I didnt have particularly high hopes for this but I had apparently read most of it at some point and completely forgotten... so I figured I would start over and finish it properly this time. So I did. And I kinda wish I hadnt. The following review is more or less spoiler free unless you consider the plot of a shonen manga escalates as a spoiler or discussion of the plot structure. CW: Domestic abuse talk as you may expect from the premise Starting Off... Well Enough For the most part the story goes exactly how you would expect it to based on the summary: The girls are being abused the boys are at fault and the boys are very hell yeah about their circumstances. A shallow set up but it was fun enough and the characters were charming. It later introduces some nuance with some of the boys being like no I hate this situation it sucks. and I was like oh okay I can work with this. Despite me picking this up in the first place I dont typically gravitate towards stories like this where one sex is good and one sex is evil. Like thats boring So I welcomed this little bit of nuance this idea that humans are not immune to peer pressure and how being in a situation where toxic behavior is enabled and encouraged will often lead people to engage even if they never thought they would. The Beginning of the End But this is also a shonen so the stakes have to increase and given that the set up is what it is this means that the villains the boys get more monstrous against women more abusive to women more of a threat to women. In any other story the villains get worse is just kind of like yeah no shit right? But here the set up is basically school endorsed domestic violence against women so the layer of fantasy between the villains and their actions is paper thin. Like this is just Tuesday for a lot of women in society unfortunately. So this is all par for the course at this point... and then they start trying to redeem one of the boys who is framed as The Worst with a lot of commentary on how he destroys girls which... they dont specify what EXACTLY that means but we do get to see that uh. He definitely beats the shit out of them at the very least. But he has his reasons? He was very stressed out? He feels REALLY BAD so its fine I guess???? From here the manga REALLY goes downhill. It throws its whole body weight into WELL THE BOYS DIDNT WANT TO BE TERRIBLE THEY FEEL BAD ABOUT IT : and everyones like oh ok as if that undoes the previous 20ish chapters? Its patently absurd. At the same time were getting some backstory that explains some things but also adds a hundred more layers of confusion and melodrama. It just doesnt make any damn sense? This review is more or less spoiler free because it was so utterly incomprehensible by the end I cant even BEGIN to summarize it to comment on it. This LOOKS Gay... Is It? Short answer: yes and no Long answer: When I was first looking over the anilist page for this I opened up the spoiler tags and was like haha why is THAT a spoiler tag? Thats silly. Turns out: that tag is EARNED. It is IN FACT a spoiler and the story swerves WILDLY to pull this off. Its incredible and thats not a compliment. To elaborate on the spoiler text: Tldr this was a baffling experience. I dont recommend it though it gets some points for holding my attention for most of the story and characters being charming enough for me. Theres also some concepts that couldve been GREAT... if theyd been handled with any degree of competence. God. What a weird manga.