this is a truly amazing manga with a score range of 8s and 9s. the manga is very interesting and gives insight into the manga world, giving readers a newfound sense of awe and respect for all the work and dedication that goes into the pieces we are reading.

the story concept for bakuran was really refreshing and different from other series i've read. however, i'm not sure if it is just me or not but it took me a while to read. this is not that lengthy of a manga compared to some others ive read, (the longest being over 500 chapters long) but i paced out the reading a considerable amount. despite this being a great manga, i had to put it down and take a break from it multiple times, i would say that it is too much to try to read this continuously. it's not quite that the manga gets bad or boring at times, but i just do not feel like i want to continue reading it at the moment. a few days later i would resume reading and FLY past the pages and chapters, unable to put the manga down. i repeated this reading_on hold_reading-again spikes for a course of 3 weeks when i could have easily finished it in a little over a week. perhaps because the manga was too intense for me that i had to read it in this cycle.
many of the manga concepts introduced in the manga really struck me as something i would love to read such as money & intelligence, classroom of truth, detective trap, and reversi (ig dark manga like the ones shujin write is my taste lol), i also was quite interested in fukuda's series and would have like to read those as well.

when i first read the manga, the art (and the plots of the dark stories shujin comes up with) struck me as being familiar so i did some research believing that it may possibly be by the same creator as a favorite series of mine, Liar Game. it wasnt; however it was by the same creators of Death Note which explains a lot and while i never got into death note, i do acknowledge it as being a decent piece.
one thing i really love about this manga is how different art styles are used throughout to show different artists' styles in their manga series. i really love the pointillism nakai used for aoki's manga, and nakai's art in general, too bad with what became of his character... ( aannnddd transition onto next point w/o giving anything else away)

for characters, i was on the fence whether that should deserve a 9 or an 8. i feel like there are too many characters and some being somewhat unnecessarily and detracting, there was not enough time to fully develop all the characters nor would i feel the readers, myself included, would really care if some were never in the picture to begin with. many of the side characters who are important throughout the manga became ghost characters towards the end, only appearing briefly as to remind readers that they exist, this goes for much of team Fukuda.

nonetheless i thoroughly enjoyed this manga with little room for complaints, any complaints i have being minuscule.