September 29, 2010
By Emilia Perez
So, the genre of the month is…HORROR/THRILLER. *Insert Girly Scream Here* To celebrate this, I have read the first volume of Doubt written by Yoshiki Tonogai. And it was trippy. It’s a psychological thriller, so if you like to freak yourself out, read Doubt (Ha, that rhymed!). It first made its appearance in Monthly Shonen Gangan on July 12, 2007 and its first volume was released December 22, 2007. Sadly Doubt only has four volumes, on the upside it has a sequel!
In the manga, there are teenagers who play a cell phone game called Rabbit Doubt, where everyone is a rabbit and one rabbit is really a wolf in disguise, killing all of the other rabbits. If the player is a rabbit, he has to figure out who the wolf is before he dies and if the player is the wolf then he has to stay hidden and kill as many rabbits as possible. It’s all fun and games at first but when the players decide to meet in real life, they’re thrust into a very real game of Rabbit Doubt with very real deaths. Now everyone is suspicious and frantic to get out alive.
From what I can tell, the manga is really good. It has plot twists at every turn and always manages to surprise. The characters are all completely different and have their own little quirks. Doubt is very graphic and the layout is well thought out. There’s even a little bit of humor mixed in, like a dead guy forever flipping people off and a tough guy getting pimped slapped.
Unfortunately there’s a little splash of sappy romance because apparently for every good manga it’s required. And there’s over-developed schoolgirls with short skirts and sexy poses. Thankfully it’s kept to a bear minimum and doesn’t detract from the storyline. And for some people, those two minuses are actually GOOD things (even though they shouldn’t be).
Overall I give Doubt 9 cookie points because yes, the first volume did make just THAT good of an impression. That alone should tell you to get off your ass and go buy Doubt, or at the very least go on BoxManga. And if you can’t find Doubt, it also goes by Rabbit Doubt and Rabitto Dauto.
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