I have mixed feelings on it. It was definitely not horror, except for maybe one or two scenes, so I don't think it deserves the horror-mystery tag on the front. I was bought into the idea of the pictures being ingrained into the story and we have to solve things to understand it, but it all just led to a bunch of info dumping towards the end of each chapter explaining everything step by step. As a whole, the story is actually really good and I think I would have enjoyed it more without being led to believe it was this grand, masterfully weaved puzzle box type of story that gets pushed by reviews and online synopses.
Some gripes I have: The smudged room picture could have been left out entirely and we could have had a decent character building chapter. The teacher thinking that Haruto was abused because of the box and triangle really pulled me away for a bit. The whole child psychology in a picture bit was too unnecessary Haruto.
The final chapter was ok. It felt like the first chapter was almost forgotten about and needed a way to be put back in. The hospital scene just felt like another massive info dump.
by xwolfionx
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