muse ✨'s manga / #psychological(24)

Since childhood, Asato's body has reacted to lingering emotions at accident and crime scenes, causing him to manifest the injuries of the deceased. He's found work with the police, and also someone who believes in him. This first volume is seinen (but there are some nice moments!). The second volume is BL. This is about crime, so there's lots of blood and disturbing content.

includes piercing hole, one about a guy who loses his memories after an accident in Thailand but because of that is able to be with the guy he loves, and a hilarious body swap.

A young teacher trying to encourage a 17-year-old to return to school ends up effecting change after he assaults the student, which sets him on a new path. Strangely, they end up together in what seems to be a happy, comfortable relationship. The teenager was dealing with past abuse from his father. There’s a lot of fish imagery in this. As boys, they both wanted to keep fish but could not, and in the final scene we see them through their fish tank. At a glance it seems happy, but I don’t know how happy either of them is or can be with the other. I would probably need to re-read this a couple of times to take in all of the detail but I don’t know that I want to.

Interesting concept but perhaps unsuccessful execution. A lot of details don’t work when you examine this from a step back. If Kai is only 17, there’s no way he has three years of CIA training. It would have been better to use made up organizations. About 2/3 of the way in is an info dump chapter. I wish the author had withheld more or worked across a larger number of volumes. There was just too much going on. I think the author knew that because her ending note goes on to explain away some of the plot holes. Beautiful art and character designs.