ABSOLUTELY FUCKED. BIG TWs. This is one BL I didn't get into for YEARS and avoided for so long. I got into it way after it was finished and I am quite happy I did now, leaving my past disdained 6-chapter-in memory of this story far behind. (It was rough to have it rear its ugly head in recommendations when I had such an awful taste left in the mouth)
The starting Vols. will leave you incredibly unsatisfied, unrequited, unresolved, feeling like YOU need to be vindicated for reading this dark accursed manga—but the twists really work out for the better. It is a bizarre conclusion to a incredibly bizarre plot, nevermind the world setting that this manga has. Taking advantage of people lower in social status, sexually, is a norm in the setting, don't ask me why, I have no clue, kind of an omegaverse-y cliche, but here it is actually car-crash intriguing, like its so awful you can't look away and oh god it gets worse.
Super twisted, hard to swallow, makes you question your sanity and media literacy a little bit...
As is according to design, which is why I rate it so highly with my pet peeves aside. All the characters and the way things go add up, based on the universe this is set in, it makes sense due to it's bizarre nature. People acting and responding normally would be out-of-character for this mangas universe. The drama is dark and is sometimes heart wrenching, disturbing. Again, it is definitely meant to be this way, which is why I'm left with no real complaints. It's very compelling to see it play out, and see the way the author decided to end things. It concludes itself in a way that leaves lots of open doors and that's definitely intentional, because any kind of normal post-resolve continuation would mean putting the whole premise and world setting in the dirt, and it would degrade the quality of the work as a whole if it couldn't uphold the original narrative or the twisted world its built upon.
Caste Heaven