Usually when a horror manga handles the topic of bullying it rarely ever ends well. The bullying typically proves to be too over the top needlessly edgy or the victims response just isnt the right amount. My opinion is youre going to do a series like this you gotta go all in on it. But there still has to be a balance. Tip it just a bit wrong and its just an edgy and gory piece of trash. Yet if youre careful you can end up with a satisfying tale of tragedy and revenge. Which in my opinion is where this manga lands. 440https://i.ur.com/EQeedX8.png That being said Id be remiss to not throw out a CONTENT WARNING I would definitely describe this manga as upsetting. If you dont like gory series and especially bullying series I would recommend to look elsewhere. Also this should go without saying but me giving this manga a positive score does not mean I dont think pretty much all of the stuff that happens in this manga is horrible. Hence my describing this as a tragedy. 500https://i.ur.com/8cxni6t.png Misu Misou Misu Misou is a horror manga by Rensuke Oshikirihttps://anilist.co/staff/108877/RensukeOshikiri who I knew in passing as the creator of Hi Score Girlhttps://anilist.co/manga/74501/HiScoreGirl. A lighthearted series about videogames I meant to watch/read and just never got around to. Then on a whim I found this manga and boy oh boy. 440https://i.ur.com/9bxNSUx.png I also knew him as the creator of Pupipohttps://anilist.co/anime/20525/Pupipo that I did watch which is closer to the tone of this series than Hi Score Girl certainly but still is nowhere near the darkness of Misu Misou. Actually you know what? What am I saying? I havent read or watched it maybe Hi Score Girl is exactly like this. I feel like I should immediately elaborate a bit further on why I enjoyed this manga. It begins simple enough. A young girl whose family has moved out into the country is being bullied by her classmates as a result of not being from around there. 440https://i.ur.com/gJKTGhG.png But she tries to put on a strong front and put up with the bullying as she does not wish to worry her family. The teacher of the class is at first your typical awful teacher in a series like this that simply wishes that the bully victim will not cause problems for her. 440https://i.ur.com/gyHwV4n.png With no help coming from the school staff Haruka is forced to continue enduring this suffering. And when a friendly male student reaches out to her despite the bullying she thinks there is hope for her situation. All she has to do is put up with the bullying a little bit longer and shell graduate and be free. Except the bullying gets worse. 440https://i.ur.com/FkoOnfl.png Beyond getting worse it of course inevitably and finally goes too far. Much farther than even several of the bullies could have expected it to go. I think thats the key. As much as the temptation might be there to make all of the bullies just heartless monsters its way more effective when its really just one or a couple of them thats actually really trying to push things to where they go out of control. 440https://i.ur.com/eQwHw4b.png And ...thats definitely too far. Then as the manga continues on to its grim conclusion we get even more details just piling even further how fucking terrible the situation had been. And Haruka just becomes this fucking grim specter that seeks only revenge and its amazing. 440https://i.ur.com/hFGDYv6.png Before I even knew it this manga shifted gears from an awful bullying manga to a revenge manga thats just a whirlwind of horrible and over the top violence. It was wonderful because in this instance the victim of bullying not only was completely justified in seeking revenge to this extent but also pretty much every single person she targets deserves it. 440https://i.ur.com/Jv6AiS7.png Or rather pretty much everybody in this fucking town is scum. Which in its own right I found amusing in a way. Like its implied that the class Haruka transfers into was more or less normal before she transferred in. Or at the very least all of the terribleness was at least brewing underneath the surface rather than just exuding from every single one of these shitty students. 440https://i.ur.com/5y6DPPL.png Yo this girl transferred from out of town into our class and its graduating this year What the fuck? Lets fuck her shit up. Lets actually just straight up assault her father if he comes to the school to try and get involved. 440https://i.ur.com/hURyjLs.png No I got a better idea. 440https://i.ur.com/Ecunax6.png And there was also some love triangle shit going on. Or rather than a love triangle the female student Haruka managed to befriend when first joining the class suggested to not spend too much time with one of the boys who happened to start being friendly towards Haruka. But of course Haruka ended up ignoring her advice. 440https://i.ur.com/q99HXCH.png As it turns out Conclusion This was a manga of bullying and then revenge. And as everybody knows when a person successfully obtains their revenge they become happy and fulfilled in the end and go off and live a worthy life to make up for the horrible horrible cards fate has dealt them. 440https://i.ur.com/oDAk5wv.png While like Im not sure if its the art style or the fact that these characters are supposed to be middle schoolers but the extent of how gruesome the gore gets is a little head scratching. Like it makes sense for Haruka because shes become consumed by her revenge but then there was like a fight scene between two other characters and its still really gory and Im just sitting here thinking werent these supposed to be middle schoolers preoccupied with thoughts of oh were gonna graduate in a couple of months 440https://i.ur.com/vwfAYL8.png You know I was really set on graduating from middle school BUT IM GOING TO SLIT YOUR FUCKING THROAT WITH THIS KNIFE THAT I CARRY AROUND WITH ME AT ALL TIMES BECAUSE APPARENTLY MIDDLE SCHOOLERS GET INTO IMPROMPTU KNIFE FIGHTS TO THE DEATH ALL THE TIME OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY. But you know while obviously this isnt going to be a lot of peoples cup of tea I loved this manga. Despite how horrible everything that happens in it is. I give it a 9 out of 10. If we cant agree on anything else I believe we can agree that there are a lot more offensive or tasteless bullying manga than this out there... I mean... at least she gets revenge... ...right? 500https://i.ur.com/39uU7mP.png