside from being annoying.

I did not enjoy this manga at all (it had like one funny line towards the end but that was about it). The story was confusing and pointless, the art was bad, the characters were bizarre and annoying, and the story ended quickly with a confusing ending. I would not recommend this manga to anyone as I feel there is no reason to read this. Just leave this page and don't read it.