Consider this a review of the entire first series, volumes 1-5.

Volume 1 was pretty ok. Nothing special but I was hoping it would ramp up to some interesting moral dilemmas, character development, etc. Instead, this tanked. Probably the most entertaining part of this was seeing all the things Squid Game used and how much improvement there was in the Netflix series relative to this manga. I'm not sure how open of a secret that is, but this manga includes children's games like red light green light, tug of war, a "true or false' race, and a final "two camps attack" similar to squid game.

With that aside, the execution oscillated between dull and uncomfortably sexual. Basically, instead of character development, moral ambiguity, and at least some intrigue usually present in games of death, we got rapid fire (boring) violence, lots of comments about (and visuals of) teenage girls' breasts, and two characters expressing that they were "super hentais". "Disappointed" is too gentle of a word to tell you how I felt about the entire second half of the series.

Not recommended. Go ahead and skip this.