Yo If you uh... if you dont like gore aka look at this manga/reviews banner... well... Id probably stop reading this review and also dont read this manga. Because the manga has way more gore than just what Im including in this review. Oh also spoilers for... the ending. 440https://i.ur.com/KSHP2v2.jpg Killing Morph is a horror manga by Nokuto Koikehttps://anilist.co/staff/109233/NokutoKoike story and Masaya Hokazonohttps://anilist.co/staff/97896/MasayaHokazono art. Its a one of a kind horror series in that... well theres really no plot. 440https://i.ur.com/PKEEDfJ.png Its just gore. ...Its entirely gore. With barely any build up whatsoever the titular Killing Morph shows up and just starts brutally killing people on a busy city street in the middle of the day. Over the top decapitations putting machetes in peoples faces cutting people down just stomping his feet down into viscera... this is probably one of the goriest manga Ive ever completed. Or at the very least its certainly the quickest to just drop all pretense to get to the gore. 440https://i.ur.com/pbBU17g.png Its one after the other. Its just so goddamned unabashedly excessive. But just as the Killing Morph changes his focus to our protagonist girl a mere two cops rush over and restrain him. This of course only happens after hes already killed at least a dozen people. Also he has two machetes and I dont even think the cops had their guns drawn? They just rushed in. Are you kidding me? Did you see the pile of corpses in the street? Open fire you idiots. 440https://i.ur.com/F9NjXmw.png Most slasher characters or the ones that come to my mind... they usually never just kill people. What I mean by that is... theyre characters. Theyre not just walking viscera generators. They have personality and histories they might have their own set of rules of how they could be defeated... and so on. But the Killing Morph... we never ever get anything from his character except he really likes killing people. We dont learn about who he was before he started killing people or anything. Hes just a psychopath with a very odd ability. Or rather several odd abilities. 440https://i.ur.com/7eVAjTb.png And that brings me to the Killing Morph or Ms set of rules. That of course being... there are no rules. It was when I accepted this fundamental truth that I found myself enjoying this manga way more. Because its so goddamned stupid. Say what you will about Jason Voorheeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JasonVoorhees but hes a character. Yes he typically just kills people. But you have his history of being drowned in the lake you have his crazy ass mom who still speaks to him in his head and urges him to commit more killings and you know he can actually be beaten. But M just fucking kills people. 440https://i.ur.com/Xn0kyO7.png Thats the only thing to his character except for his obsession with the protagonist girl because shes the protagonist of the manga. And unlike Jason Voorhees which lets just be honest here thats the slasher character this is an obvious imitation of M cant be defeated. Or rather he shouldnt be able to but hes a complete fucking idiot. 1. While confined in prison he can appear basically anywhere outside in the presence of someone that has seen him before. He can also just as easily disappear again. 2. But also he can appear to multiple people simultaneously. 3. All of his wounds heal ridiculously fast. It is shown that a Morph can even regenerate if say their hands were chopped off. 4. He can also of course appear as multiple Ms. AKA... for some reason he can spawn copies of himself and control them all simultaneously? https://i.ur.com/mzLvvTO.png Also I may have entirely dismissed the actual plot of this manga because its really laughable... like really? Youre gonna take your daughter whos been obsessing over this weird enigmatic serial killer somewhere to try and calm her nerves? Okay where are you gonna take her? 440https://i.ur.com/lfIRNW6.jpg Oh a hotel in the middle of a FUCKING FOREST? Oh and you took her cell phone away. Thats totally not gonna fucking backfire in any way shape or form. ...Anyways I may have entirely dismissed the actual plot of this manga but it COULD have been something. Between Madokas conflict with M and Madoka sometimes acting strange and M trying to get Madoka to kill someone... you could have done something with that character. 440https://i.ur.com/30DfKJd.png Like theres so many covers of her smiling and like covered in blood and honestly I was going with the most obvious interpretation. That M really didnt exist and/or hes just a part of Madoka which could make some sense but then theres all those times M shows up somewhere Madoka isnt anywhere near. Additionally you also have the fucked and abrupt as shit ending for this series which... Madoka unconsciously uses bilocation for the first time herself and finds that shes warped into the very prison where M is. And the cop character is just... fine with handing her his loaded pistol right before she bilocates into the room where M is. 440https://i.ur.com/mPQBxhv.png Meanwhile back in the forest theres still an army of Ms battling this stupid biker gang that got brought in by one of the therapy groups members to combat M. It really feels like... if it wasnt already obvious throughout the whole thing bilocation is used whenever the creator feels like it. So like a fucking magic wand gets waved in the middle of this climactic battle and bam Madokas poofed off to the prison to deal with M once and for all. By shooting him to death. 440https://i.ur.com/APslUJq.png All that shit about him being a monster and the enemy of mankind and M is killed by a couple of bullets. I mean you could argue that M might not have been fully dead or obviously that M wanted Madoka to kill him because he senses that she might eventually become an even worse Morph than M was but... ultimately it doesnt matter. https://i.ur.com/EYj8os5.png End of part 1? So... theres going to be a part 2? So its gonna be an entirely new manga with a new title? Maybe rather than the Killing Morph itll be the Killing Madoka? ...There IS gonna be a part 2 right? ...Right? Conclusion ...I dont know if its gonna get a part two or if it actually needs one because if M really is dead then who the fuck cares about a part 2? I mean yeah I said itd be neat if Madoka just went off the deep end and started killing but I cant see her matching the goofy antics of the charming M. 440https://i.ur.com/lEh1jTP.png Like the idea of this slasher character is one of those ideas that pops up into your mind but then you immediately dismiss it because itd be too stupid. WHAT IF A KILLER COULD SHOW UP ANYWHERE? WHAT IF THERE COULD BE TWO OR MORE OF THEM? 440https://i.ur.com/iAgQycp.png So you know an actual attempt to try and do a character like that? Its worth a chuckle at the very least. Additionally theres something to say about... if youre gonna do a horror manga and you really want to do a series with just some fucking awful and over the top gore... then just do it. Dont fucking pretend that youre doing something else though. Beyond the very mild smattering of Madoka maybe possesses the potential to become a serial killer this series is nothing more than a crazy man armed with machetes killing people. And believe it or not but thats okay. 440https://i.ur.com/vguzkOb.png I only came around to thinking like that however only after accepting this manga was just going to be dumb until the very end. There are clever and fun slashers but there are also really really really dumb and simplistic ones. Killing Morph is definitely one of the latter. Its good for a laugh and good if youre just in the mood for some blunt gore. I give it a 6 out of 10. 500https://i.ur.com/ExW3E4o.png